Sandra Finley

2024-11-05 Four Articles from Reclaim the Net

Freedom of Information, Privacy, Freedom of Speech. (Remove some wrong postings from category), Media, public interest No Responses »

Nov 122024

I don’t know about you – – I see information in this (from Reclaim the Net) that is The Globalist Agenda, AS IS BEING IMPLEMENTED IN CANADA RIGHT NOW – – the Online Harms Act, a misnomer that George Orwell would love. Ref:

2024-11-12 Help us stop the Online Harms Act. (Do not let it get thru Parliament!) From JCCF (Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms). John Carpay

(I need to get the links in this post below working, if I can, asap, / S)

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MUSK LAYS IT OUT

“We’re Screwed Without It” Elon Musk Defends His Free Speech Twitter Takeover on Joe Rogan’s Podcast

In a new episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Elon Musk shared insights into his motivations for acquiring Twitter (now X) and the implications for free speech, calling the platform’s previous approach “insane” and highlighting its shift under his leadership. Musk said he felt a duty to buy Twitter, suggesting that without his intervention, “we’re screwed.”

Rogan praised Musk, expressing gratitude for what he saw as a stand against censorship. He credited Musk’s decision as a “fork in the road” for free expression, allowing more transparency into practices of “suppressing information.”

Musk echoed this, noting he had been “attuned” to suspicious shifts in the platform’s operation long before the acquisition. “I was the most interacted-with user on Twitter… If they change the system, I can tell immediately,” he said, adding that the platform’s decision to deplatform then-president Donald Trump was “insane.”

Watch the clip here.

Musk also detailed the extent of the FBI’s involvement in Twitter’s past operations, revealing startling practices that he believes violate constitutional principles. He described a “magic portal” that the FBI had into Twitter’s system, allowing federal agents to communicate directly with the platform’s moderators and request content be removed or suppressed. Even more concerning, Musk added, was that all communication through this portal was automatically deleted after two weeks, in violation of federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regulations. “It’s flat-out illegal,” Musk asserted, stressing that such erasure of communication prevented public oversight and accountability. He argued that the FBI’s covert access exemplifies the overreach and manipulation of information that he sought to end by taking ownership of the platform.

Musk delved into the government’s role in content control, mentioning the “Twitter Files” exposé, which shed light on government requests to remove certain posts or reduce their visibility on Twitter. “There was massive government interference in Twitter,” Musk noted. He explained that Twitter, at the time, had welcomed this influence, even receiving payments for content moderation services. Musk criticized this as “unconstitutional,” calling it a significant threat to open discourse.

Watch the clip here.

Discussing advertiser boycotts, Musk explained that X continues to face financial struggles, largely due to organized boycotts from activist organizations. “We had and still have a massive advertiser boycott,” he said, lamenting how “a bunch of left-wing NGOs” pushed for companies to halt their ad spending on the platform.

Watch the clip here.

“One of the most important forms of journalism is exposing government corruption,” Rogan stated, underscoring his stance that no entity—government or corporation—should have unchecked control over the flow of information.

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2. GOOGLE SAYS IT’S WORKING ON A FIX

INSERT, Sandra: Good on Americans! They went after Google, immediately; no waiting around for “Enforcement” of what’s right!) (Interesting example of – – It MIGHT be no more than “Mistakes easily made, HUMAN BEINGS + TECHNOLOGY” Is there a name for that?)

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Google’s Interactive Polling Station Map Ignites Claims of Pro-Harris Bias as Voters Head to the Polls

As Americans head to the polls today, a flurry of accusations has erupted on social media platform X, with several users alleging that Google’s search results display potential bias in the presentation of voting information. This controversy arises at a critical time as the presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, are neck and neck in the polls.

Several prominent figures and ordinary users have posted screenshots showing that searches for “where to vote for Harris” yield a special interactive map pinpointing voting locations, while equivalent searches for “where to vote for Trump” simply redirect users to generic search results, including news headlines from mainstream media outlets.

Reclaim The Net was able to reproduce the same results as the complainants.

Google says it’s working on a fix.

Most voters seeking information on polling locations are likely to search for general terms such as “where to vote” rather than specifying a candidate in their query. But while Google provides a useful service by directing voters to their polling stations, the consistency of this feature across different searches is crucial to maintaining fairness and neutrality. If Google offers a specialized map feature to help voters find polling locations when searching for one candidate, it stands to reason that the same functionality should be available regardless of which candidate’s name is included in the search.

David Sacks, a noted investor, tweeted a screenshot showing the Google feature that assists users in finding their voting station when searching for Harris, accompanied by a sarcastic comment suggesting that the feature is not available for Trump supporters. Elon Musk chimed in with his own observation, raising the question to his vast number of followers, “Are others seeing this too?”

Adding to the controversy, a tweet from the account DogeDesigner noted that Google has the largest corporate donations to the Democratic Party, implying that this could be influencing the alleged disparity in search result treatment.
Emma-Jo Morris from New York added to the outcry by posting a similar comparison, noting the disparity in how Google handles searches for the two presidential candidates. Her post has received significant attention, amassing nearly half a million views, indicating the widespread notice and concern about the issue.

The concern among voters is palpable, as they demand transparency and neutrality from tech giants, especially on an election day filled with high stakes.

In a response from Google News, Google said it’s working on a fix: “The ‘where to vote’ panel is triggering for some specific searches because Harris is also the name of a county in TX. Happens for ‘Vance’ too because it’s also the name of a county. Fix is coming. Note very few people actually search for voting places this way.”

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3. SPEECH POLICE

UN’s Latest on “Misinformation” and “Hate” – Will Tech Bow to Pressure?

Here comes UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications Melissa Fleming once again – with more demands regarding “misinformation” and “hate speech.”

