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Former mayor of Montreal Jean Doré has died at 70 from pancreatic cancer. http://tvanouvelles.ca/lcn/infos/regional/montreal/archives/2015/06/20150615-150610.html

1. Dammitall I had him short listed as my joker for next year I knew he'd not make it.

2. Merci pour la Obit Francais. I mean, I get it. But c'mon.

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just got in before you !

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just got in before you !

Yep you did, he he! I was too busy checking the DDP.

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theres a rumour on twitter that BBC political editor Nick Robinson has died of cancer. Anyone else hearing anything?

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theres a rumour on twitter that BBC political editor Nick Robinson has died of cancer. Anyone else hearing anything?

Looking at Nick's twitter feed, he was at the theatre a few hours ago, and not the hospital theatre. So I'm guessing he's alive.

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BJP MLA and former Madhya Pradesh minister Tukojirao Puar passed away today at a private hospital where he was undergoing treatment. He was 51.

He was a descendant of erstwhile Puar dynasty of Marathas that ruled Dewas state.

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http://www.outlookindia.com/news/article/mp-former-bjp-mla-tukojirao-paur-dead/902769

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Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, one of the most powerful men during the last months of communist East Germany has died at 82:

 

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/alexander-schalck-golodkowski-ist-tot-a-1040014.html(link in german)

 

The East Germany theme team didn't have him.

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The MP for Bristol West, Thangam Debonnaire has been diagnosed with breast cancer.

 

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Bristol-West-MP-Thangam-Debbonaire-diagnosed/story-26743106-detail/story.html

 

She's expected to make a full recovery, but I still bet many By-Election Bingo players will regret sending their teams in so early.

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Former mayor of Montreal Jean Doré has died at 70 from pancreatic cancer. http://tvanouvelles.ca/lcn/infos/regional/montreal/archives/2015/06/20150615-150610.html

 

Hoping some Obits start to pop up outside of Canada soon.

 

Possible Obit for DDP, but not sure: https://uk.screen.ya...-230239204.html

 

 

Yes....just!

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he was the 4th oldest member of the US congress. why don't we start a sweepstake on when the top 3 will go? also when the oldest cabinet members etc will die?

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what do you guys think the odds of Yanis Varoufakis and Alexis Tsipras being killed ? Either in terrible plane crash or by 'far right terrorists :rolleyes: ' wink wink . We saw how the EU used the Far right to overthrow an anti EU democratically elected Ukrainian Leader , now that they aren't playing ball with the EU and want to leave the euro will we something similar or worse?

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what do you guys think the odds of Yanis Varoufakis and Alexis Tsipras being killed ? Either in terrible plane crash or by 'far right terrorists :rolleyes: ' wink wink . We saw how the EU used the Far right to overthrow an anti EU democratically elected Ukrainian Leader , now that they aren't playing ball with the EU and want to leave the euro will we something similar or worse?

 

Well, I have Tsipras in my team as a possible unique hit, for exactly that reason. Either someone from the outside might do "an Allende" or maybe an angry Greek does it. I successfully guessed that Syriza would win the elections so the first step has already been made. But I'm a little annoyed that Varoufakis has drawn a lot of the attention away from Tsipras onto himself. Now that Syriza is more than a one-man show, you cannot collapse the movement by simply killing one of them.

Edit: I should add that I wouldn't pick him again. When I picked him, I was a victim of the "plausability fallacy", i.e. I thought it was more likely to happen than it actually is, simply because I could make up a fitting story. (I have this theory from Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow".) But actually, political assassinations are very, very unlikely.

 

Edit: Looks like step two is happening right now, the Grexit.

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