Former Gang Stalking Private Security Spills on Program – Silent Holocaust PDF
Former Gang Stalking Private Security Spills on Program
Silent Holocaust
Whistleblower Testimony
By Builder Rejected ~~ October 14, 2017
Excerpts from live interview with private security ex-employee describing gang stalking, electronic harassment and mind control tactics.
(Name redacted by request)
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DATE OF ORDER: MARCH 16, 2020
Here’s the latest from Dutch YouTube channel, Artikel 7.
It’s easy to think some of the claims Deborah Tavares makes are overblown but really, she’s just taking the public statements and the objectives of Globalist organizations, like the UN to their logical conclusion.
In the wake of the past three years, after watching the egregiously bad faith antics of our corrupt politicians, the kangaroo Mueller Investigation, the Fake Impeachment and the jerry-rigging of an incapacitated candidate who’s the embodiment the putrescence of the Democrat Party as their candidate for President, the claims in this video now seem quite tame.
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President Donald Trump: The truth is plain to see. If you want freedom, take pride in your country. If you want democracy, hold on to your sovereignty and if you want peace, love your nation. Wise leaders always put the good of their own people and their own country first. The future does not belong to Globalists. The future belongs to Patriots. The future belongs to sovereign and independent nations who protect their citizens, respect their neighbors and honor the differences that make each country special and unique
Dr. Stan Monteith: Today, there is a conscious organized effort to destroy the sovereignty of our nation. It is part of a worldwide plan. It is being carried out in Europe with the formation of the European Union. Doesn’t matter that the people of France and of the Netherlands have voted against the Constitution.
They don’t care what the people want. You common people, you’re standing in the way of progress. It’s a wonderful dream that they have been working for thousands of years to accomplish. What’s happening today is not accidental. These people know exactly what they’re doing.
Anthony Wile: These globalist forces that have an intent on bringing in line the various nation-states that need to be molded together in order to create a globalist government. I believe that they will continue those efforts and whatever it takes; force or propaganda, through mainstream Western media sources, which is continually trying to do their job, as well, on these on the ground and the subversive activities of the CIA, via movements like the Alliance for Youth movements.
I believe all of this will continue and whether or not the subversive attempts will work or whether or not the mainstream media mind manipulation will work, who’s to say but certainly NATO will continue to do and the US, as the bad-boy enforcers for the City of London will continue to do their job as best they can.
Deborah Tavares: Understand the level of engagement that now everyone should consider being involved in. This is not a time to think that someone else is going to handle this for you, we all have to engage, again on whatever level of understanding we have with this global assault on humanity – and this is not just an assault on humanity, this is an assault on everything that is living.
Nigel Farage: You know, what had happened for decades is, people have tried to build new false artificial supra-national structures and the European Union, in a sense was the prototype for a new form of government the Globalists wish to impose on all of us.
Indeed, had the blessed Hillary won that election back in 2016, I reckon you now would be very much closer to that European Union and very much further away from the idea, that in a democratic system, you can vote for people that make your laws – but you can equally sack people that make your laws.
Like it or don’t like it, men and women across this world want, by a massive majority to live in an identifiable unit that is a nation and they want their national flags, they want their national anthems, they want their national soccer teams to go win the World Cup.
That is what people want. It is the natural, normal human condition. It is the nation-state, to which we owe and pledge our allegiance. It is the nation-state to whom we, albeit slightly reluctantly pay our taxes. It is the nation-state to whom, if things really go badly wrong, we’re prepared to stand up a defend and fight for.
Anthony Wile: I don’t necessarily think it’s going to stop here. I think that it will continue. I think it’s in the best interests of the of the elite, who control the international organizations to see that we do have nation states, in which there is chaos and more continued uncertainty, so that a global solution, which would naturally be provided by these wonderful international organizations could be adopted.
And that is all part of the stride, in my opinion towards a One World Order system of governance, as well as monetary and financial control that revolves around, that has, for several years, several decades, passed that back to the point of the Civil War in America is an example of intrusion and an Anglo-Saxon, so to speak dominance, creating the conflicts themselves for which they come through the other side and try to provide solutions.
I don’t know why we would suspect that this will stop. I think it will continue – at least the effort will continue by Western powers to make this happen. The the game-changer potentially is the Internet, where more and more people may realize that they’re actually fighting on behalf of the very causes that they’re trying to stamp out; the very forces of evil that they no longer wish to be subjected to.
If they realize that, perhaps they won’t have a revolution – or at least, not one in the current color in which they’re having it, let’s put it that way.
Deborah Tavares: Everything the corporations and international bankers have been doing is one gigantic fraud and all of it at our expense. Disinformation and manipulation by the international bankers’ corporate structure, to centralize control of all people, land energy resources, technologies and economies.
We must expose the hidden secret of these corporations, universities and institutions, set to control all emerging technologies that will rebuild the world’s transportation, civil, manufacturing, physical infrastructure with cyber infrastructure; computers, networks and sensors.
Now, many of you are noticing the cameras everywhere; they’re on all the street corners, they’re up the freeways, they’re on buildings, they’re everywhere. There’s sensors everywhere. Surveillance in the United States has already imprisoned us.
G Edward Griffin: It means a totalitarian system; a system of concentration at the top and the people being at the bottom being ruled from above, not that the people have any voice in determining the direction of their government or the world but they are to be told what the direction is. They’re to be told to follow it.
Collectivism is the philosophy of Big Government and Small People and it’s a philosophy that supposedly, all of this is being done in the name of society. In other words, it’s for “the greater good of the greater number,” supposedly. And so you’re supposed to go along with whatever inconvenience or insult to your freedom comes along, because after all, it’s in the greater good of the greater number.
And this is the the rationale being used – has been used – for quite some time to justify all kinds of horrible atrocities. All the leaders have to do is say, “Well, it’s for the greater good of the greater number.”
President Donald Trump: In order to fulfill my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord but begin negotiations to reenter either the Paris Accord or really, an entirely new transaction, with terms that are fair to the United States, its businesses, its workers its people, its taxpayers, so we’re getting out.
