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I feel as though this doesn't do the man justice. Norman Mineta was the Commerce Sec. briefly during the end of President Clinton's second term. That made him the first Asian American to hold a cabinet post. Later George Bush appointed him as Transportation Secretary to show a sign of bipartisanship after the 2000 election fiasco. Mineta was very important during 9/11 as he gave the order for all air craft in the continental U.S to be grounded once the second plane hit the World Trade Center. He was also responsible for creating the TSA. Mineta was previously the Mayor of San Jose, a very impactful person in the U.S House for 20 years, and lived through the internment camps of WW2. This doesn't cover all of his life, as it was a large and diverse one. I would strongly recommend that those with free time read up on him. A very unique and impactful American, if not a unheralded one. Deserved more than one sentence...

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That, there, is laced with untruth, which is why your views, or rather the ones of the sources you read this from, (because this is not direct from Pfizer, and all other “information” you have posted thus far has at best been cherry-picked and misinterpreted, at worst complete fabrication) are the opposite of the opposite of dangerous. Keep it off this site. You will not change any minds, nor should you seek to.

Former President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Josip Tito died on this day 42 years ago, aged 87. American actor and comedian Moe Howard died on this day 47 years ago, aged 77. American football defensive back and coach who served as a head coach in the National Football League from 1963 to 1995 Don Shula died on this day 2 years ago, aged 90. English actress and singer Diana Dors died on this day 38 years ago, aged 52.

I remember being very surprised a few years ago to discover he was still alive. Incredibly, with his loss, that means the earliest surviving World Championship Grand Prix winner is Sir Jackie Stewart by my reckoning (1965 Italian Grand Prix). His wins there in 1965 and at Monaco in 1966 are the only pre-1968 races for which the winner still survives. Jacky Ickx is the only other World Championship race winner from the 1960s still alive. You can add in Emerson Fittipaldi and Mario Andretti and get to 1973. There's a few more from the mid 70s (Scheckter, Mass, Watson) but they're few and far between. So many deaths, not just in F1 but from racing in general. There will be non-championship race winners and, of course, F1 race competitors who didn't win still going from earlier, but Brooks is definitely the end of an era.

Two hits in one week after Régine then

Comical Ali/Baghdad Bob dead again according to multiple Twitter, facebook accounts and Channel 24 Saudi. However it has already been denied by state-affiliated (Iran) media as well as Baath politicians Seems like he has more than nine lives.

Three pre-Lukashenko Heads of State living. Slyunkov mentioned above, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov who was the acting head of state for two days in January 1994 and Myechyslaw Hryb. Slyunkov was still in decent condition in 2019, I know nothing about Kuznetsov who is young compared to the others (74). Hryb seems to be active in politics and according to his Russian wikipedia page took part in the protests in 2020.

While unverified on Twitter, the source is a highly reputable Belarussian journalist in exile. Stanislau Shushkevich dead.

Adam "MCA" Yauch died on this day 10 years ago, aged 47. Now here's a little story I've got to tell, about three bad brothers you know so well. It started way back in history- specifically 1981. Yauch, alongside fellow members of his band The Young Aborigines, changed their band name to "Beastie Boys" after the departure of their bassist, Jeremy Shatan. Guitarist John Berry left soon after, then drummer Kate Schellenbach in 1984, leaving just three members: Yauch, Mike D(iamond), and Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz. Their debut album, Licensed to Ill, was released in 1986, becoming the first rap album to top the Billboard Hot 200 Albums chart, and "Fight For Your Right" reaching number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 1998, under the pseudonym "Nathanael Hornblower", Yauch directed the music video for their single "Intergalactic", basing it on Japanese kaiju movies such as Godzilla. The song reached number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100, and it earned them a Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group the following year. The album it was featured on, Hello Nasty, gave them a second Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album. Yauch was diagnosed with cancer of the parotid salivary gland in 2009, and died from the disease three years later. Beastie Boys effectively disbanded after this.

Pia Zadora is 68. Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans might know her best as Girmar from Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, a Z-movie she starred in when she was 10 years old:

Former conservative cabinet minister Caroline Spelman , who served as the secretary of state for environment food and rural affairs between 2010-2012 under David Camerons coalition government with the Liberal Democrats, turns 64 today. Australian model and former Miss World 1972 Belinda Green celebrates her 70th birthday today.

Death Notice for Beryl Patricia Arlott (nee Hoare), widow of John Arlott, aged 92: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/257004/arlott For reference, John Arlott died in December 1991.

On this day in 1958 english cricketer Frank Foster died aged 69. He played for both Warwickshire and the national England team and was considered an exemplary all rounder. Despite his career in cricket being cut short due to an accident in world war 1 his achievements before before the 1910s mean he still ranks as one of crickets highly regarded all rounders.

Thought it was always after the long summer recess? You live and learn.