And, censorship – the kind that would be algorithmically recommended, leading to demonetization of content and creators.

Yet a UN press release makes a grand statement – that its Communications Department is continuing to work “where public interest media are struggling to operate or are prevented from covering the truth.”

Backed up by a number of UN members (Lithuania, Estonia, Vietnam, and El Salvador among them, for their own specific reasons) – Fleming addressed the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization), to seemingly casually throw in “disinformation,” “AI,” and such, together with some of the most difficult issues related to wars and geopolitical hotspots (which is what the UN is supposed to be dealing with in the first place).

But Fleming took the opportunity to work not only her department’s engagement on “climate communications,” the humanitarian issues in the Middle East, Ukraine, etc. into her statements, and instead also highlight the UN Global Principles for Information Integrity, which recommend how member-countries may meet their commitments from the Global Digital Compact.

The principles, Fleming noted, “have important recommendations for tech companies.” She complained that there has been “very little self regulation” there, and identified two groups – those who want a “healthier information ecosystem” and those that want it to be “toxic.”

Fleming is not only optimistic that the first category is more numerous, but also about “lots of pressure” that’s currently on AI developers. In her words, it’s to “put the guardrails up before it is too late.”

Too late for what, though – that’s something the UN press release doesn’t go into.

Instead, this reporting about the committee’s meeting looks like it’s designed to at once promote the supposed successes of the UN Communications Departments in these various areas (detailing the number of various website hits, video views, etc.,) – and ask for more money from member states, to sustain the effort.

Namely, it mentions that these achievements were made “despite the resource crunch.”

Opponents of Fleming’s approach, and that of the UN in general, might be saying – may the crunch continue.

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4. PRIVATE MESSAGE BAN

Inside “EU Going Dark” The EU’s Push to End Private Messaging

For those in, or knowledgeable of the EU system who at the same time make digital rights, online privacy and security their priority, the work is never done – the European Union’s bureaucracy keeps throwing new challenges their way.

A recent scheme – dubbed “EU Going Dark” – is detailed by lawyer, and former German member of the European Parliament Patrick Breyer, who says the EU Commission (EC) has been working on this surveillance, encryption-undermining plan behind closed doors.

If the accusations against the scheme are true, as far as the EC is concerned, that’s for good reason – even if one is unacceptable in a democracy. Namely, opponents like Breyer call the measures “tyrannical” in nature, with scope described as “frightening.”

The plan is said to be developed by the High-Level Group (HLG) on access to data for effective law enforcement.

The reported effort to make sure that the ongoing work on the package of measures remains far from the public eye has been successful – at least up to this point. Breyer notes that those behind the scheme had managed to keep it secret from most citizens, journalists, and politicians – but some documents are available.

The key takeaway from the plan – which is in the phase of impact assessment and implementation preparations – is the reintroduction of what Breyer calls indiscriminate mass collection of data pertaining to people’s communications, “without suspicion.”

The former MEP sees the plan to introduce this package of surveillance measures as non-transparent, while “rarely questioned.” And yet other than mass-scale data harvesting and retention, it also entails erosion of online encryption, which is necessary for a secure internet – from chats to bank transactions.

The plans outlined here mention encrypted messengers – however, once weakened, technically, and a matter of policy – or both – encryption is weakened for all.

Should it prove accurate, the extent of the upcoming operation being described as being massive is no exaggeration. Hardware manufacturers would be under obligation to make sure phones, “smart home” devices, cars, etc., are always “monitorable.”

One element of this comprehensive surveillance is forcing providers of encrypted messenger apps to allow for interception of content, prevent encryption of both subscriber information and metadata, and hand over to the authorities users’ GPS location for tracking.

Service providers and their representatives who refuse to comply would be punished, all the way to imprisonment.

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MUSK LAYS IT OUT

“We’re Screwed Without It” Elon Musk Defends His Free Speech Twitter Takeover on Joe Rogan’s Podcast

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GOOGLE SAYS IT’S WORKING ON A FIX

Google’s Interactive Polling Station Map Ignites Claims of Pro-Harris Bias as Voters Head to the Polls

Reclaim The Net was able to reproduce the same results as the complainants.

Google says it’s working on a fix.

The concern among voters is palpable, as they demand transparency and neutrality from tech giants, especially on an election day filled with high stakes.

SPEECH POLICE

UN’s Latest on “Misinformation” and “Hate” – Will Tech Bow to Pressure?

Here comes UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications Melissa Fleming once again – with more demands regarding “misinformation” and “hate speech.”

And, censorship – the kind that would be algorithmically recommended, leading to demonetization of content and creators.

Too late for what, though – that’s something the UN press release doesn’t go into.

Namely, it mentions that these achievements were made “despite the resource crunch.”

Opponents of Fleming’s approach, and that of the UN in general, might be saying – may the crunch continue.

PRIVATE MESSAGE BAN

Inside “EU Going Dark” The EU’s Push to End Private Messaging

The plan is said to be developed by the High-Level Group (HLG) on access to data for effective law enforcement.

The plans outlined here mention encrypted messengers – however, once weakened, technically, and a matter of policy – or both – encryption is weakened for all.

Service providers and their representatives who refuse to comply would be punished, all the way to imprisonment.

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2024-11-12 Help us stop the Online Harms Act. (Do not let it get thru Parliament!) From JCCF (Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms). John Carpay

Censorship, Democracy requirements, deficits, solutions, Freedom of Speech. (Remove some wrong postings from category), Propaganda, Rule of Law, Vaccinations (incl corruption of science & govt) No Responses »

Nov 122024

INSERT, Sandra: To me, this is closely related to information about what’s happening at the Global Level. See posting, 2024-11-12 Four articles from Reclaim the Net. https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=30407

The Online Harms Act is enactment of the Globalist Agenda.

