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June 16, 2022 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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Moderna Shots for Kids, SADS, Monkeypox and MORE with Dr. Ryan Cole
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Monkeypox Vaccine Disinformation 00:14:16
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We are not going to take our eye off the ball.
We are living in a biomedical fascist moment.
And I'm afraid that if we focus too much just on the politics of the day, the bad guys are going to get some things into permanent policy that will make our country less free and hurt your children and grandchildren.
With us right now is Dr. Cole.
Had the great opportunity of getting to know him on a couple episodes of the Charlie Kirk Show.
I really enjoy his commentary.
Very wise individual.
And Dr. Ryan Cole is with us.
Doctor, welcome back to the program.
Charlie, great to be with you again.
Thank you.
So I want to ask you, you know, as we're talking right now, the FDA is on the cusp of approving vaccines for babies and toddlers six months through four years old.
They might have already approved it, but from my understanding, they haven't yet.
If the FDA was on lunch break tuning into our show, which is highly unlikely, but what would your message be to them?
And more broadly, what would the message be to our audience when it comes to the FDA's seemingly inevitable approval of vaccines six months through four years old?
My message would be stop it.
This is nothing short of a criminal act.
There's no evidence that these children need this shot.
This shot is experimental.
This shot is a gene-based product.
It's not a vaccine.
We have sufficient data to show that it's unsafe in humanity.
The World Council for Health, Tess Lowry's group out of Bath, United Kingdom, has shown through pharmacovigilance data that these shots are harmful and should be withdrawn from the market.
There has not been a single child in the United States since Omicron came along in the age groups they're looking at today that has died from Omicron.
The earlier variants are gone.
These shots have not been reformulated since the original Wuhan strain, which went extinct in humanity.
So it's literally they're trying to authorize an expired product.
It's like me saying, let's give you a flu shot from 1995 out of the freezer for this next year's flu.
Forget about it.
It doesn't make any sense.
It's completely illogical.
Children are at zero risk, statistically, from dying from COVID if they don't have comorbidities.
Have there been children that have died?
Yes.
Is that tragic?
Yes.
Have they all been comorbid and had severe underlying conditions?
Yes.
Statistically, there is no risk for children from what I call COLDVID, Omicron.
And we're finding that if we give children these shots or give any individual these shots, we are increasing their risk because we're immune suppressing them of getting Omicron.
And I have two daughters recently went through Omicron, you know, sniffled for two days, but their friends who got the jabs ended up having Omicron with worse symptoms.
We are literally doing something that makes zero scientific sense, and we don't, we can't look into a crystal ball.
We're putting these children at long-term autoimmune risk, long-term cancer risk, long-term fertility risk, long-term neurologic damage risk.
That's the one thing.
Everybody hears about heart inflammation in the kiddos.
Guess what?
More so than heart inflammation, we're seeing neurologic inflammation.
We're seeing seizure disorders.
We're seeing autoimmune attacks.
We're seeing Guillain-Barret.
We're seeing all sorts of things.
It makes zero sense.
So, anybody at the FDA, if you are authorizing this for children, you are harming a generation, period.
You need to stop.
It's very difficult for some of our listeners to comprehend this.
How is it that if it's as harmful as you say it is, how is it that these experts can then be approving it?
This is a difficult thing for a lot of our audience to understand.
Help us unpack that.
Well, as a data analyst, you know, I'm a pathologist, board-certified pathologist.
I look at patterns all day long.
That's my job on the quality control of medicine, literally.
That's what pathologists do.
And what we're seeing is they're manipulating data.
I went through the slide deck that they presented at the FDA, and it is complete omission.
It's sin by omission.
They're leaving important data points out to try to paint a story with statistics.
Like Mark Twain said, there are lies, there are damn lies, and then there are statistics.
They have used the statistics to massage the data and manipulate the data to try to make it appear as though these children need a shot.
Almost all of America's children have had COVID.
Back in February, it was above 75%.
Then Omicron's really burned through three or four months later.
80, 90 plus percent of kids have had COVID.
You never give a shot to somebody who's had a disease.
