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[Aris007]

MI6 Worker Found Murdered

[Guy Haines]

http://www.telegraph...Q-arrested.html

Pay attention Signor Bond. I'm going to make you an offer you can't refuse!

[Guy Haines]

From yesterday's Daily Telegraph,

Russian subs stalk Trident in echo of Cold War

Russian submarines are hunting down British Vanguard boats in a return to Cold War tactics not seen for 25 years, Navy chiefs have warned.

"The Russians have been playing games with us, the Americans and French in the North Atlantic," a senior Navy commander said.

"We have put a lot of resources into protecting Trident because we cannot afford by any stretch to let the Russians learn the acoustic profile of one of our bombers as that would compromise the deterrent."

http://www.telegraph...f-Cold-War.html

All we need to throw into the mix now is that infamous supertanker with the unusual bow, The Liparus.

[MkB]

I just love the seemingly inoffensive stories that scream "intelligence issue" - like the "roseate spoonbill" bird in Dr No (novel), remember?

What about this one?

Whales found dead on Donegal beach


Environmentalists are trying to establish how 33 whales beached and died off the coast of County Donegal.

They were found on Rutland Island near Burtonport on Saturday.

It's thought they were the same group spotted in the Inner Hebrides at the end of October.

Dr Simon Berrow of the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group said it was one of the biggest mass deaths of whales in Irish history.

He is concerned that Royal Navy sonar equipment could have played a role.

"Thirty or 40 pilot whales were spotted off the Inner Hebrides at South Uist last week," he said.

"It looked like they were going to strand. It was bad weather. They were not seen again."

Dr Berrow said the British Navy had been in the area off South Uist and had moved away.

Campaigners were concerned that the latest sonar equipment could have disturbed the navigational skills of this deep diving species of whales.

No-one from the Royal Navy was available to comment on Sunday.

In the past, the navy has denied that sonar noise from their warships could cause whales to beach.

However, in America, the US Navy was ordered not to use mid-frequency sonar during training exercises from 2007 and 2009, after a judge found in favour of campaigners who argued the devices harmed marine mammals in the area.

A team from Galway/Mayo Institute of Technology travelled to the scene off Donegal at the weekend to see if they could determine what had happened.

Sixty whales died in the 1960s off the west coast of Kerry and 35 to 40 animals died in north Kerry in 2001.

source: http://www.bbc.co.uk...reland-11705622


What would you say about a mass death of whales as the premise of a Bond story? As the sign that "something fishy" is going on underwater, possibly because the sonar exercises of the Villain's ships.

[darkpath]

What would you say about a mass death of whales as the premise of a Bond story? As the sign that "something fishy" is going on underwater, possibly because the sonar exercises of the Villain's ships.

I think that's a brilliant idea!

[Guy Haines]

We've had the incident at East Midlands Airport, just down the M1 from where I live - bombs primed to explode aboard a cargo aircraft in mid air. Then we have the Qantas airliner which had to make an emergency landing when its Rolls-Royce engines went peculiar on it. Engines made just down the road in the city of Derby.

I'm beginning to wonder - is there a SPECTRE or Quantum cell operating in my neck of the woods?

("Unless your government pays to us, in a manner to be designated by us, the sum of [insert appropriately large ransom amount here], we will........" - all of you out there have seen Thunderball, so you know the rest! )

Edited by Guy Haines, 08 November 2010 - 06:51 PM.

[Scrambled Eggs]

Drax lives.

California Missile Mystery

[Guy Haines]

Got him - the missing link between the films "TLD" and "LTK"

http://www.guardian....aler-extradited

[Guy Haines]

I'm not sure that this is "Bond like news" as such, but very soon a Minister of Defence from the Bond films will be taking his place as a politician in the real world. The latest list of "working peers" (appointed members of the UK House of Lords who actually have to turn up and vote!) includes Julian Fellowes, who appeared as the Defence Minister in TND - where he spent as much time stopping M and Admiral Roebuck from coming to blows as trying to prevent World War III.

