Unmasking: but would new Health Secretary ‘Covid’ Javid be so keen for us all to do the same if he hadn’t had both vaccination jabs? And will he continue to protect himself until after the vaccination programme is complete – long after his planned “Freedom Day” on July 19?
More than 100 scientists have told the government that its plan to end Covid-19 restriction on July 19 makes it #DangerDay – not #FreedomDay – for the nation.
The letter states: “Immunity will be achieved by vaccination for some people but by natural infection for others (predominantly the young). We have previously pointed to the dangers of relying on immunity by natural infection
“Implicit in this decision is the acceptance that infections will surge, but that this does not matter because vaccines have “broken the link between infection and mortality”.
“The link between infection and death… has not been broken.
“And infection can still cause substantial morbidity in both acute and long-term illness.”
Read it for yourself:
Our letter in The Lancet today: why Government policy of relaxing protections while the pandemic is surging, and ignoring the soaring infections, is both reckless and immoral. Signed by over 100 scientists an practitioners including the Chair of the British Medical Association pic.twitter.com/cwRRiDEpMz
The Tories are deliberately sentencing young people in the UK to either death or serious health problems, long into the future.
If you’re a parent, are you happy that ‘Covid’ Javid is threatening your children in this way?
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James Cleverly: He was once described as “the Tories’ go-to eejit when they need someone to tweet absolute nonsense or defend the indefensible”. Now it seems he’s not even bothering to say anything at all.
Here’s another story that should be all over the BBC’s prime-time news but, for some reason, seems to have been missed by the mostly-Tory news team there.
The information comes from Declassified UK, an independent investigative site run by Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis. This Writer follows Kennard on Twitter and I am impressed by the information he provides and the opinions he puts forward. Therefore I think his site is trustworthy.
Here’s what it says:
Middle East Minister James Cleverly may be breaking the Ministerial Code by failing to answer questions put to him in the House of Commons. The Code demands that ministers have a duty to “be as open as possible with parliament” and to “give accurate and truthful information”.
The questions were about whether military equipment from the UK was used in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza in May – which killed 66 Palestinian children.
The best response anybody appears to have received – to 14 questions that Declassified has identified – is that the UK “takes its export control responsibilities very seriously”. That is not an adequate answer.
There is an obvious conclusion to be drawn from this – and I’m sure you don’t need me to spell it out for you.
But Cleverly certainly won’t spell out the facts for all of us unless he is forced to do so.
And, given the huge prominence the Israel-Palestine conflict received in the news during May, the absence of such pressure from mainstream media outlets like the BBC is deeply disturbing.
Britain’s Middle East minister James Cleverly is regularly refusing to provide answers to written questions posed to him by members of parliament, especially on UK arms exports to Israel, contravening House of Commons rules.
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Last Saturday, May 8, This Writer put out a request on This Site for supporters of Israel – the people who set out to justify the atrocities committed by the government of that country – to explain why armed Israeli forces had invaded the Al Aqsa Mosque and were shooting worshippers there with rubber bullets and letting off stun grenades on this holy ground.
I received very few responses from such people, which is uncharacteristic for people who usually cannot be prevented from spouting their propaganda as often and widely as possible.
The best any of them could manage was a bit of whataboutery – an attempt to say that it was reasonable because of Palestinian rocket attacks and why wasn’t I bothered about them?
I am bothered about them; these screamers always miss the point that none of the violence between Israel and Palestine is acceptable.
There’s also this argument, made by a commenter on Twitter:
I think Israel's #IronDome gives Israel almost 100% protection against Palestinian rockets. So, it's rather disingenuous for news media to report Palestinian rocket attacks in a manner that is reminiscent of V2s against London. #SheikhJarrah
— John Smith (son of Harry Leslie Smith) (@Harryslaststand) May 11, 2021
Furthermore, it is entirely disproportionate for Israel to use the rocket retaliations against the attack on Al Aqsa, and the forcible emptying of the Sheikh Jarrah area of Jerusalem, as a justification for this:
Breaking news. Israeli warplanes have been just bombed Hanadi Towers where more than 80 Palestinian families live. pic.twitter.com/gyKSS3QHex
Instead of apologising for murdering civilians, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he is escalating attacks on residential areas:
Netanyahu – “Towers (residential) will continue to crumble. This is just the beginning”
— ASB News / MILITARY〽️ (@ASBMilitary) May 11, 2021
And he meant it:
Israeli media said that 80 Israeli warplanes are getting ready to shower #Gaza with Missiles & bombing. Please keep us in ur prayers. #GazaUnderAttack#Ramadan
It seems the weapons used on these residential areas of Palestine were manufactured in the United States, whose industrialists and government may be deemed to support the murder of civilians by their provision of weapons used to kill them.
