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British-Soviet double agent George Blake dies aged 98 in Moscow (msn.com)
Britain says he exposed the identities of hundreds of Western agents across eastern Europe in the 1950s - some of whom were executed as a result.
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Blake, then family name Behar, was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands in 1922, the son of a Protestant Dutch mother, and a Sephardi Jewish father who was a naturalised British subject.[2][3] He was named George after King George V of the United Kingdom.[4][5] His father, Albert Behar, served in the British Army during the First World War. While Albert received the Meritorious Service Medal, he embellished his war service when recounting it to his wife and children, and also concealed his Jewish background until his death.[6] The Behars lived a comfortable existence in the Netherlands until Albert's death in 1936. The thirteen-year-old Behar was sent to live with a wealthy aunt in Egypt,[7] where he continued his education at the English School in Cairo. He later attended Downing College, Cambridge, to read Russian.[8]
In 1961, Blake fell under suspicion after revelations by Polish defector Michael Goleniewski and others. He was arrested when he arrived in London after being summoned from Lebanon, where he had been enrolled at the Middle East Centre for Arabic Studies (MECAS).[21] Three days into his interrogation,[7] Blake denied he was tortured or blackmailed by the North Koreans. Without thinking what he was saying, he stated that he had switched sides voluntarily. He then gave his MI6 interrogators a full confession.[22]

The maximum sentence for any one offence under section 1 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 is 14 years, but his activities were divided into five time periods charged as five offences and, in May 1961 after an in camera trial at the Old Bailey, he was sentenced to the maximum term of 14 years consecutively on each of three counts of spying for a potential enemy and 14 years concurrently on both the two remaining counts – a total of 42 years imprisonment – by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Parker of Waddington. This sentence was reported by newspapers to represent one year for each of the agents who were killed when he betrayed them, although this is dubious.[18] It was the longest sentence (excluding life terms) ever handed down by a British court, until Nezar Hindawi was sentenced to 45 years for the attempted bombing of an El Al jet.

Five years into his imprisonment in Wormwood Scrubs, Blake escaped with the help of three men he had met in jail: Sean Bourke and two anti-nuclear campaigners, Michael Randle and Pat Pottle. The escape was masterminded by Bourke, who first approached Randle only for financial help with the escape. Randle became more involved and suggested they bring Pottle in on the plan as well, as he had suggested springing Blake to Randle in 1962 when they were both still in prison. Their motives for helping Blake to escape were their belief that the 42-year sentence was "inhuman" and because of a personal liking of Blake.[23]

Blake later married again in the Soviet Union and had more children. He also reconciled with his other children.[7] In late 2007, Blake was awarded the Order of Friendship on his 85th birthday by Vladimir Putin.[29] Blake's later book, Transparent Walls (2006), as reported by the daily Vzglyad ("The View"). Sergei Lebedev, the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of the Russian Federation, wrote in the book's foreword that despite the book being devoted to the past, it is about the present as well. He also wrote that Blake, the 85-year-old colonel of Foreign Intelligence, "still takes an active role in the affairs of the secret service."

Blake died on 26 December 2020, aged 98, in Moscow.[33][34] The RIA news agency first reported of Blake's death, citing Russia's SVR foreign intelligence agency. “We received some bitter news – the legendary George Blake passed away,” it said.[35] Russian President Vladimir Putin, himself an ex-KGB agent, expressed his "deep condolences" to Blake's family and friends. In a message published on the Kremlin website, the Russian leader noted Blake's "invaluable contribution to ensuring strategic parity and maintaining peace on the planet."[36]
 
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Come on all you lazy "fat" bastards on the General Chat Thread and enter the stock picking competition.

And post in the thread of your pick. Let us get to 100 entries in the January 2021 Comp.

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If your a Liverpudlian you will be sad....
The rail clerk's son who became a Beatles buddy and Sixties icon: As veteran pop star Gerry Marsden dies at 78, a look back at his extraordinary life
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As Gerry Marsden dies at 78, a look back at his extraordinary life

Gerry Marsden was one of the pioneers of the Merseybeat sound and turned You'll Never Walk Alone into both a singalong for football fans and an anthem of hope.
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I never liked the guy due to his lack of basic manners. I could never stand the way he pointed at his guests when he interviewed them. I also thought he was very overrated. Just because you wear braces doesn't make you a super interviewer, no more than it makes you a wall street guru as many of the latter seem to think.
 

Rush Limbaugh Dies at 70; Turned Talk Radio Into a Right-Wing Attack Machine​

With a following of 15 million and a divisive style of mockery, grievance and denigrating language, he was a force in reshaping American conservatism.

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Rush Limbaugh Dies at 70; Turned Talk Radio Into a Right-Wing Attack Machine (Published 2021)

With a following of 15 million and a divisive style of mockery, grievance and denigrating language, he was a force in reshaping American conservatism.
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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark,[1] 10 June 1921[fn 1] – 9 April 2021) was a member of the British royal family as the husband of Queen Elizabeth II.

Philip was born into the Greek and Danish royal families. He was born in Greece, but his family was exiled from the country when he was an infant. After being educated in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, he joined the British Royal Navy in 1939, aged 18. From July 1939, he began corresponding with the thirteen-year-old Princess Elizabeth, whom he had first met in 1934. During the Second World War he served with distinction in the Mediterranean and Pacific Fleets. After the war, Philip was granted permission by George VI to marry Elizabeth. Before the official announcement of their engagement in July 1947, he abandoned his Greek and Danish titles and styles, became a naturalised British subject, and adopted his maternal grandparents' surname Mountbatten. He married Elizabeth on 20 November 1947. Just before the wedding, he was granted the style His Royal Highness and created Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth, and Baron Greenwich by King George VI. Philip left active military service when Elizabeth became queen in 1952, having reached the rank of commander, and was made a British prince in 1957.
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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - Wikipedia

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The rapper DMX has passed away.

I have only just this moment been made aware of him and his passing by the BBC.

What does a rapper do? Rap I presume. What a great loss to ....? rapping.

This will overshadow no doubt the passing of Phil the Greek.

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