Nckdictator posted:

So is there any plan for rebounding? Is there any way to grow anything to make the island's middle less hellish or is the ground/soil too hosed? Is there anything there to support or attract tourism? Any plans for rising sea levels ?

Pawn 17 posted:

OP presents an island paradise and it turns out to be a massive shithole. Do they have internet there? TV?

meselfs posted:

Pfff, you call that an interesting small inhabited island? Check this out:

http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/sexinfo/article/how-orgasm-mangaian-peoples-sexual-education

Clipperton posted:

top 5 obese countries ALL ISLANDS

tomstuart posted:

Clipperton posted:

top 5 obese countries ALL ISLANDS:

1 Palau 47.10%
2 Nauru 45.10%
3 Marshall Islands 42.30%
4 Samoa 41.60%
5 Tonga 41.10%

something's up

Lascivious Sloth posted:

True story; I lived in Nauru for over a year. What a poo poo-hole.

One of highest rates of obesity, no economy, 90+% unemployment, huge domestic violence and alcohol problem, high rate of diabetes, literally has no export except phosphate which is almost all depleted, and imports 90+% of products. Coral is all dead from mining, and it has one main road that is just a circle around the island. It's just a country Australia can dump it's asylum seekers (to deter asylum seekers coming by boat because the conditions on island are worse than in a war zone.) It's also a tax haven but even that is going because they're so bad at it.

When I was there a 7 year old girl was eaten alive by dogs on the beach. There are roaming packs of wild dogs everywhere, and they're super aggressive.

AMA

Darth123123 posted:

Do you have any pictures of the 'downtown' with grocery stores and bars or anything 'commercial'?

Pawn 17 posted:

OP presents an island paradise and it turns out to be a massive shithole. Do they have internet there? TV?

Jack Gladney posted:

The only reason Tuvalu has an economy at all is because they sold all the .tv domain names to American tv shows in the 90s. They didn't even have a guano mine to ruin. They'd all be dead if not for Hercules: the Legendary Journeys and Cleopatra 2525.

ZombieJesus posted:

Same deal with Nieu (sp?), who make money off selling the .nu domain to Scandinavians (nu meaning now in Swedish/Norwegian etc).

Lascivious Sloth posted:

More military hardware. this is the main gun on topside island. I don't know what it is. some Japanese huge anti aircraft gun.

numberoneposter posted:

Let's Learn About Nibiru!

Mange Mite posted:

And the Christmas islands too

Jerry Mumphrey posted:

counterpoint: the president is dgsw's av

numberoneposter posted:

Let's Learn About Nibiru!

Clipperton posted:

top 5 obese countries ALL ISLANDS:

1 Palau 47.10%
2 Nauru 45.10%
3 Marshall Islands 42.30%
4 Samoa 41.60%
5 Tonga 41.10%

something's up

Lascivious Sloth posted:

There's basically two cover bands that turn up nearly every night in 2 bars (jewles and menen). There's the Menen hotel which used to be a fancy hotel on the beachfront, but the Australian owners were kicked out of the country and the government took over and it went down the drain since then. The government has a history of just cancelling the visa of business investors and taking over their ventures and then running them into the ground for every penny.

There's about 4 bars in Nauru. The Menen is the hotel on the beach. The Odin is a chinese run restaurant front with a bar inside with pool tables and pokie machines, and a creep dark walk to the bathroom with old run down pokie machines looming over those that walk through and that no one bothered fixing. The third is an indian/tovalu/fijian run pizza/italian restaurant with a back porch area full of mosquitos that will give you dengue fever (the most horrible bone breaking disease.) Lastly is Jewels which is a night club/ outdoor bar on the beach, right next door to a pig farm so the rife smell of pig poo poo is ever present adding a nice aphrodisiac to the air as you dance to the same cover band songs they play every night.


They have one internet service provider (Digicel) and it's controlled by the state and they reap all the benefits. if you post anything on facebook (which has been blocked many times during criticism against it's government) then you can go to the goulag (I mean prison.) I've been inside the prison and it's basically a torture centre endorsed by the Australian government. The police asked me to type into the computer some charges because they couldn't spell/write in english.

There are coral pinnacles dotting the island and especially in the centre of the island making it a perfect island prison:





The top of the Odin is a beautiful little rooftop lounging area:



China town has lots of inflatable floaties.. but no one game enough to use them in the water at risk of being sucked out to sea, and they're never used in the only safe swimming spot, the harbor. It's a mystery where the inflatable child's toys end up:







The cover band at Jewels plays the same shity 80s rock cover song again:





The creepy walk to the toilet at the Odin. Who knows how many women have been sexually assaulted as the dead pokies look on:



The view overlooking the crushed export empire. The country was per capita the richest country in the world in the 60s or around then. They would fly out their soccer team in first class around the world to play matches. They would run jets between locations without anyone on board. They wasted away all the money they gained into nothing. Now the rich elite have all bought properties and houses in Australia and have either left or will leave once the island drowns into the oceans. One good thing global warming will achieve.



