Obituaries

[Pdoggg]

An ex-girlfriend named one of her cats Illya due to his Man From UNCLE role.

 

[seanbeag7]

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'

[seven]

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.

[Pdoggg]

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.

 

[seven]

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. 

[seven]

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. 

[seven]

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.

[Woodie]

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. 

[Pdoggg]

Shane MacGowan RIP

 

[seven]

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

 

[Zeppie]

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.........

[seven]

6 minutes ago, Zeppie said:

I thought Nixon did end the war

Right 

[Zeppie]

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....

[Dan Miller]

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.

[Aitch]

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.

[Dan Miller]

[Pulci Gorgon]

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 ? 

[Dan Miller]

2 hours ago, Pulci Gorgon said:

 

Please, let me make sure. Was Lain the associate of Poe, or is this Poe himself ? 

Poe ??

[Pdoggg]

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 

[Pdoggg]

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."

[Zeppie]

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.

[Dan Miller]

[The-Sith]

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.

[Pulci Gorgon]

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

[Pdoggg]

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