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New to Digital Scrapbooking, just started in 2019, want to make a record of family stories before my mother passes away. My dad died in 2016. I currently live in Canada but was born and raised in New Zealand, and emigrated to Canada upon marrying my Canadian spouse. Home Country - lets see - New Zealand or Canada? Which to choose? Most of my photos will be from NZ, but any pics of my son will be from Canada. MY IP Address will say that I am in Canada which is fine. My mother and sister are still back in NZ so I will make my home country as NZ for now. For Facebook, I dont check it every day - I am not addicted to FB, and I use a different name for privacy. My image is myself as a child - aged about 2 or 3 years old
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New Zealand became the first anti-nuclear country in the world after passing the worlds first Anti-Nuclear and Disarmament Legislation in 1987. This was done as a direct result of the Bombing of the Greenpeace protest ship, Rainbow Warrior, in the Auckland Harbour in July 1985. Two of the culprits involved were eventually arrested and discovered to be agents of the French intelligence service, DGSE.
France has been testing nuclear bombs in Southern Polynesia for a long time, and some of the radiation fall out had been discovered in the NZ food chain. So the Kiwi people began protesting. Eventually they also began sailing to Mururoa atoll in order to stop the tests. this was an embarrassment to the French government. So on orders of the French President, Francois Mitterand (As stated in recently declassified documents), the Greenpeace boat was to be destroyed in 1985, to prevent it leading the next protest flotilla to Mururoa.
France continued to test their bombs at Mururoa and did not stop until around 1999.
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Map of the south pacific - between NZ and Muruoa Atoll - sourced from Google maps - copied on 23 April 2019
gold atom - a bouquet of freshly sharpened pencils elements kit
https://www.digitalscrapbook.com/janet-scott/designs/a-bouquet-of-freshly-sharpened-pencils-atom-asset-shape-cutout-stamp
Waves paper - captain mini kit - oregonian bundle
https://www.digitalscrapbook.com/marisa-lerin/kits/the-captain-mini-kit-ocean-whales-boating-water-outdoors-yellow-green-blue-white
Rainbow warrior after the bombing
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/94208355/thirtytwo-years-after-the-rainbow-warrior-bombing-unapologetic-french-spy-christine-cabon-is-found
mururoa explosion large
http://pixdaus.com/a-bomb-mururoa-tuamotu-archipelago-french-polynesia-france-w/items/view/27101/
Journaling tag - Best is yet to come - elements kit
https://www.digitalscrapbook.com/violet-irisovna/kits/the-best-is-yet-to-come-2017-elements-kit-pocket-scrapping-project-life-p365
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