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The Footprint of the Establishment
The Powers that Be shaped us in more ways than We think!
Every time we need to know what happened in the past we refer to history books, visit a local library, check the Internet or look into
Human Farming is the Establishment's favourite method to enslave the masses.
our own archives to see what history tells us. But how many times do we wonder about what history doesn't tell us? See, history is not written by historians, they just give us accounts of that official version of history. The reason why many look back in time is to avoid making the same mistakes that our ancestors made as humanity advanced. But how do we avoid those mistakes if we simply don't know them?
You don't have to be an expert in history to figure out who wrote it and why. It takes a couple of clicks nowadays. After finishing college, anyone can surely say, for example, what type of government we have, where our educational system comes from and why we fought and continue to fight bloody wars for decades. Can we? Really? What if part of the history you know; the one learned in elementary school, high school and college is not as it is drawn by the books we so carefully read?
If your educated guess to the first question is a Constitutional Democracy or a Republic the answer is wrong. If your answer to the second question is from our Founding Fathers, it is wrong, too. And if your answer to the third question is freedom and independence, it is also wrong.
Let's take for example the origins of what we call today Government, which many believe is representative. The beginnings of our model of government rests in the Hegelian model of government, not on the model our Founding Fathers would have sketched. The Hegelian model of government believes that IT is supreme, and that individuals must be subjects of the government – i.e Patriot Act, Martial Law, Illegal Spying, Torture, Military Commissions Act, RFID card, etc. But how do the elites that support this kind of governance get away with telling us that we live in a free democracy? They indoctrinate us almost from birth in concentration camps called schools, which not only do not follow a democratic government's educational policy, but instead, a very well redesigned version of the Prussian Universal Education model, put together by the same elite that pays to publish the history you and I know.
Now, you probably think, how can an elite simply get away with all this? To put it simply in one sentence, it's called a Political Conspiracy. The elite, better known as the powers that be, not only wrote the history you and I know, but also designed and financed the educational system you and I attended, modeled after the Hegelian form of government they adore and praise. That is why we have no clue about it, because we were born and raised in a Matrix type of environment that seems natural to all.
You are right! There need to be hundreds and thousands of people involved in a conspiracy of such level in order for it to work… and there are… The brain of this conspiracy, the Club Bilderberg, meets once a year in cities of their choosing like Virginia, Versailles, Stresa, Munich, Ottawa, Istanbul and Sitges to discuss global policies on economy, environmentalism, politics, health, trade, immigration, etc. Among the attendees are elements from the Bank Industry, The Military Industrial Complex, Academia, The Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex, Mass Media, and of course the politicians we vote for every four years. In one word, the Elite.
I know… You want me to call them by their names… After reading through lists of Bilderberg attendees over the years, I can absolutely and certainly say that crooks like David Rockefeller, the same Dave whose family financed the Hegelian inspired Universal Education system we studied in, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, George Pataki, Texas governor Richard Perry, John Kerry, Henry Kissinger, Etienne Davignon, Paul Wolfowitz, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton and Donald Rumsfeld, among others. These and other people who have in their hands the present and future of our world, are the cabal responsible for hiding the truth about history that most of us don't know. Why? Because they wrote it themselves.
The Footprint the Establishment has left and continues to leave in our lives, our society, and our world began early in the 1800's. As I said before it is a political conspiracy, that is, the use of political power which is passed around from generation to generation in order to keep the secrecy of their association.
Let's see how a conspiracy works. First, there has to be a secret meeting. Second, those who meet must agree to a course of action; and third, such action must be illegal. The Establishment, or what many call The Order, derives from a German secret society. The order was included as the Russell Trust in 1856, to later be known as the Brotherhood of Death. To us all, it's better known as "Skull and Bones. The American version of this Order was founded in the U.S in 1833 at Yale University by General William Russell and Alphonso Taft, who in 1876, became Secretary of War under the Grant administration in the United States. The Order meets annually on Deer Island in the St. Lawrence River. Among the original members are Samuel Henshaw Bates, Rufus Hart, Asahel Hooker Lewis, Samuel Marshall and Frederick Mather. All of these people along with the two founders occupied high level position in early forms of government.
The beginnings of this elite governed group can be traced back to the 1600's when the first wealthy families arrived to the U.S from England. One example is the Lord family. In this particular case there were two branches: The one from Thomas Lord and the other from Nathan Lord. Later members arose from families who managed to make money to send their children to Yale, such as the Harriman, Payne, Davison and of course Rockefeller. The Lord's established themselves in Hartford Connecticut where they kept a tradition typical of the elite: Intermarriage; in order to further concentrate and maintain power.
From there, they extended their arms to places like New York, where they founded businesses like law firms and consultancies. Among their clients, the New York Times and the Rubin Foundation. The latter is the financial supporter of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC.
So, now that we know how the establishment got to us, let's see how it's left a footprint in three of the most important aspects of our lives: Education, Energy and War.
The concept or idea over which The Order works is control; controlling it all through the compartmentalized control of the parts. For example, if they control the politicians, they can get access to powerful governments on two or three or whatever the number of political parties that exist. If they control energy companies, they can subdue society into accepting only the means of energy they can make a profit of. If they control the media, they can tell us their version of world events; who's the bad guy and the good guy. If they own the producers of weapons, they will encourage war, and finance all the sides involved in the war because they know the profits and the control derived from war will be much greater. If they own the pharmaceutical companies, they will own all the patents to the drugs the population consumes and at the same time ban any claim on medicinal products they don't control. If they control the food industry, the production of goods, they can sell cheap food to the masses to make them sick and fat, so they have to consume the illicit drugs they produce which by the way make people sicker. If they control the election process through remotely controlled electronic voting machines instead of traceable paper ballots, they will never let go off power.
