Pdoggg Posted September 27, 2023 Share Posted September 27, 2023 An ex-girlfriend named one of her cats Illya due to his Man From UNCLE role. 1 Quote Link to comment
seanbeag7 Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 Michael Gambon has died at the age of 82, best known in the HP films as dumbledore, I loved him in films like 'Layer Cake ' and I think one of his best early roles in' The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover' Quote Link to comment
seven Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 Henry Kissinger, America’s Most Notorious War Criminal, Dies At 100 https://www.yahoo.com/news/henry-kissinger-america-most-notorious-015455590.html https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/29/politics/henry-kissinger-dead/index.html You made it to 100, you warmonger. Quote Link to comment
Pdoggg Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 46 minutes ago, seven said: You made it to 100, you warmonger. One night in December 1970, Nixon called his national security adviser in a rage about Cambodia. “I want the helicopter ships. I want everything that can fly to go in and crack the hell out of them,” he barked at Kissinger, according to a transcript. “I want gunships in there. That means armed helicopters. … I want it done! Get them off their ass. … I want them to hit everything.” Five minutes later, Kissinger was on the phone with Gen. Alexander Haig, his military aide, relaying the command for a relentless assault on Cambodia. “It’s an order, it’s to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves. You got that?” Two years earlier, Nixon had won the White House promising to end America’s war in Vietnam, but instead expanded the conflict into neighboring Cambodia. Fearing public backlash and believing that Congress would never approve an attack on a neutral country, Kissinger and Haig began planning — a month after Nixon took office — an operation that was kept secret from the American people, Congress, and even top Pentagon officials via a conspiracy of cover stories, coded messages, and a dual bookkeeping system that logged airstrikes in Cambodia as occurring in South Vietnam. Kissinger, who went on to serve as secretary of state in the Nixon and Gerald Ford administrations, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973. 1 Quote Link to comment
seven Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 Absolutely great piece about the worst mass murderer in history by Rolling Stone. Read it before its get locked. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/ Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies The infamy of Nixon's foreign-policy architect sits, eternally, beside that of history's worst mass murderers. A deeper shame attaches to the country that celebrates him IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, KISSINGER DESTROYED. But in Chile, he helped build a template for the world in which we currently live. On September 4, 1970, Chileans elected the democratic socialist Salvador Allende president. Allende’s program was more than redistributionist. It demanded reparation from the U.S. for exploiting it. Chile is rich in copper, and by the mid-1960s, 80 percent of its copper production was controlled by American corporations, particularly the firms Anaconda Copper and Kennecott. When Allende nationalized mining assets held by the two companies, Allende informed them he would deduct estimated “excess profit” from a compensatory package he was willing to pay the firms. It was this sort of unacceptable policy that prompted Kissinger to remark, during an intelligence meeting about two months before Allende’s election, “I don’t see why we need to stand idly by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.” Kissinger and the CIA had decided to overthrow Allende just days after Allende’s election. Upon learning what was in motion, the U.S. ambassador in Santiago, Edward Korry, who was second to none in opposing Allende, cabled Kissinger that “to actively encourage a coup could lead us to a Bay of Pigs failure.” An “apoplectic Kissinger” told Korry to stay out of the way, according to Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes: The History of The CIA. When the CIA failed at what Korry termed a Rube Goldberg gambit to get the Chilean Congress to stop Allende from taking office — that’s right, the CIA tried a January 6 in Chile — Haig urged his boss to purge “the key left-wing dominated slots” in the agency. paid off on September 11, 1973, when a military junta took power, prompting Allende’s suicide. He would be among the first of 3,200 Chileans to die violently under the 17-year regime of Augusto Pinochet and his Caravana de la Muerte, to say nothing of the tens of thousands tortured and imprisoned. “In the Eisenhower period, we would be heroes,” Kissinger told Nixon in a telephone conversation days after the coup. The same week he denied at his Senate confirmation hearings that the U.S. played any role in it. 1 Quote Link to comment
