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NIUGINI OUTLOOK Yesterday we watched poor Mark Joseph do his best trying to argue against the baby sense thinkers on the big FB discussion sites. We never get involved in these discussions. We knew that friend Mark was wasting his time trying to argue against the irrational. Baby sense thinkers are illogical by definition and nothing Joseph was going to say, no matter how packed with facts, was going to sway their minds. The baby sense thinkers will probably shut their eyes when they see the poster that accompanies this article but it is the most substantiated information that has come out so far - that the PM has more than enough MPs to beat back a Vote of No Confidence. We wonder also what the baby sense thinkers say about their rallying around every false posting yesterday about the growing, growing members in the Opposition camp. First it was 11, then 20, 30, 40, 60, and are we hearing 80???? The whole thing was hilarious and so many baby sense thinkers bel

HGDC = K30 MILLION MRCD = K30 MILLION AUGUSTINE MANO of MINERAL RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT COMPANY has come thru with the needed funding for the Vote of No Confidence. K30 million IN CASH delivered from ANZ bank (PNG's biggest money-launderers) PLUS ANOTHER K30 MILLION FROM LANDCO HGDC to PM's boys yesterday. Money withdrawn from landowner accounts by Augustine Mano and Libe Parindali.

by RICHARD BAKA, Political Observer Immediately after the Supreme Court handed down its ruling for Parliament to be recalled within 5 days, the Speaker, Hon Theo Zurenuoc acted swiftly and issued a notice circulated in all mediums to recall Parliament, while the PM said he was going to seek further legal advise on the implications of the decision. PM O'Neill thought that he would use the Speaker to rebuff the Supreme Court decision on the basis that the Court does not have the authority to order Parliament.  However, the Speaker's decision to expedite the motion has put the PNC camp under extreme pressure. PM O'Neill did not travel to Solomon Islands to attend the MSG Meeting. He was full at work since the decision was handed down on Tuesday. A substantial amount of money had been used to bring in MPs. The Kumul jet and helicopters were used to bring in MPs closely attached to PM. The Supreme Court decision, as circulated in the social media, is very clear.  Th

by PONOWI SIWI REMO WHEN PEOPLE NEED TO BORROW OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY FAST, THEY ALWAYS PAY THE PRICE:  They get less money at more cost and this is what Peter O'Neill is doing right now. He's not mortgaging PNG's wealth, he will be destroying it. China is a massive sea of humanity, 1.35 billion out of the total world population of 7.4 billion. Much of China's land is desert. There is a massive concentration of population along the coasts and fertile river valleys. As the population has continued to grow, land has become more short, and people struggle just to grow enough food to eat. The massive rural impoverishment has caused a spillover into urban areas. People are packed like tinned mackerel in many of the cities. They have virtually no living space and certainly will never own any land. They will never own their accommodation in most cases, unless it is a tiny little apartment where an entire family is packed. Think of how you would feel if you were fo

by FRANK TASO Since he and his cronies Nigel Parker, Musje Werror, Moi Avei, Daire Vele and Jakob Weiss threw out PNG Sustainable Development, the mine has been on a death spiral. It has caught O’Neill Disease, the fatal and untreatable parasitical sickness that infects all State Owned Enterprises. O’Neill and his blood-sucking worms grow fat by siphoning all the goodness out of the host SOE, leaving just a shell requiring regular injections of taxpayer funds medicine to recover, only to be sucked dry all over again. Now O’Neill and his cronies are lining up for another feast on OTML. The Prime Minister has ordered CEO Peter Graham to rip as much money out of the business as they can and give it to the Government as soon as possible to help avoid looming bankruptcy. The OTML board is dominated by O’Neill appointees and cronies including convicted Leadership Code fraudster Moi Avei, , Treasury Secretary and wanted criminal Daire Vele, Western Province Administrator and fra

NIUGINI OUTLOOK His death didn't even make an EMTV Youtube upload and the O'Neill government was totally silent about the death, even though it had the whole weekend to prepare a news release. The newspapers seemed to go overboard in running as small as possible articles announcing his death and placing them far from the front page. The National didn't even bother running a photo to accompany their obituary. Even Don Polye, who raved over Nape and supported him as a T.H.E. candidate during the 2012 election, was silent. In fact, not one public figure rose to defend Jeffrey Nape on Monday. The media itself, as well as other government leaders, all seemed shocked by the angry social media reaction and didn't dare want to step into the bee's nest by praising the late and highly corrupt speaker. None of this harsh reaction and turned eyes should come as much surprise when considering how Jeffrey Nape conducted himself as a public servant. The fact is that N

by GABRIEL RAMOI LLB Panguna The  decision  by Rio Tinto to vacate Panguna and to transfer its 53.8%  shareholding in the mines to the National  and the Bouganville  Government  is  welcomed  although it  cannot by  any measure  adequately compensate for the pain and sufferings  and loss of life   sustained by Families during the Bouganville Crisis. Let  me  state  for the benefit of the post Bouganville Crisis Generation  that the Bouganville crisis was brought about as a result of a dispute over  the adequacy of the Royalty payment of two and a half Percent [2.5%]  calculated on the basis of the total value of exportable ore paid as rent to the National Government for copper ore exported from the Panguna Mine. The amount was paid by CRA [ Rio Tinto Australia] into  a pool and shared between the national Government [ 50% ] the Bouganville PG [25%]  and the Panguna Land owners Association[25%]. Annually no more then K10 million was received every year  as rent and shared by all