Why do I point to Education as an important example of the way the Establishment leaves a footprint? Well, because the complete development of a society rests on the educational level of the members. In the case of the Western world, the educational model was founded after the Prussian Educational mold. This model came into existence in 1819 in the military state of Prussia. There, the Elite decided that the population had to be converted into instruments of the State in order to increase efficiency. The system was based on the premise that by erasing the creative, innovative ability of the population was how they would become obedient servants. In a matter of a few years, Prussia, which did not have natural resources, became one of the richest regions in Germany. It became so influential, that it was later the city from where two world wars originated. It was through a fully controlled educational system designed to dumb down the population, that the Elite was successful in their attempt to impose any policy they wanted to a willingly accepting crowd of mental zombies. Many countries around the world studied and continue to study the Prussian model today. From Japan to China to England to the United States. In America, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie imported the Prussian model through their foundations. It later evolved and new concepts appeared. One of them very well known to us all, Human Resources brought upon the masses the infamous Kindergarten, where children are grown up like vegetables to become subjects to the system that saw their parents come up the very same way. Later on, the Elite realized they weren't getting people young enough so they founded the Pre-Kindergarten.
Behind this system of control was the goal that the Establishment has always had, the disintegration of the most basic form of social unity; the family. The family is the biggest obstacle to create the global system of control, therefore it has to be done away with. Multiple options were offered to parents, among them, to put the children in the hands of "experts" who had been already brainwashed following the Prussian model. The only difference perhaps between the original Prussian system and the one that currently operates around the world, is that in Prussia, the laws explicitly said that the State owned the children. In the U.S efforts were made in the 19th century to create such laws, but they did not bear fruit. The Prussian system was sneaked into society under the fear instilled by world wars, economic depressions and of course the already traditional feeling of dependency that the population has towards the State.
In 1871 in the book called "Descent of Men" Darwin said 95% of the people were inferior and only 5 % were evolving. From this way of thinking came the teachings of Sr. Francis Galton, the father of Eugenics, from whom men like H.G Wells and William Huxley took off to write their famous "scholarly" works. It is important to note, that although many people regard Charles Darwin as an outsider that made it into the circle through his discoveries in he sciences, the truth is that Darwin's family was one of the richest in the world. Darwin met with the members of the Elite for many years. In those meetings they tailored science to fit the reality they wanted the rest to learn. John Calvin said there are so many of these inferior people that we cannot police them, so we are gonna have to teach them to police themselves; and generation through generation, the population was dumbed down more and more until it fit the corporate fascist model the Elite wanted.
The common denominator of this educational model, no matter where it's been applied, is the fact that the
masses -from where ingenuity and creativeness emanated- became nothing else than obedient sheep; docile beings that do not know much more than what they learn in high school or college. As a result, we now have a population that cannot find their country on a map, much less other countries like Iraq or Afghanistan. However, the masses do support invading the two countries in the name of peace. In 1950 the U.S had 90% of all patents in the world, nowadays it only owns about 30 percent and dropping fast. The Prussian model has worked to perfection. The same can be said about other countries.
Now when we turn our head to the Energy issue, it is important to note other members of the Elite, or the Order that have been key in the implementation of Educational and Energy policies. I earlier said that the origin of this Elite is immigrants from Europe; England to be more specific. The Lords, the Rothchilds and other families that emerged later like the Rockefellers, the Carnegies, the Morgans and of course, the Bushes. The founders consisted of Puritans who always absorbed the wealth of rich families, without inviting those families to join their organizations. Most of these families were bankers, lawyers and traders that later became the Barons of the Mercantilistic model that substituted free markets. In the energy sector the Bush family has been a continuous player. They have maintained contact with Saudi Arabia's kingdom for years and have done business with them thanks to the fortunes stolen by Prescott Bush, the grandfather of former president Bush, from the Nazi Empire when he left Germany after their defeat. With him others like Percy Rockefeller, the Paynes, the Pratts, etc are all linked to the Standard Oil Company, the Shell Oil Company, Creole Petroleum and Socony Vacuum. Currently we are fed the idea of the lack of sources of energy. While fossil fuels are painted as necessary evils to the development of the world, we are also told that oil reserves are scarce and that we have reached a peak. The debate in the main stream corporate Elite-controlled media is always centered on the pollution or the scarcity, but very little time is given in comparison to real alternative energy sources. While countries like Brazil run their cars on sugar cane-derived ethanol, the United States still remains in the debate of which alternative source is better or how many miles per gallon should a car provide. Let's take a look at a source of energy that is never discussed: Cold Fusion.
Cold Fusion occurs when lighter nuclei in an atom fuse together under intense heat in a reaction to form a heavier nucleus. One of the results of this fusion is the release of gigantic amounts of energy which would provide an endless source of energy to carry out the world businesses for as long as humans exist. All this by the way, at conditions near room temperature and atmospheric pressure. However, Cold Fusion has been dismissed as an impossible by the profiteers who own the energy companies we depend on to live. Government agencies have also dismissed the potential of Cold Fusion and denied funding to further investigate the possibility of developing technology that allowed us to be energy independent. Instead, they suggested a bunch of alternative energy sources that counted with their blessing such as corn-based ethanol which has proven to be a new failure.
The cold fusion researchers presenting their review document to the 2004 DoE panel on cold fusion said that the observation of excess heat had been reproduced, that it can be reproduced at will under the proper conditions, and that many of the reasons for failure to reproduce it have been discovered. Despite the assertions of these researchers, most reviewers stated that the effects are not repeatable.The 1989, a DoE panel said: "Nuclear fusion at room temperature, of the type discussed in this report, would be contrary to all understanding gained of nuclear reactions in the last half century; it would require the invention of an entirely new nuclear process", but it also recognized that the lack of a satisfactory explanation cannot be used to dismiss experimental evidence. (Wikipedia)
However, for those who know what Cold Fusion is and how it works, the future is promising. Dr. Edmund Storms, a retired scientist who worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, said the only problem is the attitude people have towards Cold Fusion as a source of energy. "It's an interesting time because a number of other ideal sources are being proposed. Cold fusion is probably the most thoroughly documented at this point, but all of them have several things in common. They would be very inexpensive, pollution-free, and inexhaustible." Questioned about whether Cold Fusion violates the First Law of Thermodynamics, which has been one of the reasons given to keep the experiments and the funding off the table, Dr. Storms says: "No one is proposing to violate the Law of Conservation of Energy. We're talking about ordinary nuclear energy. There's nothing magical about it. It's the mechanism for achieving these nuclear reactions that is poorly understood at this time and, therefore, is in dispute."
