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Well, I hope that Obama at least has the decency not to pursue TTIP anymore.

Incredible. White (working) man's revenge. It's hour zero for a lot of things. Hillary still has chances, though she has to win Wisconsin, or something unlikely like Iowa and Arizona or even Alaska. She still has several ways to win so the accumulative probability of a win is not bad. Her problem though is that each of the several specific probabilities is low. But even if she wins, it's an amplified Brexit. Globalization has lead to something close to a revolt. Also, Trump basically did this alone. Tacit Party support. No "ground game", no newspaper endorsements. And he'll have the whole government under his control. We are going to live in interesting times. Also, Clinton ran an Obama campaign without Obama's strengths.

I think that "alternative" was the umbrella term for all the white music that didn't fit into the happy, shallow, pro-capitalism sentiment that came with Thatcher/Reagan. The term came up in the early 80s with Bands like REM. Even in the 90's, there was no shortage of mainstream white rock'n'roll bands, like Bon Jovi or Aerosmith, basically the last wave of 80's hair metal. Something happened to music around 1980, it became almost impossible for an artist to be both successful and subversive. You either had to be Phil Collins OR Peter Gabriel. You could not be both. A similar example: David Bowie and the Let's Dance Album.

I've also been thinking of hosting/maintaining a deadpool. I would have done it this year already if it had not been as busy as it was. I hope my move will be completed by the end of the month, so that I can be available in the new year if anyone feels like sharing the duties.

Good luck in your future endeavours, including the DDP! Personally, I am currently too interested in all cultural things to stop deadpooling. Deadpooling is basically a welcome side-effect of trying to keep up with the general progress/regress/history of mankind. I think if I was too narrowly focused on death alone, I would stop. But as long as I can keep death within the greater context of life, I feel fine with it.

Sharbat Gulla, a.k.a. the Afghan woman with the penetrating eyes on the cover of National Geographic, hospitalised for unknown reasons: http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/national-geographic-s-afghan-girl-hospitalised-in-pakistan/story-Xu2DCbyNk2mmRoaH0817PI.html

I'm about to move, intra-Berlin, I'll probably be off the grid for a few weeks. Let's see if research on mobile phone can be as effective as on a 'real' computer.

The Bush vs. Kerry election was basically the Republicans drawing a line in the sand, saying: "this is us, and that is you". Yes, they won that election, but they also intensified the degree of polarization so much, that there are now two almost completely separated camps, and unfortunately for them, the republican camp is getting steadily smaller.

Oh no! My first thought was: Now this week's Last Word has got their big name. My second thought: something something crazy killer clowns...

Some news on the war between the Mexican government and the Sinaloa Cartel: http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/key-cartel-operators-killed-in-culiacan/ José Carlos López Alanís, also known as "El Cali" dies in a shoot-out. He was their chief hitman. Also dead, René Velázquez, also known as "El Phoenix" and "El Talibán", the right hand of mysterious leader Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.

That was quick! Such an obvious sign that the "scrambling season" has begun with November.

"Already doing better" is a euphemism for "feeling good, but will snuff it anyways" Could be, yes, it's only second-hand knowledge, not first-hand.

Indian arcitect MN Sharma is dead at 93: http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/mn-sharma-first-chief-architect-of-chandigarh-dies-at-93/ He worked with Le Corbusier and was India's first architect for a while. He was ill for a long time, and though I could imagine he'll still get a Telegraph obit, I put him in Hare's Deadpool instead.

MN Sharma a hit for me: http://www.hindustantimes.com/punjab/mn-sharma-chandigarh-s-first-chief-architect-passes-away/story-78uc78JEgkbWPP1gxlowTJ.html

Formale E team chief and NextEV boss Martin Leach dead at 59: http://www.motorsport.com/formula-e/news/nextev-boss-martin-leach-passes-away-after-battle-with-cancer-845955/

Also dead, the mothers of Faith Hill and Frank Bruno: http://tasteofcountry.com/faith-hill-mother-dead-dies/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3893776/Boxing-world-rallies-Frank-Bruno-announces-beloved-mother-Lynette-died-age-86.html

Kim Yong_Ju was born 1920. Ah sorry, an error then. Next on the list is Brunhilde Pomsel.

Let's see, my Excel file says this: Huston Smith Zsa Zsa Gabor Billy Graham June Foray Herman Wouk Shep Houghton Michael Karkoc Brunhilde Pomsel Lord Carrington Carl Shapiro Good luck!

In spite of the rumours, she's doing ok, source: her long-time hairdresser: http://www.allmediany.com/articles/47664-barbara-walters-longtime-hairdresser-denies-she-is-in-declining-health

Former Massachusetts Speaker of the House Salvatore Di Masi on his way out: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/herald_bulldog/2016/10/hearing_tomorrow_on_dimasis_appeal_to_be_let_out_of Same fame level as Thomas Libous, who failed to obit for the DDP, so it's a gamble. (He's on OoO's farewell list, by the way.)

The "father of computing in Canada", Calvin Gottlieb, dead at 95: http://thevarsity.ca/2016/10/30/father-of-canadian-computing-passes-away/

I can't wait to divulge my inside knowledge that I, very coincidentally, received, about a celebrity with cancer, who is going to be picked by a couple of expert deadpoolers, but who, as I know, is already doing better.

Looking at Wikipedia's list of all-time oldest people, it seems like there was a lot of them in the 1990s (especially during the end, with 3 out of the current top 5 dying between 1997 and 1999), and now there's again a surge. I wonder why there seems to be less of them in the 2000s. My guess would be the group who were aged 110+ in the late 1990s were too old to have fought in WW1; the group who are 110+ now are too young to have fought in WW1. Hence why there were fewer 110+ in the 2000s - they were the WW1 generation. That might explain the men, not sure about the women. The Spanish Flu??

She deserves her own thread anyway.

Gospel "Legend" Carman Licciardello might be one to watch: http://www.christianpost.com/news/gospel-legend-carman-shares-miracle-of-healing-with-others-battling-cancer-170929/ He says he beat the incurable cancer he had three years ago. Since his recovery he had multiple heart attacks. No idea if he can obit though. He has a wikipedia article as "Carman".