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The JCCF writes:

Dear friend of freedom,

You have likely heard about the Online Harms Act, the most aggressive censorship legislation in Canadian history. It is now before Parliament.

Presented under the clever guise of protecting children from harm (and nobody disagrees with that goal!), the Online Harms Act threatens our freedom of expression, our access to information, our privacy and our security.

If passed into law, the Online Harms Act will empower the government to prosecute Canadians over “hate” speech that has no clear definition. Former Supreme Court Justice Beverley McLachlin struggled to define “hate” when asking, “Where does dislike leave off, and hatred or contempt begin?” She also said that the term “hatred” is “vague and subjective, capable of extension should the interpreter be so inclined.”

Help us defend free speech

If the Online Harms Act passes into law, who will decide whether a Canadian is guilty of speaking or writing “hate”? Who will have the power to investigate and punish online harms if the Act passes?

The answer: Courts, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, and a new Digital Safety Commission.

Courts will punish Canadians for “future crimes”

If the Online Harms Act becomes law, your neighbour will have the power to convince a judge that you might say something hateful in the future. If the judge believes that your neighbour’s fears are legitimate, the judge can order you to wear an ankle bracelet, obey a curfew, abstain from alcohol, avoid certain people or places, and surrender your legally owned firearms. All without having been charged with a crime or convicted of a crime!

Those who refuse to abide by the restrictions imposed by the court can be jailed for up to two years. All this because a complainant fears that a person might commit a speech crime in the future.  

Canadian Human Rights Tribunal will impose massive fines

If the Online Harms Act becomes law, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal will acquire new powers to fine a Canadian up to $50,000 for a speech crime, plus the power to order a Canadian to pay up to $20,000 to the alleged “victim” of the speech crime.

Complaints can even be filed anonymously, depriving the accused person of her right to face her accuser. Complaints can be filed regarding anything on the internet, even if posted many years earlier.

The Online Harms Act will warp our sense of time and justice, and many Canadians will self-censor to avoid the risk of penalties from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.

New Digital Safety Commission will have extraordinary powers

If the Online Harms Act passes into law, a new Digital Safety Commission will have the power to investigate and punish social media platforms. This Digital Safety Commission will unleash a new army of bureaucrats, who will exercise astonishing powers over what Canadians read and write online.

This new Commission will have powers to:

make online content inaccessible
investigate (without a warrant!) social media platforms
establish codes of conduct
conduct secret hearings
shut down websites
revoke licenses, and
impose billion-dollar fines

While exercising these vast powers over the speech of Canadians, the Digital Safety Commission will not be subject to basic rules of evidence, nor will any regulations created by the Commission require the approval of Parliament.

The Digital Safety Commission will also be empowered to fine regulated social media platforms up to six percent of global revenues (which would mean astronomically high fines, in light of the fact that the parent companies of most major social media platforms earn billions each year).

If the Online Harms Act becomes law, I fear that many social media platforms will cease operations in Canada rather than risk such significant fines. (I am reminded of Meta restricting access to news in Canada on their platforms in response to the Online News Act.) The companies that continue operating in Canada will become allies of the Digital Safety Commission, and do the Commission’s censorship work by removing anything that unaccountable bureaucrats might deem to be “hateful.”

If the Online Harms Act passes into law, the Digital Safety Commission will have the power to enter without a warrant into “any place in which they have reasonable grounds to believe” that there exists information relevant to verifying compliance with the Online Harms Act. Further, social media platforms will be forced to make their data available to external researchers, generating significant privacy and security risks.When unaccountable bureaucrats are empowered to enforce their own understanding of fuzzy and slippery definitions of “hate” speech, it becomes possible for thousands of Canadians to be fined, and some of them even imprisoned. If Supreme Court Justice McLachlin struggled to find a clear and stable definition of “hate,” how can we trust unaccountable bureaucrats to find it while respecting freedom of expression?

Help us stop the Online Harms Act

If the Online Harms Act passes second reading, it will go on to committee review. From there, it must be accepted by Parliament and the Senate before becoming law. In other words, there’s still time for you to get involved.

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We are up against a government determined to expand its powers and control the flow of information online. We are at a critical moment.

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2024-11- A Map of the New Normal, book by Jeff Rubin. Video’d discussion

Change, Economy / Political Economy, Energy, Trade Deals, PPPs, Integration Canada-U.S. No Responses »

Nov 102024

The video, “An Evening With Jeff Rubin“, is below. I read his book which is the topic of discussion, A Map of the New Normal: How Inflation, War, and Sanctions Will Change Your World Forever.

You can understand that a Chief Economist’s job in the investment arena is NOT to REACT to current affairs, but rather to be AHEAD of the game. Which requires the ability to see what’s going on – – the moves on the chess board. The better you understand, the better you can PREDICT the most-likely scenarios that will unfold.

Rubin helps to make sense of Government policies that were crazy, I haven’t read his second-last book ((2020) The Expendables: How the Middle Class Got Screwed By Globalization) but I plan to. “Globalization” is the trade deals we fought tooth and nail against for years. They, step-by-relentless-step, brought us to our present predicament.

Jeff is a Canadian; former chief economist at CIBC World Markets (17 years); currently a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI); and the author of (in sequence):

(2009) Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller

COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED: A fearless and uncompromising look at what soaring oil prices mean for the present and the future of the way we do business …
(2012) The Big Flatline: Oil and the No-Growth Economy
(2012) The End of Growth: *But Is That All Bad? (this book followed The Big Flatline in 2012)
(2015) The Carbon Bubble: What Happens to Us When It Bursts
(2020) The Expendables: How the Middle Class Got Screwed By Globalization
(2024) A Map of the New Normal: How Inflation, War, and Sanctions Will Change Your World Forever

We can force better decisions in our Society by providing good information, empowering people to self-educate, and make a difference in our world that way – – but first we have to be Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz and pull back the curtain. Here! . . . let Jeff Rubin give a hand – – listen in:

Desiderata. by Max Ehrmann, 1927.