Julian Fellowes has, of course, gone on to even bigger things in film and TV, notably the film "Gosford Park" and the recent TV series "Downton Abbey", but as a screenwriter as well as an actor. Incidentally, when the question of how many Oscar winners have acted in Bond films arises, we tend to think of Sean Connery, Christopher Walken, Benicio Del Toro and Halle Berry from the official series. (Plus Woody Allen, John Huston, Orson Welles etc. from CR 1967.)

To which list, of course, should be added Fellowes - he won the Oscar for Best Screenplay written directly for the screen for "Gosford Park".

Edited by Guy Haines, 20 November 2010 - 09:16 PM.

[Anticitizen]

Under interrogation, he revealed that, at Nazi spy school, he had been told to study the works of PG Wodehouse in order to learn how an Englishman dressed and behaved.

I feel for the German spy... Going through life dressed and acting like Bertie Wooster must have been tough!

I haven't finished the thread, but I haven't seen this mentioned yet - Red Grant is described as having a PG Wodehouse novel among his possessions in the opening passages of From Russia With Love. Can't be a coincidence.

[Guy Haines]

Breaking news on BBC TV this morning. Artillery fire exchanged between North and South Korea, dozens of homes near the border damaged, South Korean Air Force jets scrambled.
http://www.bbc.co.uk...acific-11818005

Oh dear. TND meets DAD yet again? Lets hope not.

[MkB]

Under interrogation, he revealed that, at Nazi spy school, he had been told to study the works of PG Wodehouse in order to learn how an Englishman dressed and behaved.

I feel for the German spy... Going through life dressed and acting like Bertie Wooster must have been tough!

I haven't finished the thread, but I haven't seen this mentioned yet - Red Grant is described as having a PG Wodehouse novel among his possessions in the opening passages of From Russia With Love. Can't be a coincidence.

Nicely spotted, Anticitizen!
I had completely forgotten that. Maybe Fleming had heard about this affair during the war.

[MkB]

So evident I barely need to mention it:

http://wikileaks.org

Bond is probably being briefed by M right now about his next assignment: Julian Assange!

[Agent Spriggan Ominae]

QOS for real?

http://news.yahoo.co...sdrinkresources

Bet Fiji Water wishes they had a "nice person" like Dominic Greene to handle covert lobbying efforts. Perhaps they did but maybe there really are real life "007s" around still to wage these covert wars which is comforting in light of things like this..

http://news.yahoo.co.../us_korea_north

and this

http://news.yahoo.co...mFuYmxhbWVzaXM-

...
http://www.canada.co...9991/story.html

...
http://www.theregist...uclear_stuxnet/

the last one is very interesting. Heysham one was also one of the targets in Licence Renewed. Life is stranger than fiction sometimes.

[Guy Haines]

Drax lives.

California Missile Mystery

And according to this snippet from the Daily Telegraph, it looks as if Drax Metals Ltd is back in business!

"Mystery trader captures 80pc of London's copper market
A single trader has gobbled up to four-fifths of the copper traded in London, stockpiling it in warehouses."

http://www.telegraph...per-market.html

[Sark2.0]

So evident I barely need to mention it:

http://wikileaks.org

Bond is probably being briefed by M right now about his next assignment: Julian Assange!

Perhaps he'll go rouge like in QoS. We can hope.

[Vauxhall]

So evident I barely need to mention it:

http://wikileaks.org

Bond is probably being briefed by M right now about his next assignment: Julian Assange!

Perhaps he'll go rouge like in QoS. We can hope.

Going rouge would be joining the Reds, I guess?

[dinovelvet]

"Mystery trader captures 80pc of London's copper market
A single trader has gobbled up to four-fifths of the copper traded in London, stockpiling it in warehouses."

http://www.telegraph...per-market.html

Copperfinger?

[Guy Haines]

"Mystery trader captures 80pc of London's copper market
A single trader has gobbled up to four-fifths of the copper traded in London, stockpiling it in warehouses."

http://www.telegraph...per-market.html

Copperfinger?

