In New Zealand, the communist government will be “chasing out people” who are “hesitant” to take the coronavirus vaccine. The country’s Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins declared that the govennment will be actively hunting those who have yet not “come forward” on their own.
A planned movie focusing on the 2019 Christchurch massacre titled They Are Us has drawn criticism across New Zealand, with tens of thousands of people signing a petition demanding an immediate end to the project.
New Zealand will force banks to reveal the impact their investments have on climate change under world-first legislation intended to make the financial sector’s environmental record transparent, officials said.
Gun-related crime is spiking in New Zealand a full two years after the country instituted a nationwide ban on most semi-automatic firearms. The Parliament rammed through the ban and buyback (confiscation) program in the wake of the 2019 Christchurch attack, but the laws have had no positive effect on gun-related crime.
The March 4, 2021 M 8.1 earthquake near Kermadec Islands, New Zealand occurred as the result of reverse faulting in the Tonga-Kermadec subduction zone at a depth of ~22 km. The Tonga-Kermadec subduction zone extends north-northeast from the North Island of New Zealand for more than 2,500 km through Tonga to within 100 km of Samoa. Focal mechanism solutions for the event indicate rupture occurred as a result of reverse faulting, either by low angle thrust motion on a west-dipping fault or by high angle reverse motion on an east-dipping fault. The location, depth, and style of faulting are consistent with the earthquake having occurred on or near the west-dipping subducting plate interface between the Pacific and Australia plates.
NOAA / National Weather Service U.S. Tsunami Warning
TL;DR Not too bad, a meter or less rise expected.
The attack was allegedly planned for March 15 – the second anniversary of the attack by Australian terrorist Brenton Tarrant, who shot and killed 51 people at two mosques in the city in 2019.
New Zealand’s beleaguered gun owners are bracing for a second round of gun confiscations following a raft of new gun control measures enacted last summer that are set to take effect on February 1. Kiwi shooters will have until August 1 to turn over their prohibited items or face severe criminal penalties.
