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33 minutes ago, Gisooo said:

Burkina Faso politician and diplomat Frédéric Guirma (Wikidead at 92

Upper Volta's ambassador to the US in the 60s. I doubt there are much people alive who've held official meetings with Pres. Kennedy...

 

That reminds me, I wonder if William V. S. Tubman Jr. is alive. Son of longtime president William Tubman and one of Liberia's most powerful politicians from the 1950s to the 1980 coup. Last mention of him I could find is from 2008 but he'd be around 92 now.

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On 03/05/2019 at 21:46, drol said:

Speculation grows on mr. Nguyen Phu Trong as he misses mr. Anh's funeral. Ah, and mr. Anh got Guardian, Telegraph, BBC, WaPo obits...

Nguyen Phu Trong hospitalised.

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Democratic politician and former high school basketball star Ted Blunt died at 80 years:

https://www.delawarepublic.org/politics-government/2024-01-12/ted-blunt-former-wilmington-city-council-president-dies-at-the-age-of-80

He served on the City Council of Wilmington, Delaware from 1985 to 2000 and later served an eight-year term as the council's president.

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3 hours ago, TomTomTelekom said:

Democratic politician and former high school basketball star Ted Blunt died at 80 years:

https://www.delawarepublic.org/politics-government/2024-01-12/ted-blunt-former-wilmington-city-council-president-dies-at-the-age-of-80

He served on the City Council of Wilmington, Delaware from 1985 to 2000 and later served an eight-year term as the council's president.


Local city council members seem pretty low on the political spectrum to be included herein, basketball playing aside.  If they were DL Cup entries perhaps, seeing as they got sone run; but otherwise damn near any political office can be posted and is that a policy we want to set?  Oh look Ombudsman Jones died!… 

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Kentucky Congressman and Dean of the US House, Hal Rodgers, was involved in a car accident. His team says he is in "good condition."

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4 hours ago, TomTomTelekom said:

Democratic politician and former high school basketball star Ted Blunt died at 80 years:

https://www.delawarepublic.org/politics-government/2024-01-12/ted-blunt-former-wilmington-city-council-president-dies-at-the-age-of-80

He served on the City Council of Wilmington, Delaware from 1985 to 2000 and later served an eight-year term as the council's president.

Also the father of Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester, who is virtually certain to be elected to the US Senate from Delaware this November.

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On 30/04/2022 at 17:31, drol said:

List of ancient M'sian politicians:

*Lim Kean Chye (1919), wheelchair bound, smoker, frail

*Abdullah CD (1923), communist insurgent leader

*Abdul Taib Mahmud (1936), CM and governor of Sarawak

*Mahathir Mohamad (1925), immortal PM of Malaysia

*Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (1939), Mahathir's rival who held a lot of posts

*Musa Hitam (1934), deputy PM

*Michael Chen (1932), of Chinese origin, held a lot of posts

*Mohd Khalil Yaakob (1937), thinks he is a Midwest sheriff

*Harris Salleh (1930), decrepit

*Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah (1937); minister of finance

*Daim Zanuddin (1938), other minister of finance

*Lee San Choon (1935)

*Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir (1939)

*Samy Vellu (1936), corrupted minister of works

*Paul Leong Khee Seong (1939)


Abdullah CD dead at 100!

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On 16/04/2022 at 15:39, drol said:

Here's your unrequested list of provincial Chinese politicians born before 1940. Three centenarians, a 98 year old, and a lot born in the early 30s.

 

Zhejiang 

 

Xue Ju (1922)

 

 

Xue Ju dead at 101.

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On 12/01/2024 at 12:38, drol said:

Nguyen Phu Trong hospitalised.

Police forced do deny Nguyen Phu Trong has died. Seems quite serious this time.

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On 08/04/2022 at 18:01, DevonDeathTrip said:

Regarding the posts above, not that I profess to be an expert in Taiwanese democracy, but a survivor of my deadpools of yore, Shih Ming Teh, 81, has seen off liver cancer twice and been sentenced to life in jail on three different occasions.   He was force fed for four years during one of his hunger strikes!

Shih Ming-teh, Taiwanese dissident, longtime political prisoner and politician sometimes called Taiwan's Mandelareportedly dead at 83.

 

Mentioned here multiple times since 2006 due to his longtime battle with liver cancer. He was hospitalised in critical condition with a recurrence last month but seems it was never reported by any English language news source.

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28 minutes ago, arghton said:

Shih Ming-teh, Taiwanese dissident, longtime political prisoner and politician sometimes called Taiwan's Mandelareportedly dead at 83.

 

Mentioned here multiple times since 2006 due to his longtime battle with liver cancer. He was hospitalised in critical condition with a recurrence last month but seems it was never reported by any English language news source.

Gives The Living End’s winning 2008 squad a clean slate now

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23 hours ago, drol said:

Police forced do deny Nguyen Phu Trong has died. Seems quite serious this time.

Nguyen Phu Trong appears in public and looks perfectly fine.

 

Sorry that was just bullshit all over again.

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On 05/02/2023 at 00:42, arghton said:

Not dead - and not recent news (September 2022) but never mentioned here before. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Prime Minister of Malaysia 2003-2009, has dementia and it's progressed to the point he can't recognize family members and is permanently wheelchairbound. 

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi pictured three days ago:

Screenshot_20240115_170158_com.duckduckgo.mobile.android_edit_413784499457172.jpg

He appears to have worsened significantly since the picture Arghton posted last May.

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On 30/04/2022 at 18:31, drol said:

List of ancient M'sian politicians:

*Lim Kean Chye (1919), wheelchair bound, smoker, frail

*Abdullah CD (1923), communist insurgent leader

*Abdul Taib Mahmud (1936), CM and governor of Sarawak

*Mahathir Mohamad (1925), immortal PM of Malaysia

*Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (1939), Mahathir's rival who held a lot of posts

*Musa Hitam (1934), deputy PM

*Michael Chen (1932), of Chinese origin, held a lot of posts

*Mohd Khalil Yaakob (1937), thinks he is a Midwest sheriff

*Harris Salleh (1930), decrepit

*Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah (1937); minister of finance

*Daim Zanuddin (1938), other minister of finance

*Lee San Choon (1935)

*Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir (1939)

*Samy Vellu (1936), corrupted minister of works

*Paul Leong Khee Seong (1939)

Daim Zainuddin hospitalised... with a trial going on.

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Is this a new interview with Mohammed Hasan Sharq or is it older?

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34 minutes ago, drol said:

Is this a new interview with Mohammed Hasan Sharq or is it older?

From January 2020 it seems

The same guy has interviewed him many times. Seems he lives in California, either Los Angeles or Laguna Hills.

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10 hours ago, arghton said:

From January 2020 it seems

The same guy has interviewed him many times. Seems he lives in California, either Los Angeles or Laguna Hills.

Then he should end in some American database when he dies?

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I'm sure someday it will be fucking Song Ping.

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Bollocks nearly p;icked him on on my theme team.He was on the subs bench.He would have been a unique.I looked too much in to the prognosis and not the fact that he kept having to have chemo and cancel things.Biggest miss of the year so far for me.

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Just now, Sean said:

Biggest miss of the year so far for me.

Given he was on my final shortlist and no sod picked him I feel similar.

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I had him longlisted but in the end didn't pick him partially because of the lack of updates and also I assumed a few others would and he wouldn't have been a unique.

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