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Re: Rest in Peace

Postby BenDhyan » Fri Sep 18, 2020 8:06 pm

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion Of Gender Equality, Dies At 87
September 18, 20207:28 PM ET

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the demure firebrand who in her 80s became a legal, cultural and feminist icon, died Friday. The Supreme Court announced her death, saying the cause was complications from metastatic cancer of the pancreas.

The court, in a statement, said Ginsburg died at her home in Washington surrounded by family. She was 87.

"Our nation has lost a justice of historic stature," Chief Justice John Roberts said. "We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her, a tired and resolute champion of justice."

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/100306972/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87
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Re: Rest in Peace

Postby Belligerent Savant » Sun Sep 20, 2020 10:44 am

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Stephen Cohen.

A memorable dismantling of the loathsome Max Boot here (particularly from the ~4 min. mark onward):



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_F._Cohen


In a July 2015 interview, Cohen said:


Even Henry Kissinger—I think it was in March 2014 in The Washington Post—wrote this line: "The demonization of Putin is not a policy. It's an alibi for not having a policy." And then I wrote in reply to that: That's right, but it’s much worse than that, because it's also that the demonization of Putin is an obstacle to thinking rationally, having a rational discourse or debate about American national security. And it’s not just this catastrophe in Ukraine and the new Cold War; it's from there to Syria to Afghanistan, to the proliferation of nuclear weapons, to fighting global terrorism. The demonization of Putin excludes a partner in the Kremlin that the U.S. needs, no matter who sits there.




In an article for The Nation that was published in February 2014, he made an accusation of "media malpractice",[12] including the journalism of The New York Times and The Washington Post, with the result that the "American media on Russia today are less objective, less balanced, more conformist and scarcely less ideological than when they covered Soviet Russia during the Cold War."[13]

In a May 17, 2017 interview with Tucker Carlson, Cohen said: "You and I have to ask a subversive question: are there really three branches of government, or is there a fourth branch of government—these intel services?" He also stated that a military alliance that President Barack Obama had tried to establish with Putin against terrorism was "sabotaged by the Department of Defense and its allies in the intelligence services." Each of Trump's efforts to "cooperate with Russia" was "thwarted [by] a new leak of a story."[14]

Cohen called Ukraine "a country that has long been deeply divided". He referred to Russia's annexing of Crimea in 2014 as part of a civil war and stated "one part tilts toward Russia and one part tilts toward the West".[15] Cohen also disputed evidence that Russia shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a calamity that killed all 298 people on board. He pointed out that the Ukrainian government had possession of Russian Buk surface-to-air missiles, and suggested the country "was playing with its new toys and made a big mistake."[16][17]

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Re: Rest in Peace

Postby Handsome B. Wonderful » Sun Nov 01, 2020 3:41 pm

Sean Connery. Goodbye to a legend.
Born we are the same, within the silence, indifference be Thy name
Torn we walk alone, we sleep in silent shades
The grandeur fades, the meaning never known- 'Born' Nevermore
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Robert Fisk

Postby JackRiddler » Sun Nov 01, 2020 5:51 pm

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Veteran journalist and author Robert Fisk dies aged 74
Highly regarded and controversial foreign correspondent suffers stroke at Dublin home

Conor Pope

Veteran foreign correspondent and author Robert Fisk has died after suffering a suspected stroke at his Dublin home.

It is understood the journalist became unwell on Friday and was admitted to St Vincent’s hospital where he died a short time later. He was 74.

Fisk was one of the most highly regarded and controversial British foreign correspondents of the modern era and was described by the New York Times in 2005 as “probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain”.

He had a long relationship with Ireland dating back to 1972 when he moved to Belfast to work as Northern Ireland correspondent for the London Times at the height of the Troubles.

He subsequently did his PhD in Trinity College, completing a thesis on Ireland’s neutrality during the second World War. He owned a home in Dalkey where he lived for many years.

His career in journalism started with the Sunday Express in London but that relationship was brief and he soon moved to the Times.

After making a name for himself reporting from Northern Ireland for that paper, Fisk relocated briefly to Portugal and then to Beirut where he worked as Middle East correspondent, once again for the Times.

Sending refugees to Turkey a misadventure – Robert Fisk

He covered, among other events, the Lebanese civil war, Russian invasion of Afghanistan, Iranian revolution and the Iran-Iraq War.

He joined the London Independent in 1989 after a row with the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper and continued to work for that publication until his death. It is understood that he was planning his return to the Middle East in recent days.