More military hardware. this is the main gun on topside island. I don't know what it is. some Japanese huge anti aircraft gun.



The only flight company that can fly to Nauru (Our airline).. another monopolised and failed company. it is only, like most of the island, living off the curtails of the Australian governments immigration policy. the last 3 weeks 2 young adults (1 male Iranian, and 1 Somali woman who had been through hell and raped many times escaping her conflict zone) self immolated rather than face the poo poo conditions of Nauru:

tomstuart posted:

Ahundredbux posted:

This thread is real good much thanks to L sloth

quote:

Operation Weasel is the name given to an alleged secret operation involving the governments of Nauru, New Zealand and the United States.

The exact nature of the operation, if it did indeed exist, is subject to disagreement — most accounts link it to investigations into the sale of Nauruan passports, the defection of North Korean scientists to the West, or both. This was a classic example of what is known as a Barium Meal - a spy tactic of feeding sufficiently important intelligence (traceable but false) to suspects to find leaks.

Red_Museum posted:

Good name for a secret operation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Weasel

Lascivious Sloth posted:

The only flight company that can fly to Nauru (Our airline).. another monopolised and failed company. it is only, like most of the island, living off the curtails of the Australian governments immigration policy. the last 3 weeks 2 young adults (1 male Iranian, and 1 Somali woman who had been through hell and raped many times escaping her conflict zone) self immolated rather than face the poo poo conditions of Nauru:

A Spider Covets posted:

please more info and pics

never heard of places like these and this is fascinating to read ty

quote:

Nauru, under the current government of President Marcus Stephen, recognises the Republic of China.

In 1980, Nauru first established official relations with the Republic of China. In 2002, however, the government of Rene Harris established relations with the PRC,[86] which entailed a solemn recognition of the "One China" policy by Nauru.[87] Consequently, Taiwan severed its relations with Nauru, and accused the PRC of having bought Nauru's allegiance with a financial aid gift of over €90,000,000.[88] A reporter for The Age agreed, stating that "Beijing recently bought off a threat by Nauru to revert to Taiwan only six months after opening ties with the mainland, offering a large loan to Nauru's near-destitute Government".[3]

In 2003, however, Nauru closed its newly established embassy in Beijing. Two years later, ROC President Chen Shui-bian met Nauruan President Ludwig Scotty in the Marshall Islands. In May 2005, the ROC and Nauru re-established diplomatic relations,[89] and opened embassies in each other's capitals. The PRC consequently severed its relations with Nauru.

The Republic of China is one of Nauru's two foremost economic aid partners (the other being Australia). In return, Nauru uses its seat in the United Nations to support the ROC's admittance bid. Taiwan also provides regular medical assistance to Nauru, sending specialised doctors to the tiny country's only hospital.

In 2007, Scotty was re-elected President of Nauru, amidst claims that his electoral campaign had been funded by Taiwan.[91] Scotty's opponents claimed that the ROC wanted to ensure that a pro-Taiwan government remained in power. Scotty was replaced by Marcus Stephen in December 2007. Following Stephen's election, ROC President Chen Shui-bian telephoned him to congratulate him, assure him of the ROC's continued assistance for Nauru, request Nauru's continued support in return, and invite him to visit Taiwan.[92] Nauru has retained its relations with the ROC under the new government.

Given that it has already changed its foreign policy twice, Nauru remains the focus of diplomatic competition between Beijing and Taipei. In 2006, according to the New Statesman, President Scotty "was allegedly accosted by a horde of screaming Chinese officials who tried to drag him on to a plane to Beijing just as he was boarding one bound for Taipei".[93]

In 2008, Nauru co-submitted a proposal to the United Nations, requesting that the United Nations General Assembly consider enabling "Taiwan's participation in the activities of UN specialized agencies". The proposal was rejected.[94]

In 2011 it was revealed via Wikileaks that Taiwan had been paying a "monthly stipend" to Nauruan government ministers in exchange for their continued support, as well as a smaller sum to other Members of Parliament, as "project funding that requires minimal accounting". Reporting on the story, the Brisbane Times wrote: "One MP reportedly used his Taiwanese stipend to buy daily breakfast for all schoolchildren in his district, while others were happy to just pocket the cash". A "former Australian diplomat with close knowledge of politics in Nauru" stated that Nauruan President Marcus Stephen, Foreign Minister Kieren Keke and former President Ludwig Scotty, among others, had all accepted "under the counter" funding from Taiwan. The leaks revealed that "Chinese [PRC] agents had also sought to influence Nauru's elections through cash payments to voters, with at least $40,000 distributed in one instance in 2007".[95]

Wikileaks also revealed that Australia had, at one time, been "pushing" Nauru to break its relations with Taiwan and establish relations with the PRC instead. Then President Ludwig Scotty had reportedly resisted on the grounds that it was "none of Australia's business".[95]

In late 2011, Taiwan "doubled it health aid" to Nauru, notably providing a resident medical team on a five-year appointment.[96]