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Nov 092024

Original Text followed by a tribute.

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

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Andrea Beiza, Student, Credit to Max Ehrmann for the poem

Although there are many well-known poems like “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou and “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar, there is a hidden gem that you may not have discovered yet: “Desiderata.”

“Desiderata,” a poem by Max Ehrmann from 1927, remained unknown until the cultural shifts of the 1960s and 1970s drove it into the spotlight. The overall message of the poem delivers wisdom and guidance, offering directions on how to navigate life with grace, integrity and inner peace.

The advice the poem presents is why Ms. Nguyen, an AVID and English teacher, decided to introduce it to her senior students for AVID.

“I taught it to my senior class probably roughly seven or eight years ago. I wanted them to have something meaningful to read and something that they could relate to. The students were ready to graduate, and I needed them to leave with a true sense of their inner compass, so they enjoyed it, and I’ve used it ever since,” Nguyen said.

“Desiderata” encourages readers to embrace their path, strive for inner tranquility during life’s challenges and treat others with kindness and understanding which is why Ms. Nguyen believed this was a great piece of literature for her graduating students every year.

Senior Karla Godinez shares the impact of this poem on her life.

“I enjoyed this poem because it was significant. I was feeling overwhelmed during this lesson, and this poem made me feel better about my future. It changed my perspective since it made me look forward to life. I am a very negative person, to be honest. But this poem made me think of myself as a person, humanity, and life as a whole,” Godinez said.

Godinez found the poem deeply meaningful, especially during an overwhelming moment. It gave her a hand of hope to see a brighter future and changed her negative outlook. Her experience shows how powerful the poem’s message can bring hope and a fresh perspective.

Ms. Nguyen’s approach to teaching “Desiderata” went beyond just a simple analysis. She aimed to make the poem deeply personal for her students hence why she made them create their own poems.

“In addition to reading the poem and doing the critical analysis and the appreciation for the literary devices and metaphors and the typical reading encounters, I really want them to personalize and internalize the poem. So we do our own version of the Desiderata so they can understand the things we desire, which is what Desiderata means, are the things we give to ourselves and are also born with already,” Nguyen said.

An anonymous senior shared his thoughts on making his own “Desiderata” poem.

“Along with just reading the poem, Ms. Nguyen made us do our own version, which I greatly enjoyed. I’ve written stuff like poems before, but this one was different because of how meaningful Desiderata was to me. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the poem and my version of it. I will keep it in mind when I’m going through hardships. I thank Ms. Nguyen for that,” he said.

Through “Desiderata,” Ms. Nguyen taught more than just English; she shared a powerful lesson about resilience and hope.

“I think everyone should read this poem. It doesn’t matter if you’re a preteen, a teen, or someone like me, who’s read it a million times, each season of our lives we always need affirmation. If you read a line and say ‘Wow, I need to be reminded of this,’ then it did its purpose which is to keep us seated in our philosophy and to keep us in our compass,” Nguyen said.

2024-11-05 COVID ‘Historic’: Federal Court Says AstraZeneca Not Immune From Liability in Case Involving Woman Injured by COVID Vaccine During Clinical Trial. Nevradakis, CHD

Vaccinations (incl corruption of science & govt) No Responses »

Nov 062024

Federal Judge Robert J. Shelby said the PREP Act’s liability shield does not extend to breach-of-contract claims. He said the basis of Brianne Dressen’s claim “is a broken promise, not a countermeasure.”

by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.

AstraZeneca vaccine bottle and lady justice

A federal court ruled Monday that a lawsuit filed by a woman injured by AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine during a U.S. clinical trial can continue. The court rejected the drugmaker’s claim that a federal liability shield protects it from breach-of-contract claims.

Brianne Dressen sued AstraZeneca in May, alleging she was injured and became disabled by the company’s vaccine in 2020 when she participated in the company’s clinical trial.

According to the complaint, AstraZeneca’s consent form for trial participants promised enrolees medical treatment in the event of illness or injury suffered during the study.

In its motion to dismiss, filed in June, AstraZeneca said that under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) of 2005 — which grants manufacturers of emergency countermeasures such as COVID-19 vaccines immunity from legal liability — Dressen could not sue the vaccine maker for her injuries.

But in his Nov. 4 ruling, Chief Judge Robert J. Shelby of the U.S. District Court in Utah said the PREP Act’s liability shield does not extend to breach-of-contract claims. He said the basis of Dressen’s claim “is a broken promise, not a countermeasure.”

The ruling stated:

“PREP Act immunity requires a causal link between the claim and a tangible medical countermeasure, and breach of contract claims arise from one party’s failure to perform a legal obligation without regard to any countermeasure. The PREP Act’s statutory scheme and purpose support this construction.”

Shelby’s ruling could result in more lawsuits challenging the PREP Act, according to Ray Flores, senior outside counsel for Children’s Health Defense.

Flores, an expert on the PREP Act, told The Defender:

“The court sent an unmistakable signal by issuing this ruling six days after the motion was argued. It is historic since this is the first time a federal court determined that a COVID-19 vaccine injury may be compensable in any way.

“It is refreshing to see that the PREP Act’s unprecedented invincibility now at least has one limit — breach of contract. Battery, fraud and false advertising must be the next exceptions.”

According to Dressen’s lawsuit, AstraZeneca’s consent form for trial participants stated, “If you become ill or are injured while you are in this research study, you must tell your study doctor straight away. The study doctor will provide medical treatment or refer you for treatment.”