Even Fauci said in 2018, the best vaccine for a disease is recovery from that disease when he was talking about the flu.
So it is insane that they're manipulating data and they're lying to you with data.
You don't give somebody a shot who's recovered.
In fact, you increase their risk of adverse events by two to four fold.
And we've seen in the Moderna data, placebo versus their trial recipients, that there was a 500% increase in cruel, almost a 500% increase in RSV because of immune suppression.
So not only are we suppressing their immune system and giving them a shot for the disease that most of them have had, we're actually putting them at risk for other viruses.
And they're manipulating data.
That's all there is to it.
I have 17,000 colleagues at the globalcovidsummit.org, including Dr. Malone, Dr. McCullough, Dr. Erso.
We've looked at the data.
Dr. Milhone and his wife, Kim Milhone, pediatricians, and there's a large group of pediatricians that put out a statement saying, Look, we as pediatricians agree the data is manipulated.
This is only harm for the next generation.
It needs to stop.
It's just very difficult for people to believe that the government can be this wrong and that the FDA could be this misguided.
So now there is a media narrative around what they called SADS, the sudden adult death syndrome.
You are not allowed to say it's connected to the vaccine.
You have Justin Bieber, who has an out-of-nowhrow facial, let's say, issue that very well could be caused by a vaccine.
We don't know if it is by the vaccine or not.
We can have our suspicions.
What's your take on this?
And is the media covering something up here?
You bet they are.
Are we stupid or are they treating us like we're stupid?
Two plus two equals four, not five.
And what is the one thing societally that has been prevalent as all of this has been happening?
Why are people under 40 suddenly dying in their sleep?
Well, what's the one thing societally that's changed?
We're rolling out a shot that's an experimental shot with a gene in it that's making your body a toxin factory.
Literally, the spike protein is the toxin.
We're giving a shot for a virus that is extinct.
And this shot itself, I mean, JNJ got a black box warning because it caused clots.
And they said, okay, we can't use this in anyone under 18.
Well, other people are like, well, okay, I'll still get the J and J because it's, you know, one and done, but then they're getting a booster J and J.
We know that causes clotting.
Well, clotting causes immediate death.
And then Moderna and Pfizer in the VERS data, there are more damage, there are more damaging cases from clots from those two than JJ.
But JJ got the black box warning.
So, you know, we have people suddenly dying.
If you look at the data, and I love what Ed Dowd has done with the insurance data, this is where the numbers don't lie.
The actuaries, if you look at what the actuaries have done, in 21 after the shots rolled out, we saw a 40% increase of all-cause death in the age group 18 to 64.
Now, last month in the young age group, there was almost an 84% increase over historical data.
And what's happening is after the mandates rolled out, quarter three and quarter four is when they saw this big uptick in death.
And these insurance executives that have brought the data forth say it's not from COVID.
You know, they have the data.
They have what people are dying from.
In Germany, they finally are acknowledging vaccine death and vaccine injury by medical code, which we don't have in the United States.
And their data set shows it's almost one in 100 people being injured by the shot.
That is astronomical when you consider the number of people around the world who have gotten the shot.
You also have to consider that the mainstream media is funded by pharma, period.
Just like our agencies are funded by pharma.
What are they covering up?
The fact that they're getting billions and telling you that, oh, these aren't the droids you're looking for.
These aren't the droids you're looking for.
Yes, they are.
This shot is damaging.
It causes clotting.
It causes strokes.
It causes heart attacks.
It causes myocarditis.
It causes immediate death.
It does.
It's a gene.
It's not a vaccine.
And these were authorized based on old vaccine technology.
They weren't authorized as gene products.
And these are clearly gene products.
They didn't follow their rules.
The FDA violated all their own rules and laws.
Dr. Cole, tell us what is monkeypox?
What is the threat that it poses to most Americans?
Monkeypox is an orthopox virus.
It's in the pox family, camel pox, cowpox, monkeypox.
Smallpox is the one people think of.
So again, this is a fear campaign trying to make everybody afraid.
They modeled this at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, which is founded and co-owned by the co-founder of Facebook.
Just like they projected COVID with event 201, monkeypox is, we've known about it since 1958.
