Canada announces ban on import of handguns until passage of gun control law
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โHow a Missile in Kabul Connects to a Speaker in Taipei
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Washingtonโs hard power display of taking out Al-Qaedaโs Al-Zawahiri will not be reciprocated by Beijing over Pelosiโs provocative visit to Taiwan. It does however, definitively bury the decades-long era of cooperative US-Chinese relations.
By Pepe ESCOBAR
This is the way the โGlobal War on Terrorโ (GWOT) ends, over and over again: not with a bang, but a whimper.
Two Hellfire R9-X missiles launched from a MQ9 Reaper drone on the balcony of a house in Kabul. The target was Ayman Al-Zawahiri with a $25 million bounty on his head. The once invisible leader of โhistoricโ Al-Qaeda since 2011, is finally terminated.
All of us who spent years of our lives, especially throughout the 2000s, writing about and tracking Al-Zawahiri know how US โintelโ played every trick in the book โ and outside the book โ to find him. Well, he never exposed himself on the balcony of a house, much less in Kabul.
Another disposable asset
Why now? Simple. Not useful anymore โ and way past his expiration date. His fate was sealed as a tawdry foreign policy โvictoryโ โ the remixed Obama โOsama bin Laden momentโ that wonโt even register across most of the Global South. After all, a perception reigns that George W. Bushโs GWOT has long metastasized into the โrules-based,โ actually โeconomic sanctions-basedโ international order.
Cue to 48 hours later, when hundreds of thousands across the west were glued to the screen of flighradar24.com (until the website was hacked), tracking โSPAR19โ โ the US Air Force jet carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi โ as it slowly crossed Kalimantan from east to west, the Celebes Sea, went northward parallel to the eastern Philippines, and then made a sharp swing westwards towards Taiwan, in a spectacular waste of jet fuel to evade the South China Sea.
No โPearl Harbor momentโ
Now compare it with hundreds of millions of Chinese who are not on Twitter but on Weibo, and a leadership in Beijing that is impervious to western-manufactured pre-war, post-modern hysteria.
Anyone who understands Chinese culture knew there would never be a โmissile on a Kabul balconyโ moment over Taiwanese airspace. There would never be a replay of the perennial neocon wet dream: a โPearl Harbor moment.โ Thatโs simply not the Chinese way.
The day after, as the narcissist Speaker, so proud of accomplishing her stunt, was awarded the Order of Auspicious Clouds for her promotion of bilateral US-Taiwan relations, the Chinese Foreign Minister issued a sobering comment: the reunification of Taiwan with the mainland is a historical inevitability.
Thatโs how you focus, strategically, in the long game.
What happens next had already been telegraphed, somewhat hidden in a Global Times report. Here are the two key points:
Point 1: โChina will see it as a provocative action permitted by the Biden administration rather than a personal decision made by Pelosi.โ
Thatโs exactly what President Xi Jinping had personally told the teleprompt-reading White House tenant during a tense phone call last week. And that concerns the ultimate red line.
Xi is now reaching the exact same conclusion reached by Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this year: the United States is โnon-agreement capable,โ and thereโs no point in expecting it to respect diplomacy and/or rule of law in international relations.
Point 2 concerns the consequences, reflecting a consensus among top Chinese analysts that mirrors the consensus at the Politburo: โThe Russia-Ukraine crisis has just let the world see the consequence...
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Washingtonโs hard power display of taking out Al-Qaedaโs Al-Zawahiri will not be reciprocated by Beijing over Pelosiโs provocative visit to Taiwan. It does however, definitively bury the decades-long era of cooperative US-Chinese relations.
By Pepe ESCOBAR
This is the way the โGlobal War on Terrorโ (GWOT) ends, over and over again: not with a bang, but a whimper.
Two Hellfire R9-X missiles launched from a MQ9 Reaper drone on the balcony of a house in Kabul. The target was Ayman Al-Zawahiri with a $25 million bounty on his head. The once invisible leader of โhistoricโ Al-Qaeda since 2011, is finally terminated.
All of us who spent years of our lives, especially throughout the 2000s, writing about and tracking Al-Zawahiri know how US โintelโ played every trick in the book โ and outside the book โ to find him. Well, he never exposed himself on the balcony of a house, much less in Kabul.