Dressen, who since co-founded React19, a nonprofit that seeks to help people injured by COVID-19 vaccines, alleged her vaccine-related injuries and disability resulted in prohibitive medical costs. One medication alone costs $432,000 a year.

AstraZeneca offered her only $1,243.30 in compensation, prompting her to file the breach-of-contract claim.

“For AstraZeneca to have relied on the PREP Act in its motion to dismiss explains why its $1,243.30 settlement offer was so insultingly low,” Flores said. “PREP appears to be AstraZeneca’s main justification for its failure to live up to the terms of a written contract. This is just one more example of why the PREP Act is public enemy No. 1.”

Astra Zeneca claimed its contract with trial participants did not waive its PREP Act immunity and that Dressen’s lawsuit was not a breach-of-contract claim but a product liability claim — which would then preclude Dressen’s claim under the Utah Product Liability Act’s two-year statute of limitations.

The court rejected those claims, finding there was “express contractual privity between Dressen and AstraZeneca” and citing two cases involving buyers of defective COVID-19 tests who successfully sued the manufacturers based on a breach-of-contract claim.

Dressen also argued that AstraZeneca waived its immunity “by clearly and unmistakably promising to pay the cost of research injuries.” The court agreed.

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“AstraZeneca made a contractual promise to her that happened to involve the effects of a covered countermeasure. Accordingly, Dressen’s claim for loss was not ‘caused’ by a covered countermeasure,” the ruling stated. “The PREP Act has a broad scope, none of which involve any breach of express contract.”

According to the ruling, shielding drug manufacturers from breach-of-contract claims was not the intent or purpose of the PREP Act.

“The PREP Act drafters could not have intended to allow pharmaceutical companies to make illusory promises to clinical trial participants because doing so would erode public trust and undermine the ability to recruit willing participants, which in turn would erode and undermine pandemic preparedness,” the ruling said.

The court also rejected AstraZeneca’s claim that Dressen’s lawsuit was a product liability claim, not a breach-of-contract claim.

“The court is unpersuaded. The plain text of the Utah Product Liability Act does not apply because Dressen does not allege AstraZeneca’s vaccine was defective,” the ruling said.

Dressen, who was 39 when she was vaccinated, was previously a preschool teacher. She is now unable to work due to her injuries.

Flores predicted that Dressen’s lawsuit would ultimately succeed.

“When this case was filed, I went on record stating that my money was on the plaintiff. After this ruling, I predict that Ms. Dressen will take an eight-figure jury award to the bank,” Flores said.

Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.

Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., based in Athens, Greece, is a senior reporter for The Defender and part of the rotation of hosts for CHD.TV’s “Good Morning CHD.”

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2024-10-18 HISTORIC WIN: Ontario man, Cullen McDonald, wins appeal for charges related to protesting COVID mandates. Jen Hodgson, Western Standard News.

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Note: “Police on Guard for Thee” – the name speaks for itself – is a support group that arose during the Trucker / Freedom Convoys.

The support, gratitude, and admiration for Cullen McDonald, as shown by the influx of congratulatory messages is rousing.

Links to “X” (Twitter) below take you to the Police on Guard account. It is there that you see the influx of support for Cullen.

Also notable: the voices of support for the integrity of the Judge who delivered the final verdict. And for the other “good guys” in the system of justice. Many thanks to journalist Jen Hodgson for making this information available.

All charges have been dropped against Cullen McDonald, who faced three criminal charges for peacefully protesting COVID-19 mandates in Ontario — setting a precedent for many other Canadians who face similar charges.

McDonald in 2022 was charged with two counts of common nuisance for peacefully protesting in Niagara, ON and one count of the same crime in nearby St. Catharines. The Niagara judge acquitted him, but the St. Catharines judge upheld the original ruling.

“In all of my years of practicing law, I have never seen a case that has the potential to cause more damage to rights and freedoms in Canada, than the case of His Majesty the King vs McDonald,” said criminal lawyer Saaron Gebresellassi, per Police on Guard For Thee.

Justice Richard Blouin, the judge who acquitted McDonald for the Niagara charges, said he didn’t want to set a “dangerous precedent” for persecuting him for protesting against the infringement on his civil liberties.

“Elevating a violation of provincial health orders to a criminal offense would set a dangerous precedent, as it would allow every infraction of public health measures to be treated as a criminal offense rather than just a provincial violation,” said Blouin.

However, Justice Joseph De Filippis in St. Catharines ruled McDonald is guilty — leaving him with a criminal record and $4000 fine.

Cullen appealed his guilty verdict. Crown Prosecutor Michael Lucifora simultaneously appealed the Niagara acquittals and said the fine wasn’t enough, and pursued one year of jail time.

Yet, this week, the appeal court dismissed both the Crown’s appeals and overturned the original guilty verdict, completely exonerating McDonald.

2024-10-31 Court rules Alberta business COVID class action has grounds to proceed. By Jen Hodgson, Western Standard News.

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Court rules Alberta business COVID class action has grounds to proceed Western Standard Canva

The Court of King’s Bench of Alberta on Wednesday released its decision to allow a class action on behalf of local businesses from the COVID-19 era to proceed.

King’s Bench Justice Colin C.J. Feasby ruled Alberta business owners adversely affected by COVID-19 restrictions and closures imposed through Deena Hinshaw, the chief medical officer of health (CMOH) at the time, had grounds to pursue the lawsuit, and certified the class action in Ingram v Alberta, 2024.

Lawyer Jeffrey Rath of Rath & Company, the law firm representing the businesses, earlier told the Western Standard the class action would expose where Albertan officials’ “priorities were” during the pandemic — “making sure the bureaucrats are okay, not making sure Albertans are okay,”

Because the COVID-19 mandate orders were ultra vires, meaning not under the Public Health Act and therefore unlawful, “the government has huge liability,” said Rath, adding that if officials had issued them under the act, “that would have been perfectly legal.”

