drol 11,886 Posted August 14, 2021 The bad seed never dies. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,692 Posted August 14, 2021 https://vantbefinfo.com/2021/08/haiti-seisme-jean-gabriel-fortune-est-mort/ Mayor of Haiti's Les Cayes, Gabriel Fortuné is apparently one of the victims of the 2021 Haiti earthquake. Tried to resign in 2018 due to protests but his resignation was refused 100 days later. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,692 Posted August 15, 2021 https://navajotimes.com/reznews/kelsey-begaye-fifth-navajo-nation-president-dies-at-70/ 5th Navajo Nation President 1999-2003 Kelsey Begaye has died aged 70. Third Navajo Nation President to die during the last 11 months. This means that all except one of the Navajo Presidents and Vice Presidents (Two people who were both President and VP, two other Presidents and three VPs) from before 2003 are dead, the one living being Peterson Zah, the initial Navajo Nation President 1991-1995. Not to mention that the last Chairman of the Navajo Nation 1970-1989, Peter MacDonald (also a WWII code talker) is still living and 92 or 93 years old. He was removed from office and sent to prison for corruption until being pardoned by Clinton in 2001 on his last day in office. Still looks amazing. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,692 Posted August 15, 2021 On 18/06/2021 at 12:48, gcreptile said: More drol fodder: Khaleda Zia, former female PM of Bangladesh has survived COVID, but is still extremely ill, with heart, kidney and liver problems and .... arthritis. http://www.uniindia.com/~/bangladesh-ex-pm-khaleda-zia-extremely-ill-needs-better-treatment-mirza-fakhrul/World/news/2424265.html However, Bangladesh is one of those countries where every former PM seems to be in prison, and she has been, too. So maybe it's a little exaggerated. https://www.observerbd.com/news.php?id=326564 Khaleda Zia won't be celebrating her 76th birthday today as "her physical condition is not well" Article also mentions that she isn't interested in celebrating birthdays anymore. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dying Probably 578 Posted August 16, 2021 Ohio-18 Representative Doug Applegate has died at 93 (no relation to Christina). He served in the U.S. House from 1977 to 1995. Former Congressman Doug Applegate dies at age 93 (timesreporter.com) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,692 Posted August 16, 2021 Afghanistan's living Presidents and Prime Ministers, health issues and locations: Presidents/Heads of State: Unknown Maulavi Mohammed Abdul Kabir (1958-) Prime Minister of the Islamic Emirate in 2001, Acting Head of State in 2001 as the last Taliban leader of the first Islamic Emirate (1996-2001) Date of picture is unknown. Captured in 2010, later released, current whereabouts are unknown. Hamid Karzai (1957-) President of Afghanistan 2001-2014. Picture from 2021. Subject of tens of assasination attempts and plots, has decided to not leave Afghanistan. In his "well-protected" Kabul home. Ashraf Ghani (1949-) President of Afghanistan 2014-2021. Picture from 2021. Suffered from stomach cancer in the 1990s, fled Afghanistan on the 15th of August 2021. Hibatullah Akhundzada (1961-) De facto Emir of Afghanistan since the 16th of August 2021. Date of picture is unknown. Amrullah Saleh (1972-) Acting President of Afghanistan since 17th of August 2021, before that he was the VP. Apparently will fight until the end. Prime Ministers/Heads of Government: Sultan Ali Keshtmand (1935-) Head of Government of Afghanistan as the Chairman of the Council of Ministers 1981-1988 and 1989-1990. Picture from 2021 or some years before, lives in the UK. Mohammad Hasan Sharq (1925-) Head of Government of Afghanistan as the Chairman of the Council of Ministers 1988-1989. Pictured in 2021, lived in the USA. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (1949-) Prime Minister of Afghanistan 1993-1994 and 1996-1997. Pictured in 2021. Former Mujahideen leader, has good relations with the Taliban. Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai (1944-2021) Prime Minister of Afghanistan 1995-1996. Pictured around 2021. Former Mujahideen fighter. Fled Afghanistan in 1996 when Taliban invaded, lived in exile in London and Istanbul and returned to Afghanistan in 2001. Sayed Mohammad Ali Jawid (ca. 1951-) Prime Minister of Afghanistan 1997 as the last acting Prime Minister of the Mujahideen-controlled Afghanistan before Taliban's invasion. Abdullah Abdullah (1960-) Prime Minister of Afghanistan as Chief Executive 2014-2020. Picture from 2021. Still in Afghanistan. Mohammad Hassan Akhund (ca. 1945...1958-) Acting Prime Minister since 7th of September 2021. Currently unclear: Abdul Ghani Baradar (1968-) Taliban co-founder, reported to be the current Head of Government yesterday, likely the next person to hold the title of "President". Currently First Vice Emir, Political head of the Taliban. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JustPassingThrough 148 Posted August 16, 2021 Former US Rep. Paul Mitchell has died at 64. He retired from Congress last year and was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer earlier this summer: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/16/rep-congressman-paul-mitchell-republican-died-conservative-independent/7877411002/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,886 Posted August 16, 2021 On 25/07/2019 at 19:31, drol said: North Africa in general has lot to offer in matter of old politicians. *Abdelhamid Brahimi (1936), PM, who is now a writer. Dead. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DevonDeathTrip 2,358 Posted August 17, 2021 Afghanistan's Vice President Amrullah Saleh has declared himself rightful leader of the country and vowed to fight on against the Taliban, saying he will not surrender to them or flee "under any circumstances". That sort of fighting talk might make him a good deadpool pick before too long 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,421 Posted August 17, 2021 28 minutes ago, DevonDeathTrip said: Afghanistan's Vice President Amrullah Saleh has declared himself rightful leader of the country and vowed to fight on against the Taliban, saying he will not surrender to them or flee "under any circumstances". That sort of fighting talk might make him a good deadpool pick before too long One of your "classic "Ideas and Possibilities for 20th August" suggestions then! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thatcher 2,377 Posted August 18, 2021 Austin Mitchell, former Labour MP for Great Grimsby (1977-2015) has died age 86. 6 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,421 Posted August 18, 2021 19 minutes ago, Thatcher said: Austin Mitchell, former Labour MP for Great Grimsby (1977-2015) has died age 86. He looked ready to snuff it about 50 years ago when still a TV presenter! One of those permanently gaunt looking people. Famously said in 2015 that Labour would hold Grimsby even if they put up a "raving sex mad paedophile" as a candidate. That dated well. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,692 Posted August 20, 2021 On 14/07/2021 at 19:19, arghton said: https://puheenvuoro.uusisuomi.fi/jyrkikasvi/mokkielamaa-muistojen-aarella/ Jyrki Kasvi update, from blog post four days ago: Says that his cancer is being monitored "all the time". He's on his summer cottage but there's a hospital 7.5 kilometres (4.6 miles) from the cottage. Mentions that the experimental meds he now uses won't likely be any use in fighting the tumor spread in the future and he'll switch to new experimental meds hoping to live longer. Writing an autobiography. New picture of Kasvi posted on his twitter, still healthy enough to participate in a tv show to talk about his life. Looks very great for someone with incurable cancer who went into hospice care nearly seven months ago. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,692 Posted August 21, 2021 On 08/05/2021 at 12:27, arghton said: Lee Han-dong, South Korea Prime Minister 2000-2002 dead: https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2021/05/113_308493.html Those bastards Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo will apparently never die According to South Korean sources he has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma: http://koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210821000069 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,886 Posted August 21, 2021 9 hours ago, arghton said: According to South Korean sources he has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma: http://koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210821000069 Recommended for DL 2022. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
I.R.Baboon 221 Posted August 22, 2021 On 04/07/2011 at 10:43, Davey Jones' Locker said: Otto von Habsburg, the would-be emperor of the once mighty Austro-Hungarian Empire, has bowed out at the regal age of 98: http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=227816 Incredible to think, he was born before the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and the subsequent events that led to the Empire's destruction. Little did mum or dad know what was in store for them all when they were giving birth to him... His grandson and heir apparent, Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michael Otto Antal Bahnam Leonhard von Habsburg-Lothringen is currently in the lead in the LMP2 at the 24h of Le Mans. Just wanted to share this useless information with you all. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,126 Posted August 22, 2021 3 hours ago, I.R.Baboon said: His grandson and heir apparent, Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michael Otto Antal Bahnam Leonhard von Habsburg-Lothringen is currently in the lead in the LMP2 at the 24h of Le Mans. Just wanted to share this useless information with you all. That "Keith" seems a bit incongruous. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DCI Frank Burnside 3,876 Posted August 22, 2021 11 minutes ago, Toast said: That "Keith" seems a bit incongruous. Was curious about that. Was his great grandfathers name on his mothers side. His maternal grandmother is from New Zealand 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,692 Posted August 25, 2021 On 30/04/2021 at 14:47, arghton said: 1940s 1943 - Simeon II (b. 1937) Tsar of Bulgaria (1943-1946) and later Prime Minister of Bulgaria (2001-2005). Earliest living former state leader. 