Another disposable asset
Why now? Simple. Not useful anymore โ and way past his expiration date. His fate was sealed as a tawdry foreign policy โvictoryโ โ the remixed Obama โOsama bin Laden momentโ that wonโt even register across most of the Global South. After all, a perception reigns that George W. Bushโs GWOT has long metastasized into the โrules-based,โ actually โeconomic sanctions-basedโ international order.
Cue to 48 hours later, when hundreds of thousands across the west were glued to the screen of flighradar24.com (until the website was hacked), tracking โSPAR19โ โ the US Air Force jet carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi โ as it slowly crossed Kalimantan from east to west, the Celebes Sea, went northward parallel to the eastern Philippines, and then made a sharp swing westwards towards Taiwan, in a spectacular waste of jet fuel to evade the South China Sea.
No โPearl Harbor momentโ
Now compare it with hundreds of millions of Chinese who are not on Twitter but on Weibo, and a leadership in Beijing that is impervious to western-manufactured pre-war, post-modern hysteria.
Anyone who understands Chinese culture knew there would never be a โmissile on a Kabul balconyโ moment over Taiwanese airspace. There would never be a replay of the perennial neocon wet dream: a โPearl Harbor moment.โ Thatโs simply not the Chinese way.
The day after, as the narcissist Speaker, so proud of accomplishing her stunt, was awarded the Order of Auspicious Clouds for her promotion of bilateral US-Taiwan relations, the Chinese Foreign Minister issued a sobering comment: the reunification of Taiwan with the mainland is a historical inevitability.
Thatโs how you focus, strategically, in the long game.
What happens next had already been telegraphed, somewhat hidden in a Global Times report. Here are the two key points:
Point 1: โChina will see it as a provocative action permitted by the Biden administration rather than a personal decision made by Pelosi.โ
Thatโs exactly what President Xi Jinping had personally told the teleprompt-reading White House tenant during a tense phone call last week. And that concerns the ultimate red line.
Xi is now reaching the exact same conclusion reached by Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this year: the United States is โnon-agreement capable,โ and thereโs no point in expecting it to respect diplomacy and/or rule of law in international relations.
Point 2 concerns the consequences, reflecting a consensus among top Chinese analysts that mirrors the consensus at the Politburo: โThe Russia-Ukraine crisis has just let the world see the consequence...
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China sternly warns Biden admin not to arrange Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, PLA 'will not sit idly by'
The Chinese Foreign Ministry and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) are keeping up the pressure on the US over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's potential visit to the island of Taiwan, urging the US to honor US President Joe Biden's promise to not support
โSunakโs Plan to Criminalise โHating Britainโ Is a Throwback to Empire
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The former chancellor wants to refer Britainโs critics to Prevent. Heโs obviously terrified of the truth
By Sita BALANI
In Rishi Sunakโs latest attempt to revive his floundering leadership bid, he has announced that he would widen the definition of extremism to include those with an โextreme hatred of Britainโ.
Anyone expressing anti-nationalist views could be referred to Prevent, the governmentโs anti-radicalisation scheme. Though the government claims participation in the โderadicalisationโ programme is voluntary, when referrals lead to the police banging on your door at dawn or pulling your child out of maths to interrogate them, the governmentโs definition of โvoluntaryโ starts to seem as vague and inconsistent as its definition of โextremismโ.
Thereโs a long history of British governments criminalising dissent. Sedition laws were a cornerstone of the counterinsurgency strategy that Britain used to quell anticolonial rebellions. The Indian Penal Code, drafted by Thomas Macauley, makes displaying โdisaffectionโ towards the government a criminal offence. India, like many other postcolonial nations, kept this repressive law on the books. The Modi government has used it to cement its shift towards a virulent, authoritarian nationalism. Now the postcolonial boomerang is rebounding once again on British shores.
Even an analysis such as this one โ which draws attention to Britainโs colonial legacy, the violent impact of its laws, its resemblance to fascist regimes elsewhere โ could be viewed as โanti-Britishโ. Given that anyone who wants to understand the modern world would need to engage with the history of empire, the making of nation-states, and the political function of racism, itโs difficult to see how any serious intellectual work is possible under these conditions.
