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South Oz doesn't have anything to barter for income does it? Primarily a service and shopping centre economy that relies on Federal institutional welfare in the form of military contracts and 143% GST rebate?

My guess is that, because it isn't blessed with iron ore, tourism or coal any govt there will just tinker around the edges?
 
BREAKING: Russian foreign ministry has summoned ambassadors of nations that expelled Russian diplomats
 
Tisme said:
My guess is that, because it isn't blessed with iron ore, tourism or coal any govt there will just tinker around the edges?
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There’s iron ore in SA and a steelworks to go with it.

There’s no current mining but bituminous, sub-bituminous and lignite coals all exist in SA. Only the sub-bituminous coal has ever been mined on a commercial scale however and FWIW the SA government itself (via the former ETSA) did most of that mining with private enterprise taking over in the latter years and bringing it to an end.
 


When I said "blessed" ... 90% iron ore in WA (80% in the Hamersley), 62% black coal QLD (24% NSW), economical brown coal Vic 99%, SA zip%, tourism consumption e.g. QLD ~$30bn, SA ~$6.6bn
 
P&O don't appear to have cameras on the deck.

How can that be, given the number of deaths from people jumping or being pushed overboard? The number is very high. A lot higher than people realise.

Happened again. No evidence. Shithouse situation.
 

Why don't life buoys have epirbs?
 
Tisme said:
Why don't life buoys have epirbs?
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If the ship's moving, you won't get it out in time, so it wouldn't help. But cruise ships are potential crime scenes, clearly. 200 people have vanished off the side of cruise ships since 2000.
 
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If the ship's moving, you won't get it out in time, so it wouldn't help. But cruise ships are potential crime scenes, clearly. 200 people have vanished off the side of cruise ships since 2000.
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Didn't I see footage pf them throwing a buoy to the stricken person or was that just visual library exaggeration? I really don't know.
 
Tisme said:
Didn't I see footage pf them throwing a buoy to the stricken person or was that just visual library exaggeration? I really don't know.
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I don't know. If they had epirbs you could use them to track approximate position so that would help. Takes a long time to turn a cruise ship around, almost as long as the Queen Mary. Wait...
 
It's started....the UK, US, and France have launched attacks against Syria.
 
SirRumpole said:
It could get nasty very quickly.

Trump may use it as an opportunity to kick Russia, then who knows where it will go.
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Taking the opportunity to show Putin the “nice and new and 'smart" Nato missiles in action?
 
Since I don't know much about politics or war, I always refer to the schoolyard if I want to know what might happen next. The alpha male will get challenged every now and then, but rarely does he end up in a huge brawl. The brutal stuff happens between the lower and middle ranked kids. In the case where there are two equally ranked apha males, they tend to recruit support, polarize the population and avoid each other. The cost of conflict is high and everyone knows it.

The US & allies are still number one...just. The Chinese are desperate to knock them off their perch and take the mantle. Russia is the kid who will attack soft targets and then lie about it. NK is the kid who just wants any form of conflict or disturbance because it excites him. Human nature is pathetic.
 
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I don't think Putin will necesssarily make a direct military response. But don't be surprised if some critical infrastructure in the US/UK/France gets the wobbles.

And who knows when someone decides to leak Donald Trumps KGB file.

The stories about Russian media discussing what to take into a bomb shelter are unnerving. I sincerely hope the hot line between Russian and Western military commanders is all good.
 
Donald - Hello Vlad how are you.
Vlad - Great.
Donald. How are you getting on moving all your planes and equipment and I need to know what you don't mind me bombing.
Vlad - need a bit more time really and you need to let me know which dud rockets to blast out of the sky.
Donald - Yeh, we'll send them across at low speed so you can hit them and they'll have plenty of smoke given off so you can photograph them for the Russian Media.
Vlad - Fine. We will put the same in these buildings marked A to Y. We wanted them out of the way.
Donald - As soon as it's over we can work out what to say and what your reply should be.
Vlad - and I've got a few things up my sleeve on your FBI so you can tweet them. By the way, thanks for putting sanctions on certain items. The price rose and we profited nicely. Bank accounts in Cyprus well padded.
 
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