Although according to Storms neither the government nor any enterprise could practically deny access to the knowledge of Cold Fusion, anyone could seriously damage the research and progress of new technologies by claiming that the knowledge is flawed, thereby, making it harder to find funding or support of any kind.
In a book called: Cold Fusion: Secret Energy Revolution, Anthony Sutton declares that Cold Fusion is already being worked with in different laboratories around the globe and that soon, either governments or companies will come forward with practical applications. According to Sutton, Cold Fusion technology is being used by companies like BlackLight Power, Inc, Catalytic Fusion Power, Inc and financed by DARPA to produce catalytic hydrogen technology. "Free energy is here with water as fuel and will revolutionize our world. One device is the size of a thermos flask, uses water as fuel and lasts indefinitely," Sutton declares. How many times have we heard of Cold Fusion on the news? Read on the papers? In the meantime we are led to believe that we are destined to invade middle eastern countries for their oil as the only way to secure our future energy sources. Of course of the mass population knew a little about alternative energy sources, they wouldn't support needless wars or the drilling of National Parks or ice shells for petroleum.
Now, the subject of energy brings along a very important issue, which is exactly a consequence of energy dependence: War. If countries were energy independent, there would certainly be less conflict among them. This is because one country would not be able to impose rules onto others because they own energy sources that the other countries need. Today, OPEC controls the supply of petroleum which is vital to the commercial activity that moves the world. A handful of countries decide how much oil is produced and with that, the prices are determined. If the producers feel like they are not getting enough profits for their oil, they can simply decide to limit output so the price goes up. Although energy is probably the clearest example of how dependence causes conflict, there are countless other ones. For example, food production, manufacturing, the printing of paper money -which nowadays has turned out to be worthless, land tenure, immigration, etc.
The important point here is that war; just as many other activities, is a business. Investments are made before war occurs, so profits are expected. The best way to secure maximum profits is to invest on all sides, and that's what history shows has happened in all major conflicts that humanity has endured: WWI and WWII are two examples. Here of course the Elite has left their Footprint stamped deeper than in any other aspect under their control. Then we have the Spanish-American as well as the Mexican-American wars which are also great examples. All armed conflicts recorded in history have come about due to the greed and evil spirit of those who seek to control us all. Although money and profits are important factors, the end goal is control. This control comes through consolidation. Armed conflicts and economic unrest provide great opportunities to bring about this consolidation and therefore control. When a country or the whole world goes into military or economic crisis, the people are the victims, while the Elite not only increases their resources tenfold, but also their control of industry, the bank system, infrastructure, military, land, and more important… Us. No example of a central government that ruled with an iron fist is responsible for an era of prosperity or bountifulness. On the contrary, it always mirrors repression, crisis, abuses, torture and inequality.
The reason why I linked war and conflict with oil, is because it is the freshest example. But the American civil war, the Spanish-American and WWI and WWII were also about influence and consolidating, a position as the world's superpower. At the beginning of this essay I mentioned where the members of the Order came from and what type of businesses they are tied to. Nowadays, the war profiteers are weapons contractors, energy companies, security contractors, oil diggers, insurance companies and others. When a war explodes anywhere in the world, the list of companies offering their services to provide weaponry, planes, transportation, security, insurance and medical services is already typed up; and they are the same crooks who have already invested in promoting the wars during which they will provide services. When a country is dominated by the will of global corporations like Shell, NewsCorp, Halliburton, BP, GE, bankers like JP Morgan and wealthy men like Rupert Murdoch, David Rockefeller, Lord Rothchild and Prescott Bush, the decision to go to war or not isn't made; it is imposed. Every major war has been financed by these and other families who have always held power by dominating all the sides involved in the conflicts. It's a win-win situation. No president, prime minister or dictator achieved their goal of tyranny and control alone, there have always been the men behind the curtains who provided money, intelligence and hardware to carry out their own agenda. The group of bankers who created the private Federal Reserve, who control the Bank of England, the World Bank… is the same cabal that dictates the policies of the World Health Organization, who created the United Nations and who wrote the Nazi oriented Universal Human Rights Declaration to which they want us all to submit to.
Only those who really know history are able to envision the future; the future they want. The rest of us…, we'd better wake up and fight the bastards or we are doomed to repeat it.
Consulted Materials:
UNDERGROUND HISTORY OF AMERICAN EDUCATION. John Taylor Gatto.
AMERICA'S SECRET ESTABLISHMENT. Anthony Sutton
COLD FUSION AND THE FUTURE. Jed Rothwell
AMERICA: FREEDOM TO FASCISM. Aaron Russo
THE END OF AMERICA. Naomi Wolf
PROGRESS AND POVERTY. Henry George
THE WEALTH OF NATIONS. Adam Smith
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Don't Tread On Me
From the Tea Party Movement to State Legislators, the American people are drawing a line in the sand. On what side of it will you stand? Has the government our Founders created been forgotten by Washington DC? Is a Patriot Uprising ready to capture the spirit of 1776? "Don't Tread On Me: Rise of the Republic" gives the viewer a look into the movements, mindset, and legislation that will catapult the "Great Restoration" into households across America.
What is the choke-collar the Federal Government uses to reign in the States? Are the States sovereign or subjects of Washington DC? What did the Founders foresee and how did they seek to protect us from a tyrannical government?
"Don't Tread On Me: Rise of the Republic" exposes the commerce clause, defines Sovereignty, the proper role of government, a Constitutional Militia and much more. "Don't Tread On Me: Rise of the Republic" offers sound solutions to take back rights stolen by our out-of-control, despotic federal government. "Don't Tread On Me: Rise of the Republic" will educate, inspire, and activate a nation desperately seeking direction.
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NO Rights for Terrorists!
So I have been thinking, with all this terror that exists today around the world, where mindless idiots blow themselves up in order to avenge their countries and fight our freedoms in the western world, we should all be worried. So, does the government say. Reading through government papers and documents like the MIAC report, the Patriot Act and listening to talking heads on television, and politicians from 7 developed nations in the world, I began to wonder. Who do we need to be afraid off and why?
