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Just now, The Old Crem said:

The article implies that was the case.

Just read it in full my bad.

 

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On 05/04/2021 at 10:06, Borys said:

Australian senator Jim Molan, 70, diagnosed with "an aggressive form of cancer" 

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-05/liberal-senator-jim-molan-diagnosed-with-cancer/100049610
 

Jim Molan reportedly dead: 

Picked last year for the DDP, maybe this year also @gcreptile?

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The Ravenel family has announced the death of former South Carolina State Senator Arthur Ravenel Jr.

Arthur Ravenel was 95 years old.

According to the South Carolina State House, he served as a state senator from 1981 to 1985 and then from 1997 to 2003. He also served in the U.S. Congress from 1987 to 1995.

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On 15/01/2023 at 13:20, arghton said:

 

Reported on facebook that the oldest former member of the Finnish parliament and oldest former minister (Minister of Social Affairs and Health 1979-1982) Sinikka Luja-Penttilä has died at 98. Can't find any obituaries on the internet yet but it seems true, as far as I know she'd been in failing health for a while and there's apparently an obituary in the Demokraatti newspaper.

 

Ancient anti-NATO defence minister Taisto Tähkämaa is now the oldest former Finnish minister and member of parliament, 99 in December and has been in a care home for years (also one of my Electoral DP picks)


Surprised that this hasn't been picked up yet given she was a former minister?

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38 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:


Surprised that this hasn't been picked up yet given she was a former minister?

I am a bit suprised. While the Finnish media has almost never reported a hospitalisation of a former minister/member of parliament, even short term parliament members have during the last years usually pretty quickly gotten obituaries from YLE (Finland's version of the BBC), MTV3, local newspapers and/or the semi-yellow press (Iltalehti and Ilta-Sanomat). Sometimes it has taken them a few weeks and sometimes they've only gotten Helsingin Sanomat obituaries posted on this page, those HS obituaries are usually posted a month or two after the person has died. The only stuff she's gotten this far has been one facebook post and a small death mention on the blog part of the "Social Democrat Party's Naantali Branch" site that links that facebook post. I doubt it's a hoax though and I expect them to notice it this week.

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"She also developed a proposal designed to reduce smoking in Finland by raising cigarette prices by five to 15 percent."

Me and her wouldn't have got along very well.

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6 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:


Me and her wouldn't have got along very well.


Her and I

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Just now, Sir Creep said:


Her and I


Thought you got me muted Sir Cunto? :P 

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13 hours ago, Sir Creep said:
20 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:


Me and her wouldn't have got along very well.


Her and I

 

She and I

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2 hours ago, Toast said:
15 hours ago, Sir Creep said:
22 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:


Me and her wouldn't have got along very well.


Her and I

 

She and I

 

That old bitch and me

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On 06/01/2022 at 13:47, arghton said:

Nursultan Nazarbayev has reportedly left the country "for medical reasons"/disappeared, Russian paratroopers trying to help Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in crushing the protests.

Can't deny I'm praying for an arab spring domino effect to happen there. (Russia's Putin, Tajikistan's Emomali Rahmon, Turkmenistan's Gurbanguly "Horse" Mälikgulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow, Uzbekistan's Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Azerbaijan's Ilham Aliyev)

Nursultan Nazarbayev hospitalised.

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On 30/12/2022 at 22:28, Ulitzer95 said:

Mentioned on the forum before…

 

Sir Leonard Allinson (wiki), senior civil servant and diplomat, supposedly dead at 96.

 

Lots of TBC deaths piling up over NY.

EDIT: Telegraph death announcement

Leonard Allinson full Telegraph Obit: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/01/21/leonard-allinson-obituary-diplomat-zambia-kenya-queen-commonwealth/

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Tom Nairn, another nationalist who didn’t live long enough to see his dreams come true, has died after a fall aged 90. 
 

 Some Scottish Nationalists already suggesting suspicious circumstances in the comments section because no 90 year old ever has died following a fall…

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On 11/10/2022 at 00:48, arghton said:

From the despots thread

Sami Sharaf (1925) Egypt Minister of State for Presidential Affairs 1961-1971

Sami Sharaf, Nasser's Minister of State for Presidential Affairs who was arrested and imprisoned during Anwar Sadat's presidency, dead at 93 after being in hospital for months. (Yes, he was born in 1929, not 1925)

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On 15/01/2023 at 15:20, arghton said:

 

Reported on facebook that the oldest former member of the Finnish parliament and oldest former minister (Minister of Social Affairs and Health 1979-1982) Sinikka Luja-Penttilä has died at 98. Can't find any obituaries on the internet yet but it seems true, as far as I know she'd been in failing health for a while and there's apparently an obituary in the Demokraatti newspaper.

 

Ancient anti-NATO defence minister Taisto Tähkämaa is now the oldest former Finnish minister and member of parliament, 99 in December and has been in a care home for years (also one of my Electoral DP picks)

Someone on Finnish Wikipedia found Luja-Penttilä's Demokraatti obituary and apparently she died back on 18th November 2022. Still no online obits anywhere.

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On 20/01/2023 at 10:16, drol said:

Nursultan Nazarbayev hospitalised.

Discharged . Of course.

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On 17/05/2021 at 14:17, arghton said:

It's been 50 years since Charles Colson (1931-2012) compiled the Master list of Nixon's political opponents. John Dean (b. 1938) provided the list to the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973.

 

 

Well, who's still alive from the list? Organizations are not listed. 

 

Senators (12 in total):

Fred R. Harris (b. 1930)

 

Members of the House of Representatives (9 in total):

Pete McCloskey (b. 1927)

Elizabeth Holtzman (b. 1941)

 

Black Congressmen and Congresswomen (12 in total):

Charles Rangel (b. 1930)

Bill Clay (b. 1931)

 

Other politicians: None alive

Labor: None alive

 

Media (61 in total):

Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)

Bob Woodward (b. 1943)

James S. Doyle (b. 1935)

Martin F. Nolan (b. 1940)

Morton Kondracke (b. 1939)

Ted Knap (b. 1920)

Milton Viorst (b. 1930)

Garry Wills (b. 1934)

Dan Rather (b. 1931)

Marvin Kalb (b. 1930)

Unknown if alive: James H. Laird

 

Celebrities (13 in total):

Bill Cosby (b. 1937)

Jane Fonda (b. 1937)

Joe Namath (b. 1943)

Barbra Streisand (b. 1942)

 

Business people (24 in total):

Unknown if alive: George Hillman

 

Business additions: None alive

 

Business (24 in total):

Clifford Alexander (b. 1933)

Victor Palmieri (b. 1930)

 

Academics (22 in total):

Derek Bok (b. 1930)

Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)

Daniel Ellsberg (b. 1931)

Matthew Meselson (b. 1930)

George Drennen Fischer (b. 1925)

 

"Nixon's Enemies List" memo, 1971 (20 in total):

Morton Halperin (b. 1938)

Sidney Davidoff (b. 1939)

 

 


George Drennen Fischer died in Oct 2021.
Clifford Alexander died in Jul 2022.
Milton Viorst died in Dec 2022.

Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, Dan Rather and Elizabeth Holtzman were never on the list. The dangers of a Wiki page that is badly sourced. They've now been removed from the Wiki page, and so have a number of some deceased names who never belonged on there, so you'll have to correct the number totals above for a few sections.

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