EXCLUSIVE: Alberta businesses launch class action for millions in losses due to pandemic public health orders

The court in its certification of the class action, led by Rebecca Ingram and Christopher Scott, “certified multiple claims, including negligence, bad faith and misfeasance in public office,” states a Freedom4Canada press release.

“The court allowed affected businesses to claim compensation for harm and losses incurred due to the illegal CMOH orders including punitive damages,” it said.

Lawyers further argue Alberta’s cabinet acted “negligently or in bad faith by issuing orders through the CMOH” while MLAs “chose to camouflage their actions as public health orders under the PHA so they could blame the CMOH rather than accept political responsibility.”

Without Papers Pizza hits AHS with $3.6-million lawsuit for illegally closing restaurant during COVID

Feasby in his decision acknowledged the plaintiffs “plead essentially that cabinet hid behind the CMOH thereby avoiding democratic accountability.”

“That, in my view, is a collateral purpose that is plausibly bad faith,” he wrote, stating the court’s express permission for punitive damages claims “to hold Alberta accountable and deter future misconduct” and agreeing this is a reasonable common issue.

“Specifically Justice Feasby acknowledged that punitive damages are intended to punish wrongful conduct rather than compensate for losses, and can sometimes be assessed on a class-wide basis,” states the news release.

“Unlike general damages, which require individual assessments, punitive damages can be addressed as a common issue when the misconduct affects a broad group,” explained lawyers.

“All individuals who owned, in whole or in part, a business or businesses in Alberta that was subject to full or partial closure, or operational restrictions, mandated by the CMOH Orders between March 17, 2020, and the date of certification. For clarity, “owned” does not include ownership as a shareholder in a corporation or as a member of a cooperative,” reads the judge’s decision.

HISTORIC WIN: Ontario man wins appeal for charges related to protesting COVID mandates

Following the judge’s announcement, Rath said, “This is a huge day for Alberta businesses that were illegally harmed by Jason Kenny and Deena Hinshaw.”

“The court found that the action can proceed against the government of Alberta on a number of grounds including misfeasance in public office allowing the plaintiffs to seek punitive damages against the Alberta government for wrongdoing,” said Rath.

2024-11-01 Naomi Wolf Discusses ‘Chilling’ Revelations From Pfizer Documents. New book, The Pfizer Papers. Interviewer Nevradakis, CHD

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Most of us are aware of the “Pfizer Documents“. This interview follows the publication of “The Pfizer Papers”. Wolf is clear-eyed and clear-headed, as always. With thanks to Michael Nevradakis and the CHD.

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Naomi Wolf, author of “The Pfizer Papers: Pfizer’s Crimes Against Humanity,” joined this week’s “Defender In-Depth” to discuss the documents and what they reveal, including hidden deaths and the “appalling” irreversible harm to human reproduction.

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Hundreds of thousands of pages of internal Pfizer documents related to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine revealed deaths, serious adverse events and irreversible harm to reproductive health, according to Naomi Wolf, CEO of Daily Clout.

Wolf, author of “The Pfizer Papers: Pfizer’s Crimes Against Humanity,” joined this week’s “Defender In-Depth” to discuss the documents and what they reveal.

She said the 450,000 pages of Pfizer documents showed that the company and public health agencies “certainly knew that the vaccine didn’t work,” prompting the federal government and Pfizer to try to conceal them.

“The FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] asked the court to keep these documents hidden for 75 years,” Wolf said. “They want us all to be dead before they see the light of day.”

A federal court ordered the release of the documents, following a successful lawsuit by Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency.

Media also helped conceal the documents and the vaccine’s dangers from the public. “None of this could have been accomplished … if the legacy media had done its job,” Wolf said.

‘They knew they were killing and injuring people at massive scale’

Wolf said that without access to the resources of a large media outlet, she and her team at Daily Clout faced an uphill battle in unpacking and analyzing the documents.

“These documents were so voluminous and so technical in language that they were very difficult for any journalist to understand and explain,” Wolf said. The solution was to recruit volunteer scientists to help review the documents.

“We put out a call for experts to volunteer … and amazingly, 3,250 doctors and scientists responded,” Wolf said.

Wolf said the documents reveal that Pfizer and public health agencies manipulated the clinical trial data to delay reporting deaths of trial participants so they could meet safety targets and claim the vaccine was “safe and effective.”

“The only way they were able to make that claim was to hide the bodies of eight vaccinated dead people who had died with COVID and to illegally delay reporting those deaths to the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention],” Wolf said.

Concealing the deaths was just one sign that Pfizer “knew very early on” — within the first three months of the vaccines’ rollout — that the shots were dangerous, Wolf said.

Wolf said:

“They knew that there were 1,223 deaths within three months and side effects. There were 43,000 people with serious adverse events and over 130,000 serious adverse events in total in just these three months. They knew that they were killing and injuring people at massive scale.”

Vaccine injuries were often “catastrophic” and included “horrific blood clots, lung clots … pericarditis, myocarditis, heart damage of all kinds, neurological events at massive scale, epilepsies, dementias, Bell’s palsy, Guillain-Barré syndrome, turbo cancers … liver damage, kidney damage” and other conditions, according to Wolf.

Wolf said the documents show the two most commonly reported adverse events are muscle pain and joint pain. “Many people feel bad now and don’t know why, and their doctors don’t know why,” she said. “Pfizer knows why.”

Pfizer knew the vaccines bio-distribute the lipid nanoparticles and the spike protein and the polyethylene glycol, a petroleum byproduct, “to every part of your body, every organ in your body,” Wolf said.

“So many people are arthritic now or need knee replacements, shoulder replacements, healthy young people having joint issues. Pfizer knew that the injections are inflammatory and joint pain is an inflammatory condition,” Wolf added.

