Political Frailty

[Sir Creep 7,070]

9 minutes ago, Tower1 said:

There have never been so many 97+ year old former heads of state alive. One of them will probably die soon.

 

Tower1, with two posts to your name, I can say that no less than half of your overall posts are 1) master of the obvious and 2) unnecessary.
This puts you in lofty territory with Roey Juss.
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[Sir Creep 7,070]

Deal or No Deal?

Georgia's First Lady Sandra Deal  has announced that she was diagnosed with Stage I breast cancer.  In a statement released today, Deal said that she has successfully undergone a surgery to remove a tumor, which had been detected during her annual mammogram.   "Since I caught it in its early stages, I am confident that the chemotherapy will year successful results," Deal said.
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[Bibliogryphon 9,586]

Former conservative environment minister (and all round shit) Owen Paterson breaks his back in riding accident.

 

I do hope the horse is OK

[msc 18,476]

I bet it was badgers that done it.

[Redrumours 861]

3 hours ago, Bibliogryphon said:

Former conservative environment minister (and all round shit) Owen Paterson breaks his back in riding accident.

 

I do hope the horse is OK

HEAR! HEAR!

[msc 18,476]

On 11/8/2017 at 10:55, msc said:

 

Stabber Watson has killed his last burglar.

 

Labour have lost the by-election to replace Stabber Watson to the Lib Dems. Council by-elections are usually decided on highly parochial things and this one appears to have been decided on how shit the previous Labour man, Stabber, was! Oops.

 

It's a local, don't put too much into it. Just a wee aside.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

The Maldives government has declared a state of emergency for 15 days amid a political crisis in the island nation.

The state of emergency gives security officials in the Indian Ocean state extra powers of arrest, reports say.

The government has already suspended parliament and ordered the army to resist any moves by the Supreme Court to impeach President Abdulla Yameen.

Security forces have entered the Supreme Court and Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, the ex-president, has been arrested.
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[Sir Creep 7,070]

Pretty big name in Michigan politics, though not Milliken or Conyers or Dingell, all of whom are DDP worthy.

Former Michigan Congressman Joe Knollenberg has died at the age of 84, a family member has confirmed to FOX 2. 

The family member says Joe died from complications from Alzheimer's disease, and that he had been in a memory care facility in Troy for the last two and a half years.
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4 minutes ago, Sir Creep said:

Pretty big name in Michigan politics, though not Milliken or Conyers or Dingell, all of whom are DDP worthy.

Former Michigan Congressman Joe Knollenberg has died at the age of 84, a family member has confirmed to FOX 2. 

The family member says Joe died from complications from Alzheimer's disease, and that he had been in a memory care facility in Troy for the last two and a half years.
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Dingell will make it to 100.

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Nancy Pelosi delivers 8 hour record breaking immigration speech on the house in stilettos, with no bathroom or food breaks. Keep in mind: She's 77

Certainly stronger than 1/2 of the people my age. Pelosi will still be lingering in 15 years I see.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

On 6/22/2015 at 17:19, Sir Creep said:

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has advanced cancer of the lymph nodes. 2016 possibility obviously.

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/22/larry-hogan-has-cancer-lymph-nodes/

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, who says he remains in remission from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma , announced Thursday he has been diagnosed with "very non-serious skin cancer ."

Hogan had some skin removed last month from his forehead as part of regular trips he makes to the dermatologist. The governor said it turned out to be basal-cell and squamous-cell skin cancer, but not melanoma, which is a serious form of skin cancer.

Yeah yeah....cancer isn't serious.  Until it is.

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[gcreptile 10,972]

On 24.8.2015 at 17:20, gcreptile said:

Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky is somewhere in this thread and here is an update:

 

http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/aug/24/soviet-dissident-sues-crown-prosecution-service-alleging-libel

 

He sues the crown prosecution service for libel (child pornography). He returned to his home last week after spending four months in a german hospital after major heart surgery. He's also a prominent opponent of Vladimir Putin, having run against him in 2008 and being involved in the Litvinenko trial.

Child porn trial delayed due to ill health:

 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccann-cops-ask-home-12014125

[charon 4,943]

On 06/18/2016 at 05:57, charon said:

She left uni and went straight to a charadee gig, then politics. So she never had worked a day in her puff.

There shouldn't have been financial hardship as hubby was a freeloading advisor to Brown, and would've salted enough away (nice houseboat in London , coff).

2 weans under 5, so if they were feeling the pinch, she could've got a job in the evening down the local, ergo she became a politico for greed.

 

But you should blame the electorate for voting folk like that in.

 

 

It took only 18 months, but by fuck, I got the cut o' the jib of that family 'spot' fucking on...

 

 

Bet the weans never work a day in their Lives either.

