Thread: Some useful statistics from Nicole McKee

Originally Posted by blip

sounds bad but making our troops combat ready for what?

What? Both of them

Originally Posted by blip

sounds bad but making our troops combat ready for what? what's going to happen? Our cops have been getting pointers on aggressive enforcement what's up with that? Is there a country In the world we could take on and defeat?

might find out where our ars went

I suspect not, but Andrew Little thinks so , he'e the one planning on buying new hats and shit for when China blockades Taiwan in 2027 - I think he intends to stop them.
He was on TV talking about it not so long ago .................

Originally Posted by XR500

What? Both of them

That's fuckin scary - I thought we had twice that many

Originally Posted by SF90

I think we need to remember this country is our home, there needs to be things in place that nourish us - our outdoors, our liberties, care for our health and beliefs, education, chosen way of life and so on.

There are those who will put a monetary value on those things and will sell what we take for granted, or will give it away. The liberties we take for granted will be limited, or removed - we are seeing that now.
We are a 'humanitarian' nation, we take in those who have been evicted from their own homes - and in doing so we are diluting our customary values as we conscientiously adopt or make way for theirs.
We also take in those who have money - we need their money to help our economy.
One day it will not be our country - it will be theirs.
We are not alone, that is happening across the world - we watch it on the television every day. The NZ our youth is growing up in is not the NZ I grew up in - our youth will never know the 'freedoms' I experienced - they are gone.
Taxing the wealthy will change fuck all, but educating the stupid might help.

We have lost the 'greater picture' in our pursuit of 'want' and greed - we want what everyone else has ......... and we are 'promised'.
Every election we are 'promised' - and I see the things I took for granted diminished or gone - because it had a value to someone.
And lately - it was to make a 'statement' to the world.

Our 'world future' doesn't look particularly promising - China wants Taiwan, Russia wants Ukraine and the whole of Europe is affected, and not in a good way. Our biggest trading partner is our biggest threat and we are making our troops 'combat ready'.

I'm bored now .....................

Eloquently put, Mr SF90...

Originally Posted by XR500

What? Both of them

Well, no. The one is doing a driver training course, back to full strength next month.

Originally Posted by tac a1

How could there possibly be 13 'unregistered' pistols floating around??

I thought all pistols had to be registered, proper safes, licence category, etc.

Something is seriously wrong here and there's only one reasonable explanation. Unlawful importations.

pretty sure Mike Loder (RIP) proved that police count cut down guns as pistols. They technically are pistols according to the law but not pistols in the sense of a glock etc

Originally Posted by outlander

Well, no. The one is doing a driver training course, back to full strength next month.

@XR500 you’ll be getting a letter to step up again

Originally Posted by Maca49

@XR500 you’ll be getting a letter to step up again

And they'll be getting a F O!!! letter back

Besides, my reserve engagement ran out a decade ago...and I hit retirement age in a couple of years.

But if they want me to show them where they went wrong, I'm more than happy to oblige

Originally Posted by SF90

That's fuckin scary - I thought we had twice that many

Na thats our air force.

Originally Posted by XR500

And they'll be getting a F O!!! letter back

Besides, my reserve engagement ran out a decade ago...and I hit retirement age in a couple of years.

But if they want me to show them where they went wrong, I'm more than happy to oblige

These days you can die for your country at any age, as shown in the Ukraine - it's actually the way it's always been. You can die sitting, running away, hiding or fighting back - lots of ways to die in a war.

Because we can still probably throw a grenade it's either 'front line' for you and me - or due to our advanced age (pathetic throw) we can go and smash beer bottles on the beaches where we think they might land.
The 'Homeguard' did that on the beach at Wainuiomata during WW2 as they saw it as a place where the Japanese might land. They cycled from Wellington with sacks of beer bottles on their back, over the hill and out to the coast.
That's quite a long way - they must have been buggered.

NZ has lots and lots of unprotected coastline, we are virtually indefensible - so, our best defence is to attack.
America (and Switzerland) has always recognised a strong militia poses a serious deterrent to an attacker. Any militia we might have had has been de-knackered - so that's out ........ we must attack
Ummn ........... how many boats have we got ............ and where the fuck is China ??

And that's just hypothesising, we will surrender - in fact, I think we've already done it

We dont even need to be attacked all they need to do now is cut off our fuel supply. We do have a tactic up our sleve with our airforce. Land one of our planes at someone elses air port and it breaks down there taking up space...

Just got an ACT email saying they will be scrapping Firearms Registry.

What sort of plane have we got ?

Originally Posted by blip

We dont even need to be attacked all they need to do now is cut off our fuel supply. We do have a tactic up our sleve with our airforce. Land one of our planes at someone elses air port and it breaks down there taking up space...

Funny you mentioned that. I think it was pointed out at the time they shutttered Marsden Point - the reply was there isn't a predictable threat of maritime strife that may result in a breakdown of supply lines... Hmmm how's that working out?

Peter jacksons got the most up to date ones...

This country in recent times has pretended no 'physical' threat exists - we rely on diplomacy.
Part of that 'diplomacy' includes we aren't seen as getting too close to potential allies (Aussie and America) - we are an ostrich with its head in the sand.
Our potential enemies play the game and suck us into a false sense of security - "Yeah, we'll buy your spuds."

As you said - we got rid of Marsden Point ............ what a brilliant thing to do, some clever bugger forgot about the 'dry ice' it produced and made us dependent on importing it.
We did the same with coal.

During WW2 the Scandinavian countries had no fuel resources, they relied on imports. When imported fuel dried up they reverted to wood gasifiers to power transport. Wood gasifiers weren't popular, they required a degree of physical exertion and some specific knowledge to make them work - but they did keep essentials operating.
Wood Gasifiers can operate transport, both diesel and petrol and generators to produce electricity - they kept those countries operating, food and other essential supplies was delivered.
Sweden and Denmark's independence (relative) relied on them doing shit for themselves - and they did it. Wood gasification is ready to be rolled out should such another shitty eventuality occur.

We are at the butt end of nowhere, we are not a threat to anyone - so we tell ourselves.
But I look at the immigrants and wonder what they tell their friends in those fucked over countries they escaped from.
We do not 'fix' those countries, they're usually fucked because of internal strife created by Russia and America - and so the flood of refugees continues.
Those countries are fucked because they have oil, or something else the major players want - and it's been like that for a very long time.

We are a country with a tiny population (by world standards) with a vast food growing potential - we have got to be highly attractive to someone.

I watched a doco on the Aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan - and that vessel could conquer NZ on it's own. It has better attack power and better defences - and that brought home a realisation - all we have is diplomacy.