The threat of terrorism as portrayed by the oppressor governments does not exist. There aren't terrorists out there who want to kill us for our freedoms. White Al-Qaeda does not exist either. The Tea Party is not a racist movement. The militias are not anarchists as Homeland Security says. Libertarians, Ron Paul followers, Tea Partiers, WeAreChange and other people like that are not violent as the Main Stream Media preaches. As we found out today, the Hutaree Militia was released with bond, because the judge said their right to free speech cannot be violated, and also because there was not any proof that they were planning to attack the government. The whole war on terror is a sham, to suppress our civil liberties, rights and even our duties. Instead of closing the borders, effectively inspecting cargos and protecting us at home, the governments simply decides to fight a war against an invisible enemy, an enemy that can exist forever.
That is why the government itself plans and executes false-flag attacks, in order to keep the boogie-man alive. And when one boogie-man goes away, a new one comes alive. The only time when groups of citizens commit violent events is when they are incited by government infiltrators. The recent Times Square incident where a Nissan was supposedly holding a bomb was all a lie that the media gladly hyped. How do I know that? Well, if one studies the history of terrorism, it is clear that terrorists always want to get attention from the government and the media. So what a better way to get that attention than perpetrating attacks on civilians or civilian targets? That is why when the government orchestrates attacks, they are greatly exaggerated at first, and then quietly labeled as misunderstandings. That is why when a supposed attack happens, citizens are immediately labeled as responsible, (Tea Party members) but then quietly dismissed as non guilty. It occurred with the Hutaree Militia, Joe Stack, some of the 9/11 hijackers, and countless other citizens who are first accused of violating laws, but then released because there is nothing to prove the claims.
Previous to 9/11, the United States, Spain, Ireland and other countries used to give the least amount of air time and importance to real terrorist attacks exactly for the same reason mentioned above: All the terrorists want is attention in order to get what they demand. But after 9/11, suddenly everything is terrorism and everyone is a terrorist. However, the real terrorists are easily let in, flown in and out with the help of intelligence agencies (the underwear bomber was let on the plane by an intelligence officer).
So who do we need to fear? Let's review. The governments have decided they have the power -although we did not give it to them- to label anyone they wish as a terrorist. This means you, me or anyone we know can be called a terrorist and be accused of terrorism or of inciting it, get stripped of rights such as due process, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and so on. As if that was not enough, today I read on the press that the government intends to take away the rights of those citizens who are found to be terrorists. And who has the prerogative to decide a person is a terrorist? The government.
Flip-flopper Joe Lieberman has been pushing this idea for a while, but it now seems to be picking up more steam than before due to the false-flag terror attempt in New York City. Lieberman has championed the causes of the government for the past 9 years and now he is proposing to rid us of our rights if he or Obama or Homeland Security believes we belong to a terrorist group. "If you're attacking your fellow Americans in an act of war you lose the rights that come with citizenship," Lieberman told reporters. That is right. Not only has the government the power to call you a terrorist, detain you indefinitely, torture you, and make you disappear. Now, Mr. flip-flopper wants to rape the Constitution and simply turn citizens into what would I say… Prisoners of war?
According to the Raw Story, Lieberman stated that "any individual apprehended, American citizen, who is found to be involved with a foreign terrorist organization as designated by the Department of State, would be deprived of their citizenship rights." Again, who has the power to designate a citizen a terrorist? That is right, the government. Do you see where my concern comes from? "If you have joined an enemy of the United States in attacking the United States to try to kill Americans I think you sacrifice your rights of citizenship," said Lieberman.
In a separate event, Barack Hussein Obama spoke at a commencement and arrogantly warned the audience and those who watched the event to stop criticizing the government, especially his Health Care Reform. This criticism, he said, is not kosher because 'we are all the government' and in a Democracy, if we criticize the government we impair ourselves. How about that? Mr. Obama forgot two things. First, the U.S. is not a Democracy, and second, that in a free Republic, the rights of the people such as freedom of speech, come first. If we think the government is doing a bad job, we say it! Neither will Obama's warnings nor Lieberman's attacks on citizens will deter our right to denounce the government, the corporations that control it or the existence of false-flag terrorist attacks. You can take that to the bank!
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The three million U.S. soldiers who were physically and mentally damaged by Agent Orange have one corporation to resent: Monsanto. The 500,000 children born with birth defects and the millions more who suffered health problems because of Agent Orange have one corporation to thank: Monsanto. "The World's Most Evil Corporation" has destroyed human lives for over a century, bringing to market some of the most harmful chemical substances ever to be created by scientists.
From saccharin to aspartame, from DDT to Agent Orange, from PCBs to Synthetic Bovine Growth Hormone, from dioxin to glyphosate, Monsanto has caused more health problems and destroyed the environment in more ways than can ever be fathomed. No amount of lawsuits, no regulatory agencies, no justice department, and no Supreme Court has ever been able to stop this corporation. If one Monsanto chemical gets banned, another is there to fill the void, causing oxidative stress, hormone imbalances, genetic defects, and organ system toxicity in humans for several generations. How long will the devastation last?
Monsanto was the brainchild of John Francis Queeny, a thirty-year pharmaceutical pro. The company, Monsanto Chemical Works, was named after his beautiful wife, Olga Mendez Monsanto. Founded in 1901, Monsanto's first chemical invention was saccharin, an artificial sweetener. Incorporating saccharin into their beverage formulas, Coca-Cola was the first company to jump on board with Monsanto's toxic influence. The U.S. government had evidence of saccharin's toxicity and even ventured to sue Monsanto, but the government lost. This only emboldened Monsanto for many years to come.
By the 1920s, Monsanto jumped on board with the mass production of synthetic drugs, taking advantage of the popularity of acetylsalicylic acid, a synthetic form of salicin (a natural medicine found in white willow bark). At this time, Monsanto became the top producer of PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyl). Monsanto scientists knew about PCB toxicity in the beginning, but saw a great global business opportunity nonetheless. PCBs are oils that don't burn nor degrade and therefore can be used as lubricants, hydraulic fluids, cutting oils, waterproof coatings and liquid sealants. Approximately 50 years after PCBs hit the market, prosecutors had enough evidence to show that Monsanto hid PCB toxicity from the public. PCBs cause reproductive, developmental, and immune system disorders. Today PCBs are banned but they can still be detected in animal and human blood tissue around the world.