[charon 4,943]

Lolol looking for that post I came across this, that I'd entirely forgetting about

 

 

 

I condemn this outrageous assassination in the strongest possible terms, and express my sympathy for Jo’s widower Brendan and their two young children, who are bound to be distraught. Sympathy for Brendan and the children however must not prevent serious analysis of this assassination. If we do not analyse it correctly, then poor Jo will have died in vain and other MPs may well pay the price in future.   

MPs may be shocked and confused, but with respect they shouldn’t be. Assassination as a political weapon is associated primarily but not exclusively with German Intelligence, which tried to assassinate Queen Victoria three times and succeeded in assassinating Tsar Alexander II, Mahatma Gandhi and President John F. Kennedy, all the time staying deep, hiding behind political fanatics or so-called ‘lone gunmen’.

The failure to shut down Germany’s re-organised intelligence apparatus in 1945, as revealed in my book Spyhunter (June Press, 2014) condemned the Western World to over six decades of economic and political chaos. In order to get Britain into the EEC the new German agency London operation, GO2 (the inspiration for Ian Fleming’s fictional ‘OO’ section) assassinated Labour Leader Hugh Gaitskell MP in 1963. Gaitskell’s brutal assassination, using a bio-weapon developed by a team led by the German DVD’s Dr Josef Mengele, paved the way for the DVD’s Harold Wilson to take charge of the Labour Party. Wilson, of course, favoured British entry.

When Chancellor Iain Macleod opposed Germany’s entry terms in 1970 he too was murdered, by poison. GO2 went on to assassinate Ross McWhirter, a leading opponent of British membership, in 1975. That assassination was false-flagged via the Provisional IRA, a favoured German tactic, used again with the assassinations of Airey Neave in 1979 and Ian Gow in 1990, in each case in order to undermine Margaret Thatcher.

The next MP to be assassinated by GO2 was Leader of the Opposition John Smith, in 1994, after he told a Bilderberg Group meeting that he no longer supported euro membership. That nice man Jimmy Goldsmith, Leader of the Referendum Party, was assassinated using weaponised pancreatic cancer, in 1997. I met Jimmy not long before he died. I think he knew that he had been murdered.

Weaponised cancer – the Holy Grail of the Abwehr and DVD for many years – was again used in 2010, to assassinate my friend, the courageous investigative journalist Christopher Story FRSA. Christopher confirmed that he had been fatally poisoned in a poignant post on the night before he died.

All of these assassinations can be linked in some way to the EU. Ian Gow’s murder was a precursor to the internal party coup later that year against Margaret Thatcher, whom I also knew.

If the Remain side thought that only the pro-British side were vulnerable to assassination during this referendum campaign they overlooked two vital matters: the assassination of John Smith, who played a key role in organising the Labour rebellion in 1972, without which the ECA72 could never have been passed, and the assassination by the DVD of pro-EU Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh during the 2003 Swedish referendum on the euro.

John Smith’s assassination proved that loyalty counts for nothing so far as the DVD and GO2 are concerned. Anna Lindh’s cynical assassination was designed both to generate sympathy for the pro-euro side and to pin blame on the pro-Krona side.

There are some curious features of this latest assassination. Firstly, there is the mystery eye-witness who heard the accused man, Thomas Mair, shout ‘Britain first’, and the failure of West Yorkshire police to deny the existence of such a witness. It is now perfectly clear that there was no such eye-witness and improbable that Mair shouted the words attributed to him by irresponsible sections of the mainstream media, if that is not a tautology. This was a transparent attempt to smear Britain First, with whom Mair has no known association. Clearly they had nothing whatsoever to do with the assassination and were as shocked as everybody else.

Smearing right-wing organisations in this way is a standard tactic of German Intelligence. It was used effectively in the Oslo shooting, where one of the shooters, Anders Breivik, was portrayed as right-wing, although in fact he had no known affiliation with any right-wing organisation in Norway.

West Yorkshire’s investigation, such as it is, has been compromised from the get-go by the Acting Chief Constable, although in fairness she is probably being forced to work within tramlines set by the Cabinet Office, which in practice controls both the police and the Crown Prosecution Service. Like the equally useless Dallas Police before them, West Yorkshire are obsessing on the lone gunman theory before even a tenth of the evidence is in. It seems that one of the gunmen (Mair may not have fired a shot, of course, or more likely there were multiple shooters, as at Oslo) used a .38 calibre home-made gun, but from where did he acquire the ammunition? You can’t just walk into Argos and ask for a box of .38 Dum-Dum bullets.

There isn’t likely to be a trial. The standard tactic in this sort of case is a plea-bargain, with the defendant pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. It is not unknown for intelligence officers setting up the hit to make offers of cushy treatment. That was a feature of the Yorkshire Moors Murders, set up, again, by GO2.

The only way Parliament is likely to get at the truth is to take control and try Mair for his life at the Bar of Parliament. A State Trial and the death penalty would clearly be appropriate in this case. The assassination of poor Jo Cox was an assault upon our democracy.  

