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by MATHEW TOMIO Zimbabwean leader President Robert Mugabe has successfully stayed in power for nearly 36 years and is now 92 years old.   He is widely made fun of inside Zimbabwe for his senility and vanity.   The Zimbabwean economy by 2009 was only half the size of what it was when President Mugabe first took over in 1980.  At that time, Zimbabwe was sub-Saharan Africa’s second richest country after South Africa.  The economy collapsed completely in 2008, with the Zimbabwean dollar losing value that year at a rate of 231 million percent.  Prices sometimes doubled on a daily basis and today Zimbabweans buy everything using foreign currency.  The country has sanctions against it by the European Union and the United States, including a travel ban on Mugabe and his inner circle. Many people rightfully question how does President Mugabe hold onto power?   Much of it is due to what is called in Africa “preponderance of incumbency”.  Only in Zambia (twice) have incumbent leader

By Camillus Potpot and our Australian contributors Highly confidential information that has just now been shown to PNG Blogs reveals how Australia’s kon dealings support the O’Neill Regime’s ongoing corruption. Very high-up sources in Australia say the Turnbull Government’s media policy stops any criticism of the Prime Minister, the most corrupt leader in the Pacific and most corrupt in PNG independent history. They have told PNG Blogs that the Turnbull Government compromises the mainstream PNG media, which is already wide open to bribery and corruption by O’Neill, by using secret ways and means. One certified example by the sources is the recent EMTV documentary series Tanim Graun, which was funded through the Australian High Commission in Port Moresby. A top-secret agreement with EMTV allowed the Turnbull Government to censor the program through the AHC so that there was no criticism of O’Neill or his corrupt government or his corrupt cronies. Final productions of the show were giv

Digicel blocks Online advertisements from google , facebook  and other social Media  in Papua New Guinea , affect  businesses. by JOE KUNAI It is sad news for individuals and companies in Papua New Guinea who rely on internet advertisement to market and sell their products and service online, that Digicel a mobile phone company has suddenly started blocked off Google, facebook Yahoo ads and other social media online advertisement. It is understood that Digicel will soon implement the ad-blocking program in other Pacific countries that are using its network. So what is this blockage mean? This means that all advertisements from Google, Facebook and other social media platforms are blocked on the Digicel network. For instance, suppose that you promote a product through the facebook sponsored page and you target Papua New Guinea audience to sell your product, someone visiting facebook from Papua New Guinea through Digicel network will not see your sponsored page and you

by WALI DAVID In the 2 parts of this article already published, I have described the 3 main elements of a grand strategy that can keep Peter O’Neill and the Peoples National Congress (PNC) party in power almost indefinitely.    What has been discussed so far are the broad components of the strategy to be applied across the board in PNG.   This last section describes very specific strategies that could be used on a case-by-case basis, depending on who the candidate is, what their local popularity is, and what the electorate is composed of.   GRAND STRATEGY 4 - CUSTOM MANIPULATIONS FOR A FEW SELECTED CANDIDATES AND DISTRICTS TO ENHANCE PNC CANDIDATE ELECTIBILITY The following strategies should not be generally applied but directed at selected districts or regional seats.    1… Destroy non PNC MPs before the election.    This is already well in process, although sometimes the strategy will fail.   Corrupt activities of Prominent Opposition Leaders Don Polye and Belden Namah

by WALI DAVID In the first part of this article, I began to outline the strategy that almost guarantees PNG winning the 2017 elections in a landslide and puts the Prime Minister in position to remain in power for as long as he wants, even for life.   There are 4 different parts to this strategy.   In Part1, the necessity of focusing the 2017 campaign on rural open seats and forget about urban electorates was explained.   Following that, the need to politicize the Electoral Commission so that it came firmly under PNC control but remaining a government body was explained.    We will now turn to the 3 rd strategy of the grand plan that would allow the PNC to win the 2017 election in a landslide.   GRAND STRATEGY 3-  AT THE BEGINNING OF ELECTION YEAR, BEGIN TRANSFER OF LARGE SUMS OF PUBLIC MONEY TO RURAL DISTRICTS This part of the strategy involves putting together a massive warchest to fund candidates.   Specfiically, it involves acquiring and sending large sums of p