Another update on Steve McMichael, including a fresh and grim picture: https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2022/5/2/23054419/our-man-says-steve-mcmichael-belongs-in-hall-of-fame-telander-mongo-misty-mcmahon-singletary-long A question of days, or, at most, weeks. Edit: Interestingly, he still seems able to talk, though just barely. But his bodily functions have declined dramatically. A very uneven progression of the disease, which is a big contrast to, say, Ady Barkan.

Must be some sort of record for someone living with Stage IV pancreatic cancer.... .

I think it’s remarkable how well she’s doing; Crem read her last rites ages ago now.

Leader of al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden was finally killed on this day 11 years ago, aged 54. Below is a list of some of the things found on a computer (possibly his) found at the compound he hid at for nearly 10 years: - a biography about himself and the documentary Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? - National Geographic videos - The "Charlie Bit My Finger" viral video - a video on how to crochet a flower - animated films such as Cars, Antz, and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs - Tom and Jerry and Wallace and Gromit cartoons - video games such as Final Fantasy VII, Animal Crossing, and Counter-Strike (the latter is an online game- people may have played on the "terrorist" team WITH A REAL-WORLD TERRORIST) - A large collection of porn

A healthy 96-year-old reaching 100 is never guaranteed, but she's still very active and looks great in that picture posted a few days ago: I would say that there is currently no need to worry about her health.

@the_engineer I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; you’re in better company shouting to the ether with Deathers, the angry friendless virgin and their deeply, deeply unsavoury friend, so how about saving all this Covid conspiracy nonsense for them? We all have our opinions and that’s fine, and it’s good to share them, right up until the point you’re at where you share a load of spiel for the purpose of creating the conflict you accuse everyone else of creating. When other people (myself included) share stuff and offer views on, say, politics, it’s fine, as it gets the likes/laughs/agreements/respectful (for the most part) disagreements. When you share the dangerous beliefs you do and it’s clear that they won’t be well-received, enlightening, entertaining, interesting or create any positive reaction whatsoever, you and only you are the problem. If you genuinely believe the vast majority of us are ignorant because we shut your shit down, that’s also fine, just leave us with our ‘ignorance‘ and either contribute to the forum in other ways or simply fuck clean off.

Das Boot inspiration, U-boat senior engineer Friedrich Grade is still alive at 106. A small list of 20 perennial coffinteases, people who logically shouldn't be alive, those who are frail and old as hell - I've put them to "duel" about which one will live longer as not a lot of them have died during the last month. The idea is blatantly stolen, drol did something similar in Nov 2018. Only Violeta Chamorro is alive from the 16 names mentioned in that post. 1. Violeta Chamorro (1929) vs. Francisco Morales-Bermúdez (1921-2022) Winner: Foreverdying Violeta Chamorro! 2. Khamtai Siphandone (1924) vs. Jiang Zemin (1926-2022) Winner: corpselike Siphandone! 3. Fauja Singh (Probably ca. 1928) vs. Saalumarada Thimmakka (Probably ca. 1928/1929) 4. Kane Tanaka (1902/1903-2022) vs. Juan Vicente Pérez Mora (1909-2024) Winner: Juan Vicente Pérez Mora! 5. V. S. Achuthanandan (1923) vs. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (1944) 6. Sidney Cooke (1927) vs. Peter Tobin (1946-2022) Winner: Sidney Cooke, may he also die soon. 7. Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022) vs. Nikolai Ryzhkov (1929) Winner: Nikolai Ryzhkov. 8. Wan Haifeng (1920-2023) vs. David Musuguri (1920) Winner: Good guy Musuguri! 9. Agnes Keleti (1921) vs. Siiri Rantanen (1924-2023) Winner: Keleti 10. Leslie Phillips (1924-2022) vs. Bob Barker (1923-2023) Winner: Barker 11. Wang Huo (1924) vs. Ma Shitu (1915-2024) Winner: Wang Huo 12. Tin Oo (1927) vs. Jimmy Carter (1924) 13. Boris Pahor (1913-2022) vs. Kazimierz Klimczak (1914-2023) Winner: Klimczak! 14. Leonid Kravchuk (1934-2022) vs. Vytautas Landsbergis (1932) Winner: Vytautas Landsbergis, once in a while hospitalised due to pneumonia. I tried to make them as balanced as possible, all of them very likely to go this year, except maybe Keleti and Rantanen.

Spanish tenor Bernabé Martí, the widower of Montserrat Caballe, has died. He was 93. https://slippedisc.com/2022/03/the-widower-of-montserrat-caballe-has-died/

Telegraph obit for Lady Grade, the widow of Lew Grade (wiki), who has died aged 100. Before her marriage, she was a singer in Britain, known as Kathy Moody or "the Singing Starlet".

Ginny Mancini, widow of Henry and a former singer herself, has died aged 97. She was also a noted philanthropist.