There's two strains, West Africa strain and a Central Africa strain.
The West Africa strain is what's circulating right now.
If you don't engage in homosexual sex, your risk of monkeypox is about zero.
So it spread at a rave in the Canary Islands off Portugal and some big raves in Europe.
It's really the gay bisexual population that it's sticking to.
It is not very transmissible.
It is very treatable.
There was actually a patient in Dallas that had it last year.
We get outbreaks of monkeypox around the world every year.
They're just scaremongering with it.
And it's really staying in that gay, homosexual, bisexual population.
And it's not an aerosolized virus.
Is this strain slightly different from earlier strains?
The 2018 strain that went around, Singapore, Israel, UK, it has about 50 mutations, which is highly unusual.
We know Wuhan was actually synthesizing monkeypox so they could come up with a test for monkeypox.
The lab in Wuhan, ironically.
But monkeypox is low risk.
And this is the West Africa strain.
This is the less deadly strain.
The irony, too, is it looks a lot like chickenpox and shingles, which obviously there are a lot of people getting chickenpox and shingles because of their immune suppression from their COVID shots.
And so it's a really easy way to scare the people.
But monkeypox, it doesn't spread very quickly.
And if you don't engage in dangerous activities, you're essentially at zero risk from it.
Are there treatments for it?
You bet there are treatments for it.
Is it a highly deadly disease?
No, it's not.
Do you need to be afraid?
No, you don't.
The CDC is scaring you with, oh, gosh, we need to go back to masking.
No, we don't.
You just, you know, you need a condom, not a mask, a good grief.
It's just, it's a nothing burger.
Yes, it's a virus.
Yes, it affects people.
Yes, the death rate from it is very low, and it is a very treatable disease.
So that, and our government is wasting, you know, $119 million on 13 million doses of an old smallpox vaccine, which is a live weakened virus, which you don't give to an immune-suppressed individual because they could replicate the virus.
And a good majority of the world is immune-suppressed from the COVID shots.
So it's really just another, who knows?
It's just another big game.
And where do you think we are right now in this chapter of biomedical fascism?
What can people do?
What are the threats on the horizon that we need to be most aware of?
We are in the throes of biomedical fascism.
We have boards coming after people like me.
We have disinformation boards.
I know the federal one got disbanded, but the American Medical Association just passed a statute to go after docs that spread miss and malin disinformation.
And of course, they don't define it.
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We need to stand strong as an American people.
We need to clean house.
We need to get people out of there who aren't standing up for freedoms.
We absolutely need to, I mean, this is a 1776 moment.
There's no doubt about it.
We need to stand for freedom.
We need to push back.
We need to fight at every opportunity we have in the courts of law.
We need to push back a corrupt government violating its own rules and regulations.
We need to get the House changed, the Senate changed.
We need to literally clean house.
But we need to stand free and don't buy into the fear and the nonsense.
You are your own best doctor.
You know what your body needs.
And you need to take care of your own health.
A lot of people are dependent on a system.
We need to change that mindset.
Don't be dependent on a system anymore.
Use a doctor as a health coach.
Make sure you're doing the right thing so you're not dependent.
Health doesn't come from a pill, a needle, or a bottle.
Health comes from what you do and don't do with your body.
And we need to really take charge and be a free people by being our own best doctor as well.
It's well said.
Dr. Ryan Cole, thank you so much for joining us.
You're welcome anytime.
And when the bad guys come for you, we'll defend you.
We appreciate it.
Thanks so much.
Thank you, Charlie.
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In an extraordinary story, many of you probably heard, it was just about a month ago, Moms for Liberty, great organization, momsforliberty.org, was targeted by the Department of Justice by use of the Patriot Act.
And we have with us the co-founder of Moms for Liberty, who does an amazing job, Tina Deskovic.
I think I said that right.
And welcome to the program.
Thanks.
You did better than most with my last.
I grew up with a bunch of Serbs, so I'm guessing it's Serbian.
It could be Croatian or something else.
But Tina, welcome to the program.
And tell us about what happened, Moms for Liberty, targeted by our federal government, and we'll go from there.