seven Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 Kissinger and Nixon turned that into Watergate — as Grandin pointed out earlier in this story, Watergate began with a demand for vengeance on Daniel Ellsberg, the anti-Kissinger, for leaking the Pentagon Papers. Watergate was a grim demonstration, for neither the first nor the last time, that the crimes America commits abroad have a dialectical relationship with the crimes that America commits at home. Infamy has as many fathers as victory. .......That, ultimately, is why Kissinger died a celebrity, .......When the Roger Morrises and Anthony Lakes and Hillary Clintons see Henry Kissinger, they see, despite what they will rotely and euphemistically acknowledge as his flaws, themselves as they wish to be. Quote Link to comment
seven Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 But Iraq, and the broader War on Terror that Kissinger wanted expanded lest it “pete[r] out into an intelligence operation while the rest of the region gradually slides back to the pre-9/11 pattern,” presaged the world Kissinger made coming apart at the foundations. The man who repositioned U.S. foreign policy as a wedge between Russia and China lived long enough to see the February 4 Declaration uniting Moscow and Beijing. The reactionary forces he encouraged at home and abroad are showing the world that the rules-based international order is about capitalism, not democracy. Whatever bitterness Kissinger, in his final days, experienced over the erosion of his enterprise is little comfort to his millions of victims. America denied them the closure Kathleen Treanor experienced when America, declaring justice, ended Timothy McVeigh. Quote Link to comment
Woodie Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 1 hour ago, seven said: But Iraq, and the broader War on Terror that Kissinger wanted expanded lest it “pete[r] out into an intelligence operation while the rest of the region gradually slides back to the pre-9/11 pattern,” presaged the world Kissinger made coming apart at the foundations. The man who repositioned U.S. foreign policy as a wedge between Russia and China lived long enough to see the February 4 Declaration uniting Moscow and Beijing. The reactionary forces he encouraged at home and abroad are showing the world that the rules-based international order is about capitalism, not democracy. Whatever bitterness Kissinger, in his final days, experienced over the erosion of his enterprise is little comfort to his millions of victims. America denied them the closure Kathleen Treanor experienced when America, declaring justice, ended Timothy McVeigh. If you want an interesting view of Kissinger. Look up Youtube videos by Christopher Hitchens. Also videos about the Clintons, Princess Diana and the amazing Mother Teresa! Views not often expressed by the media. Quote Link to comment
Pdoggg Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 Shane MacGowan RIP 1 Quote Link to comment
seven Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 22 hours ago, Woodie said: If you want an interesting view of Kissinger. Look up Youtube videos by Christopher Hitchens. Also videos about the Clintons, Princess Diana and the amazing Mother Teresa! Views not often expressed by the media. Yeah. They touch on that here. The elite loved him. I posted the link and not the embedded graphics as it has the monsters mug right at the beginning. Hitchens is one of my all time favourites. Brilliant mind. Gone far too soon. RIP. https://youtu.be/w0XV2Wi0J34?si=5nO3PFO85IDY-sNs 1 Quote Link to comment
Zeppie Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 10 minutes ago, seven said: Yeah. They touch on that here. The elite loved him. On 11/29/2023 at 11:22 PM, Pdoggg said: Two years earlier, Nixon had won the White House promising to end America’s war in Vietnam, I thought Nixon did end the war, like he promised.......or is that revisionary history also......... 1 Quote Link to comment
seven Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 6 minutes ago, Zeppie said: I thought Nixon did end the war Right Quote Link to comment
Zeppie Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 13 minutes ago, seven said: Right Do you really think it was Ford........it was Nixion that designed the plan to end the war and that plan forced the pairs peace talk negotiations that were well on their way before Ford took office.... Quote Link to comment
Dan Miller Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 This morning I woke up with the terrible news that Iain, co-owner from Why Not in Bangkok, has passed away. Iain reached the age of 60 years. For quite some time he was suffering from multiple health issues, and in the end he lost the fight. I wish Nam all strength with this loss and may Iain rest im peace. 1 3 Quote Link to comment
