Tag: obituary
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mockingbird media & embedded messages
cia/cnn talk show host tom braden dead at 92from cnn: Tom Braden, the creator and co-host of CNN’s “Crossfire,” which pioneered the talk-show format that pitted a conservative against a liberal, died Friday at age 92. Daughter Susan Braden said he died of natural causes at his home in Denver, Colorado. In 1982, Braden took…
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if it bleeds, it leads
shootouts, crashes, murder & mayhem…4 police officers dead in oakland gun battlefrom dpa: A fourth California police officer died Sunday after a gun battle with an armed prison parolee in Oakland, east of San Francisco. Three officers died during the battle Saturday, and the fourth died Sunday of his injuries, radio broadcaster KCBS reported. The…
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captain jonathan bayless: another minot air force base death
from ap: The body of a missile combat crew commander from the Minot Air Force Base was found by police, and the cause of his death is under investigation, the Air Force says. A statement issued by the base Sunday said the body of Capt. Jonathan Bayless, 28, was found Friday night [jan30]. Police did…
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‘i am not a number!’ patrick ‘the prisoner’ mcgoohan dies at 80
the icon of individuality who will live forever as ‘the prisoner’from paul joseph watson: Fans of the cult 1960’s TV show The Prisoner are today mourning the death of Patrick McGoohan, who passed away aged 80 after a short illness, but the role embodied by McGoohan as ‘Number 6’ will live on as an icon…
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samuel ‘clash of civilizations’ huntington dies
from reuters: Political scientist Samuel Huntington, whose controversial book “The Clash of Civilizations” predicted conflict between the West and the Islamic world, has died at age 81, Harvard University said on Saturday. Huntington, who taught for 58 years at Harvard before retiring in 2007, died Wednesday at a nursing facility in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, the…
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the war of christmas: murder, suicide, norad & santas
norad fighters escort santa through ‘north america’from no one has to die tomorrow: As if Christmas had not been destroyed enough by consumerism, here comes NORAD pushing their propaganda on the young believers. NORAD has a website to ‘track’ Santa’s whereabouts, and they are using Rudolph’s rfid red nose to follow the jolly old elf.…
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‘deep throat’ mark felt dies at 95
from washington post: W. Mark Felt Sr., the associate director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal who, better known as “Deep Throat,” became the most famous anonymous source in American history, died yesterday. He was 95. Felt died at 12:45 p.m. at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa, Calif., where he had…
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bondage babe bettie page dies at 85
from reuters: Bettie Page, one of America’s most photographed pin-up girls during the 1950s, died in Los Angeles on Thursday from pneumonia, her agent said. She was 85. Page was a ubiquitous sight during the 1950s, propelled to stardom when she posed for Playboy as Miss January 1955. Soon her image was gracing playing cards,…
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heiress von bulow dies after 28yrs in coma
from ap: Martha “Sunny” von Bulow, an heiress who spent the last 28 years of her life in oblivion after what prosecutors alleged in a pair of sensational trials were two murder attempts by her husband, died Saturday at age 76. She died at a nursing home in New York, her children said in a…
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news on the march: dc madam, eugenics, anthrax, mind control & more
florida police confirm dc madam ‘suicide’from washington times: Police in Florida closed the book Friday on the suicide of the so-called “D.C. Madam,” confirming that she hanged herself with a nylon rope rather than face prison time for running an elite prostitution ring. Tarpon Springs police hoped the report would help squelch online speculation that…
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‘illuminated’ author michael crichton dies of cancer
from ap: Michael Crichton, the million-selling author of such historic and prehistoric science thrillers as “Jurassic Park,” “Timeline” and “The Andromeda Strain,” has died of cancer, his family said. He died Tuesday in Los Angeles at age 66 after a long battle with the illness. Chrichton was a brand-name author, known for his stories of…
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nazi hatemonger bites the dust & 2 others plot to kill
from winter patriot: The right-wing Austrian politician Jörg Haider has been killed in a car crash. Too bad. Even though Haider was a Nazi sympathizer who was popular for his racist policies, his obituary (written by Matt Schudel) in the Washington Post tries hard to portray him as a respectable and successful figure, even while…
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misc: hadron hack, obits, paul, barr & jones
update: transformer glitch shuts down biggest atom smasherfrom ap: The world’s largest particle collider malfunctioned within hours of its launch to great fanfare, but its operator didn’t report the problem for a week. In a statement Thursday, the European Organization for Nuclear Research reported for the first time that a 30-ton transformer that cools part…
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barry jennings, key witness to wtc7 explosions, dead at 53
UPDATED SEPT 17 4:05 PM CSTNYC Housing Authority spokesman Howard Marder has now officially confirmed that Barry Jennings indeed passed away approximately a month ago after several days in the hospital, matching confirmations from several other employees at the Housing Authority. Marder commented that Jennings was a great man, well liked by everyone at the…
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ike pappas, who broadcast oswald death, dead at 75
from ap: Ike Pappas, a longtime CBS newsman who reported the shooting death of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on the radio as it was happening, has died at age 75. Pappas died Sunday in a hospital in Arlington, Virginia, of complications of heart disease, his family said. Pappas was among the reporters at the…