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> Aerial images prepared by the New Zealand defence force for the Tongan government have been leaked online and show some areas have had "Catastrophic" devastation inflicted by the tsunami and volcanic eruption while others were relatively unscathed.
> The 40 aerial pictures show some areas blanketed with ash, with damaged buildings, while others show parts of the country that appear unscathed.
> After the reconnaissance flight, the New Zealand defence force shared a handful of photos with media, most of them showing defence personnel at work, rather than shots of the islands.
> The 40 leaked images paint a much fuller picture of the damage to the country, and include annotations about the severity of damage.
> The images also gave a sense of the damage to Tonga's infrastructure sustained during the tsunami and volcani eruption.
> The defence force said there had been "Limited" damage to the Fua'amotu International Airport's south-eastern runway, but that it was currently "Unserviceable" due to ash covering the runway.
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There is current news of heightened tension of China in the pacific, and Australia and the USA and UK are working together quite thoroughly in fortifying strong points.
While the United States of America drops out of the top 25 for the first time ever. Transparency International's 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index, which measures the perception of public sector corruption according to experts and businessmen, ranks 180 countries and territories on a scale of a 'highly corrupt' 0 to a 'very clean' 100. Meanwhile, South Sudan was at the bottom of the list with 11 points, making it the worst country for corruption. Chinese folks must've helped with getting a middle ranking. Seriously?!! I Call total BULLROAR on this List. After the national security Law passed in mid 2020. Hong Kong is now under the iron fist of china. who has jailed hundreds of protesters and Shut down the Free Press. So no way in hades are they in the top 20. Yes the uSA has had a problem with elections because of the Bai-Din regime's cheat to win strategy due to a pandemic released again by China. as for China's ranking of 45. That's beyond absurd. They're one of the most brutal Totalitarian regimes in the history of the World! which most turn a blind eye to for financial gains. South Africa is even more corrupt than china at least since the early 1990s. UAE nope. Qatar no as well. Burkina Faso just went through a military coup d'etat. Kazakhstan should be at the bottom as well. Russian troops were murdering protesters in the streets and radio silence this month! while former leaders absconded with hundreds of millions of dollars. The index compiled since 1995, is calculated using 13 different data sources that provide perceptions of public sector corruption from business people and country experts. Sources include the World Bank, the World Economic Forum and private risk and consulting companies.
New Labour List MP Maaaaaaaadison fronted the media outside her Whanganui home for the first time since the election today to celebrate her victory and announce her 'Listening Tour' of New Zealand.
Good evening everyone. I am proud to have been elected as a member of model-frod's Labour Team for the next term. I regrettably was unable to campaign during the recent election for personal reasons but I am thankful that 16% of our electorate still put their faith in me.
I am a proud lifelong resident of Whanganui and I will be kicking off my new 'Listening Tour' here tomorrow. The aim of this tour will be to visit a number of towns across rural and regional New Zealand to connect with ordinary people and see what they have to say about the political debates of the day. I aim to base my votes in Parliament off of what I hear in my tour and I will also aim to raise any issues that arise in my meetings to the politicians in Wellington. For example, tomorrow I am scheduled to meet with a group of activists that are calling for the establishment of passenger rail services in Whanganui so I will aim to bring their demands to Parliament in the upcoming term.
The last government of this nation left us in chaos and working people have been left behind. I come from a union background so I know the effectiveness of lobbying and organising. I will get things done in Parliament this term.
I do not yet know whether I will be serving in government or opposition but no matter what side of Parliament I sit on, I will stand for the working people of this country!
They have just under 10,000 troops. I believe even Lithuania has a larger number of personnel in uniform. Not to mention NZ doesn't have any jets despite it being quite logical for them to have such.
There have been many interesting cases from NZ (where I’m from) All these cases have good media coverages and resources/wikis that could possibly make good stories
David Bain case, 5 family deaths at a farmhouse, people still don’t know if he did or didn’t commit it. Lots of media coverage.
Grace Millane case, there is a lot of footage of the offender, he put her body in a suit case and buried it in forest. Footage of him in the elevator dragging the suitcase out.
Napier shootings/ Napier seige, turned into this huge stand off, offender had worked in territory corps before this. 2 deaths, 3 injuries.
Pike river mine disaster - due to terrible decisions by higher ups, many men were killed in the mines. Lots of info about this happened a few years ago
Air NZ flight 901 257 deaths
Christchurch earthquake - many people were killed in one building that was poorly designed - lots of victims tell their terror and tales - 185 deaths
Carton hot air balloon crash 2012, 11 deaths
Aramoana massacre, small town, 14 deaths
Mosque shooting (still a bit raw of a topic though) 51 deaths
Featherston prisoner of war camp riot
There are many more individual murders
One terrible one about a child being put in a dryer and being hung on a clothes line. Mia Glassie was the victim and is deceased.
Many more but just wanted to share some stories from my country
Happy holidays everyone
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> Her work uncovered that the Chinese People's Liberation Army had built three military facilities on Australian Antarctic territory.
> The Chinese government was deeply displeased that Brady had spoken out.
> The title is a reference to the fact that President Xi named three "magic weapons" of Chinese Communist Party power - the People's Liberation Army, the party's program to strengthen and build itself, and the party's United Front Work Department that covertly spreads party influence through the overseas Chinese diaspora and elements of Chinese culture and business.
> The power of Brady's work is that she meticulously reads original Chinese documents in the original Mandarin.
> The chair of the Australian Parliament's security and intelligence committee, Andrew Hastie, said that after listening to her evidence and other conversations, "it appears that she's a target of interest for the Chinese Communist Party or apparatchiks of the Chinese state as a way of silencing her and intimidating her.
> "We are just an ordinary family facing down the Chinese Communist Party.
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