‘Most appalling eight pages you can imagine’

For Wolf, the most egregious revelations from the Pfizer documents have to do with the vaccines’ impact on human reproduction.

“The centerpiece of the Pfizer papers … has to do with destroying human reproduction in many ways,” Wolf said. “Lipid nanoparticles are designed to traverse every membrane in the human body. It’s not a bug, but a feature” of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.

Wolf cited a chart in the documents showing that 15,000 women experienced bleeding every day, 10,000 women were having two periods per month and 7,500 women were not having periods at all, “meaning no children, not fertile.”

Pregnant women also experienced side effects. Pfizer lost the records of 234 pregnant women who participated in the clinical trials. But for the 36 pregnant women whose records survived, “over 80% of them lost their babies,” Wolf said.

Wolf said the data showed that 62% of adverse events were in women, with 16% of those being reproductive disorders, compared to 0.2% for men. The documents also contained “disturbing sections” recommending that vaccinated men avoid intercourse with women of childbearing age, due to a possible risk to women or the fetus.

Wolf said an eight-page Pfizer document, the “Pregnancy and Lactation Report,” indicated severe injuries and deaths among babies.

“It’s the most appalling eight pages you can imagine,” Wolf said. “There are two babies in that document who died in utero, and Pfizer concluded the deaths were due to maternal exposure to the vaccine. They also have a chart in there that shows babies getting very sick from nursing vaccinated mothers.”

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‘People woke up in time’

Wolf said that legacy media ignored these revelations because of funding they receive from Big Pharma and organizations like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that offer media “vast sums” to “overcome vaccine hesitancy.”

“These documents do not overcome vaccine hesitancy — they create vaccine hesitancy,” Wolf said. But because “media took the money” and are “complicit in this massive crime,” they are now ignoring revelations like the Pfizer documents because that would open them up to lawsuits, Wolf said.

Yet, public awareness is growing. Wolf said:

“They tried to sterilize us. They tried to disable us, they tried to kill us. … and they didn’t succeed. The great project they had of culling the population or culling the West hasn’t succeeded yet. People woke up in time.”

Wolf said that while her book contains “chilling” revelations, it’s also “lifesaving” because “it really points you in the direction … of how to heal because you’ll understand better what happened to you if you’re vaccinated.”

She said the attacks are not over. “The globalists are not going to stop. But when we all resist, even if we think we’re not very powerful, it turns out that we are very powerful, and they cannot overcome us when enough of us say no.”

‘The Defender In-Depth’ airs on CHD.TV every other Wednesday at 10 a.m. ET/7 a.m. PT.

Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.

Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., based in Athens, Greece, is a senior reporter for The Defender and part of the rotation of hosts for CHD.TV’s “Good Morning CHD.”

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2024-10-31 Scientific and Medical Network: Review of “The Indoctrinated Brain”, written by David Lorimer

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2. 2024-10-29 Idaho Health Board First in U.S. to Defy CDC and FDA by Removing COVID Vaccines From Clinics. Suzanne Burdick, CHD.

Update, Nov 02, Dan: Well, on a positive note, I see CTV ran the story about Idaho stopping the covid vaxx. Still some spin, but at least they didn’t ignore the story like I thought they would. Maybe they smell a change in the wind.

3. 2024-10-27 Covid: The Most Devastating Report So Far, the Congress of the USA Report on HHS Covid Propaganda. Brownstone Institute.

4. 2024-10-22 Bill Gates to Stand Trial in Netherlands in COVID Vaccine Injury Lawsuit. Michael Nevradakis, CHD

5. 2024-10-04 Vaxed-3

B. SURVEILLANCE AND FREEDOM

6. 2024-10-30 Digital credentials for Canadians? When and by whom?

7. 2024-10-27 Privacy of Personal Info / Surveillance: Reject Real ID, Don’t Use QR Codes. CHD Panel with Catherine Austin-Fitts

8. 2024-10-31 Biometrics, Digital ID Make ‘Fully Digital Travel Experience’ a Reality: International Air Transport Association (IATA)+ More. CHD

9. 2024-10-29 NIH (U.S.) EHR (Electronic Health Records). Spending $2.2 Million to ‘Nudge’ Elderly to Get More Vaccines. Baletti, CHD.

10. 2024-10-31 Alberta’s Bill of Rights. 4 different analyses by John CARPAY, JCCF.

C. OTHER

11. 2024-10-30 No GM Wheat Event, Saskatoon, SK Tues Nov 5th

12. 2024-10-19 National Citizens Inquiry (NCI), Vancouver Testimony

13. 2024-10-26 RFK’s Make America HEALTHY Again.

14. 2024-10-29 Liberal capitalism only exists in the textbooks, by Toby Rogers (an American)

15. 1991-07-05 A Speech by the Prince of Wales (now King Charles III) on the 150th Anniversary . . . to the College of Psychiatrists

2024-10-31 Scientific and Medical Network: Review of “The Indoctrinated Brain”, written by David Lorimer

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With many thanks to Dan for sending this.

I want to comment further, later!

A GREAT MENTAL RESET?
Review of “The Indoctrinated Brain”, written by David Lorimer
Oct 31, 2024

This review of The Indoctrinated Brain, originally published in Paradigm Explorer #145 by David Lorimer of the Scientific and Medical Network, is shared here with kind permission for your reading.

Michael Nehls is a physician and molecular geneticist specialising in immunology who has received the Hanse Prize for Molecular Psychiatry for his pioneering findings on Alzheimer’s disease development, prevention and therapy – highly relevant to the thesis of his very important and eye-opening book on the neurobiology of propaganda. Work on mind control goes back to the post-war period, and the book is informed by the dystopian novels of Aldous Huxley George Orwell, extensively quoted here (see also my review of Michelle Stiles on the history of propaganda in No. 143). The author stresses that all the facts he presents are based on publicly available documents and scientific studies, and he leaves readers to decide for themselves about the validity of his hypothesis, having set out his case.