By the time the world caught on to PCBs, Monsanto was already enjoying various toxic enterprises. In the 1930s, they began experimenting with genetic modification of crops. In the 1940s the corporation was conscripted by the government to enrich uranium and work for the Manhattan Project. Monsanto had its hands on the world's most nefarious invention, the first atomic bomb, which was ultimately used to burn the populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki into shadows on the concrete.
Monsanto was also the brainchild behind the insecticide DDT, used from 1944 to 1957. In those days, benign childhood infections such as polio became serious nervous system disorders in large part because DDT was liberally sprayed throughout communities and directly on children to combat mosquitoes. DDT not only was banned because it destroyed ecology, but it also imposed serious immune system issues in humans. Dr. Morton S. Biskind's brave scientific work showed how DDT destroyed the central nervous system, causing damage to the cerebellum and spinal cord.
In the 1940s, Monsanto began manufacturing dioxins. Their marketing team concealed dioxin's presence in several mass-produced products. Pesticides that contained dioxins poisoned both the food and the water supply for years, creating a geno-toxic nightmare for humans. Dioxin was a concealed ingredient in Agent Orange, the chemical that was sold to the government and used on soldiers in Vietnam. The courts initially sided with Monsanto's research on dioxin, but it was later revealed to be an effective, deadly poison. Legislation to prevent dioxins from being dumped in the water supply ultimately failed in the 1990s. Monsanto survived countless lawsuits proving that dioxins cause disease in plant workers. Hundreds of thousands of birth defects are the result of Monsanto's dioxins: $100 million settlements became routine for Monsanto. Flush with billions of dollars in profit, these settlements are just the cost of doing business for Monsanto.
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By 1994, Monsanto had regulatory agencies so trained, the FDA quickly approved synthetic Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) for use in milk products, even though there was significant scientific backlash. The synthetic hormone, produced from genetically modified E. coli bacteria, became a hit until dairy companies fully realized what was happening to their product and to those who drank it. When dairy companies stopped using the synthetic hormone and began using rBGH-free labels on their products, Monsanto sued!
Monsanto's biggest money maker today is Roundup and a slew of genetically modified crops that were designed to withstand the herbicide. Today, there are over eighty-eight scientific assays documenting glyphosate's geno-toxicity. Glyphosate is Monsanto's most popular herbicide chemical, formulated with adjuvants and sold as Roundup weed killer. More than just a weedkiller, glyphosate destroys the commensal microbes in the human gut and imposes toxicity on human genes. When Roundup-ready canola oil (rapeseed), soybeans, corn and BT cotton began hitting the market, they were advertised as safer, healthier alternatives to organic non-GMO varieties. Farmers who refused these GM terminator seeds were driven out of business.
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SB 908: Email Voting (2011)
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VICTORY!!!
I am thrilled to be able to report that the California email voting bill SB908, was defeated in the Assembly Elections Committee. It needed 4 votes to pass the 7 member committee. There was 1 vote in favor, 3 opposed, 2 abstentions, and 1 absent. The same bill that sailed through the Senate 23-11.
This is a clear victory for small but dedicated groups of election integrity advocates, working in conjunction with Debra Bowen's office, and networking throughout the state and the country. The message was clear, concise, and compelling, (email voting is way too risky) and repeated to the committee members many times by all of you over the past 2 1/2 weeks.
We wish to thank everybody for their solidarity. We are looking forward to more such victories in the future.
Jim & the Voting Rights Task Force
We fail only if we quit, and we are not quitting.
Bill info
Text of SB 908
Latest status of the bill
You can download the legislative analysis written July 1 from
Why Email Voting Is Dangerous
Legislators are supporting the bill because they want to help the troops. The legislative analysis did a poor job of looking at technical issues of "photoshopping" the ballots as they are relayed across the global Internet. The analysis also failed to look at insider and denial of service attacks which can affect county elections servers.
In just one week, the CIA, IMF, US Senate, CityBank, and other high security sites were all hacked.
Emails travel through many computers (routers) on their way to their destination. From overseas, this could include computers in Russia, China, Iran, and other undemocratic countries. Email attachments are not encrypted, which makes it easier for any computer to "photoshop" the ballots and and accompanying signatures.
There is no reliable way of even knowing if an attack has occured. With no paper trail, there is no way to recover from a serious problem. Also, there are also no provisions for checking that the ballots are received and counted correctly.
Chinese or Russian hackers should not be allowed to vote in Californian elections at all, let alone massively.
The bill requires voters to waive their right to a secret ballot. In certain employment situations, that may not be fully voluntary.
The main point is: Emails over the Internet is not a secure means to transmit voted ballots.
Please write the legislators.
You can use a sample letter that has been prepared here.
From the Experts
Debra Bowen, California Secretary of State.
"I believe we must continue to remove as many barriers as possible to ensure California's military voters and their dependents are able to fully participate in their democracy. However, the return of voted ballots by email is too risky given current technology and security standards."
Letter to Senator Runner, April 27, 2011
Dr. David Jefferson, Cyber Security Expert,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and voting technology advisor to five California Secretaries of State.
"While all Internet voting systems are vulnerable to such attacks and thus should be unacceptable to anyone, email voting is by far the worst Internet voting choice from a national security point of view since it is the easiest to attack in the largest number of different ways. … The computer security research community in the U.S. is essentially unanimous in its condemnation of any currently feasible form of Internet voting, but most especially of email voting."
Email Voting: A National Security Threat in Government Elections
David Jefferson's Comments to the FCC on Internet Voting ,
and the Computer Technologists' Statement on Internet Voting
Dr. Ron Rivest, Cyber Security Expert, MIT
"It is child's play these days to hire a botnet to send out tens or hundreds of millions of spam email messages; I doubt the filters on most election jurisdiction servers would be able to cope… And of course, you can target servers according to the politics of the targeted jurisdiction."
https://www.overseasvotefoundation.org/Email-Ballot-Security
Overseas Vote Foundation
"Private email over the Internet is not a secure method of transfer for documents containing your confidential identity information. This is why Overseas Vote Foundation recommends that voters return their ballots by regular mail and fax." (not email!)