"Copper...FINGAH!!!!!".....der derrr der!!!"
No, try as I might I can't even imagine Dame Shirley Bassey managing that one. Nor a re-write of the villain's comment "All my life I have been in love. I have been in love with.....copper"

[Sark2.0]

So evident I barely need to mention it:

http://wikileaks.org

Bond is probably being briefed by M right now about his next assignment: Julian Assange!

Perhaps he'll go rouge like in QoS. We can hope.

Going rouge would be joining the Reds, I guess?

Only if you assume Wikileaks is controlled by the "Reds", whoever that may be.

[Guy Haines]

So evident I barely need to mention it:

http://wikileaks.org

Bond is probably being briefed by M right now about his next assignment: Julian Assange!

In which case. I hope that Q branch have equipped 007 appropriately, because Mr Assange and his followers have a headquarters in Sweden that is straight out of the SPECTRE school of exterior and interior design. Consider this link from today's Daily Mail below.
http://www.dailymail...illain-den.html

The Mail reporter thinks it is similar to Drax's space station, but personally it reminds me of Gustav Graves' fake eco-park/diamond mine set up. All that is missing is a weird looking character with diamond shaped acne!

[Guy Haines]

A certain secret agent, a "Mr J Bond", is in the psychiatrists chair, the shrink in question being a certain Dr Gerry Mander, according to this link taken from yesterday's Observer newspaper. I think this Wikileaks stuff is getting to him!

http://www.guardian....ch-gerry-mander

Well, it made me chuckle, anyway!

[darkpath]

This article caught my attention and it certainly seems to have the whiff of some intelligence organization's work:
'Stuxnet virus set back Iran’s nuclear program by 2 years'

[MkB]

This article caught my attention and it certainly seems to have the whiff of some intelligence organization's work:
'Stuxnet virus set back Iran’s nuclear program by 2 years'

Nice one darkpath!


I found this piece of news on the BBC website, and it struck me for its Bond story potential:
The abalone, a beautiful exotic shellfish (well, at least the shell is beautiful ) is poached because gourmet millionaires in China and Hong Kong are fond of it (abalone sells at £1000 / $1500 a kilo!). Poachers go scuba diving for the shellfish, and smuggle it into China. The smuggling of the abalone, now an endangered species protected in many parts of the world, is linked to the famous and dreadful Chinese Triads.

I could really see a Bond story there... A flemingesque touch with the exotic shellfish as a starting point, a picturesque villain at the head of the Triads (or hiring them), plenty of opportunities for underwater action... and twisted Freudian tortures!

Source (video): http://www.bbc.co.uk.../world-12089041

Live abalone:


Shell:

[MkB]

The outcome of some twisted Arch-Villain evil scheme?

Mass animal deaths: a map
http://maps.google.c...1bca25af104a22b

[Jeff007]

MI6 Worker Found Murdered

Missed this back than as I was travelling with some CBn'ers. Interesting read. Suspicious.

[Santa]

The outcome of some twisted Arch-Villain evil scheme?

Mass animal deaths: a map
http://maps.google.c...1bca25af104a22b

I've been thinking the same thing - I'm waiting to hear about some evil mastermind in the news on this one.

[MkB]

The idea of this "Caribbean cruise for spies" sounds so ludicrous that it could be in a Bond story:



More: http://www.bbc.co.uk.../world-12127290

[Anticitizen]

The idea of this "Caribbean cruise for spies" sounds so ludicrous that it could be in a Bond story:



More: http://www.bbc.co.uk.../world-12127290

I hope they don't forget that loose lips sink ships!

[Chief of SIS]

The idea of this "Caribbean cruise for spies" sounds so ludicrous that it could be in a Bond story:



More: http://www.bbc.co.uk.../world-12127290

It's the ultimate terrorist trap. Terrorists boarding the ship will be welcomed by 20,000 government agents.

Edited by Chief of SIS, 17 January 2011 - 04:30 AM.