The US gives Israel $10 million a day worth of military aid so that it can do this: https://t.co/9Jk1CwrONm
— Human Rights Watch Watcher (@queeralamode) May 11, 2021
It was during the attacks on Gaza that six-year-old Rahaf al Masry was killed by a US missile, aimed by a member of Israel’s armed forces. She was one of many…
According to friends in Gaza, Israeli bombs just hit a family home in Beit Hanoun, killing 9 Palestinians. 4 were children:
– Ibrahim Youssef Atallah Al-Masry, 11
– Marwan Youssef Atallah Al-Masry, 7
– Rahaf Muhammad Atallah Al-Masry, 10
– Marwan Youssef Atallah Al-Masry, 12
— shirien (wishin I was in falasteen) (@shirien___) May 10, 2021
… and this murder of children prompted Unicef to make an appeal for sanity – which fell on deaf ears.
The escalation in the Gaza Strip has resulted in the deaths of nine Palestinian children. Four of them were siblings.
The Israeli Defence force has attempted to justify these murders – but the statement would have been laughable if it had not been about the deliberate killing of children. As it is, I think the comment on the statement that I’m publishing here is remarkably restrained:
Imagine blowing up multiple high rise apartments and refugee camps, killing children and a man in a wheelchair who couldn’t flee in time, and then tweeting this. https://t.co/IPgN2DXykM
— Rebecca Pierce #SaveSheikhJarrah (@aptly_engineerd) May 11, 2021
The only sentence in the IDF statement that strikes This Writer as in any way likely to be true is the last: “Our goal is only to strike terror.”
They’ve certainly done that. They’ve struck terror into the hearts of every Palestinian (yet again), and they have struck terror into everybody watching the development of this atrocity, who has a heart.
Condemnation has come thick and fast:
Deliberately provocative attacks on the Al-Aqsa mosque and the ongoing home invasions #SheikhJarrah have led to horrendous violence in Jerusalem. As the occupying power, the Israeli government has it in its gift to rectify the current situation and not exacerbate it. #Palestine
Those were mild words from Jeremy Corbyn who, despite the sustained and vicious accusations of anti-Semitism against him, continues to be the peacemaker. His hope here was forlorn.
Hard to fathom this barbarism. Drive a people off their land because they have the wrong religion, put the refugees and their descendants in an open air prison where you control every aspect of their lives, then massacre their children when they lift so much as a finger to resist https://t.co/4Bg3KjWhF9
Israel bombed and shot and maimed and killed and now it’s a war. This was preventable. Every single day for the last two weeks, every single Israeli escalation led to this point. Netanyahu started a totally preventable war all so he can stay in power. https://t.co/qKpS0xnYCe
The quote tweet from Haaretz refers to two Israeli deaths, caused by a Palestinian rocket that, it seems, got through Netanyahu’s “Iron Wall”. These deaths are just as deplorable as those of the many more Palestinians who have lost their lives. But who should take responsibility for them? Whoever let off the rocket, certainly. But what about the Israeli prime minister who provoked those people into doing it?
And when is the cycle of violence ever going to end?
Will it only end when Israel has used its overwhelming military superiority to destroy Palestine altogether – wipe its people off the face of the Earth – in the full view of the world and protesting that it is Israelis who are the victims all the way through?
Will it really have to go that far before the other nations of the world publicly acknowledge what is happening there and condemn it? Will they really wait until it is too late?
It seems so.
