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Went for Greenspan again. Considering we've had an inflationary event and Greenspan was not on TV to express his opinions makes me believe that his time is almost over. Could also be a few months left though, but definitely not years.

Lukoil's boss Ravil Maganov, one of Russia's biggest oil men, falls out of a hospital window: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62750584 I think Russia needs to do something about their window safety.

Do I win?

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Johnny Ruffo vows to be alive for Christmas: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11162463/Home-Away-star-Johnny-Ruffo-vows-alive-emotional-Christmas-milestone.html Seems there is some uncertainty?

Went for Greenspan. Suspiciously absent from the media.

I hadnt picked neither Olivia, nor Weiskopf, nor Gorbachev, update pleeease!

Do they still have Pizza Hut in Russia?

But now Jared Kushner had a second thyroid surgery: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/kushner-has-second-thyroid-surgery-full-recovery-expected-2022-08-30/

And the Metro, i.e. would have scored in the DDP. Quite unbelievable, but then she was very young, and it was likely suicide.

Definitely thread-worthy

Everyone's favourite chinese blogger Mint Sauce Small Q died around August 13th according to this chinese post: https://www.163.com/dy/article/HFK5P2VH0552UYUP.html No UK obits after all...

Florida governor Ron DeSantis had to pull out of a fundraiser because of an "unforeseen tragedy": https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11156741/Ron-DeSantis-forced-pull-25-0000-head-fundraiser-Lee-Zeldin.html One theory: the breast cancer of his wife Casey might be back.

Johnny Ruffo update: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11156575/Johnny-Ruffo-fears-girlfriend-Tahnee-Sims-react-death.html He wonders how his girlfriend would react to his death... Lots of updates currently because he has a documentary airing right now. He has exceeded the life expectancy of people with his tumour by 2 years now. It was three years initially... so he does not have glioblastoma, it seems, but it's still terminal.

Fresh post from today, seems to have overcome the difficulties, for now:

Tried to see him a couple of days ago. But I wasn't invited.

For some reason, I watched this Davos interview from May this year just a bit ago: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/05/kissinger-these-are-the-main-geopolitical-challenges-facing-the-world-right-now/ He seemed to be rather slow there at some point. I hadnt realized how much he has aged.

Posting because I'm in Italy right now, Nicola Materazzi, italian engineer behind a couple of notable Ferraris, dead at 83: https://www.corriere.it/sport/22_agosto_24/nicola-materazzi-morto-padre-ferrari-f40-63af1ae0-2399-11ed-bc33-6b7ab9027ef6.shtml

I'm getting Roger Ebert vibes here.

Carl Kabat is a hit for me with the New York Times obit. Tim Page is a hit for me with the Guardian obit.

Barre Seid, Chicago billionaire who has just made the biggest political donation ever, 1,6 Billion Dollars to the Federalist Society. Barre Seid is 95 years old: https://www.propublica.org/article/dark-money-leonard-leo-barre-seid

Behind the EU information wall, but too good not to share, Clayton Jacobson, inventor of the Jet Ski, has died at 88: https://www.havasunews.com/free_access/jet-ski-inventor-clayton-jacobson-dies-at-88/article_07ba53c4-225b-11ed-9cd5-1b903d5d77d6.html

Just seen on twitter, David Miranda, Brazilian politician has been in critical condition because of an infection for some days now: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Miranda_(politician) He's also the husband of Glenn Greenwald, the Edward Snowden-covering journalist and former George Bush critic.

Idiosyncratic player John Wockenfuss has died at 73: https://eu.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2022/08/21/detroit-tigers-john-wockenfuss-dies-willie-hernandez/7860529001/ Was a DDP pick in the past, probably also this year. (on mobile, no photo here...)

Considering the initial positive developments in Weiskopf's health early in the year, this not necessarily obvious turn of events swings things around - hard to see now an alternative path to winning the DDP now for anyone else.