Yeah, sure.
I mean, most people are familiar by now what's gone on over the past year.
We were founded January 1st of 2021.
Immediately, our chapters started showing up at school board meetings all over the country.
And, you know, by the fall of 2021, there was, you know, remarkably this letter from the National School Board Association that was exposed that Merrick Garland put out that he was going to use the Patriot Act to start investigating parents for domestic terrorism.
And I think America was shocked.
I know our organization was shocked.
We felt like it was a direct attack.
And we knew it was a direct attack on us and the work that we were doing and how successful we were being at changing what was going on in school districts.
What's happened recently is I think it hasn't been covered nearly enough.
Jim Jordan, Representative Jim Jordan came out and they put out a whistleblower letter that somebody from in the FBI, because Merritt Garland said under oath that, oh, we're not targeting parents.
You know, that that's not what's happening at all.
But the FBI whistleblower came out and said, oh, absolutely, they're targeting parents.
And we were named.
Moms for Liberty was named having parents that have been contacted and investigated for showing up at school board meetings.
That's incredible.
Do we know who the parents were that were surveilled?
Do we know their identities?
We do at Moms for Liberty.
We're protecting them, obviously.
I mean, Charlie, our moms, like, they're just moms.
They've never been political activists in their life.
Some of them have never voted.
They definitely haven't even been primary voters ever in their life.
They're at home making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, worried about getting their kids back in school.
The one mom in particular that that letter is citing about, her child had been quarantined, healthy child, never had COVID, had been quarantined 40 straight days and had missed school.
He was so far behind on reading.
She was so upset going in there and speaking to her school board.
And then she gets a knock on the door while she's making a sandwich for her kid and it's the FBI.
It's really, it's government overreach and tyranny at its worst.
And so tell us more about the efforts.
You've been starting to show up at school board meetings and it is overreach and it's tyranny.
But in a very dark sense, this actually is predictable because you're now going after the machine that creates future leftists.
You're going after the teacher union cartel.
And it's pretty remarkable that they would use the instruments of government against you, but it's understandable if you know how evil the left actually is.
Talk about some of the efforts you're doing and the successes you had at Moms for Liberty showing up at school boards across the country.
Yeah, thank you for the opportunity.
We are just so proud of the moms in our organization.
And honestly, Charlie, we are dads, moms, dads, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins.
We're Moms for Liberty, but we accept everyone.
We have grown since last January to over 200 chapters in 37 states and moving in on 100,000 active members that are really participating.
We meet in monthly chapter meetings where the sole purpose is to go over local school district agendas.
Our goal is to have a chapter in every county in America reviewing every single school board agenda that comes out and showing up at those school board meetings because what they're finding in these school board agendas are deeply hidden.
Tiffany Justice is the co-founder with me of Moms for Liberty.
We're both former school board members.
So we understand school board agendas.
We know where they hide things.
We understand the budgeting, which is very complex school district budgeting nowadays.
And we teach our members how to find these things, how to uncover these things.
Just this past week, a county here in Florida, they were doing just that, going over what looked like a benign school board agenda, and they realized there was a new policy that was being proposed.
It was a health policy, and buried way down in there, they were given the superintendent the authority to mask kids whenever he saw fit.
And they saw it, they brought it, and it was removed before the board even voted on it.
So we're having wins like that, which are huge in each community, but maybe not super impactful on a national level, all the way to our chapters are endorsing in school board races.
And in the state of New York, we had a race, the whole state of New York had all their school board races just a couple of weeks ago.
We endorsed in 70-something races, and we took 40 seats.
And for the state of New York, our chapters were still upset.
They wanted all 73 that they endorsed in.
But I was thrilled to know that 40 seats in the state of New York on school boards were now held by parents, parents that had a vested interest in protecting parental rights and seeing what's best for students.
And I would just disagree.
I think it does have national impact.
I think every one of these fights matters and that it has a ripple effect.
And so you guys can go to momsforliberty.org.
I was actually just flipping through the website right here, and it's this ground up movement.
And so talk about the power of a mom in particular showing up at one of these meetings.