Look at Emily Maitlis on the BBC’s Newsnight, pushing the Establishment line that the violence is all the fault of the Palestinians for all she was worth, and getting very short shrift from Palestine’s ambassador to the UK, Husam Zumlot. Labour MP Clive Lewis’s choice of words to quote is right on the button:
Yesterday, in the Queen’s Speech opening the new Parliamentary session, Boris Johnson’s government announced a plan to deny UK citizens the right to protest against Israeli atrocities via BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) in what This Writer can only see as wholehearted support for the murder of Palestinian children:
The British state wants to ban its citizens from peacefully boycotting the racist power that just killed multiple children in Gaza. Why? To protect "business" and Britain's "strategic interests". https://t.co/El5WKk6Uuw
The alternative, of course, is to be labelled anti-Semitic:
What Isreali state is doing to Palestinians is a war crime. They are forcing people from their homes and killing them. Yet the world is silent too scared to criticise for fear of being labelled anti-Semitic. That’s where accepting the IHRA definition has taken us.
It’s a false accusation; Israel is not the Jewish people, nor has it ever been representative of them all. No doubt there are many Jews across the world who deplore the atrocities committed by the government of that country – including among those in Israel itself.
Taking that as true, then I agree with John Smith, son of the late Labour legend Harry Leslie Smith:
Israeli citizens have a moral obligation to speak out against their government's murder of Palestinians. #PalestinianLivesMatter
— John Smith (son of Harry Leslie Smith) (@Harryslaststand) May 11, 2021
Sadly, if such people exist in Israel, their voices are being suppressed just as much as ours will be if Johnson pushes through his ban on BDS. Instead we are shown Israelis backing the violence – including, remember, the murder of children – to the hilt:
That footage of Israelis jubilantly cheering while airstrikes are launched into Gaza is really very disturbing to watch.
I dare say it is – because those people should be offended, not elated. So should people here in the UK.
Their government is perpetuating a cycle of violence that – as Jeremy Corbyn pointed out – it could end at a moment’s notice.
And our government is implying that we all support these killings by suppressing our ability to protest against them.
How will we ever find peace with monsters like these in charge?
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Jacob Rees-Mogg, making a gesture that well defines him. He’s currently all upset that the failings of his Tory government have prompted Unicef to come to the UK and feed our starving children. It’s a job that the Tory government should have done but couldn’t be bothered to.
Where to start with the latest atrocity from this atrocious Tory?
Yesterday we learned that UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund that provides humanitarian and developmental aid to children across the world, is having to help feed hungry kids in the UK for the first time since it was formed in 1946.
The non-political UN charity is providing £25,000 to two charities – Food School Matters and Food Power – who will partner with Premier Foods and local authorities to help provide breakfast boxes to 1,800 children in south London.
It seems clear that this move has been prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic and the weak response of Boris Johnson’s Tory government.
UNICEF UK spokesperson Anna Kettley told Sky News, “This is an unprecedented situation which requires everyone to roll their sleeves up, step in and support children and families that need it most at this time.”
This is happening because Johnson’s government told millions of parents they had to stop working because of the virus. In doing so, the Tories took responsibility for the well-being of those families – and threw it away.
Instead of ensuring that parents were fully compensated for their lost wages, Rishi Sunak devised a series of schemes that provided only a fraction of what was needed – to only a fraction of the people who needed them.
Now, at what is traditionally the hardest part of the year for many people, the UN’s children’s charity has had to announce that it is stepping in to help.
And how did the Tories greet this timely aid – which will help them as well as the families who will benefit directly, by preventing a human disaster driven by poverty in the world’s fifth-wealthiest country?
Jacob Rees-Mogg condemned it as a political stunt.
“It’s a real scandal that Unicef should be playing politics in this way when it is meant to be looking after people in the poorest and most deprived countries in the world, where people are starving, where there are famines and there are civil wars – and they make cheap political points of this kind, giving, I think, £25,000 to one council.
“It is a political stunt of the lowest order.”
He added: “Unicef should be ashamed of itself.”
Perhaps I should spend the rest of this article discussing the ingratitude of spoilt little rich boys.