Critical of the United States

He reported extensively on the first Gulf War basing himself for a time in Baghdad where he was fiercely critical of other foreign correspondents whom he accused of covering the conflict from their hotel rooms.

He also covered the US-led war wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and frequently condemned US involvement in the region. Fisk was one of very few western reporters to interview Osama Bin Laden, something he did on three occasions in the 1990s.

He also covered five Israeli invasions, the Algerian civil war, Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait and the 2011 Arab revolutions. He worked in the Balkans during the conflict there and more recently covered the conflict in Syria.

He received numerous awards over the course of his career including the Orwell Prize for Journalism, British Press Awards International Journalist of the Year and Foreign Reporter of the Year on multiple occasions.

He was given honorary degrees and doctorates from universities in several countries. And in 2009 was awarded Trinity College Dublin’s Historical Society’s gold medal, bestowed upon those who have made a significant contribution in the public sphere towards forwarding the society’s ideals of debate, discussion and public discourse.

Among his most well regarded books were The Point of No Return: The Strike Which Broke the British in Ulster, Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War and The Great War for Civilisation – The Conquest of the Middle East.

“I have learned with great sadness of the death of Robert Fisk. With his passing the world of journalism and informed commentary on the Middle East has lost one of its finest commentators,” said President Higgins.

“I have had the privilege of knowing Robert Fisk since the 1990s, and of meeting him in some of the countries of which he wrote with such great understanding. I met him in Iraq, and last year I had my last meeting with him in Beirut, during my official visit to Lebanon.

“I knew that his taking of Irish citizenship meant a great deal to him. And his influence on young practitioners in journalism and political writing was attested by the huge audiences which attended the occasions on which he spoke in Ireland.”

Mr Higgins said that generations, not only of Irish people but worldwide, relied on Fisk for a critical and informed view of what was taking place in the conflict zones of the world and, even more important, the influences that were perhaps the source of the conflict.

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Re: Rest in Peace

Postby Grizzly » Tue Nov 03, 2020 12:55 am

Damn.

He was also back in Iraq for President Cheney and that Jr, fuck*, in Iraq 2.0 When it became protocol to fire on Journalist's with Tanks, rocket propelled grenades, Apache helicopters and other death machines.


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Re: Rest in Peace

Postby Spiro C. Thiery » Wed Feb 24, 2021 7:53 am

Seeing the world through rose-colored latex.
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Re: Rest in Peace

Postby Iamwhomiam » Wed Feb 24, 2021 11:37 am

Ferlinghetti in his own voice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jz6gDVHa7Q
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Re: Rest in Peace

Postby BenDhyan » Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:55 am

Great Britain's Prince Philip Dies At Age 99

April 9, 2021

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Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband and the Duke of Edinburgh, died Friday at age 99, Buckingham Palace announced. He was the first male royal consort since Queen Victoria's time in the 1800s — and the longest-serving consort in British history.

"It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen announces the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh," the Royal Family's official website said. "His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle. Further announcements will [be] made in due course. The Royal Family join with people around the world in mourning his loss."

Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark was a dashing young officer when he courted then-Princess Elizabeth after World War II, when he had served with the Royal Navy's Mediterranean and Pacific fleets.

"To have been spared in the war and seen victory, to have been given the chance to rest and to re-adjust myself, to have fallen in love completely and unreservedly, makes all one's personal and even the world's troubles seem small and petty," he wrote Elizabeth in 1946.

By the time of their wedding in 1947, he had renounced his royal titles and naval career, taken British citizenship and agreed that his children would carry his wife's family name of Windsor.

These were significant sacrifices, says Karina Urbach of the University of London's Institute of Historical Research. "He must have regretted it a lot," she says. "It's a very privileged life, of course, but it's also a very boring life. It also meant that a man like him, who is an alpha man, who wants to lead, who wants to be recognized in his own profession, you know, couldn't fulfill that."

Later in life, Philip took to describing himself as "the world's most experienced plaque unveiler."

Philip was born in Corfu, Greece, into a deeply dysfunctional branch of the Greek royal family. His father was notorious as a philanderer and gambler. His mother, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and sent to a mental hospital, became deeply religious. Young Philip grew up couch-surfing between royal relatives across Europe.

"I had vaguely thought, 'What could I do?' " he told the BBC in 1995. "Bit difficult being stateless."

In the early years, Philip was considered a rebel and a modernizer. He bristled at stuffy courtiers and allowed cameras behind the scenes at Buckingham Palace.

But by the 1970s, Philip was widely seen as a crotchety, angular figure trailing his wife at royal walkabouts, emitting intermittent and much-reported gaffes. He called Beijing a "ghastly" city while on a visit there. He once asked a female navy cadet if she worked in a strip club. And he congratulated a British backpacker in Papua New Guinea for not being eaten.