Beyond the severe energy restrictions inflicted by the Paris Accord, it includes yet another scheme to redistribute wealth out of the United States, through the so-called “Green Climate Fund” – nice name – which calls for developed countries to send $100 billion to developing countries, all on top of America’s existing and massive foreign aid payments.
Dr Stan Monteith: I believe the global warming situation is a scam and all I say is, if you really believe in global warming, why do we call Greenland “Greenland”? Why? Because, in the year 1000, when the Vikings were there, it was green and lush and that was a period of global warming and then we went into a period of Global Warming until about 1600. This global warming is a scam.
Deborah Tavares: When you read these plans, they say that, in order to reduce Climate Change, we must eliminate all machinery use and all equipment and we must literally reduce the temperature that would bring us back into the year 1750, before industrialization – and millions of people will die.
G Edward Griffin: We have these “international elites”. We call it “international” but basically, they’re housed in each nation. We have them in England and France, in the United States and Germany and so forth.
And now, the big move among these people is to coalesce into a true international elite, whereby they will be operating through the governmental power of the United Nations. Now, they they really have clout, because there is no nation in the world that can escape their power, because the way these people work is that if they want to accomplish something if they have an agenda, let’s just pick one at random – disarmament, or another one: population control or something like that.
As it is now, they have to convince each of the respective nations and their governments to implement those agendas but once you have a true United Nations, with true governmental power, with real military forces and once you have turned over to these agencies of international power control over your armies and over your air force and over your weapons of mass destruction, you have created a global government, which cannot be challenged by any nation, whatsoever.
So now, these international elites do not have to worry about convincing the governments in each part of the world, as long as they control the center of this power, which is the United Nations. They therefore can control the world.
Nigel Farage: It’s Davos time! The World Economic Forum, set up by people years ago, who wanted the politics and big business to work together. And they had a little gathering in a ski resort in Switzerland and now thousands of people go every year and because it reached its absolute peak under people like Tony Blair and Clinton and Obama and really, all the arguments for Globalism have been there at Davos for the last 50 years and more.
No space for the little man. No space for the nation-state, really. No space, certainly for the small entrepreneur.
What I thought was so delightful this year was that Donald Trump went along and just blew the whole thing up. Just told them, “Look, hey you know what? You all said my America First policy would be a disaster. We’re doing really well. We’ve got the lowest unemployment in 50 years, we’ve got good growth, we’ve actually got more Black and Hispanic people now working than ever before and poverty in their sectors being reduced.” And the people sat there in a stony silence.
And I think it’s really interesting to think that what’s happened to us over the course the last 50 years is we’ve decided nation-states don’t matter, we’ve decided democracy doesn’t really matter, because we can decide all of this in ski resorts in Switzerland! Isn’t it wonderful? It’s called Globalism!
And then we can bow down to the European Union or perhaps give the United Nations some more power and this is the importance, I think of what Trump has done. It’s the importance of what Brexit symbolizes. Most of us, people with common sense believe that the nation-state run on Democratic lines is much better than people deciding our futures in Swiss ski resorts on their annual jaunt to Davos or wherever else it may be.
Joe Biden: It allows us to refocus our intelligence and military assets and resources to other parts of the world where they’re needed, where we face new challenges.
This is the world you are graduating into, this is what I want to talk about today with you for a few minutes. I believe we, and particularly you, your class has an incredible window of opportunity to lead in shaping a New World Order for the 21st century in a way consistent with American interests and the common interests.
Deborah Tavares: Very soon and it’s happening now that people will be required to have implantable chips in your hand, where everything that you own will be on that chip, all your hospital records will be on that chip, your ability to access your home’s keylessly will be an opportunity for people, it’ll have your driver’s license, your education, all your vaccinations will be on that chip (and if you don’t have your vaccinations) they will require vaccinations. It will monitor and track, with GPS capabilities everywhere you are, everywhere you go.
It has the frequencies involved with the 5G are for hive-minding. So, for those of you that don’t understand what that is, this is a collective reality now of literally, putting all of our brains into the Internet of Things. Where, literally they’re saying I think it was by the year 2030, that the PC would have the capability of managing our cities with the brains of many people.
So, we’re talking about AI o the 5G being the underpinning of this technology that we’re all now hearing about. And everybody’s gonna want to be chipped because it’s it’s gonna be trending.
Dylan Avery: This is Aaron Russo, a filmmaker and former politician. To his left is Nicholas Rockefeller of the infamous Rockefeller banking and business dynasty. After maintaining a close friendship with Nicholas Rockefeller, Aaron eventually ended the relationship, appalled by what he had learned about the Rockefellers and their ambitions.
Aaron Russo: I said, “What’s the point of all this? You have all the money in the world you need and all the power you need. What’s the point? What’s the end goal?” and he said, “The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers, the elite people, the bankers, some in some government controlling the world.”
Barack Obama: We meet here at a moment of testing for Europe and the United States and for the international order that we have worked for generations to build.
G Edward Griffin: Most people think that the UN is our last best hope for peace. That’s the way it was sold to me when I was in school. It was offered as an organization where different nations could come together and work out their problems and their grievances in a peaceful manner and be a means of reducing world conflict and increasing the economic prosperity of all of the member nations and all of these wonderful things.
In reality, it turns out to be none of the above. In reality, the United Nations is a the seat of what the member governments hope will become a true world government.
Deborah Tavares: That’s the cameras, that’s all the tracking. That’s the camera in your computer screen, when you’re sitting behind your computer. That is the flicker rate and that’s what’s happening on your televisions. Everything that’s coming wireless into your home, that’s the wires within the walls of your home. It’s all tracking.
They were going to look at general sources of information. They were going to look at telephone taps, analyzing your garbage, surveillance, behavior of your children in school. They were also going to know how you lived, based on the food that you ate, the shelter that you lived in, the clothes that you purchased, the transportation.