Rees-Mogg has never suffered poverty and does not understand what it is like to be forced into starvation by the actions of others who have power over him. It is unlikely he ever will.
It does not follow that this means he cannot understand the responsibility of those who have power over other people to ensure that they do not harm those others in the exercise of that power. Other rich people have understood this necessity and acted on it.
It just seems that Rees-Mogg – and many others in the Johnson government – aren’t bright enough to understand that they do have a duty of care for people if they’re going to deny them the chance to earn a living for themselves.
This failure of intelligence has extended to the point that they cannot even understand – or at least, that’s what their behaviour suggests – that by stepping in, Unicef is helping the Tories out of a hole that they dug for themselves.
If children were to starve to death over this Christmas period, Rees-Mogg and his brethren would be blamed. And the public may be notoriously fickle but they don’t forget when a politician’s choices kill their families.
So he should be grateful.
Perhaps he just doesn’t like that fact that, rich as he is personally, he needed help from a charity.
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Williamson the dunce: I know it’s a duff image but it reflects this MP’s abilities so I’ll keep using it as long as he continues to be a dunce.
Tory Education Secretary Gavin Williamson stripped children in care of 65 legal protections illegally, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
Judges said he should have consulted the Children’s Commissioner and other stakeholder organisations before inflicting such a “substantial and wide-ranging” “bonfire of children’s rights”.
The regulations affected included legal timescales for social-worker visits to children in care, six-monthly reviews of children’s welfare, independent scrutiny of children’s homes and senior officer oversight of adoption decision-making for babies and children.
The protections affected also cover disabled children having short breaks and children in care sent many miles away from home.
It seems Williamson did conduct a consultation but was selective about whose opinions he sought – adoption agencies, private providers and local government bodies.
But organisations representing the children and young people who were to be affected by the changes were not consulted and the Children’s Commissioner only found out about the changes after they had been forced through Parliament through the Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) regulations in April.
We are told that all of the changes were temporary and have now expired.
We have yet to hear – may never hear – how many children were harmed as a result of them.
Williamson has been told to run proper consultations in future.
But will he? And doesn’t this simply reignite the debate over whether Conservatives should be allowed anywhere near children in care.
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Money, money, money: Boris Johnson’s government says it is spending billions to help children with special educational needs and disabilities weather the Covid crisis – but they aren’t seeing it. So where is it going?
It may be hard to accept, but Boris Johnson and his cronies have been weaponising Covid-19, using the crisis as an excuse to take support away from vulnerable children.
Parents of children with special educational needs and disabilities have been particularly hard-hit, as Metro‘s report shows:
An Ofsted report into the impact of the first lockdown published this week found that some children lost basic skills and learning as a result of school closures and restrictions on movement.
Turning to SEND children, it found the pandemic has presented ‘serious and far-reaching’ challenges for families, with some feeling ‘isolated’ from existing services.
One parent who spoke to Metro branded the situation a ‘national disgrace’ and said her three-year-old son had received no physio or occupational therapy for nine months.
Another told of a ‘pressure cooker’ environment and the ‘terror’ parents face with no end in sight, as they struggle without services they had previously relied upon in their day-to-day lives.
The response from the Tories’ Department for Education spokesperson gives great emphasis to the amounts of money that have been allocated to help parents and children in this situation.
It mentions “£37million this year to help thousands of low-income families raising disabled or seriously ill children with the challenge they face staying at home”, a “£1billion Covid catch-up fund”, and “increasing high needs funding for local authorities by £780 million this year and a further £730 million next year”.
But who actually receives the cash and what does it actually pay for?
This year we have seen the Tories waste no less than £12 billion on a Covid-19 test, track and trace system that not only doesn’t work but is actually a contamination risk.
So quoting amounts of money allocated to particular projects means nothing.
It is clear from the stories here that these parents and children are not receiving the support they need.
And I, for one, would like to know what the Tories are really doing with that cash.
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After the Tory Environment Secretary defended his government’s determination to starve poverty-stricken children during the school holidays – including Christmas – people in his Cornwall constituency have retaliated with a “Banksy”-style graffiti criticism.