Matthew Glencross, a historian at King's College London, says these statements may have been intentional. "The man was no idiot," he says. "The man knew when he was saying certain things. And I think he almost deliberately did it. He kind of enjoyed it, because it provided the light side of a royal tour."

If it bothered Queen Elizabeth, she never let on. Philip was her closest companion and confidant and one of the last links to her life before the throne.

"He is someone who doesn't take easily to compliments. But he has, quite simply, been my strength and stay all these years," she said 50 years after their wedding. The couple had four children: Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward.

Historians say Philip, a great-great-grandchild of Queen Victoria, was always aware that, as royal consort, he had no constitutional role in British politics or public life. He was careful not to cross that line.

But he devoted many hours to supporting British institutions and was a passionate advocate for the environment — a passion shared by his son Charles. The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, which he founded in 1956, honors achievements of young people around the world.

Philip announced his retirement from public duties in 2017

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/09/526825742/great-britains-prince-philip-dies-at-age-99

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Re: Rest in Peace

Postby Grizzly » Fri Apr 09, 2021 12:39 pm

"May he rest in piss. The monarchy hides pedophiles and needs to be fully dismantled". Isn't this the fucker that wanted to come back as a virus and wipe out hugh manity?
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Re: Rest in Peace

Postby Joe Hillshoist » Fri Apr 09, 2021 8:09 pm

Where is his grave so we can piss on it?
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Re: Rest in Peace

Postby PufPuf93 » Wed Jun 23, 2021 4:20 pm

John McAfee found dead in prison after Spanish court allows extradition

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Antivirus creator John McAfee, 75, was found dead in his prison cell in Barcelona after the Spanish high court had authorised his extradition to the U.S., the Catalan justice department said, confirming an earlier report from El Mundo newspaper.

Known for his eccentric behaviour and videos, McAfee, 75, was a pioneer of anti-virus software and indicted in Tennessee on tax evasion charges. He also was charged in a cryptocurrency fraud case in New York.

Spain's high court agreed to extradite McAfee to the United States, a court document released on Wednesday said.

(Reporting by Inti Landauro and Joan Faus, Editing by Franklin Paul and Cynthia Osterman)


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Re: Rest in Peace

Postby Harvey » Wed Jun 23, 2021 4:57 pm

PufPuf93 » Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:20 pm wrote:John McAfee found dead in prison after Spanish court allows extradition

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Antivirus creator John McAfee, 75, was found dead in his prison cell in Barcelona after the Spanish high court had authorised his extradition to the U.S., the Catalan justice department said, confirming an earlier report from El Mundo newspaper.

Known for his eccentric behaviour and videos, McAfee, 75, was a pioneer of anti-virus software and indicted in Tennessee on tax evasion charges. He also was charged in a cryptocurrency fraud case in New York.

Spain's high court agreed to extradite McAfee to the United States, a court document released on Wednesday said.

(Reporting by Inti Landauro and Joan Faus, Editing by Franklin Paul and Cynthia Osterman)


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He was murdered. Everything else is bullshit. Can you you imagine McAfee putting what he knows on record in a court?
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Re: Rest in Peace

Postby PufPuf93 » Wed Jun 23, 2021 5:31 pm

Harvey » Wed Jun 23, 2021 1:57 pm wrote:
PufPuf93 » Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:20 pm wrote:John McAfee found dead in prison after Spanish court allows extradition

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Antivirus creator John McAfee, 75, was found dead in his prison cell in Barcelona after the Spanish high court had authorised his extradition to the U.S., the Catalan justice department said, confirming an earlier report from El Mundo newspaper.

Known for his eccentric behaviour and videos, McAfee, 75, was a pioneer of anti-virus software and indicted in Tennessee on tax evasion charges. He also was charged in a cryptocurrency fraud case in New York.

Spain's high court agreed to extradite McAfee to the United States, a court document released on Wednesday said.

(Reporting by Inti Landauro and Joan Faus, Editing by Franklin Paul and Cynthia Osterman)


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He was murdered. Everything else is bullshit. Can you you imagine McAfee putting what he knows on record in a court?


McAfee's attorney said he was dead by hanging.

Agree no one of any influence wanted McAfee to talk.

Had not thought of McAfee after he came back to the USA from Belize.
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Re: Rest in Peace

Postby Joe Hillshoist » Wed Jun 23, 2021 6:23 pm

And now a tweet from him has surfaced saying if he dies b y hanging it wasn't him.
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