Emailed Ballots: A Security Assessment
Let's Hear It: Do You Want to Email Your Ballot?
OpEdNews Interview
"I believe that we will block or at least alter the email voting bill in the California Assembly Elections Committee. The same bill that sailed through the Senate 23 to 11. A major difference will be that a small but dedicated network of advocates is organizing opposition to the bill. We know now that calls and emails are pouring into assemblymembers' offices, all opposed. Six years ago, it was difficult just to be heard. Now we are better organized, and definitely influencing legislation. At some point, we will be helping to write it. We only fail if we quit. We are not quitting. Democracy is too important."
– Jim Soper Takes On Internet Voting in California
More Good Links
Why Return of Voted Ballots Should Not Be Permitted via Email
I will add one other point. I lived overseas for 17 years, so the frustration of voting from abroad is personal with me. But as a senior software engineer, and the author of CountedAsCast.com, I know how dangerous Internet voting is, and what the implications of an email voting bill are for California, and for national security. On the balance, email voting is simply not worth the high risks of insider or external attack. "Photoshopping" email attachments as they travel over the Internet through computers in unfriendly countries is just too easy. Also too easy is digitally flooding the email servers of Los Angeles and other large counties on Election Day in a denial of service attack, blocking any hope of ballots arriving on time. The email system proposed offers no redundant backup; no way to collect, count or check the ballots when technology breaks down. And it will.
San Francisco Voting Systems Task Force
In its upcoming report to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the Task Force states the following:
"It is well settled that marking ballots in an uncontrolled environment is vulnerable to fraud and coercion — mostly during transportation (of ballot from voter to election officials) wherein marked ballots are subject to risks that are not present in ballots marked in a controlled environment. … Similarly, in discussing remote digital voting, it is well-settled that all forms of remote digital voting also share these vulnerabilities, … Among the risks specific to remote digital voting are insider technical threat and Internet accessibility of remote digital voting systems to adversaries. Insider technical threat is the expansion of the scope of trusted insiders to include IT operations staff charged with managing remote digital voting systems, as well as anyone who is able to obtain IT operations privileges. Internet accessibility is a necessary consequence of using public networks for communication between remote voters and local election officials; anyone anywhere with Internet access has the ability to target remote digital voting systems in order to carry out the same type of Internet based attacks that have succeeded against several organizations with security expertise that far exceeds that of any voting system vendor or election jurisdiction — including Google, Adobe, RSA Security, Federal Voting Assistance program website; and dozens of other large corporations. With the digital-specific risks, both ballot anonymity and ballot integrity are at risk in many ways that are not applicable to ballots marked in a controlled environment with controlled transportation to election offices facilities. The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Report NISTIR 7711, which compares the risks for digital remote voting to postal remote voting, states: "In general, these risks are larger than risks associated with traditional postal mail delivery of ballots because the whole world has access to the internet, while few people have access to somebody's mail.""
– " Recommendation on Voting Systems ", final draft.
One comment on "SB 908: Email Voting (2011)"
Ed Gracely says:
Elections are one of the most important routes to power and influence in this country, therefore, we must assume that somebody (or a whole bunch of somebodies) will try to hack them. This is not paranoia. Considering how much hacking and other computer-takeover activity of other sorts (viruses, Trojans and so on) already goes on, at multiple levels, and how many major companies and government institutions have been broken into, it would be surprising if there were NOT a substantial number of individuals figuring out every possible way to disrupt or influence elections.
With proper systems in place, current methods can do a pretty good job of blocking or catching threats to regular voting at the polls. Email voting is much more difficult to protect. Allowing it is opening the barn door and saying, "Hey, wolves, lookie here…"
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Q: Can't deploy simple node js react app to elastic Beanstalk Ok guys this should be simple and I watched all tutorials online via Youtube and Medium articles and they all have the same steps. I tried the CLI and uploading the source code but when i check the logs I get this error
An error occurred during execution of command [app-deploy] - [Use NPM to install dependencies]. Stop running the command. Error: Command /bin/sh -c npm --production install failed with error signal: killed. Stderr:npm WARN config production Use --omit=dev instead.
I obviously tried doing npm install --omit dev and I still get the same error.
Here is

I would appreciate any help I can get.

A: It looks like you're using a monorepo for both, your frontend (React) and your backend (Node.JS). You might want to think about splitting those and use a service that is a better fit for your frontend like AWS Amplify. You don't need an EC2 server that is running 24/7 for your frontend. Once your frontend app is built, it only requires static hosting. That's what Amplify is for and it comes with many other benefits like automated domain config, CDN, etc.
That said, even though it comes with a bunch of downsides, it is possible to run both frontend and backend in 1 repo using Beanstalk. To achieve this, you will need to launch the server side (Node.JS) and statically host your frontend (React) /build directory at the same time.
npm start
Let's fix your npm start command. You only need the last part node server.js. Beanstalk will run npm install && npm build for you automatically as part of the deployment process.
If you have both frontend and backend in one repo, make sure to use separate package.json files in separate subdirectories. Avoid installing backend and frontend modules into the same node_modules directory.
Make sure to trigger the build process for both, frontend and backend when Beanstalk runs npm run build. You can play with the scripts in your main package.json. Here's an example:
  "scripts": {
    "build:frontend": "cd frontend && npm install && npm run build",
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    "start": "node server.js"
  },

Make sure to generate separate build outputs. E.g. /dist for your backend and /build for your frontend, or ideally, put them in subdirectories for better separation, e.g. /frontend/build and /backend/build.
You can even add a third overarching package.json to structure your directories. This third package.json will not have any dependencies, its only job is to manage your scripts for Beanstalk.