The left has made a massive miscalculation, in my personal opinion, to go after moms and to pick this fight.
Do you find moms showing up to be more persuasive than just kind of your everyday, you know, run-of-the-mill political activist?
And are the people that are getting involved in your effort, were they even somewhat political in any way, shape, or form?
I'm sure some of them were, but were some of them just not political at all?
You just hit the nail on the head.
And, you know, you and I haven't even spoken about this before, but some of our chapter chairs, so people that have stepped up to lead in communities were not registered to vote, are independent voters.
You know, we get classified as this right-wing, super ultra-conservative, radical group.
It's just not true.
We are moms.
We are parents.
And we want to protect our children from radical ideologies that are in our classrooms.
We want to, our mission statement is to empower parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government.
The final straw, Charlie, the final straw in America is when the government has completely inserted itself between a parent and their children.
When the government gets to say how those children are going to be raised, what they're going to be taught, what vaccines they're going to get, what medications they have to take, what their health care has to be.
When the government's making those decisions, our future is done.
We're toast.
And so we look at ourselves like we are the last line of defense.
There's a lot of great issues out there to fight and debate on, but this one, a mother's right to raise her child, is not negotiable.
And you do not co-parent with the government.
That's one of your lines that you guys have.
And you have signage that shows that.
And so talk about just some of the backlash show.
This is a nasty fight, not just the FBI and the DOJ.
That's part of it, but local teacher unions, activist groups, the Alphabet Mafia.
You know, talk about how some of your moms all of a sudden are getting kind of a crash course in the nastiness and the venom that you could receive for fighting for your child.
Yeah, I mean, you know, we get called every name under the sun.
And our poor moms that just have stepped up in their community to protect their rights and their kids are being called racists and bigots and homophobe, all the things that, you know, all the things they like to call, they can handle it.
They're tough.
They're moms.
It's their kids they're protecting.
But I'll tell you, it's really escalating as our strength grows, as our movement grows.
It's really starting to escalate.
Last week in North Carolina, it made some national headlines.
A mom that is a member of a chapter, it wasn't even a Moms for Liberty event, was booked at a restaurant, but she is a member of Moms for Liberty, had booked an end-of-school year happy hour with like 30 parents at a restaurant.
And this crazy woman on TikTok, Libs of TikTok covered it, went on and ranting and raving on how she called the restaurant.
She found out about it.
She called the restaurant.
She told them how horrible Moms for Liberty was and that this woman was a member of it.
And the restaurant canceled.
They would not allow that mom to have her event there with her 30 friends.
And so, you know, they're purposely coming after our members.
They are attacking them.
They're calling their jobs.
I drove down to Miami a few weeks ago for their monthly chapter meeting, and the phone rang the entire time from Antifa members, believe it or not, just hanging up, calling, asking for me, asking for the chapter leader, hanging up.
So the harassment is endless, but we're tough, we're strong.
And, you know, moms will do anything for their kids.
So it doesn't intimidate us.
It doesn't slow us down.
We just keep moving.
This shows you're over the mark.
We know a thing or two about Antifa and all these degenerates.
Okay, so finally, momsforliberty.org, right near when we're doing something in Tampa, but you guys are doing something right before.
Tell us about your national summit, July 14, 15, 16, 17.
Charlie, we tried to book Kaylee for the event.
And, you know, they said she's under contract with someone else.
And I was like, whoo, in the Tampa area.
And I was like, what are you talking about?
And then I saw your announcements and I thought, oh, well, that's a good cause.
Yeah, that's a good organization.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk about it.
We are very excited.
It's our first annual national summit.
We are bringing together leaders in parental rights and education from around the country, experts in gender ideology, critical race theory, social-emotional learning, all of the things that parents need to understand to protect and defend their children and their parental rights.
If you look down there, you'll see our headliners.
We've got Governor Ron DeSantis welcoming everybody to Florida, kicking it off.
We've got our leaders here who have sponsored and promoted parental rights legislation to set the example for other states.
Dr. Ben Carson is coming.
Jack Brewer, Allie Beth Stuckey is going to be speaking.
Betsy DeVos, we've caught a lot of Slack heat for having her.