When Prevent became statutory in 2015 with the Counter Terrorism and Security Act, it was clear that this marked a serious escalation in criminalisation. Prevent targeted Muslims specifically, but it did so through a profound transformation of the terms of ordinary civic life. Teachers, doctors, social workers, and nurses were expected to monitor their students, patients and clients for signs of โradicalisationโ. In the process, they were conscripted into the stateโs surveillance machinery.
Prevent trainings were rolled out across the crumbling remains of state services, embedded into safeguarding structures to make it harder to boycott or disrupt the programme. As a result, Prevent is now firmly lodged in our institutions. Even if the legislation were repealed (and there appears little chance of that in the near future), a wider transformation would be needed to prise systems of surveillance and punishment out of schools, healthcare, and social work.
Prevent does not work on the basis of intervening in genuine threats โ it relies on prejudice, paranoia, and rumour
Now Sunak wants to extend the reach of Prevent even further. Of course, subjecting everyone who speaks ill of Britain to a โderadicalisationโ programme is entirely unworkable. Social media is awash with people expressing their rage at โrainy fascist islandโ. As Andrew Neilโs recent diatribe in the Daily Mail points out,...
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The former chancellor wants to refer Britainโs critics to Prevent. Heโs obviously terrified of the truth
By Sita BALANI
In Rishi Sunakโs latest attempt to revive his floundering leadership bid, he has announced that he would widen the definition of extremism to include those with an โextreme hatred of Britainโ.
Anyone expressing anti-nationalist views could be referred to Prevent, the governmentโs anti-radicalisation scheme. Though the government claims participation in the โderadicalisationโ programme is voluntary, when referrals lead to the police banging on your door at dawn or pulling your child out of maths to interrogate them, the governmentโs definition of โvoluntaryโ starts to seem as vague and inconsistent as its definition of โextremismโ.
Thereโs a long history of British governments criminalising dissent. Sedition laws were a cornerstone of the counterinsurgency strategy that Britain used to quell anticolonial rebellions. The Indian Penal Code, drafted by Thomas Macauley, makes displaying โdisaffectionโ towards the government a criminal offence. India, like many other postcolonial nations, kept this repressive law on the books. The Modi government has used it to cement its shift towards a virulent, authoritarian nationalism. Now the postcolonial boomerang is rebounding once again on British shores.
Even an analysis such as this one โ which draws attention to Britainโs colonial legacy, the violent impact of its laws, its resemblance to fascist regimes elsewhere โ could be viewed as โanti-Britishโ. Given that anyone who wants to understand the modern world would need to engage with the history of empire, the making of nation-states, and the political function of racism, itโs difficult to see how any serious intellectual work is possible under these conditions.
When Prevent became statutory in 2015 with the Counter Terrorism and Security Act, it was clear that this marked a serious escalation in criminalisation. Prevent targeted Muslims specifically, but it did so through a profound transformation of the terms of ordinary civic life. Teachers, doctors, social workers, and nurses were expected to monitor their students, patients and clients for signs of โradicalisationโ. In the process, they were conscripted into the stateโs surveillance machinery.
Prevent trainings were rolled out across the crumbling remains of state services, embedded into safeguarding structures to make it harder to boycott or disrupt the programme. As a result, Prevent is now firmly lodged in our institutions. Even if the legislation were repealed (and there appears little chance of that in the near future), a wider transformation would be needed to prise systems of surveillance and punishment out of schools, healthcare, and social work.
Prevent does not work on the basis of intervening in genuine threats โ it relies on prejudice, paranoia, and rumour
Now Sunak wants to extend the reach of Prevent even further. Of course, subjecting everyone who speaks ill of Britain to a โderadicalisationโ programme is entirely unworkable. Social media is awash with people expressing their rage at โrainy fascist islandโ. As Andrew Neilโs recent diatribe in the Daily Mail points out,...
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People with โextreme hatred of Britainโ could be deradicalised under Prevent scheme
Rishi Sunak says he plans to widen the definition of extremism to include people who vilify the country
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Several People Injured as Car Drives into New Mexico Parade
Multiple people were injured, including two police officers, when a car drove through the city of Gallupโs Intertribal Ceremonial Centennial Celebration in New Mexico on Thursday.
Videos from the scene show people desperately trying to leap out of the vehicleโs way as it crashes wildly through a red light before furious bystanders surround the suspects as cops drag them out of the vehicle, slam them to the ground before detaining them.