The text reads:
“Georgie Porgie pudding and pie,
“Starved the kids and made them cry.
“#endchildfoodpoverty”
The artist even painted it onto a board that was then discovered attached to the front door of his constituency office:
Tories like Eustice thought members of the public have short memories and would forget that the decision to starve children at Christmas had been made by them.
Responses like this make the point clear:
They thought wrong.
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Money, money, money: and none of it is for hungry children. The £63m fund mentioned so often by Boris Johnson and others was not for that purpose and was all spent before they even started talking it up.
You know that £63 million fund Conservative ministers like Robert Jenrick, Nadhim Zahawi, Matt Hancock and Boris Johnson keep saying is available to feed poor children over school holidays?
It was all spent weeks ago.
It came to only a few hundred thousand pounds per council.
When they Tories provided it in July, it was with a proviso that the money had to be spent within 12 weeks.
And it wasn’t specifically for feeding hungry children anyway.
Here’s Peter Stefanovic:
This has to stop!
Truth twisting Gov’t Minister Robert Jenrick still citing £63m allocated in June to justify his cowardly decision to vote down a motion to prevent more than a million kids going hungry during the holidays
Next time a Tory minister turns up on the media peddling this lie, complain.
Complain to that minister personally, and also to the media outlet, be it the BBC, Sky News or some local radio station operating out of a Portakabin.
Let’s expose these liars and child-starvers for what they are.
Note: This Site has been reminded that a handful of Conservatives voted in favour of feeding children during the school holidays, in rebellion against their party’s line that called for your kids to starve. Obviously they should not be targeted during protests. The are:
Caroline Ansell( quit Government post)
Robert Halfon
Jason McCartney
Anne Marie Morris
Holly Mumby-Croft
No doubt there are perfectly good reasons to criticise the above-named people as well – they are Tories, after all – but this isn’t one of them.
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Gavin Williamson: did he really ask Rishi Sunak’s Treasury for £150 million to provide meals for poverty-stricken children during school holidays?
Conservative cabinet ministers have started in-fighting over responsibility for blocking the provision of meals to poverty-stricken children during school holidays.
Somebody, it seems, has claimed that the Treasury blocked a request for £150 million to pay for such a scheme.
But Chancellor Rishi Sunak has hotly denied this, claiming that Education Secretary Gavin Williamson never asked for the funds.
Treasury sources said there had been no request from the education secretary for the £150m to provide meals for 1.4 million disadvantaged pupils during the holiday.
It seems perfectly reasonable to suppose that Sunak is right, in fact.
The call for the government to fund the meals came originally from footballer Marcus Rashford, and it was Labour who took it to Parliament in an Opposition Day debate last week – when the Tories ensured that it was rejected.
So it seems to me that Williamson would have had no reason to ask for the cash to make it happen.
Boris Johnson has since said that his government will not u-turn on the decision, no matter how hard public opinion turns against it.
His comments, along with the claim that no request has been made for the cash, will make it very hard for him to change his mind (as he often does if the focus groups tell him he needs to).
And he managed to cause trouble for himself by claiming local authorities could draw on a £63 million fund that his government has already created.
Council leaders angrily pointed out that the fund was intended to cover a wide range of hardships created by the Covid-19 crisis and most of it has been used.
Meanwhile, Nadhim Zahawi told Kay Burley of Sky News that kids were more interested in football than food:
Nadhim Zahawi thinks a game of 5-a-side and some papier mache is 'more important than food' to hungry children. And they wonder why we call them #ToryScum… pic.twitter.com/v7vcmedqZx
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Priti scummy: home secretary Priti Patel tweeted abuse against “do gooder” “activist lawyers” that allegedly led to a knife attack in one such solicitors office but none of the Tories complaining about being called “scum” have lifted their voice to complain about this scummy behaviour.
Cognitive dissonance: it seems 113 Conservative MPs have written to Labour leader Keir Starmer, complaining that they, their families and staff have been abused by members of the public after Angela Rayner referred to Christopher Clarkson as “scum” in a Commons debate.