They also would know your phone bills, because they would look at your itemized phone calls. They would know if you were married, because they would look at your marriage certificates and birth certificates, etc. They would know your friends, your associations, your political affiliation, they would know your personal paper trail, because they would know your banking account statements, your credit card purchases, everything was tagged and planned to be tagged back in the ’40s, with the universal product code [UPC].
They also are using Welfare, Social Security, USDA Food Stamps and grants and subsidies. They say this: the principle for these ploys. The citizen will almost always make the collection of information easy if he can operate on the “free sandwich principle”: eat now and pay later. We’re paying dearly now.
They also go on to talk about government sources via intimidation the IRS, OSHA, the Census, etc. They’ll learn your patterns of living. Again, your belief systems, your contacts, how you vote, your friends, your strengths and weaknesses. They say they will maintain access to control and prices for feedback and they will do shock testing.
They will implode the economy and they will charge us more through shock testing. They say they will destroy our opportunities and they will allocate our opportunities.
They will control the economic environment. They will control the availability of raw materials, our capital, our bank rates. They will control inflation of the currency. They will control possession of property and they will control industrial capacity.
The federal and state governments are not real. They’re privately-owned corporations called “governments”. In other words, we have a system where we have banks and corporations that have been posing as legitimate governments and they’re not. Its USA, Inc.
In fact, it’s Earth, Inc. It’s a corporate system. It’s a corporatocracy and we were left out of that lesson plan. We didn’t know. And it’s important to understand, our judicial system serves the corporations, not us. That’s why when we go to court, we generally don’t prevail and that’s why the years that we spend in court and the money we spend in court, that money goes to the Federal Reserve, which has of course nothing to do with “federal” and has absolutely no “reserve”.
We must not consent to these lawless corporate statutes that were created to increase debt and enslave all of us and that’s what’s happened.
Dr Stan Monteith: Just maybe, reality is usually scoffed at. Illusion is usually king but you see, in the battle for survival, Christian civilization is going to be reality, not illusion or delusion that’s going to determine what the future will bring…
The Rockefeller Foundation Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development 2010
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An economically unstable and shock-prone world in which governments weaken, criminals thrive, and dangerous innovations emerge.
Rockefeller Plan to Use Bioweapons
to Impose Martial Law One Quarantine at a Time
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An economically unstable and shock-prone world in which governments weaken, criminals thrive, and dangerous innovations emerge . . .
An economically depressed world in which individuals and communities develop localized, “makeshift” solutions to a growing set of problems . . .
One important-and novel-component of our strategy toolkit is scenario planning, a process of creating narratives about the future based on factors likely to affect a particular set of challenges and opportunities. We believe that scenario planning has great potential for use in philanthropy to identify unique interventions, simulate and rehearse important decisions that could have profound implications, and highlight previously undiscovered areas of connection and intersection. Most important, by providing a methodological structure that helps us focus on what we don’t know-instead of what we already know-scenario planning allows us to achieve impact more effectively.
The Rockefeller Foundation’s use of scenario planning to explore technology and international development has been both inspired and ambitious. Throughout my 40-plus-year career as a scenario planner, I have worked with many of the world’s leading companies, governments, foundations, and nonprofits-and I know firsthand the power of the approach. Scenario planning is a powerful tool precisely because the future is unpredictable and shaped by many interacting variables.
Finally, a note about what we mean by “technology.” In this report, we use the term to refer to a broad spectrum of tools and methods of organization. Technologies can range from tools for basic survival, such as a treadle pump and basic filtration technologies, to more advanced innovations, such as methods of collecting
and utilizing data in health informatics and novel building materials with real-time environmental sensing capabilities. The Rockefeller Foundation and GBN began the scenario process by surfacing a host of driving forces that would affect the future of technology and international development. These forces were generated through both secondary research and in-depth interviews with Foundation staff, Foundation grantees, and external experts.
Two uncertainties from a longer list of potential uncertainties that might shape the broader contextual environment of the scenarios, including social, technology, economic, environmental, and political trends.
Bottom-up and top-down. Lower levels of adaptive capacity emerge in the absence of these characteristics and leave populations particularly vulnerable to the disruptive effects of unanticipated shocks.
Once crossed, these axes create a matrix of four very different futures:
LOCK STEP – A world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian eadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback
CLEVER TOGETHER – A world in which highly coordinated and successful strategies emerge for addressing both urgent and entrenched worldwide issues
HACK ATTACK – An economically unstable and shock-prone world in which governments weaken, criminals thrive, and dangerous innovations emerge
SMART SCRAMBLE – An economically depressed world in which individuals and communities develop localized, makeshift solutions to a growing set of problems
Each scenario tells a story of how the world, and in particular the developing world, might progress over the next 15 to 20 years.
We now invite you to immerse yourself in each future world and consider four different visions for the evolution of technology and international development to 2030.
Rockefeller Plan to Use Bioweapons to Impose Martial Law One Quarantine at a Time.
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LOCK STEP
A world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback
In 2012, the pandemic that the world had been anticipating for years finally hit. Unlike 2009’s H1N1, this new influenza strain-originating from wild geese-was extremely virulent and deadly. Even the most pandemic-prepared nations were quickly overwhelmed when the virus streaked around the world, infecting nearly 20 percent of the global population and killing 8 million in just seven months, the majority of them healthy young adults. The pandemic also had a deadly effect on economies: international mobility of both people and goods screeched to a halt, debilitating industries like tourism and breaking global supply chains. Even locally, normally bustling shops and office buildings sat empty for months, devoid of both employees and customers.
The pandemic blanketed the planet-though disproportionate numbers died in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central America, where the virus spread like wildfire in the absence of official containment protocols. But even
in developed countries, containment was a challenge. The United States’s initial policy of “strongly discouraging” citizens from flying proved deadly in its leniency, accelerating the spread of the virus not just within the U.S. but across borders. However, a few countries did fare better-China in particular. The Chinese government’s quick imposition and enforcement of mandatory quarantine for all citizens, as well as its instant and near-hermetic sealing off of all borders, saved millions of lives, stopping the spread of the virus far earlier than in other countries and enabling a swifter post- pandemic recovery. China’s government was not the only one that took extreme measures to protect its citizens from risk and exposure. During the pandemic, national leaders around the world flexed their authority and imposed airtight rules and restrictions, from the mandatory wearing of face masks to body-temperature checks at the entries to communal spaces like train stations and supermarkets. Even after the pandemic faded, this more authoritarian control and oversight of citizens and their activities stuck and even intensified. In order to protect themselves from the spread of increasingly global problems-from pandemics and transnational terrorism to environmental crises and rising poverty-leaders around the world took a firmer grip on power.