My provisional assessment is that Jo Cox MP was taken out by one or more shooters recruited by GO2 in a reprise of the Lindh Tactic, in the hope of swinging the referendum in favour of Germany and the EU at the last minute.

 

 

http://www.ukipdaily.com/assassination-jo-cox-mp/

 

 

Mental cunt. Need to keep Michael Shrimpton on a list of some sort. His recent piece on Algeria & Greenland leaving the EEC afore the UK is a lovely thing.

 

https://www.ukipdaily.com/notes-article-50/

 

 

 

 

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You can’t just walk into Argos and ask for a box of .38 Dum-Dum bullets

You can get a DVD player in Argos though.   I did just that only last week

[The Dead Cow 620]

On 12/14/2017 at 16:28, Sean said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-42353642 :Plaid Cymru AM Steffan Lewis has stage 4 cancer but needs more tests to determine just how screwed he is.

Steffan Lewis opens up about his stage-four bowel cancer diagnosis.

[Joey Russ 7,228]

So he has one of the more treatable stage four cancers then. Thinking he may last another year or two. Although, I'm not 100% certain he'd get an QO obit if he goes this year. The only coverage he received is from a non QO BBC source...

[msc 18,476]

7 minutes ago, Joey Russ said:

So he has one of the more treatable stage four cancers then. Thinking he may last another year or two. Although, I'm not 100% certain he'd get an QO obit if he goes this year. The only coverage he received is from a non QO BBC source...

One thing to note, Joey. Every single death of a sitting Assembly Member or Scottish Member of Parliament has received a QO from the current QO lot. Usually from the Times or Telegraph. Any sitting MP, Westminster, Holyrood, or Cardiff, will walk a QO.

 

PS Stage IV bowel cancer is treatable when it's treatable but when it isn't... Time yet to tell on this one.

[gcreptile 10,972]

I didn't pick Steffan Lewis because I previously announced that I will not go for the December announcement picks this time. I also think he'll survive the year easily. But next year is a different question.

[Joey Russ 7,228]

Yeah, I think he's more likely to survive the year than not, hence why he's not on my main squad. He definitely is one of the more interesting names I knew about from my research, so because of his fascinating story, he went in my B Team...

[Bibliogryphon 9,586]

1 hour ago, msc said:

One thing to note, Joey. Every single death of a sitting Assembly Member or Scottish Member of Parliament has received a QO from the current QO lot. Usually from the Times or Telegraph. Any sitting MP, Westminster, Holyrood, or Cardiff, will walk a QO.

 

PS Stage IV bowel cancer is treatable when it's treatable but when it isn't... Time yet to tell on this one.

Because the death of a sitting member will cause a by-election it is going to be news worthy no matter how insignificant the individual is.

[gcreptile 10,972]

Interesting name only for Deathlist Cup purposes but I thought this personality deserves a bit more attention - John Howard, mayor of Lancaster, South Carolina.

 

Had a stroke in 2017: http://www.thelancasternews.com/content/mayor-suffered-stroke-–-‘i-dodged-bullet’

Then diagnosed with lung cancer: http://www.thelancasternews.com/content/mayor-howard-begin-cancer-treatment

Then he had an auto-immune reaction to chemo: another link but I'm paywalled now.

Then he had pneunomia: another link but I'm paywalled now.

 

Anyway, now he's recovering....

[Sir Creep 7,070]

On 12/14/2017 at 11:18, CastAway said:

Dan Johnson, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, has died via suicide by gunshot. Two days before his suicide Johnson was accused of molesting his daughter's friend when she was 17, and the Kentucky Republican party had called for his resignation, which he refused to give. 

 

Guardian, CNN, Time, The Sun, BBC 

Just an update: The Democrat (Linda Belcher) who Johnson defeated amid a wave of pro-Trump sentiment just reclaimed her seat in the special election by a 2/3 majority.  This is Kentucky, mind.
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5 hours ago, Sir Creep said:

Just an update: The Democrat (Linda Belcher) who Johnson defeated amid a wave of pro-Trump sentiment just reclaimed her seat in the special election by a 2/3 majority.  This is Kentucky, mind.
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Not to crash the party but Johnson only defeated Belcher by 1% while Trump won by 20+ percent. Not a massive achievement considering she has won this seat before and her opponent is an unapologetic rape apologist.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

On 1/29/2018 at 16:20, Sir Creep said:

Deal or No Deal?

Georgia's First Lady Sandra Deal  has announced that she was diagnosed with Stage I breast cancer.  In a statement released today, Deal said that she has successfully undergone a surgery to remove a tumor, which had been detected during her annual mammogram.   "Since I caught it in its early stages, I am confident that the chemotherapy will year successful results," Deal said.
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 (UPDATE):  After successfully undergoing surgery to remove a tumor, Georgia’s first lady, Sandra Deal, is taking the next step in her journey with breast cancer.

Deal announced in January that she would undergo chemotherapy after her surgery as a precaution (!).