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Several People Injured as Car Drives into New Mexico Parade
Multiple people were injured, including two police officers, when a car drove through the city of Gallupโs Intertribal Ceremonial Centennial Celebration in New Mexico on Thursday.
Videos from the scene show people desperately trying to leap out of the vehicleโs way as it crashes wildly through a red light before furious bystanders surround the suspects as cops drag them out of the vehicle, slam them to the ground before detaining them.
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United States calls China's decision to cut off climate talks 'fundamentally irresponsible'
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Condemning China's decision to halt cooperation in a number of critical areas over Taiwan, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby called
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Condemning China's decision to halt cooperation in a number of critical areas over Taiwan, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby called
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โReยญstraint and comยญmon senseโ: Reยญacยญtion to Isยญraelโs Gaza atยญtack
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Globยญal calls for de-esยญcaยญlaยญtion afยญter Isยญrael launchยญes deadยญly air raids on Palesยญtiniยญans in the beยญsieged Gaza Strip.
Published On 5 Aug 2022
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Globยญal calls for de-esยญcaยญlaยญtion afยญter Isยญrael launchยญes deadยญly air raids on Palesยญtiniยญans in the beยญsieged Gaza Strip.
Published On 5 Aug 2022
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US readยญies $1bn weapons packยญage for Ukraine: Reยญport
Packยญage, which could be conยญfirmed on Monยญday, is exยญpectยญed to inยญclude more amยญmuยญniยญtion and arยญmoured medยญical veยญhiยญcles.
Published On 6 Aug 2022
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US readยญies $1bn weapons packยญage for Ukraine: Reยญport
Packยญage, which could be conยญfirmed on Monยญday, is exยญpectยญed to inยญclude more amยญmuยญniยญtion and arยญmoured medยญical veยญhiยญcles.
Published On 6 Aug 2022
Gabriel Martinelli on target as Arsenal make winning start at Crystal Palace
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A Marc Guehi own goal doubled Arsenalโs lead in the second half.
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A Marc Guehi own goal doubled Arsenalโs lead in the second half.
Man (40s) in critical condition following Arklow assault
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A man, aged in his 40s, is in critical condition in hospital following an assault in Arklow, Co Wicklow, on Tuesday morning.
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A man, aged in his 40s, is in critical condition in hospital following an assault in Arklow, Co Wicklow, on Tuesday morning.
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Brittney Griner given nine years in prison in Russia on drugs charges
Khimki court in Moscow Region sentenced US basketball player Brittney Griner to nine years in a penal colony and a million-rouble fine in a drug-smuggling case, on Thursday.
Griner was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport in February after finding vapes containing cannabis oil in her luggage.
The case was prosecuted under Article 229.1.2 (b) of the Russian Criminal Code ('Smuggling of narcotic drugs on a large scale'), Greiner was taken into custody.
On Friday, July 29, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken discussed in a telephone conversation a possible exchange of detained Russian and US citizens.
Brittney Griner given nine years in prison in Russia on drugs charges
Khimki court in Moscow Region sentenced US basketball player Brittney Griner to nine years in a penal colony and a million-rouble fine in a drug-smuggling case, on Thursday.
Griner was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport in February after finding vapes containing cannabis oil in her luggage.
The case was prosecuted under Article 229.1.2 (b) of the Russian Criminal Code ('Smuggling of narcotic drugs on a large scale'), Greiner was taken into custody.
On Friday, July 29, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken discussed in a telephone conversation a possible exchange of detained Russian and US citizens.
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Twitter Accuses Elon Musk of Lying
Twitter has accused Elon Musk of lying in a counterclaim he recently filed against the company. Muskโs claim โ that โa mere fractionโ of Twitterโs users are genuine โ was โimagined in an effort to escape a merger agreement,โ the social media company said on Thursday.
Musk announced in early July that he would no longer follow through with his offer in April to purchase the company for around $44 billion at $54.20 per share.
Twitter sued Musk after the announcement, arguing that his claims โ that Twitter is less profitable than he was told due to the prevalence of fake accounts โ should not hinder the deal he agreed to, and Musk countersued last week.
Musk attempted to withdraw from the Twitter deal after learning โtroubling factsโ regarding the companyโs โdouble-countingโ of certain users.
