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[dinovelvet]

Water shortage in Iraq? A dam being cut off? Has Dominic Greene been spotted in the area?

http://www.google.co...95c1c65e4e6d.91

[Guy Haines]

From tomorrow's Daily Telegraph, which has, quite surprisingly, taken up the "Wikileaks" baton where The Guardian left off:-

http://www.telegraph...e-missiles.html

Was YOLT just another Bond film, or 40 years ahead of itself?

[darkpath]

I could see this being the basis of a Bond story; but might be too sensitive a subject for the films:
WikiLeaks cables: US agrees to tell Russia Britain's nuclear secrets

For the record, I'm ashamed of my country for the first time in my life.

[Sark2.0]

I could see this being the basis of a Bond story; but might be too sensitive a subject for the films:
WikiLeaks cables: US agrees to tell Russia Britain's nuclear secrets

For the record, I'm ashamed of my country for the first time in my life.

For the record, we've agreed to give the Russian information about the nukes that we supply the UK. They're as much our nuclear secrets as Britain's.

[smudge76]

Thought i'd add this one to the thread. Raymond Allen Davies a consultant been held in pakistan. Shot two coppers who tried to rob him at gunpoint.
Bit of a diplomatic stir now been caused. Hope he gets back to US asap.

http://en.wikipedia....omatic_incident

[darkpath]

How about a Bubonic plague strain that specifically targets a percentage of people of European ancestry, ironically because of condition that improved survival odds against the original plague strain:

Plague Death Came Within Hours, Spurred by Scientist's Medical Condition

From the sound of it, it seems like no one was taking this strain very seriously and I sincerely doubt that security is remotely adequate for a strain that was presumed "safe".

[dinovelvet]

This one sounds like something that could be the plot of a Bond pørn spoof called Longfinger -

A single bite from the Brazilian wandering spider has been shown to have side-effects including four-hour long erections.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1363810/Spider-venom-causes-hour-long-erections-new-vıagra.html

[coco1997]

Amphibious Vehicle Concept Makes James Bond Drool


This thing would be great as a modern day TSWLM Lotus.

[Guy Haines]

I came across this in one of my favourite publications, Private Eye:-
http://www.private-e...nk=in_the_back

For "Quantum" read......."Monitor"? And I wonder if the Bond 23 people are observing events in the Middle East and thinking "what if.....?"

[MkB]

Maybe there's no reptile house in Central Park Zoo but there's obviously one in the Bronx Zoo... Fleming should have given "007 in the Bronx" a try!

Now, a deadly Egyptian cobra on the run twitting about his escape from the Bronx Zoo... New York does have everything!

http://news.bbc.co.u...700/9439748.stm

Deadly cobra gets Twitter account

A joke Twitter user giving "updates" on the missing deadly cobra in New York has more than 35,000 followers.

The snake escaped from New York City's Bronx Zoo on Friday, and still hasn't been found.

In one tweet, BronxZoosCobra says: "On top of the Empire State Building! All the people look like little mice down there. Delicious little mice."

In its Twitter account, The Bronx Zoo - which has 6,000 followers - admits it is "the snake's game".

New York zoo loses deadly cobra

The snake says it's visited the museum of Natural History and Ray's Pizza in NYC, but the joker behind the tweets hasn't revealed his or her identity...

[Guy Haines]

This story is all over the newspapers here in the UK today. You somehow don't expect a gunfight aboard a nuclear submarine, especially when some local bigwigs are aboard and a party of schoolchildren have left it. But it happened.

http://www.dailymail...hting-life.html

There was a local politician on board HMS Astute when it happened. He went aboard as a civic worthy, and emerged as a would be Bond?

[MkB]

This story is all over the newspapers here in the UK today. You somehow don't expect a gunfight aboard a nuclear submarine, especially when some local bigwigs are aboard and a party of schoolchildren have left it. But it happened.

http://www.dailymail...hting-life.html

There was a local politician on board HMS Astute when it happened. He went aboard as a civic worthy, and emerged as a would be Bond?

Ah yes indeed! That's a really odd event.

[Guy Haines]

More about nuclear submarines, and other items, this time from The Daily Telegraph:-

http://www.telegraph...l-blunders.html

If Karl Stromberg was alive and well in 2011, he could save himself the time, trouble and expense of a "submarine tracking system". Just wait for our dear old MoD to post the information about our submarine deployment on the internet!

[MkB]

Wearing a certain type of watch might be the sign of a link to Al Qaeda bombings: http://www.bbc.co.uk...gazine-13194733
The only thing is, Fleming, that old snob, would probably not have picked a "pedestrian" watch

[Guy Haines]

I'd say the news that Osama bin Laden is dead is, if confirmed, the biggest bit of "Bond like news" for over a decade. The man was described by The Sunday Times as "an Ernst Stavro Blofeld for our times" in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.

As I've posted elsewhere on this site, I'm far from sorry he's gone. A job for a real life Bond, but Felix and his special forces buddies got him instead!

[Guy Haines]

I came across this item in the business section of The Guardian today.

http://www.guardian....ibya-investment

Is a high stakes Texas hold 'em poker game at The Casino Royale needed to re-coup the lost investment?

[MkB]

Here's a piece about a mysterious, unidentified noise, reported in several places across England:
http://www.bbc.co.uk...gazine-13752688

I say, it has "megalomaniac archvillain evil plan" written all around it... or at least, Fleming could have written it all around!