At first, the notion of a more controlled world gained wide acceptance and approval. Citizens willingly gave up some of their sovereignty-and their privacy-to more paternalistic states in exchange for greater safety and stability. Citizens were more tolerant, and even eager, for top-down direction and oversight, and national leaders had more latitude to impose order in the ways they saw fit. In developed countries, this heightened oversight took many forms: biometric IDs for all citizens, for example, and tighter regulation of key industries whose stability was deemed vital to national interests. In many developed countries, enforced cooperation with a suite of new regulations and agreements slowly but steadily restored both order and, importantly, economic growth.
Across the developing world, however, the story was different-and much more variable. Top-down authority took different forms in different countries, hinging largely on the capacity, caliber, and intentions of their leaders.
More authoritarian leadership worked less well-and in some cases tragically-in countries run by irresponsible elites who used their increased power to pursue their own interests at the expense of their citizens.
There were other downsides, as the rise of virulent nationalism created new hazards.
By 2025, people seemed to be growing weary of so much top-down control and letting leaders and authorities make choices for them.
Wherever national interests clashed with individual interests, there was conflict. Sporadic pushback became increasingly organized and coordinated, as disaffected youth and people who had seen their status and opportunities slip away-largely in developing countries-incited civil unrest. In 2026, protestors in Nigeria brought down the government, fed up with the entrenched cronyism and corruption. Even those who liked the greater stability and predictability of this world began to grow uncomfortable and constrained by so many tight rules and by the strictness of national boundaries. The feeling lingered that sooner or later, something would inevitably upset the neat order that the world’s governments had worked so hard to establish. *
“IT IS POSSIBLE TO DISCIPLINE AND CONTROL SOME SOCIETIES FOR SOME TIME, BUT NOT THE WHOLE WORLD ALL THE TIME.” – GK Bhat, TARU Leading Edge, India
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Scenario Narratives LOCK STEP HEADLINES IN LOCK STEP
Quarantine Restricts In-Person Contact; Cellular Networks Overloaded (2013)
Vietnam to Require ‘A Solar Panel
on Every Home’ (2022) African Leaders Fear Repeat of Nigeria’s 2026 Government Collapse (2028) 5
Intercontinental Trade Hit by Strict Pathogen Controls (2015)
Italy Addresses ‘Immigrant Caregiver’ Gap with Robots (2017)020
Will Africa’s Embrace of Authoritarian Capitalism a la China Continue? (2018)025
Proliferating Trade Networks in Eastern and Southern Africa Strengthen Regional Ties (2023)
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Many governments will place severe restrictions on the program areas and geographies that international philanthropies can work in, leading to a narrower and stronger geographic focus or grant-making in their home country only.
Technological innovation in “Lock Step” is largely driven by government and is focused on issues of national security and health and safety. Most technological improvements are created by and for developed countries, shaped by governments’ dual desire to control and to monitor their citizens.
Technology trends and applications we might see:
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EXAMPLE:
It was now 2025. Manisha was 27 years old and a manager for the Indian government’s Ganges Purification Initiative (GPI). Until recently, the Ganges was still one of the most polluted rivers in the world, its coliform bacteria levels astronomical due to the frequent disposal of human and animal corpses and of sewage (back in 2010, 89 million liters per day) directly into the river. Dozens of organized attempts to clean the Ganges over the years had failed. In 2009, the World Bank even loaned India $1 billion to support the government’s multi-billion dollar cleanup initiative. But then the pandemic hit, and that funding dried up.
Now in 2020 Many top Indian scientists and engineers had been recruited by the government to develop tools and strategies for cleaning the Ganges in more high-tech ways. Her favorite were the submersible bots that continuously “swam” the river to detect, through sensors, the presence of chemical pathogens. New riverside filtration systems that sucked in dirty river water and spit out far cleaner water were also impressive-especially because on the outside they were designed to look like mini-temples. In fact, that’s why Manisha was at the river today, to oversee the installation of a filtration system located not even 100 feet from where she first stepped into the Ganges as a girl. The water looked so much cleaner now, and recent tests suggested that it might even meet drinkability standards by 2035. Manisha was tempted to kick off her shoe and dip her toe in, but this was a restricted area now-and she, of all people, would never break that law.
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The recession of 2008-10 did not turn into the decades-long global economic slide that many had feared. In fact, quite the opposite: strong global growth returned in force, with the world headed once again toward the demographic
and economic projections forecasted before the downturn. India and China were on track to see their middle classes explode to 1 billion by 2020. Mega-cities like Sao Paulo and Jakarta expanded at a blistering pace as millions poured in from rural areas. Countries raced to industrialize by whatever means necessary; the global marketplace bustled. But two big problems loomed. First, not all people and places benefited equally from this return to globalized growth: all boats were rising, but some were clearly rising more. Second, those hell-bent on development and expansion largely ignored the very real environmental consequences of their unrestricted growth. Undeniably, the planet’s climate was becoming increasingly unstable.
Sea levels were rising fast, even as countries continued to build-out coastal mega-cities. In 2014, the Hudson River overflowed into New York City during a storm surge, turning the World Trade Center site into a three-foot-deep lake. The image of motorboats navigating through lower Manhattan jarred the world’s most powerful nations into realizing that climate change was not just a developing-world problem. That same year, new measurements showing that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were climbing precipitously created new urgency and pressure for governments (really, for everyone) to do something fast.
