http://m.smh.com.au/business/clive-palmer-plans-to-build-titanic-ii-20120430-1xtrc.html


Quote:

Queensland billionaire mining magnate Clive Palmer has unveiled his plans to build the Titanic II to add to his tourism portfolio. Mr Palmer said his new company Blue Star Line Pty Ltd had commissioned the state-owned Chinese company CSC Jinling Shipyard to build a near replica of the ill-fated Titanic. The cost is unknown. He made the announcement on the same day he revealed his hopes to contest the next federal election in the Queensland seat of Lilley, held by Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Wayne Swan. Mr Palmer said the companies had signed a memorandum of understanding to build the cruise liner in China, with the ship's maiden voyage from England to North America scheduled for late 2016. "It will be every bit as luxurious as the original Titanic but of course it will have state-of-the-art 21st-century technology and the latest navigation and safety systems," Mr Palmer said. Mr Palmer said the rebuild was a tribute to the spirit of the men and women who constructed the original Titanic.

I wonder if the CIA are funding this grotesquely insensitive venture?

What a bugger.

ENTITLEMENT WRIT LARGE  ::) ::)

Clive Palmer is the Aussie version of Donald Trump, they're all wind and hot air. Clive could have early onset Dementia. He needs to go easy on the cream puffs too or he won't live long enough to be Prime Minister.

Well the man is clearly insane.  I mean, he wants to build a ship for god's sake!  ::)


No but really, what's your point?

It is a dversion from good news from Labor.

*Thompson and Slipper removed
*.5% interest rate cut
*Federal Budget coming out soon.

Better distract the media with some shenanigans.


Kind of like his allegations in the days before the Queensland election that the Greens were a CIA front.


Quote:

...The leaked Greenpeace report, Stopping Australian Coal Export Boom, was thrust into the media spotlight for the second time in as many weeks after mining magnate Clive Palmer yesterday accused the environmental lobby and the Australian Greens of treason in colluding with US powers. Mr Palmer claimed the author of the report, Greenpeace senior campaigner John Hepburn, and Lock the Gate Alliance president Drew Hutton were conspiring with the US Central Intelligence Agency via the Rockefeller Family Fund to destroy Australia’s coal industry... http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/greenpeace-confirms-rockefeller-link-as-palmer-faces-legal-action-20120321-1vj15.html

Palmer will not be selected for the liberal party because Abbott remembers what happened to Howard's 1987 election bid being torpedoed by the 'Sir Joh for Canberra' campaign.

I hope this NEW Titanic will have traditional iron (not steel) rivet construction, and brittle, high phosphorus plating. With Chinese quality control, anything is possible.

I suggest James Cameron for captain. Either him or that Italian captain who was first to abandon ship earlier this year...

LifeMasque wrote on May 2^nd, 2012 at 5:19pm:

I hope this NEW Titanic will have traditonal iron (not steel) rivet construction, and brittle, high phosphorus plating. I suggest James Cameron for captain.

I nominate the captain of Costa concordia.  I hear he's looking for a new job.

Why would he want to build a titanic-just stick a funnel on his head.

He wants a seat in parliament? I don't want this overweight  billionaire  sitting their all day getting fatter at the my expense. >:(

For some reason this made me think of a whole bunch of geese being force fed in pleasant parliamentary surroundings...

;D ;D