EXCESSIVE COMPENSATION DEMANDS, POLITICAL MUCKRAKING, THE ROMANONG FAMILY AND SRC PRESIDENT DAVID KELMA: A GROWING TREND TOWARDS COVER UP AND THE PLAYING OF PETTY POLITICS THAT MAY DESTROY UNITECH COMPENSATION DEMAND BLOWUP! NIUGINI OUTLOOK Soon after the tragic death of Graham Romanong at Unitech, his bereaved father, when contacted by the press, demanded only that Peter O'Neill and Don Polye show up at the funeral because he held them complicit in the situation at the PNG universities having gotten totally out of hand, leading to the tribal war that resulted in the murder of his son. It didn't take long for the demands to blow up like a balloon only a few days later. To a great extent, especially with the money demand, this is a logical progression that happens with an entire tribe has their say on what the compensation should be. In most cases however, the family still has the final say on the compensation amount. Thus comes the question: Why didn'

by JAMES PARAKISHAN Wobiro commented this week in the  media: "The first time I knew about the proposal for the State to take over the Ok Tedi Mine was when a Bill was presented to Parliament.” Comments to Martyn Namorong, son of WP, on EMTV on September 26 2013: “Well our view is that the changes have come at the right time. The mine has operated for over 30 years now and some things have worked, others have not, and it is now time to make changes, and so I welcome the change, I have been an integral part of the preparation towards this change.” Time to go to Cairns na hide lo tupla haus wantaim ol yangpla meri pamuk blo u. The government of PNG has demonstrated that it is incapable of safeguarding the funds of Non CMCA villages’(South Fly affected villages who didn’t sign the CMCA Agreement) being part of the compensation moneys paid by BHP/Oktedi, as a direct result of the Court case in Melbourne by Fly River Landowners. Certain funds being dividends from Oktedi were pa

by MICHAEL JOSEPH PASSINGAN Prime Minister Peter O’Neill is sneaking up behind Gari Baki to stab him in the back and get rid of him as Police Commissioner. O’Neill believes Baki is mentally unstable and fears he might go on an even worse shooting party than at UPNG. High-level sources say PM is also trying to distance himself from the shooting of UPNG students last month, which was directed personally by Baki and using his personally controlled rogue elements. I am advised by highly confidential insiders that the finger of blame for giving the order to shoot at students will be pointed at Baki. PM’s secret weapon in the police force, Lowa Tambua, has reported to the boss that Baki can no longer be relied on to do what he is told or to keep himself and his men under control. Tambua is the one who has been given full responsibility for organizing a replacement. He makes most of the strategic decisions for all Commissioners (Kulunga, Geofrey Vaki, and now Baki) and in fact c

by JOE PEA NAKISI A year or so ago a very revealing article was published in PNG Blogs that laid out a kind of high level government mafia of past and present PMs who collaborated not in any formal sense, but by shared interests. They all eventually succumbed to temptation due to spineless personal ethics and convictions. Once trapped by their corruption, they protected the corruption of others to keep their own corruption from being exposed. Thus, we have the odd fellows partnership in today's O'Neill government of the PM with former PMs Wingti, Chan and Somare, all schemers and personal wealth builders while they were paid to be public servants. The lightning fast reaction of Peter O'Neill late yesterday to the UPNG Senate Council's cancellation of the 2016 school year was probably an illustration of this. Chief Propagandist Isaac Lupari may no longer work in the media unit, but he remains deeply involved in spreading the Prime Minister's messages, includi

by NAIK MALCOLM I as an Imbongu Citizen Would like to call for Mr Francis Awesa to Step Down.  This is to the Works and Implementation Minister Mr Awesa, How much lives have you saved from the tribal fights in Southern Highlands Province. How much securities have you provide for those who suffered in the name of tribal fight.   Mr Awesa has saved no live in the most tribal fights in Southern Highlands Province. Yet, Mr Awesa is asking the VC to save the lives of the students during the time of trouble while the poor VC and the Unitech administration trying their very best to protect the students.   And Mr Awesa should be blamed for the death of the student because Mr Awesa as an Imbongu MP, he did not take responsibility to warn his student to return to class when the tension is very high.  Mr Awesa even failed to send police to protect the Imbongu students when he knew that his students are at risk in the campus. Yes, Mr Awesa and all the Member of the parliament and the