International coordination started slowly, then accelerated faster than anyone had imagined. In 2015, a critical mass of middle income and developed countries with strong economic growth publicly committed to leveraging their resources against global-scale problems, beginning with climate change. Together, their governments hashed out plans for monitoring and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the short term and improving the absorptive capacity of the natural environment over the long term. In 2017, an international agreement was reached on carbon sequestration (by then, most multinational corporations had a chief carbon officer) and intellectual and financial resources were pooled to build out carbon capture processes that would best support the global ecosystem.
A functioning global cap and trade system was also established.
Worldwide, the pressure to reduce waste and increase efficiency in planet-friendly ways was enormous. New globally coordinated systems for monitoring energy use capacity-including smart grids and bottom-up pattern recognition technologies-were rolled out.
Centralized global oversight and governance structures sprang up, not just for energy use but also for disease and technology standards. Such systems and structures required far greater levels of transparency, which in turn required more tech-enabled data collection, processing, and feedback.
Enormous, benign “surveillance” systems allowed citizens to access data-all publically available-in real time and react.
Nation-states lost some of their power and importance as global architecture strengthened and regional governance structures emerged.
International oversight entities like the UN took on new levels of authority, as did regional systems like the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The worldwide spirit.
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“WHAT IS OFTEN SURPRISING ABOUT NEW TECHNOLOGIES IS COLLATERAL DAMAGE: THE EXTENT OF THE PROBLEM THAT YOU CAN CREATE BY SOLVING ANOTHER PROBLEM IS ALWAYS A BIT OF A SURPRISE.” – Michael Free, Program for Appropriate
Technology in Health (PATH)
HACK ATTACK
An economically unstable and shock-prone world in which governments weaken, criminals thrive, and dangerous innovations emerge
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Think Tanks – Rand etc. operations of death
Debilitating tourism and economies.
National Security Memorandum No. 200
Depopulation
CDC owns Patent on Ebola
Curfews and quarantine.
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Strong alliances laid the groundwork for more global and participatory attempts to solve big problems.
More effective vaccines improved healthcare.
Pharmaceuticals giants released thousands of drug compounds shown to be effective against diseases like malaria into the public domain
as part of an “open innovation” agenda; they also opened their archives of R&D on neglected diseases deemed not commercially viable, offering seed funding to scientists who wanted to carry the research forward. There was a push for major innovations in energy and water for the developing world, as those areas were thought to be the key to improving equity.
In many places, traditional social barriers to overcoming poverty grew less relevant as more people gained access to a spectrum of useful technologies-from disposable computers to do- it-yourself (DIY) windmills.
Given the circumstances that forced these new heights of global cooperation and responsibility, it was no surprise that much of the growth
in the developing world was achieved more cleanly and more “greenly.” In Africa, there was a big push for solar energy, as the physical geography and low population density of much of the continent enabled the proliferation of solar farms. The Desertec initiative to create massive thermal electricity plants to supply both North Africa and, via undersea cable lines, Southern Europe was a huge success.
By 2025, a majority of electricity in the Maghreb was coming from solar, with exports of that power earning valuable foreign currency. The switch to solar created new “sun” jobs, drastically cut CO2 emissions, and earned governments billions annually. India exploited its geography to create similar “solar valleys” while decentralized solar- powered drip irrigation systems became popular in sub-Saharan Africa.
There were still failed states and places with few resources. Moreover, such rapid progress had created new problems. Rising consumption standards unexpectedly ushered in a new set of pressures: the improved food distribution system, for example, generated a food production crisis due to greater demand.
Demand for everything was growing exponentially.
By 2028, despite ongoing efforts to guide “smart growth,” it was becoming clear that the world could not support such rapid growth forever. *
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HEADLINES IN CLEVER TOGETHER
Global Economy Turns the Corner (2011)
Radical U.S. and China Emission Targets Signal New Era in Climate Change Negotiations (2015)
A First: U.S. Solar
Power Cheaper than Coal (2020) Shortages Loom (2027) ‘Info Cruncher’ Is Grads’ Job of Choice as Data Era Dawns (2016)
Consortium of Foundations Launches Third Green Revolution as Food
Green Infrastructure Reshapes Economic Landscape
(2018) Transparency International Reports 10th Consecutive Year of Improved Governance (2025)
Technology trends and applications we might see:
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Research teams had been working for months to fabricate a new meat product-one that tasted just like beef yet actually contained only 50 percent meat; the remaining half was a combination of synthetic meat, fortified grains, and nano-flavoring.
In cities and villages around the world where children used to be hungry, access to higher-calorie meals had produced alarming increases in the incidence of obesity and diabetes. The demand for meat, in particular, was rising, but adding more animals to the planet created its own set of problems, such as more methane and spiking water demand.
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HACK ATTACK
An economically unstable and shock-prone
world in which governments weaken, criminals thrive, and dangerous innovations emerge Devastating shocks like September 11, the Southeast Asian tsunami of 2004, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake had certainly primed the world for sudden disasters. But no one was prepared for a world in which large-scale catastrophes would occur with such breathtaking frequency. The years 2010 to 2020 were dubbed the “doom decade” for good reason: the 2012 Olympic bombing, which killed 13,000, was followed closely by an earthquake in Indonesia killing 40,000, a tsunami that almost wiped out Nicaragua, and the onset of the West China Famine, caused by a once-in-a-millennium drought linked to climate change.
Not surprisingly, this opening series of deadly asynchronous catastrophes (there were more) put enormous pressure on an already overstressed global economy that had entered the decade still in recession. Massive humanitarian relief efforts cost vast sums of money, but the primary sources-from aid agencies to developed-world governments-had run out of funds to offer. Most nation-states could no longer afford their locked-in costs, let alone respond to increased citizen demands for more security, more healthcare coverage, more social programs and services, and more infrastructure repair. In 2014, when mudslides in Lima buried thousands, only minimal help trickled in, prompting the Economist headline: “Is the Planet Finally Bankrupt?”
