After spending much of the past year working intensively on The Climate Fix, I am overdue for some escapist reading. I am thus enjoying Steig Larsson's thrillers, but then come across this:Matilda is a hurricane that formed off Brazil a few weeks ago and tore straight through Paramaribo . . . [hurricane season] is usually September and October. But these days you can never tell, because there's so much trouble with the climate and the greenhouse effect and all that.It's fiction, I know, I know. Fortunately, Larsson gets back to the escapist stuff right away and Salander is again fighting bad guys, not freaky tornadocanes.
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I have only read two thrillers in my life. The first was Michael Crichton's 'State of Fear' - you know not go go there.
The second (recently) was about Diana, former wife of Charles, about who's death I knew almost nothing. Turns out it was the (very,very, very) evil Russians wot killed the poor woman. MI6 are really nice, warm loving people who wouldn't hurt a fly.
The author's (real name David Thomas) father was a member of the British government’s Joint Intelligence Committee, one of who's functions is to 'direct the collection and analysis effort of MI6'.
It was quite entertaining. The hero only kills people (Russians and Muslims) who deserve to die, which was comforting. They hated Britain, our freedoms and our world beating Premier League.
Amazon refused to publish my review.
The Accident Man -Tom Cain
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Accident-Man-Tom-Cain/dp/0552155357/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
http://xkcd.com/748/
You of course have read of the reviewer who characterized Andrew Montford's very excellent book on recent climate matters as 'Stieg Larssen without the lesbian kissing...'
I HIGHLY recommend these books, all three. Note, swedish movies (with subtitles) have been made of all three books, i saw the first movie over in England, it was released in the U.S. in April. Hard to imagine but the actress Roomi Napace nails Lisbeth's character
Roger,
I cringed when I read that part of the book, too. Still, the first two novels were great and I'm looking forward to tackling the third one soon.
Eric Berger
Weirdly enough there has been a hurricane in Brazil. Still pretty rare though.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2004/02apr_hurricane/
Re eric144. I find you have to ask yourself the question that reveals the conspiracy theory's logical flaw. In Diana's case ask "would MI6 use a Fiat Uno to force a Mercedes off the road?". With 9/11 you ask "Would Cheney be in the Whitehouse and Rumsfeld be in the Pentagon if they knew a plane/missile was coming?". Or "If they're that smart/devious, why couldn't they plant some WMD's in Iraq too?"
jdges
James Bond drove an Aston Martin, not a Fiat Uno. You are absolutely correct. According to MI6's favourite novelist, the Russians used a laser from a motorcycle to confuse the driver.
Five Mossad agents told Israeli TV they had been sent to record the events of 9/11 in New York. They failed FBI lie detector tests, so I don't believe them.
This is part of an Israeli made documentary that bizarrely tries to debunk the story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRfhUezbKLw
A friend wrote me a letter telling me that people were too stupid to create conspiracies. He is wrong. The CIA have carried out countless undercover operations most TV viewers have never heard of. I also reminded him of Apollo 16, Echelon, CERN and Hiroshima. His problem is that he isn't smart enough to do stuff like that and he assumes no one else is.
The ego is our biggest enemy.
Quick apology.
Part of that video is indeed a section of an Israeli documentary, but there is an anti Jewish overtone at the end I absolutely do not endorse. I didn't watch it through before I posted.
The story was first reported on ABC 20/20 and followed up by the Glasgow Herald. Three of the Israelis were revealed as Mossad agents by major Jewish American publication 'Forward' and they did fail FBI lie detector tests.
Many of the links I had are now broken as the websites have undergone improvements. It's easy to find versions still online.
Here it is on Fox News (at the very bottom)
The New York Times reported Thursday that a group of five men had set up video cameras aimed at the Twin Towers prior to the attack on Tuesday, and were seen congratulating one another afterwards.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34250,00.html
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