1950s 1950 - Gyanendra (b. 1947) King of Nepal 1950-1951 and later 2001-2008 1952 - Elizabeth II (b. 1926) Queen of the United Kingdom (1952-present) Currently longest ruling state leader and monarch. Fuad II (b. 1952) King of Egypt and Sudan (1952-1953) 1954 - Mustafa Ben Halim (b. 1921) Prime Minister of Libya (1954-1957) Oldest living state leader, earliest non-royal head of a country. 1956 - Sirikit (b. 1932) Queen Regent of Thailand (1956) 1960s 1960 - César Yanes Urías (b. 1920 or 1931) and Rene Fortín Magaña (1931-2020) El Salvador junta members 1960-1961 Albert Ndele (b. 1930) Head of Government of Congo Leopoldville 1960 1963 - Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar (b. 1929) Sultan of Zanzibar (1963-1964) 1964 - Constantine II (b. 1940) King of the Hellenes (1964-1973) Trần Thiện Khiêm (1925-2021) South Vietnam Member of the Provisional Leadership Committee (1964) and Prime Minister (1969–1975) Kenneth Kaunda (1924-2021) President of Zambia (1964-1991) 1965 - Pié Masumbuko (b. 1931) Acting Prime Minister of Burundi (1965) 1966 - Yakubu Gowon (b. 1934) and Emmanuel E Ikwue (b. 1940) of the Supreme Military Council of Nigeria (1966-1979), Gowon later the Head of State of Nigeria 1966-1975 1967 - Hassanal Bolkiah (b. 1946) Sultan of Brunei (1967-present) Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini (1932-2021) Prime Minister of Yemen Arab Republic (1967, 1969, 1970-1971, 1971-1972 and 1974-1975) Ali Aref Bourhan (b. 1934) President of the Government Council of the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas (1967-1976) 1970 - Abdou Diouf (b. 1935) Prime Minister of Senegal (1970-1980), President (1981-2000) Lubomír Štrougal (b. 1924) Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (1970-1988) Luis Echeverría (b. 1922) President of Mexico (1970-1976) Updated for the death of Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,692 Posted August 25, 2021 On 17/08/2021 at 22:51, DevonDeathTrip said: Afghanistan's Vice President Amrullah Saleh has declared himself rightful leader of the country and vowed to fight on against the Taliban, saying he will not surrender to them or flee "under any circumstances". That sort of fighting talk might make him a good deadpool pick before too long https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lion-of-panjshirs-son-ahmad-massoud-vows-to-fight-on-against-taliban-in-afghanistan-jbk2lw5s3 Ahmad Massoud (1989-), son of mujahideen guerrilla commander Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953-2001) vows to fight on against the Taliban and says that he won't surrender. Massoud and Saleh are in the Panjshir valley with around 2000-10000 soldiers including remnants of Afghanistan's army (national army, some special force soldiers, commando corps members, air force remnants, Massoud's army (he claims to have 9000 soldiers), independent militias, local civilians and others) Defence Minister Bismillah Khan and former chief of staff 2020-2021 Yasin Zia are also there. Also, Karzai and former Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah seem to still be in the country, trying to negotiate with the Taliban. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,337 Posted August 26, 2021 https://www.krmg.com/news/local/community-mourns-loss-owasso-doctor-who-drowned-oologah-lake/KHIB5BFD3VCPNG6VMVACVVCG7I/ Dale Derby, doctor and former republican state representative in the Oklahoma House between 2017 and 2019 has died in a drowning accident. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,692 Posted August 26, 2021 Marco Hausiku, Namibian six-time minister (most notably the foreign affairs minister 2004-2010 and deputy prime minister 2010-2015, held multiple positions in the governments of Hage Geingob, Theo-Ben Gurirab and Nahas Angula and during the terms of all three Presidents of Namibia this far) and also SWAPO Deputy Secretary-General since 2017 has died aged 66 or 67: https://www.namibian.com.na/104734/read/Swapo-deputy-SG-Hausiku-dies 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,886 Posted August 27, 2021 On 14/08/2021 at 20:16, arghton said: Than Shwe is a diabetic with a 15 year history of "health concerns" and his wife Kyaing Kyaing suffered both a fall and a stroke in 2007 and was said to be "ailing" by some news sites in 2008. I'm betting that either one dies, one dies and one goes soon after or both die. Discharged. Both of them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MariNisia 4,180 Posted August 27, 2021 On 02/08/2020 at 11:00, gcreptile said: Former Greek defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos hospitalized, again: https://www.ekathimerini.com/255354/article/ekathimerini/news/former-socialist-defense-minister-tsochatzopoulos-in-hospital DEAD: https://www.thenationalherald.com/greece_politics/arthro/disgraced_greek_former_defense_minister_tsochatzopoulos_dies-3139559/ 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jeremy Corbyn 89 Posted August 27, 2021 7 hours ago, MariNisia said: DEAD: https://www.thenationalherald.com/greece_politics/arthro/disgraced_greek_former_defense_minister_tsochatzopoulos_dies-3139559/ Can't quite believe he's gone Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