These dire circumstances forced tough tradeoffs. In 2015, the U.S. reallocated a large share of its defense spending to domestic concerns, pulling out of Afghanistan-where the resurgent Taliban seized power once again. In Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa, more and more nation- states lost control of their public finances, along with the capacity to help their citizens and retain stability and order. Resource scarcities and trade disputes, together with severe economic and climate stresses, pushed many alliances and partnerships to the breaking point; they also sparked proxy wars and low-level conflict in resource-rich parts of the developing world. Nations raised trade barriers in order to protect their domestic sectors against imports and-in the face of global food and resource shortages-to reduce exports of agricultural produce and other commodities.
With government power weakened, order rapidly disintegrating, and safety nets evaporating, violence and crime grew more rampant. Countries with ethnic, religious, or class divisions saw especially sharp spikes in hostility: Naxalite separatists dramatically expanded their guerrilla campaign in East India; Israeli- Palestinian bloodshed escalated; and across Africa, fights over resources erupted along ethnic or tribal lines. Meanwhile, overtaxed militaries and police forces could do little to stop growing communities of criminals and terrorists from gaining power. Technology-enabled gangs and networked criminal enterprises exploited both the weakness of states and the desperation of individuals. With increasing ease, these “global guerillas” moved illicit products through underground channels from poor producer countries to markets in the developed world. Using retired 727s and other rogue aircraft, they crisscrossed the Atlantic, from South America to Africa, transporting cocaine, weapons, and operatives. Drug and gun money became a common recruiting tool for the desperately poor.
Criminal networks also grew highly skilled at counterfeiting licit goods through reverse engineering. Many of these “rip-offs” and copycats were of poor quality or downright dangerous. In the context of weak health systems, corruption, and inattention to standards-either within countries or from global bodies like the World Health Organization-tainted vaccines entered the public health systems of several African countries. In 2021, 600 children in Cote d’Ivoire died from a bogus Hepatitis B vaccine, which paled in comparison to the scandal sparked by mass deaths from a tainted anti-malarial drug years later. The deaths and resulting scandals sharply affected public confidence in vaccine delivery; parents not just in Africa but elsewhere began to avoid vaccinating their children.
Technology hackers were also hard at work. Internet scams and pyramid schemes plagued inboxes. Meanwhile, more sophisticated hackers attempted to take down corporations, government systems, and banks via phishing scams and database information heists, and their many successes generated billions of dollars in losses. Desperate to protect themselves and their intellectual property, the few multinationals still thriving enacted strong, increasingly complex defensive measures. Patent applications skyrocketed and patent thickets proliferated, as companies fought to claim and control even the tiniest innovations. Security measures and screenings tightened.
This “wild west” environment had a profound impact on innovation. The threat of being hacked and the presence of so many thefts and fakes lowered the incentives to create “me first” rather than “me too” technologies. And so many patent thickets made the cross-pollination of ideas and research difficult at best. Blockbuster pharmaceuticals quickly became artifacts of the past, replaced by increased production of generics. Breakthrough innovations still happened in various industries, but they were focused more on technologies that could not be easily replicated or re-engineered. And once created, they were vigorously guarded by their inventors-or even by their nations. In 2022, a biofuel breakthrough in Brazil was protected as a national treasure and used as a bargaining chip in trade with other countries.
Verifying the authenticity of anything was increasingly difficult.
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Recognized seals of safety and approval proved ineffective when even those seals were hacked. The positive effects of the mobile and internet revolutions were tempered by their increasing fragility as scamming and viruses proliferated, preventing these networks from achieving the reliability required to become the backbone of developing economies-or a source of trustworthy information for anybody.
Interestingly, not all of the “hacking” was bad. Genetically modified crops (GMOs) and do-it- yourself (DIY) biotech became backyard and garage activities, producing important advances. In 2017, a network of renegade African scientists who had returned to their home countries after working in Western multinationals unveiled the first of a range of new GMOs that boosted agricultural productivity on the continent.
But despite such efforts, the global have/have- not gap grew wider than ever. The very rich still had the financial means to protect themselves; gated communities sprung up from New York
to Lagos, providing safe havens surrounded by slums. In 2025, it was de rigueur to build not a house but a high-walled fortress, guarded by armed personnel. The wealthy also capitalized on the loose regulatory environment to experiment with advanced medical treatments and other under-the-radar activities. Those who couldn’t buy their way out of chaos-which was most people-retreated
to whatever “safety” they could find. With opportunity frozen and global mobility at a near standstill-no place wanted more people, especially more poor people-it was often a retreat to the familiar: family ties, religious beliefs, or even national allegiance. Trust was afforded to those who guaranteed safety and survival-whether it was a warlord, an evangelical preacher, or a mother. In some places, the collapse of state capacity led to a resurgence of feudalism. In other areas, people managed to create more resilient communities operating as isolated micro versions of formerly large-scale systems. The weakening of national governments also enabled grassroots movements to form and grow, creating rays of hope amid the bleakness. By 2030, the distinction between “developed” and “developing” nations no longer seemed particularly descriptive or relevant. * Page 38
HEADLINES IN HACK ATTACK
Millennium Development Goals Pushed Back to 2020 (2012)
2010
Violence Against Minorities and Immigrants Spikes Across Asia (2014)
Islamic Terror
Networks Thrive in Doctors Without Borders Latin America Confined Within Borders (2016) (2020)
Warlords Dispense Vital Medicines to Southeast Asian Communities (2028)030
India-Pakistan Water War Rages (2027)015 2020
Congo Death Toll Hits 10,000 in Malaria Drug Scandal (2018)2025
Nations Struggling with Resource Constraints Race to Scale Synthetic Biology (2021)
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Philanthropy is less about affecting change than about promoting stability and addressing basic survival needs. Philanthropic organizations move to support urgent humanitarian efforts at the grassroots level, doing “guerrilla philanthropy” by identifying the “hackers” and innovators who are catalysts of change in local settings. Yet identifying pro-social entrepreneurs is a challenge, because verification is difficult amid so much scamming and deception.
