Say Anything 2016 (83)

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The Chinese Constitution demands its defence force protects not only state owned interests, but the interests of any chinese person as well, they are sworn to bring down capitalism but you can bet it wont be Turnbull's, or Dudds interests president of china would have to start using toilet paper if he removed the likes of them

Kangaroo attacks two-year-old baby girl in garden leaving her with face and chest injuries

Panicked neighbours rushed to the aid of the mother after hearing her screams and ran out to see the young toddler on the ground 'with the kangaroo on top'



lucky kid

Australia just might get lucky break out'a contract

Sydney (AFP) - French defence contractor DCNS has been hit by a massive leak of secret data on its submarines likely to alarm India, Malaysia and Chile which use the boats, The Australian newspaper reported Wednesday.

The leak could trigger concern in Australia, which in April awarded DCNS a Aus$50 billion (US$38 billion) contract to design and build its next generation of submarines.



Until now, the Soryu submarine and its unique technology have been a closely guarded state secret.

But the Japanese navy, or the Maritime Self Defence Forces as they are known, gave North Asia correspondent Matthew Carney an exclusive look at the Soryu at the Yokosuka Naval base on the outskirts of Tokyo.

Many believe the Soryu is best conventional submarine in the world and should be the leading contender to replace the Collins class submarines.

The Japanese are now in a race with the Germans and the French to win Australia's biggest ever defence contract worth nearly $50 billion.

I'm over getting injured and sick
Cold virus almost left me then i have an ear infection and burst ear drum way to go Micky

Hiya Mr M

Someone always worse off, there is someone on the inters trying to sell his wart

Hope you,re better soon

not good, after antibiotic I'm twice a day taking Goats Colosseum capsules, Mangosteen capsule, Ginger, Garlic & Turmeric capsule. Digestive Health- Beef Gelatin Powder and Red Palm Oil to Protect and or repair Gut lining & aid digestion. Also the fruit and other herbs, spices and secrete ingredients in the Marboulius Golden Crust...

Look after your health Micky we travel a fine narrow line at any moment the lights could go out, so I am suggesting look carefully and look after yourself mate

Thanks lookin and Rob
I'm resting around my house back to GP Monday
I just needed to scream out loud
I'll get there or go back seeing the ENT different ear

perhaps inner ear from fractures

French subs builder’s record of corruption

For the politicians, it’s all about jobs and buckets of money - as much as an extra $20 billion for local production - to retain a few Coalition seats in South Australia. So soon after seeing off the car industry, the Liberal Party dominated by economic “dries” has embraced industrial policy in a big way, in alliance with the Socialists of President François Hollande.

As the Hong Kong-based website Asia Sentinel has pointed out, “DCNS’s operations face questions across almost the entire globe, including in Pakistan, Malaysia, India, Saudi Arabia and Chile, with bribes and kickbacks reportedly comprising 8 per cent to 12 per cent of DCNS’s entire budget.”

One of the notable scandals was the alleged payment, with approval by the late president François Mitterrand, of $US400 million in bribes to Taiwan’s then ruling Kuomintang in 1991 for the sale of six frigates, with another $US100 million going to the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee to keep Beijing quiet. A more recent scandal, still simmering in Malaysia and France, involves the payment of €114 million in commissions to an associate of then Malaysian defence minister Najib Razak (now prime minister) in 2002 for the $US1.25 billion order of two Scorpène-class submarines for the Malaysian navy.




Multiple allegations of corruption in jurisdictions across the globe, as well as the spectre of murder in Malaysia and Taiwan, could threaten Australia’s newest defence contractor, French company Direction des Constructions Navales Services (DCNS), which was announced as the winner of Australia’s multi-year $50 billion contract to build 12 conventional submarines — beating arch rival Germany’s ThyssenKrupp, and a Japanese consortium led by industrial conglomerate Mitsubishi — to secure the contract to work with ASC (formerly the Australian Submarine Corporation).

And the murky dealings around DCNS don’t stop in Malaysia. In 1991, DCNS sold navy frigates to Taiwan in a deal that was later found to have involved the payments of “unauthorised commissions“.

In 1993, the body of head of procurement for the Taiwanese navy, Captain Yin Ching-feng, was found floating off the coast of Taiwan in 1993, eventually triggering a corruption investigation. Six other ex-naval officers were later indicted in connection with this.



Here's the amazing list of submarines this French company has built for other nations

One of the reasons a wary Australian government may have chosen the French over the Germans is that the Germans hadn’t built a submarine as big as the one Australia was seeking. The problem for Japan is that it was unable and/or unwilling to meet one of the key political considerations for the Turnbull government – a local construction capability.