She's a former Secretary of Education.
If anybody has seen behind the education curtain more than Tiffany and I, it's Betsy DeVos.
She has a lot to share.
So we ask people to go to momsforliberty.org, sign up, register, come see us in Tampa.
And then the following stay for two weeks, right?
And then come and the following week.
Well, God bless you.
We have your back.
We won't back down, even though the DOJ and all that nonsense.
MomsForLiberty.org, keep up the wonderful work.
Thank you so much.
Thanks, Charlie.
Have a great day.
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Okay, so Tom Rice is an impeachment voter.
And one of the more delicious stories that I have been enjoying ever so steadily over the last couple of weeks is the justice of the impeachment voters.
You have these impeachment voters, and one by one, they're retiring and they're losing.
And Tom Rice, he got all the air support.
Tom Rice voted for impeachment, South Carolina.
And he had Paul Ryan come in and campaign for him.
Paul Ryan, who just didn't look very good, came in.
We used to be such big Paul Ryan fans and how naive we were way back when.
So Tom Rice was supposed to be kind of this moderate bridge-building candidate, and he got obliterated yesterday.
Let's go to Cut 67.
Tom Rice saying that Liz Cheney would make a great speaker of the House.
Play Cut 67.
If the Republicans win back the House, do you think McCarthy should be Speaker?
I'm not going to answer that one right now.
Yeah, we'll see.
We'll see what happens.
And what about Liz Cheney?
I think she'd be a great speaker.
Really?
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Yeah, I do.
I think she's a real Republican.
I think she is very conservative, and I think she's a fearless leader.
Cut 68.
Tom Rice picked the wrong movement to fight.
Play Cut 68.
We didn't just send a message.
We screamed it at the top of our lungs, a message too loud and too powerful for the Washington swamp and the mainstream media to ignore.
The days of politicians first and people last are over.
Today, the conservatives in the Republican Party won.
Today, Donald Trump won.
And today, the voters of the 7th Congressional District won.
Adios, Tom Rice.
Enjoy being a lobbyist for Raytheon, Northrop, Grumman, Lockheed, Martin, Farrick, Pfizer, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Johnson Johnson, and others.
I want to get to a story here as well.
So Illinois is a wonderful state with great people, terrible politics, awful government.
And it just really bothers me, these companies, these massive transnational companies that have benefited so tremendously from taxpayer money, through crony capitalism.
And the moment that things get difficult, they leave.
Now, you can't totally blame them.
Illinois has become a high-tax, high-regulation, incredibly corrupt state.
But you're starting to see more and more of these companies that got everything they possibly could out of Illinois and they just leave.
This is for my friends on AM560, The Answer.
Caterpillar to move headquarters to Texas, marking the second major corporate departure from Illinois in six weeks.
Caterpillar pulls up headquarters stakes and heads for Texas.
It's the same sort of lack of loyalty to a state where you are getting so many tax benefits, employing so many people.
And yes, I'm glad Texas is a beneficiary.
Obviously, Texas is a better state and all of that politically.
But it's the same sort of mentality, everybody, that shut down our manufacturing facilities and brought them to China.
It's easy to blame our trade policies as to why the corporations left for China in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
That's part of it.
But a bigger component that we can't forget is these corporations' lack of loyalty to our country and to their workers.
They're always just trying to seek the bottom line and go to a state that might maximize their profit a little bit nicer.
You don't have a country.
You have an economy that happens to be in a country.
So Caterpillar is going to move to Texas, but guess what?
They'll just move to Mexico next and then to China.
They'll just keep on hopping around.
I miss the country where companies are willing to buckle down and understand a state, a region, a county invested billions of dollars into them through tax benefits, through TIF districts.
And the moment it gets tough, they leave.
Now, trust me, I left Illinois for Arizona.
I get it.
I understand the mentality.
But Caterpillar in particular, John Deere, Boeing, all these companies, they don't have any ounce of loyalty to the nation, to the state, to the region.
They just care about maximizing the dollar, which is fine in theory.
Can't run a country that way.
It's unsustainable.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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Thanks so much for listening.
God bless.
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