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2011-06-12 Down Under

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Posted by Steve White 2011-06-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 The Aussies had better do something quick, as FIJI is getting border ornery wid neighboring New Zealand oer some small islands.

* IIRC WAFF > FIJI ATTACKS NEW ZEALAND.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-06-12 00:29|| na 2011-06-12 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 I've been reading about this. They basically ran out of trained people to keep them seaworthy first and then the problems began to snowball.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-06-12 00:47|| 2011-06-12 00:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't they have a submarine sharing treaty with Canada?

Posted by Skidmark 2011-06-12 02:25|| 2011-06-12 02:25|| Front Page Top

#4 But I bet their Social Welfare programs are proceeding, er, swimmingly....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2011-06-12 09:06|| 2011-06-12 09:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Whoda thunk that driving off all the qualified people would have consequences?

Posted by gromky 2011-06-12 09:14|| 2011-06-12 09:14|| Front Page Top

#6 ...following the path of Hugo's Venezuela.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-06-12 10:55|| 2011-06-12 10:55|| Front Page Top

#7 >Whoda thunk that driving off all the qualified people would have consequences?<

A lot of outfits are going to be facing the experience/qualified issue as the experienced guys begin to retire and the ones in line to replace them come from our dysfunctional education system. Not too much on discipline and education but loads of self-esteem.

Should make future flying a more riskier business not to mention the effect on nuclear power utilities, etc.

Davemac

Posted by Omiting the Younger 2011-06-12 17:17|| 2011-06-12 17:17|| Front Page Top

#8 FIJI IS COMING, FIJI IS COMING ....

versus

* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > [PLA Gen. Luo Yuan]CHINESE NAVY IS [inevitably] BOUND TO BREAK THE FIRST ISLAND CHAIN, as the PLA on-going modernization + rise to de facto GLOBAL PROJECTION CAPABILITY by or shortly after 2020 is unstoppable.

and

* SAME > CHINA HAS SOVEREIGNTY OVER OKINAWA [Ryukyus], DAOYUS [Senkakus], SPRATLEYS + PARACELS SOUTH CHINA SEA ISLANDS DUE TO POST-WAR TAIWAN CLAIMS.

Post-Surrender/WW2 JAPAN turned 'em over to GEN. KAI-SHEK + POST-WAR 1945-1949 KUOMINTANG CHINA [Republic of China], whose claims were then assumed by post-1949-present COMMIE MAOIST CHINA.

versus

* DEFENCE. PK/FORUMS > US NOT COMING TO PHILIPPINES AID VERSUS CHINA.

* SAME > VIETNAM SEEKS INTERNATIONAL HELP IN SOUTH CHINA SEAS DISPUTE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-06-12 21:44|| 2011-06-12 21:44|| Front Page Top

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