├── backend
│   ├── build <-- you won't have one if you're using plain js
│   ├── node_modules
│   ├── package.json
│   └── src <-- this will be started with `node /backend/src/server.js`
├── frontend
│   ├── build <-- content of this will be statically hosted
│   ├── node_modules
│   ├── package.json
│   └── src
└── package.json

Static hosting (nginx proxy)
The next step is to make sure the build output of your frontend is hosted statically. While you can achieve this with Express, e.g. by using app.use(express.static('frontend/build')), there is a much better option that comes with Beanstalk: nginx
Beanstalk manages an nginx instance that can host static directories for you. Like most SPAs, React requires dynamic routing that redirects all requests to index.html. Nginx makes this configuration really easy. You can replace Beanstalk's default nginx config by putting a file in your app directory under /.platform/nginx/nginx.conf.
Here's an example that will route all /api traffic to your Node.JS server (make sure it listens on the right port 3000). It will route all remaining traffic to a static directory /var/app/current/frontend/dist - this should be pointing to your frontend build files.
http {
    server {

        listen 8080;
        root /var/app/current/frontend/dist;

        location /api {
            proxy_pass  http://127.0.0.1:3000/api;
            proxy_set_header   Connection "";
            proxy_http_version 1.1;
            proxy_set_header        Host            $host;
            proxy_set_header        X-Real-IP       $remote_addr;
            proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        }

        location / {
            try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
        }

    }
}

Like I said, you can also use Express to host static files but I would recommend the nginx approach since Beanstalk already comes with nginx and it makes the redirect config easier.

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Matt out there looking the goods as usual.
NE - 12 to 15kts, then 15 - 20kts. Very fun session with Matt and Eckkers from Lake Illawarra.


Citizens4Community, in collaboration with the Sisters Latino community, will present Sister's first community-wide Fiesta de Independencia on Sunday, Sept. 16. The event recognizes Mexican Independence Day and offers all of Sisters Country a fun opportunity to gather and make new friends against a backdrop of wonderful food, lively music and beautiful folkloric dancing.
The fiesta runs 3-7 p.m. in Fir Street Park, just north of Cascade Ave., in Sisters. During the event, E. Main Avenue will be closed between Fir and Spruce streets. Three different food carts are set to be on hand to offer attendees a variety of Mexican dishes for purchase. Or you are welcome to bring your own food, lawn chairs or a blanket, and enjoy a relaxing Sisters Sunday afternoon.
Admission is free; and there will be drawings for free door prizes--donated by local businesses--held throughout the event.
Also, we're excited to announce the fiesta will feature entertainment by the acclaimed band Mariachi Los Temerosos and the folkloric dancing group Folklore Luna.
• Peter Lowes and Hola!
And, as always, thanks go to Suttle Tea, the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District and the City of Sisters for their always friendly and reliable assistance.


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Howelldevine
Shack-Shaking Music
"There is no blues band performing today as different as HowellDevine—nor as delightful." ~ Lee Hildebrand, Living Blues Magazine/SF Chronicle
Triple threat talent, Joshua Howell (guitar, harmonica, vocals) and percussion savant, Pete Devine (drums, washboard), plus veteran upright bassist, Joe Kyle Jr. deftly mix Delta/Country Blues with wildly syncopated rhythms to create a rollicking present-day sound rooted in early blues. HowellDevine breaks from the norm, providing rich and complex textures integral to the music rather than simple backing for a soloist. The result is a sound which stands in stark contrast to the typical blues heard in bars these days and would more likely be shaking the floors of a Southern juke joint some 70 years ago.
Joshua Howell (Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica)
Within three years of starting harmonica at the age of 14, Joshua was sitting in with many of the San Francisco Bay Area's blues bands. He quickly became the desired house harmonica player in clubs such as Eli's Mile High and Your Place Too, though his under-age status limited his exposure to only those clubs that could circumvent the age restrictions. During this period, he took up guitar, intently focused on learning the techniques of the Mississippi greats such as Fred McDowell, Bukka White, Robert Johnson and RL Burnside. While living in Santa Cruz, Joshua pursued a successful career in guitar making, developing the Howell & Forsyth Guitar Company. Though he continued to focus on playing music and gigging locally, music as a profession took a back seat to lutherie. It wasn't until he moved to Thailand that he dedicated himself entirely to musicianship, taking on over 15 gigs a week as a solo artist. After three years playing professionally in Thailand's mountainous north, Joshua returned to the U.S. and continued to perform in the San Francisco Bay Area. When he crossed paths with drummer and percussionist Pete Devine, they recognized their similar influences and musical sensibilities. Their common approach effortlessly generated a powerhouse combo of inspired and unaffected blues.
Pete Devine (Drums & Washboard)
Originally from Maine, Pete started playing drums when he was six years old. Prior to receiving his first actual drum set, he would sit on the floor and surround himself with pots, pans and a Quaker Oat box or two - anything that put out a fairly nice percussive sound when struck by sticks - and play along to the Louis Armstrong and the Spike Jones records that his Grandmother Helen Devine would play for him. A drummer was born! Pete moved out west (San Francisco) to try his hand at being a professional musician in 1989, and over the years has performed with many superb bands and some savory musicians in and around the Bay Area. Those bands included Bo Grumpus, Gaucho, and his own Devine's Jug Band. Pete was also a founding member of Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers. To this day, Pete continues to perform with Mal Sharpe's "Big Money in Jazz" band, playing drums and percussion with that same group of fantastic characters for almost 30 years! Throughout the years, Pete has recorded on over 40 different albums with styles ranging from traditional jazz to blues, jug band music to ragtime, gyspy jazz to good old rock and roll. Pete's old-time drumming styles and jug blowing talents have led him to perform and/or record with other musical notables such as Dan Hicks, Maya Angelou, Howard Armstrong (Louie Bluie), Bobby Weir, Bobby Helm & Maria Muldaur. Pete says, "though I've played in many great bands over the years, HowellDevine takes the cake."