Aitch Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 On 11/30/2023 at 1:36 PM, Woodie said: If you want an interesting view of Kissinger. Look up Youtube videos by Christopher Hitchens. Also videos about the Clintons, Princess Diana and the amazing Mother Teresa! Views not often expressed by the media. Hitchens is one of my intellectual heroes. Bang on almost always, and certainly about Pissinger (sic intentional). On most times I have disagreed with him a bit more research has changed my mind. Hard to fathom how such a brilliant mind could let its body succumb to avoidable cause. Quote Link to comment
Pulci Gorgon Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 8 hours ago, Dan Miller said: This morning I woke up with the terrible news that Iain, co-owner from Why Not in Bangkok, has passed away. Iain reached the age of 60 years. For quite some time he was suffering from multiple health issues, and in the end he lost the fight. I wish Nam all strength with this loss and may Iain rest im peace. Please, let me make sure. Was Lain the associate of Poe, or is this Poe himself ? 1 Quote Link to comment
Dan Miller Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 2 hours ago, Pulci Gorgon said: Please, let me make sure. Was Lain the associate of Poe, or is this Poe himself ? Poe ?? Quote Link to comment
Pdoggg Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 10 hours ago, Dan Miller said: This morning I woke up with the terrible news that Iain, co-owner from Why Not in Bangkok, has passed away. Iain reached the age of 60 years. Iain (Poesface) was definitely one of the good guys. His original Why Not, a bit past Asoke, was an extremely welcome addition to Bangkok ladyboys scene as was the move to the bigger space on Soi Nana. RIP 2 Quote Link to comment
Pdoggg Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 Sandra Day O'Connor, who died Friday at the age of 93, found herself in the spotlight for a more lighthearted reason − a comical interaction with an intoxicated NFL running back at a black-tie event in Washington. As the oft-told story goes, O'Connor and Washington's star running back, John Riggins, were guests of People magazine at the annual "Salute to Congress" event on January 30, 1985. In NFL Network’s A Football Life: John Riggins, Riggins recalled that he had been drinking beers with a friend most of the afternoon, ordered a double scotch upon his arrival at the event, and then opted to pass on dinner. Riggins proceeded to knock over two bottles of red wine at their table. And somewhere along the way came the now-famous interaction with O'Connor. "Come on Sandy, baby, loosen up," Riggins, who is now 74, told her. "You're too tight." Quote Link to comment
Zeppie Posted December 2, 2023 Share Posted December 2, 2023 John Riggins was definitely a rugged individual. I think (?) he was native american or some part of. He had walked away from football. It was Gibbs (who later went on to own a nascar racing team, and did well) went to get riggins at his home and talked him into playing again. The rest was history, they won the superbowl.. He was a smash mouth running back from the days of knockouts. 1 Quote Link to comment
The-Sith Posted December 3, 2023 Share Posted December 3, 2023 Iain (Poseface) rest in peace. He was a nice guy who threw some really good underground parties with LBs at Why Not. I always had a good time there and it was always pretty chill and friendly. 4 Quote Link to comment
Pulci Gorgon Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Franz Beckenbauer : der Kaiser ist tot He was one of the greatest in German football history and brought the 2006 World Cup to Germany: Franz Beckenbauer. At the age of 78, "the Kaiser" has now passed away. Franz Beckenbauer is dead. The German football legend died at the age of 78, as announced by his family and the German Football Association (DFB). Beckenbauer was also globally recognized as one of the greatest in football; he became a World Cup champion both as a player and a coach and brought the 2006 World Cup to Germany. Beckenbauer was born on September 11, 1945, and grew up in the Munich working-class district of Giesing. At the age of 13, he joined FC Bayern as a junior player and quickly became a key player for the Munich team. By the age of 20, he was a national team player. He achieved four national championships, won the European Cup three times, and was a Club World Cup winner. Due to his grace and elegance, Beckenbauer rose to become the 'Kaiser' of German football - his nickname. He was the first German football superstar. Later in his career, Beckenbauer played in the USA for Cosmos New York and ended his playing career with HSV. After retiring as a player, Beckenbauer became the team manager of the national team and in 1990, he became a World Cup-winning coach. Later, he served as a coach and president of his beloved FC Bayern. Source : Tagesschau 2 Quote Link to comment
Pdoggg Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Jesse Jane, a onetime Hooters waitress and beauty pageant contestant who went on to star in the highest-budget film series in pornographic film history, was found dead on Wednesday at a home in Oklahoma. She was 43. RIP 1 Quote Link to comment
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