He applies neuroscience to the behavioural modification campaign undertaken during the Covid crisis by showing how the deliberate deployment of consciousness-altering narratives of fear and anxiety represents an attack on the hippocampus as the nexus of autobiographical memory and individuality. This has made us ‘deindividualised, more suggestible, more forgetful, more compliant, and less able to engage in critical thinking and creative reasoning.’ (p. ix in foreword by Naomi Wolf) He argues that it is this fear combined with the adverse effects of the spike protein, especially in the gene injection (aka vaccine, p. 88), that changes and damages the brain.

Nehls elaborates on the larger political and economic context within which the war on personal freedom has been and is being conducted in order profitably to maintain power and control over humanity and engineer a transition towards a centralised world government technocracy through the UN – rule by experts. By keeping us in a permanent state of emergency, we become more amenable to the ‘solutions’ being advanced by elite groups such as the World Economic Forum intent on the imposing their new totalitarian operating system of coexistence – the Great Reset – on humanity by 2030. One of their questionable underlying assumptions is that there are technological answers to social problems. The Covid pandemic response was pre-planned at Event 201 in October 2019, and was rolled out as envisaged (you can look this up on the Internet). This included manipulative narrative management and censorship of so-called misinformation and disinformation, as well as an exclusive reliance on an experimental vaccination as the cure, which in turn entailed the suppression of clinically viable early treatments including administration of Vitamin D – Nehls shows on the basis of scientific studies (p. 6) how adequate levels of Vitamin D provide strong immunological protection. As a medical doctor, it is his task to save lives and strengthen the immune system – hence the importance of preventive measures.

The seven chapters rigorously set out the arguments in great detail, enabling readers to understand the reprogramming of the human brain and the deliberate tactics used in this respect. The purpose of indoctrination is ‘to implant an ideological narrative into people’s brains – a new belief that allows no discussion and no contradiction. The goal is obedient, unthinking conformity. The means to this end is controlled selection of information, intensive propaganda, and psychological manipulation, up to coercive measures and threats of punishment… Indoctrination is to be understood as a vicious attack on our humanity, on our personality, and ultimately on the most precious thing of all: freedom of thought. Resisting indoctrination is a lifelong endeavour. It is a matter of preserving one’s freedom of thought and search for meaning.’ (p. xv)

Nehls explains the key role of the hippocampus as a neurobiological correlate of chronic exhaustion in society and its role in autobiographical long-term memory by means of the continuing production of what he calls index neurons (pp. 46 ff). Recent studies show that declines in ongoing hippocampal neurogenesis may be linked to compromised cognitive-emotional resilience. If this process is disturbed, stress hormones rise excessively in unfamiliar situations, which may lead to ‘ego depletion,’ anxiety and depression, which Nehls has found may be a precursor to Alzheimer’s disease (see also his book The Exhausted Brain). A sense of purpose turns out to be an important preventive measure, along with exercise, nutrition, a supportive social life, and proper sleep. Due to a global deficiency in Vitamin D levels, we have come to think that a decline in hippocampal volume is normal, when it should in fact be maintained throughout life (p. 65). In fact, such a decline is ‘ultimately a representation of the normality of a mentally exhausted society.’ This is a hugely important lifestyle point in a society based on constant acceleration and correspondingly rising stressors. Specifically, Covid-19 measures served as a means of hippocampal destruction, reaching even into the foetus in pregnant women, who were never part of clinical trials. All of this is still vehemently denied.

It is impossible to summarise the detailed arguments in relation to the many levels of evidence presented, which is why I strongly recommended reading the book itself, which will certainly have a transformative effect on your understanding of specific issues as well as the big picture. Chapter 6 presents Nehl’s analysis of the endgame and the potential role of AI control, which leads him to ask: ‘How can we preserve the value of the human being in the wake of the AI automation of almost every aspect of life? What is the value of human being anyway? Is it only to be found in his productivity? What does it really mean to be human? (p. 178)

The closing chapter – Daring to be more Human (Kind) – proposes some guidelines, while inviting readers to assess for themselves the overall argument. Nehls thinks that the overall process of usurping global power will go according to plan unless we mount a peaceful resistance to this process. He points out that no one can escape the basic principle: ‘he who is silent is consenting; he who does not resist is accepting what will happen to him.’ (p. 183) He quotes Jean-Claude Juncker, former president of the European Commission to the effect that the technocrats decide on a policy and wait to see if there is any resistance. If not, ‘we continue step-by-step until there is no turning back.’ This is where we are.

Nehls argues that humans are fundamentally good, but that ‘negative news stories [tapping into our negativity bias] feed into the notion that man is evil’ and must therefore be controlled through surveillance and strict rules. However, as he points out, ‘What we need is cooperation not confrontation, intelligent collaboration instead of destructive opposition.’ (p. 192) What we have seen is the weaponisation of empathy and selflessness for evil to bring about conformity (‘protect your grandmother’). The problem is that empathy [for the in-group] and xenophobia go hand in hand, and need to be replaced by rational compassion. In going forward, ‘we must believe in the possibility of success, and above all in ourselves, in the belief that the co-operative power and social capacity of human nature will defeat the technocratic mechanisms of the oppression, both spiritual and material.’ (p. 207) Ultimately, he points out, ‘we have no choice but to resist being forced into a certain worldview, and time is of the essence.’ We need ‘a genuine evolution of human coexistence,’ understanding that human nature is basically good, and a society of the future should be based on this premise.’ (p. 208) So the book is both a deeply informative warning and a manual for human resistance.

https://michaelnehls.substack.com/p/a-great-mental-reset

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