Joe Kyle Jr. (Upright Bass)
It was during the Great Swing Wars of early-1990s San Francisco, when gigs were plentiful, public cigar smoking was legal, and vintage clothes were still cheap, that Joe was fortunate enough to have been drafted into musical service. Since that time he has become an in-demand player known for his superb feel, musical agility, and adaptability. Joe has been touring and recording with the Waybacks since mid-2001, and in such capacity has shared the stage with a host of notable roots music heroes including Bob Weir, Sam Bush, John Cowan, Joan Osborne, Jerry Douglas, Emmylou Harris, Elvis Costello, Danny Barnes, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Grace Potter, Mike Marshall, Darol Anger, Jim Lauderdale and Bela Fleck. He might be the only bassist to have played with Martin Denny, Al Kooper AND Pinetop Perkins, although not at the same time, sadly.


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Submit your application by February 18, 2019.
Include an audition video featuring the applicant performing 2 contrasting pieces.
Each piece can be a section from a larger work, for instance, the exposition of a sonata.
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Describe your musical background, including years studied, your current working repertoire, and any chamber music or orchestra experience you might have had.
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Each chamber group will meet for 1 hour and a half between 1-4pm on YPW Saturdays. Do you have unavoidable schedule conflicts? List them here.
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Walking with dinosaurs on the Bass Coast
Written by Gary on February 14th, 2019
Victoria's southern Bass Coast around Inverloch is not only a lovely place to spend Summer at the beach and explore the surrounds, but it is also a walk into the past.
The sandstone rock platforms date to around 120 million years ago (mya) which was during the Cretaceous Period and it is fascinating to try to consider what these times were like.
To do so requires a bit of an understanding of Australia's place in the world then and its climate.
Southern Australia with it's connection to Antarctica intact had moved from the northern Hemisphere where it had been some 550 mya, to close to the South Pole as part of the Pangaea super-continent.
During this migration south, around 360mya, during the Carboniferous Period when ferns, seed ferns, horsetails and gymnosperms evolved, conditions were warm and tropical which resulted in massive "Coal forests" dominating the land until the Permian Ice Age 280mya which resulted in ice glaciers covering most of south-eastern Australia (as demonstrated in Werribee Gorge and around Heathcote). These "Coal forests" became buried and are now the massive coal (as well as oil and gas) deposits which are being mined in various parts of Australia including the Bass Coast.
After the Permian Extinction event of 252mya, Australia became warmer and more monsoonal with the Triassic and Jurassic Periods, and much of Australia became large sedimentary basins with little evidence of Jurassic Period dinosaurs.
By 120mya the Australian craton had started migrating northwards but this time AWAY from the Antarctica craton creating a massive Rift Valley (similar to what is occurring in East Africa today). Africa had separated from South America (c140mya) which was still connected at its southern tip to Antarctica. Tasmania was at the South Pole.
This rifting created subsidence including the land between Tasmania and Victoria forming a massive flood plain with large rivers and many small rivulets at a time before the Ice Ages and well before Antarctica had become covered with ice and well before Australia had become an arid inland region.
120mya, the climate in this region was more of a cool temperate climate with snow on the alpine areas, long polar winters without sun and the rivers covered in ice. This was well BEFORE Australia had been populated by monotremes, marsupials, snakes or goannas but there were a range of Cretaceous dinosaurs and other animals.
Walking on these 120mya sandstone rock platforms, one can easily see today remnant fossilized trees which had fallen in the silt, and each year researchers come to dig the coast line looking for small dinosaur fragments amongst the conglomerate rocks remaining from the rivulets.
Fossilized tree trunk on the sandstone rock platform at Eagles Nest
Eagles Nest rock platform, Inverloch
Conglomerate rocks embedded in sandstone from the 120 million year old rivulet beds – could any of these be dinosaur fragments – part of a rib, or a tooth?
I imagined this could be a foot print but I am guessing it is not
and this paler one different to the other rocks in this conglomerate could represent a tooth, but who knows – I am no geological archaeologist!
Even if one does not discover any dinosaur bones, it is a lovely way to explore the area and search for interesting patterns – a bit of mindfulness at the seaside.
Nearby is evidence of the resulting volcanic activity due to thinning of the crust with the rifting with flows of igneous lava / magma deposited above the sandstone and these have been dated to 99.9mya.
This leads us on to how Australia's unique animals evolved and came to be in Australia.
The first monotremes evolved c110mya and whilst the first marsupials (early opossums) evolved c100mya in North America, they had to migrate to South America and then across the Antarctic (before the trans-Antarctic mountains were pushed up c50mya) arriving in Australia c55mya where they then evolved into kangaroos, koalas and wombats.
40mya, whales evolved from the hippopotamus and would eventually travel to Australian waters.
Australia is well known for having the most venomous snakes on earth, and it is interesting how these evolved.
Snakes evolved from lizards around 120mya, with the "Old World" snakes being the pythons which have residual lizard features.
The elapids evolved c38mya and arrived in Australia c25mya from the north perhaps from a close ancestor of the semi-aquatic Sea Kraits which had evolved at the same time.
It was around this time that Australia's climate dramatically changed. Australia had already become much drier c38mya when the Antarctic started to develop ice sheets and duracrusts started to form across Australia. This arid climate accelerated when South America and Tasmania both had separated from Antarctica allowing the circum-polar ocean currents to form c27mya which would result in a freezing of Antarctica
Australian terrestrial Elapid venomous snakes then evolved over time into a range of closely related species including Eastern Brown and Taipan with their tolerance to the new arid inland conditions, the Copperhead and Tiger snakes, but also the Australian elapids evolved into vivaporous sea snakes (c16mya).
The Australian goannas (monitor lizards) and pythons arrived in Australia from the north c15mya, although the pythons may have arrived somewhat later around 8mya.
Presumably the ice ages of the Pleistocene (the last 2.8 million years) were a trigger for the evolution of Australia's megafauna which tend to cope better in cold conditions. Yes, it is better to be shorter and smaller when there is global warming!
Homo sapiens evolved some 300,000 yrs ago, and around 45,000 yrs ago, Australia's indigenous peoples migrated to Australia from Sri Lanka. In contrast, the Polynesians migrated much later, starting around 3000BC and migrated from Taiwan region to eventually cover most of the Pacific Islands, New Zealand and to Hawaii.
Bass Strait did not become the sea way that it is today until the end of the last Ice Age resulted in sea levels rising c8000 yrs ago which cut off Tasmania from the mainland.
More details on how Australia evolved is on my wiki page here.
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