The operational model in this world is a “fortress model” in which philanthropic organizations coalesce into a strong, single unit to combat fraud and lack of trust. Philanthropies’ biggest assets are their reputation, brand, and legal/financial capacity to ward off threats and attempts at destabilization. They also pursue a less global approach, retreating to doing work in their home countries or a few countries that they know well and perceive as being safe.
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TECHNOLOGY IN HACK ATTACK
Mounting obstacles to market access and to knowledge creation and sharing slow the pace of technological innovation. Creative repurposing of existing technologies-for good and bad-is widespread, as counterfeiting and IP theft lower incentives for original innovation. In a world of trade disputes and resource scarcities, much effort focuses on finding replacements for what is no longer available. Pervasive insecurity means that tools of aggression and protection-virtual as well as corporeal-are in high demand, as are technologies that will allow hedonistic escapes from the stresses of life.
Technology trends and applications we might see:
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LIFE IN HACK ATTACK
Trent never thought that his past experience as a government intelligence officer would convert into something…philanthropic. But in a world full of deceit and scamming, his skills at discerning fact from fiction and developing quick yet deep local knowledge were highly prized. For three months now he had been working for a development organization, hired to find out what was happening in the “grey” areas in Botswana-a country that was once praised for its good governance but whose laws and institutions had begun to falter in the last few years, with corruption on the rise. His instructions were simple: focus not on the dysfunctional (which, Trent could see, was everywhere) but rather look through the chaos to see what was actually working. Find local innovations and practices that were smart and good and might be adopted or implemented elsewhere. “Guerrilla philanthropy” was what they called it, a turn of phrase that he liked quite a bit.
His trip into Botswana had been eventful-to put it mildly. On-time flights were rare these days, and the plane got diverted three times because of landing authorization snafus. At the Gaborone airport, it took Trent six hours to clear customs and immigration. The airport was bereft of personnel, and those on duty took their time scrutinizing and re-scrutinizing his visa. Botswana had none of the high-tech biometric scanning checkpoints-technology that could literally see right through you-that most developed nations had in abundance in their airports, along their borders, and in government buildings. Once out of the airport Trent was shocked by how many guns he saw-not just slung on the shoulders of police, but carried by regular people. He even saw a mother with a baby in one arm and an AK-47 in the other. This wasn’t the Botswana he remembered way back when he was stationed here 20 years ago as an embassy employee.
The organization that hired him was probably more right than it realized in calling it guerrilla philanthropy. After many weeks spent chasing down leads in Gaborone, then an unfortunate stint that had him hiking for miles alone through the Kalahari Desert, Trent found himself traveling deep into the Chobe Forest (a nice reprieve, he thought, from inhaling all that sand). One of his informants had told him about a group of smart youngsters who had set up their own biotechnology lab on the banks of the Chobe River, which ran along the forest’s northern boundary. He’d been outfitted with ample funds for grant-making, not the forest bribes he had heard so much about; regardless of what was taking place in the world around him, he was under strict orders to behave ethically. Trent was also careful to cover his tracks to avoid being kidnapped by international crime syndicates-including the Russian mafia and the Chinese triads-that had become very active and influential in Botswana. But he’d made it through, finally, to the lab, which he later learned was under the protection of the local gun lord. As expected, counterfeit vaccines were being manufactured. But so were GMO seeds. And synthetic proteins. And a host of other innovations that the people who hired him would love to know about.
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SMART SCRAMBLE
An economically depressed world in which individuals and communities develop localized, makeshift solutions to a growing set of problems
The global recession that started in 2008 did not trail off in 2010 but dragged onward. Vigorous attempts to jumpstart markets and economies didn’t work, or at least not fast enough to reverse the steady downward pull. The combined private and public debt burden hanging over the developed world continued to depress economic activity, both there and in developing countries with economies dependent on exporting to (formerly) rich markets. Without the ability to boost economic activity, many countries saw their debts deepen and civil unrest and crime rates climb. The United States, too, lost much of its presence and credibility on the international stage due to deepening debt, debilitated markets, and a distracted government. This, in turn, led to the fracturing or decoupling of many international collaborations started by or reliant on the U.S.’s continued strength.
Also in trouble was China, where social stability grew more precarious. Depressed economic activity, combined with the ecological consequences of China’s rapid growth, started to take their toll, causing the shaky balance that had held since 1989 to finally break down. With their focus trained on managing the serious political and economic instability at home, the Chinese sharply curtailed their investments in Africa and other parts of the developing world. Indeed, nearly all foreign investment in Africa-as well as formal, institutional flows of aid and other support for the poorest countries-was cut back except in the gravest humanitarian emergencies. Overall, economic stability felt so shaky that the occurrence of a sudden climate shock or other disaster would likely send the world into a tailspin. Luckily, those big shocks didn’t occur, though there was a lingering concern that they could in the future.
Not that anyone had time to think about the future-present challenges were too pressing.
In the developed world, unemployment rates skyrocketed. So did xenophobia, as companies and industries gave the few available jobs to native-born citizens, shunning foreign-born applicants. Great numbers of immigrants who had resettled in the developed world suddenly found that the economic opportunities that had drawn them were now paltry at best. By 2018, London had been drained of immigrants, as they headed back to their home countries, taking their education and skills with them. Reverse migration left holes in the communities of departure-both socially and literally-as stores formerly owned by immigrants stood empty. And their homelands needed them. Across the developing world and especially in Africa, economic survival was now firmly in local hands. With little help or aid coming through “official” and organized channels-and in the absence of strong trade and foreign currency earnings-most people and communities had no choice but to help themselves and, increasingly, one another. Yet “survival” and “success” varied greatly by location-not just by country, but by city and by community. Communities inside failed states suffered the most, their poor growing still poorer. In many places, the failures of political leadership and the stresses of economic weakness and social conflict stifled the ability of people to rise above their dire circumstances.