[Guy Haines]

Might seem an odd addition to this thread, but think about it if you've read Carte Blanche.

http://www.telegraph...d-finished.html

I'm sure if Mr Severan Hydt and his Green Way International organisation were around, weekly bin collections could be resumed, and the resultant waste would certainly be "dead and finished", in a manner of speaking!

[Guy Haines]

From The Guardian, 16th June 2011.

http://www.guardian....neering-climate

Among the solutions discussed in Lima, Peru, is the use of gigantic orbiting space mirrors. Just so long as they don't get in the hands of genetically modified renegade N Korean types. Or a certain master-mind with a fondness for white Persian cats!

[MkB]

Interesting article about special phones and phone apps for emergency plans (and a nod to CARTE BLANCHE's iQPhone!)

http://www.bbc.co.uk...siness-13797150

[Guy Haines]

From Thursday's Guardian.

http://www.guardian....te-launch-orbit

As Bond might have asked M (as in YOLT) "Are the Iranians equipped to launch such a rocket?"

Or is SPECTRE doing the job for them? Scary or what?

[Guy Haines]

Any number of headlines and articles you care to mention today about mobile phone hacking, News International, Rupert Murdoch and the extraordinary demise of the "News Of The World".

To coin a phrase:- "This never happened to the other fella" (Elliot Carver, that is! )

Edited by Guy Haines, 08 July 2011 - 05:58 AM.

[Guy Haines]

http://www.dailymail...ers-Moscow.html

See above link. I realise he used to be an intelligence officer, but isn't this pushing it a bit?

(Then again, there's another item in the news today about nubile young Russian ladies vowing to undress for him, so maybe the connection with Bond isn't so far fetched! )

[Guy Haines]

During the Parliamentary committee hearing on the UK "Hacking scandal" (Murdoch junior doing corporate stonewalling, senior looking and acting his age as far as I can make out!), some village idiot gets up and attacks Rupert M. with either shaving foam or a pie or something - and Murdoch's Chinese wife Wendi wallops the assailant. Taking lessons from Colonel Wai Lin?

I know this is a media circus, but really, custard pies!

[Miles Miservy]

During the Parliamentary committee hearing on the UK "Hacking scandal" (Murdoch junior doing corporate stonewalling, senior looking and acting his age as far as I can make out!), some village idiot gets up and attacks Rupert M. with either shaving foam or a pie or something - and Murdoch's Chinese wife Wendi wallops the assailant. Taking lessons from Colonel Wai Lin?

I know this is a media circus, but really, custard pies!

"Get your pies for the GREAT PIE FIGHT..."
Oh wait, that's Blazings Saddles. Sorry.

[Guy Haines]

During the Parliamentary committee hearing on the UK "Hacking scandal" (Murdoch junior doing corporate stonewalling, senior looking and acting his age as far as I can make out!), some village idiot gets up and attacks Rupert M. with either shaving foam or a pie or something - and Murdoch's Chinese wife Wendi wallops the assailant. Taking lessons from Colonel Wai Lin?

I know this is a media circus, but really, custard pies!

"Get your pies for the GREAT PIE FIGHT..."
Oh wait, that's Blazings Saddles. Sorry.

Great film, my second favourite Mel Brooks after The Producers (1968 version).

Thinking yesterday's Parliamentary stuff,and media prurience, something occured to me. How would a Bond villain like Sir Hugo Drax fare in today's climate? I mean, he deliberately set himself up as the great, widely known national hero, and yet it took a card game and Bond snooping around to find him out. But these days? "Private Eye" magazine would have delved into where the money came from to set up Drax Metals Ltd (and his incredible run of luck at Blades). The "red tops" would have delved into his private life. And sooner or later some phone hacker might have wondered why all his conversations and texts were in German.

That said, would "Vallance of the Yard" have been on the take, blocking a proper investigation? The "old boy" network in government being too dim or self interested (also paid off?) to delve into Drax, deciding that it wasn't in "the national interest" to ask too many questions about him?

Yes, in the end we would probably have to rely on Bond to sort him out. And of course that other establishment figure, the "richest man in England", one Auric Goldfinger (although, again, the "Eye" would have been after him - questions about trips to Switzerland, trawlers running aground, and unmarked gold bars, to say nothing of rumours at the golf club about cheating!)

[coco1997]

One hull of a price tag: Luxury yacht that would make even Roman Abramovich jealous sells for £3bn

[Guy Haines]

Today, the Space Shuttle Atlantis returned to Earth for the last time. In the future, the US will look to private enterprise to send astronauts into space.

The film "Moonraker" was 2 years ahead of its time in launching shuttles, but 32 years ahead in showing a national space programme run by a private company. We can only hope that NASA doesn't subcontract human spaceflight to the Drax Enterprise Corporation!

[Rufus Ffolkes]

I'm surprised this one hasn't been mentioned yet:

Missile Warheads Stolen From Romanian Train...

http://www.bbc.co.uk...europe-14189205

Actually sounds rather like the beginning of the George Clooney film The Peacemaker.

[MkB]

I'm surprised this one hasn't been mentioned yet:

Missile Warheads Stolen From Romanian Train...

http://www.bbc.co.uk...europe-14189205

Actually sounds rather like the beginning of the George Clooney film The Peacemaker.

Nice one indeed! Somehow reminiscent of CARTE BLANCHE, too.