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[miket12]

That is excessive water usage.
What was last years total? There shouldn't be much difference.

Their usage is on the high end for six people but not excessive.

We’ve only got two in our household (compared to their six) and even though I think my wife was potentially a fish in a previous life (based on the length of time she spends in the shower) our water usage would be 1/3 of theirs on average.

 

[Noitall]

Seems that act minister Nicola McKee has different recollections to Paula Bennett when Bennett was the minister and McKee was sought out for her knowledge of firearms. Mckee was on q and a a couple of months ago stating that she had raised concerns about the ability to manufacture a semiautomatic through the purchase of individual parts and adding them together. That of which the Christchurch shooter went on to do. Documents now say that McKee never raised any such concerns and she says that it was mentioned to Bennett, to which she says though being 7 or more years ago her recollection is hazy, but doesn’t believe it was ever brought up

 

[John Nick]

Seems that act minister Nicola McKee has different recollections to Paula Bennett when Bennett was the minister and McKee was sought out for her knowledge of firearms. Mckee was on q and a a couple of months ago stating that she had raised concerns about the ability to manufacture a semiautomatic through the purchase of individual parts and adding them together. That of which the Christchurch shooter went on to do. Documents now say that McKee never raised any such concerns and she says that it was mentioned to Bennett, to which she says though being 7 or more years ago her recollection is hazy, but doesn’t believe it was ever brought up

Not knowing much about guns etc. myself but Mckee seems like a piece of work

 

[Noitall]

The Post

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Cuts to defence not paying off already. Have to wonder how they managed this

 

[Noitall]

Not knowing much about guns etc. myself but Mckee seems like a piece of work

Can recall Karen Chhour seeming out of her depth in recent times too. Bit of a worry here with it looking increasingly all the time that Casey Costello has been lobbied by the tobacco industry, increasingly that McKee has been lobbied by guns. You’d have to wonder with through a partnership that Māori have rights over the land and whether a treaty bill is to designed to question those rights in being lobbied by the mining industry?

 

[Damo]

The Post

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Cuts to defence not paying off already. Have to wonder how they managed this

Only rumours around at this stage.
Judith Collins has a press conference this afternoon, hopefully find out more. Glad everyone is safe and ashore now though.

 

[dean]

The Post

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Cuts to defence not paying off already. Have to wonder how they managed this

Must have been hard to find that reef.

 

[Damo]

Must have been hard to find that reef.

Total electrical failure can do that to a ship.

 

[dean]

Total electrical failure can do that to a ship.

It can but the engines would likely not stop. Hard astern?

 

[Inruin]

Total electrical failure can do that to a ship.

Not sure if it was a total electrical failure, seems like they still had power, but does seem that they lost the ability to control and maneuver the ship. Has happened previously quite famously to a similar ship i believe.

 

[John Nick]

Apparently there is a lot more to this to follow.
I will save any judgment until we know the details
Bound to be an enquiry

 

[Damo]

Not sure if it was a total electrical failure, seems like they still had power, but does seem that they lost the ability to control and maneuver the ship. Has happened previously quite famously to a similar ship i believe.

Just rumours I am hearing, very sad. I served on MAN a few years ago.

 

[Inruin]

Just rumours I am hearing, very sad. I served on MAN a few years ago.

Yes, very sad day. The good thing is everyone got off and to shore. Hopefully the injured aren't serious ones.

 

[Damo]

Yes, very sad day. The good thing is everyone got off and to shore. Hopefully the injured aren't serious ones.

Sounds like everyone is safe and ashore in Samoa now.
Good call to abandon ship so quickly by the looks.

 

[dean]

Just rumours I am hearing, very sad. I served on MAN a few years ago.

Can you share the rumours? Looks like a decent ship.

 

[Damo]

Can you share the rumours? Looks like a decent ship.

Seems like what is publicly out there anyway mate. I'm still in, so don't want to potentially breach OPSEC by speculating

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Apparently there is a lot more to this to follow.
I will save any judgment until we know the details
Bound to be an enquiry

Rumour they had no fire fighting equipment on board?

If so… WTF. Time will tell.

Also when the Astrolabe reef was hit in Tauranga, the clean up and cost was astronomical. Will be interesting Luxons disaster management after the great job recently by Ardern.

 

[Damo]

Rumour they had no fire fighting equipment on board?

If so… WTF. Time will tell.

Can very much say this is untrue.

 

[John Nick]

Can very much say this is untrue.

Agree. MNZ wouldn't have let it leave port without the appropriate equipment.
Just my opinion

 

[MrFrankWhite]

What do you think of the current geopolitical situation, who's winning the psychological operations and psyop actions?

Currently? Russia and China are making inroads. There’s never been more anti Israeli sentiment than right now.

But they have to catch up on 100years of dogmatic programming. The problem for the west is that technology is uncovering some inconvenient facts that make history uncomfortable.

These have been challenging the normal order of things in the west.
the archaeological site Göbekli Tepe.
the English translation of Hitlers speech’s
Diddy showing the perversion in entertainment
Ukraine showing the wests military might is mostly for show