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Twitter Accuses Elon Musk of Lying
Twitter has accused Elon Musk of lying in a counterclaim he recently filed against the company. Muskโs claim โ that โa mere fractionโ of Twitterโs users are genuine โ was โimagined in an effort to escape a merger agreement,โ the social media company said on Thursday.
Musk announced in early July that he would no longer follow through with his offer in April to purchase the company for around $44 billion at $54.20 per share.
Twitter sued Musk after the announcement, arguing that his claims โ that Twitter is less profitable than he was told due to the prevalence of fake accounts โ should not hinder the deal he agreed to, and Musk countersued last week.
Musk attempted to withdraw from the Twitter deal after learning โtroubling factsโ regarding the companyโs โdouble-countingโ of certain users.
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Israel calls Pentagon over Gaza strikes
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The defense chiefs of Israel and the US discussed the ongoing offensive in Gaza
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz held a phone conversation with his American counterpart Lloyd Austin on Friday night to update him on the objectives and progress of the ongoing military offensive in the Gaza strip, dubbed โOperation Breaking Dawn.โ While the IDF claims it took out senior terrorists, Palestinian officials say dozens of civilians were killed or injured....
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The defense chiefs of Israel and the US discussed the ongoing offensive in Gaza
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz held a phone conversation with his American counterpart Lloyd Austin on Friday night to update him on the objectives and progress of the ongoing military offensive in the Gaza strip, dubbed โOperation Breaking Dawn.โ While the IDF claims it took out senior terrorists, Palestinian officials say dozens of civilians were killed or injured....
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Chinese missiles fly over Taiwan; fighter jets cross 'median line'
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As China halted cooperation with the United States over key issues including climate change overร US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, C
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Turkey fumes over Israeli airstrikes
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Ankara said civilian deaths are โunacceptableโ after an Israeli air raid targeted an apartment complex in Gaza
Turkey has condemned Israeli military operations in the Gaza strip, urging for deescalation amid an exchange of IDF airstrikes and rocket fire from Palestinian militants. Washington, meanwhile, has voiced full support for the Jewish State.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry said it โstronglyโ condemned the Israeli airstrikes on Friday, calling for โrestraint and common senseโ while stressing the need โto immediately end these events before they turn into a new conflict.โ...
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Ankara said civilian deaths are โunacceptableโ after an Israeli air raid targeted an apartment complex in Gaza
Turkey has condemned Israeli military operations in the Gaza strip, urging for deescalation amid an exchange of IDF airstrikes and rocket fire from Palestinian militants. Washington, meanwhile, has voiced full support for the Jewish State.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry said it โstronglyโ condemned the Israeli airstrikes on Friday, calling for โrestraint and common senseโ while stressing the need โto immediately end these events before they turn into a new conflict.โ...
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US prepares new weapons package for Ukraine โ Reuters
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The White House is set for a massive shipment of heavy and long-range arms to Kiev, Reuters reports
The US government is reportedly preparing its largest weapons transfer to Ukraine to date, with officials ready to authorize another $1 billion in military aid, including advanced rocket and missile platforms and additional ammunition.
The new aid package could be announced as soon as next week, Reuters reported on Friday, citing three unnamed officials. It would bring total US security assistance to Kiev to nearly $10 billion since Russia sent troops into Ukraine on February 24.
While the official...
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The White House is set for a massive shipment of heavy and long-range arms to Kiev, Reuters reports
The US government is reportedly preparing its largest weapons transfer to Ukraine to date, with officials ready to authorize another $1 billion in military aid, including advanced rocket and missile platforms and additional ammunition.
The new aid package could be announced as soon as next week, Reuters reported on Friday, citing three unnamed officials. It would bring total US security assistance to Kiev to nearly $10 billion since Russia sent troops into Ukraine on February 24.
While the official...
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Bill Gates Admits COVID Is an Illness of the Elderly and Vaccines Don't Block Transmission
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"I received a phone call that my friend for 40 years had died of a heart attack. As a condition of his employment he was required to take the vax. I'm too grief stricken for words.
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Bill Gates Admits COVID Is an Illness of the Elderly and Vaccines Don't Block Transmission
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"I received a phone call that my friend for 40 years had died of a heart attack. As a condition of his employment he was required to take the vax. I'm too grief stricken for words.
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