EXC: Tory co-chairman @amandamilling & more than 100 backbenchers have written to Keir Starmer tonight to warn that @AngelaRayner’s “Tory scum” jibe has led to widespread abuse of Conservative MPs pic.twitter.com/DqLnHIsi3L
Ms Rayner has already apologised for the “language” she used “in a heated debate”.
The letter, written by Conservative Party co-chairman Amanda Milling, states: “I am sure that you agree that whilst targeting MPs in this way is clearly unacceptable, it is even worse that their relatives and staff members (many of whom are young and beginning their careers) should find themselves becoming targets.”
That depends on the circumstances in which those people attracted such comments, doesn’t it? As my late grandmother said to some other mother complaining on her doorstep about some transgression of my father (a boy at the time): “Ah. And what did THY boy do?”
“Sadly, this is not the first occasion in which the Honourable Member for Ashton-under-Lyne has used such language to describe Conservatives, nor the first time she has behaved with the standards expected of a Member of Parliament.”
I suspect this is a Freudian slip. It is a welcome surprise that the co-chair of the Conservatives accepts that calling her fellow MPs “scum” conforms with the standards expected of an MP.
“When you became Leader, you stated that you would put aside the divisive and combative politics that caused such bitter division in our nation, engaging ‘constructively’, not scoring party political points. We do not believe that this language, Labour’s recent actions in the House of the stream of the abuse this incident has resulted in, delivers on this promise.”
Hypocrisy. Every week the Conservative leader – I believe his name may be Boris Johnson – tries to score party political points against Labour during Prime Minister’s Questions. Starmer’s promise was an attempt to lift that Parliamentary debate above that and Johnson’s behaviour shows that it has failed. So there is no point in continuing. The Conservatives have set the bar low and they should not complain if Labour supporters follow their example.
Worse still, these Tories seem to be suffering from selective memory loss.
Have they all forgotten the Twitter outburst by their own Home Secretary, Priti Patel, against “do-gooder” “activist lawyers” that led to an actual knife attack in one such lawyer’s office?
Alt right snowflake who took priti patel's words literally and attacked a 'leftie lawyer' charged with attempted murder. May he rot in prison. https://t.co/yPUKaZMBF4
This time, she tweeted information that could prejudice a major criminal trial. She has deleted it, fearing criminal action against her for contempt of court.
Priti Patel deleted a tweet today after she was told that it likely constituted Contempt of Court regarding an ongoing major Criminal Trial.
Hopefully she'll be held to account like anyone else would be @MetCC
You should note that she is already facing possible prosecution for contempt of court over a previous case.
Any Journalist at @BBCNews@SkyNews@Channel4News or @itvnews going to cover Priti Patel having to delete a tweet today that has put a major Criminal Trial at risk?
Not to mention she's already under assessment by the Met for contempt in another case – Ref: CRIS 6541195/20
I await contact from Ms Patel’s own lawyers, who may actually try to revise history by claiming that she didn’t do it. That is the level of denial we are seeing from Conservatives at the moment.
It is certainly the level of denial we are seeing from Milling and the 112 colleagues who signed her letter to Keir Starmer.
You see, they are all forgetting – or denying – one simple fact that explains (if not justifies) the abuse they have received.
I haven’t checked, but I think it is reasonable to believe that all 113 signatories voted to deny free school meals to poverty-stricken English children in a debate last week (not the debate in which the “scum” remark was made but one immediately thereafter). Feel free to do some checking yourself, if you like.
It wasn't Angela Rayner's comments that has led to Tory MPs receiving ‘widespread abuse’ – it was them voting against feeding hungry children#ToryScumpic.twitter.com/YhHPFL1Zgd
The chair of the Tories and MP, Amanda Milling, has rounded up scores of Tory MPs who are more exercised by *one* MP being called "scum" by Angela Rayner than other issues like, oh, no funding for free schools meals for kids. Not suggesting the letter is deflection pic.twitter.com/Q4NGTo0nED
I also think it is reasonable to believe that any abuse from the general public will arise from their choice to ensure that hungry children starve – over Christmas, as I understand it.
So it seems to me:
If they don’t want to be called scum, they should not behave like scum.
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