Not surprisingly, across much of the developing world the rural-urban divide gaped wider,
as more limited availability and access to resources like IT and trade made survival and self-sufficiency much more challenging for non-urban dwellers. Communications and interactions that formerly served to bridge one family or one village or one student with their counterparts in other places-from emailing to phone calls to web postings-became less reliable. Internet access had not progressed far beyond its 2010 status, in part because the investment dollars needed to build out the necessary infrastructure simply weren’t there. When cellphone towers or fiber optic cables broke down, repairs were often delayed by months or even years. As a result, only people in certain geographies had access to the latest “THE SPREADING OF IDEAS DEPENDS ON ACCESS TO COMMUNICATION, PEER GROUPS, AND COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE. EVEN IF SOMEONE HAS BLUEPRINTS TO MAKE SOMETHING, THEY MAY NOT HAVE THE MATERIALS OR KNOW- HOW. IN A WORLD SUCH AS THIS, HOW DO YOU CREATE AN ECOSYSTEM OF RESEARCH AMONG THESE COMMUNITIES?”
– Jose Gomez-Marquez, Program Director for the Innovations in International Health initiative (IIH), MIT
communication and internet gadgets, while others became more isolated for lack of such connections.
But there were silver linings. Government capacity improved in more advanced parts of the developing world where economies had already begun to generate a self-sustaining dynamic before the 2008-2010 crisis, such as Indonesia, Rwanda, Turkey, and Vietnam. Areas with good access to natural resources, diverse skill sets, and a stronger set of overlapping institutions did far better than others; so did cities and communities where large numbers of “returnees” helped drive change and improvement. Most innovation in these better-off places involved modifying existing devices and technologies to be more adaptive to a specific context. But people also found or invented new ways-technological and non-technological-to improve their capacity to survive and, in some cases, to raise their overall living standards. In Accra, a returning Ghanaian MIT professor, working with resettled pharma researchers, helped invent a cheap edible vaccine against tuberculosis that dramatically reduced childhood mortality across the continent. In Nairobi, returnees launched a local “vocational education for all” project that proved wildly successful and was soon replicated in other parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
Makeshift, “good enough” technology solutions-addressing everything from water purification and harnessing energy to improved crop yield and disease control-emerged to fill the gaps. Communities grew tighter. Micro- manufacturing, communal gardens, and patchwork energy grids were created at the local level for local purposes. Many communities took on the aura of co-ops, some even launching currencies designed to boost local trade and bring communities closer together.
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HEADLINES IN SMART SCRAMBLE
National Medical Labs in Southeast Asia Herald New Diagnostics for Native Diseases
(2013)
Low-Cost Water Purification Device Halves Diarrhea Deaths in India (2015)
Chinese Government Pressured as Protests Spread to 250 Cities (2017)020
‘Returnee’ Innovators Struggle to Expand Sales Beyond Home Markets (2020)
Maker Faire Ghana Partners with ‘Idol’ Franchise to Spotlight Young Innovators (2027)
Famine Haunts Ethiopia-Again (2022)025
VC Spending
Within Sub-Saharan Africa Triples (2025)
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Philanthropy operations are decentralized; headquarters are less important, and the ability to quickly access different parts of the world and reconfigure teams on short notice is key. Office space is rented by the day or week, not the month or year, because more people are in the field-testing, evaluating, and reporting on myriad pilot projects.
TECHNOLOGY IN SMART SCRAMBLE
Economic and political instability fracture societies in the developed world, resources for technology development diminish, and talented immigrants are forced to return to their countries of origin. As a result, capacity and knowledge are distributed more widely, allowing many small pockets of do-it-yourself innovation to emerge. Low-tech, “good enough” solutions abound, cobbled together with whatever materials and designs can be found. However, the transfer of cutting-edge technology through foreign direct investment is rare. Structural deficiencies in the broader innovation ecosystem – in accessing capital, markets, and a stable internet-and in the proliferation of local standards limit wider growth and development.
Technology trends and applications we might see:
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Editorial: A warning for Bay Area dams 2/27/2020
An aerial view of the dam and at homes below it at Anderson Lake Reservoir on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020 in Morgan Hill, Calif.
Life in California depends on the dams and reservoirs that provide water for homes, farms, recreation, energy and, not least, safety. That last function should be getting serious consideration toward providing overdue answers about emergency preparedness.
The more than 1,200 earth and cement structures that stand astride rivers and canyons across the state look solid enough, but many were built before engineers fully understood the threat of nearby seismic faults. Compounding the danger, a large number of decades-old dams are operating without updated policies on emergency notification of communities and businesses that have developed downriver since they were built.
This general worry has become specific in the case of one Bay Area dam. Federal regulators want the Anderson Reservoir in Santa Clara County drained dry beginning this fall out of concern that the Calaveras Fault could unleash a disastrous jolt to the dam above Morgan Hill. Valley Water, the dam’s operator, disagrees, arguing that the lake is low enough now and that more releases could harm part of the facility.
At stake is a needed water supply for the booming Silicon Valley and the economic health of the region. This standoff needs to be resolved.
There are years-away plans to rebuild the dam, but federal regulators are in no mood to wait. Their order affects the county’s largest reservoir, though there appears to be enough supply to ward off major repercussions for water users.
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The dam’s condition highlights another concern: If there is an emergency, dams should have quick-response plans to alert homes and businesses downriver. Three years ago, the Oroville Dam, the nation’s tallest, experienced a near disaster when an aging spillway crumbled, threatening the structure and forcing the evacuation of some 180,000 people downstream. The same winter’s heavy rains caused a spillover of the Anderson Reservoir that flooded neighborhoods in San Jose with little advance warning.
The Bay Area needs better preparation for such dangers. A Chronicle report Wednesday showed at least 47 of 145 dams in the region don’t have updated plans to notify authorities and downriver communities in an emergency. The state requires such plans and should make a concerted effort to ensure that they are in place. This region is riddled with active fault lines that could precipitate a disaster.
As the vagaries of climate change unfold, dams will be tested as never before. Droughts will alternate with heavy storm seasons, making water storage and flood control vital. In Santa Clara County’s case, a dry reservoir could mean taking more water from the federal and state water systems already facing competing demands from farmers and environmentalists.
Dam safety is a crucial part of California water policy. It shouldn’t be neglected, especially when it comes to alerting the public if trouble looms.
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