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by BRANDON CLAY I am not revealing my real name because of security reasons but the issues I raise here are true to the best of my knowledge. I was initially engaged to provide some consultancy services to a LNG landowner company. Occasionally, I would attend Court for my client but most of my work is non-court. I am compelled to expose this rot because I feel that Papua New Guineans have to know the frightening level of corruption gripping the judiciary and I believe the information I am providing is among the many salient examples. My clients had a case before the Court, and the presiding judge, Ambeng Kandakasi, considered this case to be part of a number of legal disputes concerning the PNG LNG so he proceeded to direct all these cases for mediation at the National Court’s Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Track. Justice Kandakasi appointed himself as the Chief Mediator over all these cases. At the ADR track, the issues changed form, from a dispute concerning Infrast

NIUGINI OUTLOOK THE PEOPLE OF PNG MAY FORGET AND FORGIVE MASSIVE CORRUPTION BY OUR LEADERS BUT WE'RE NOT GOING TO JOIN THAT PARADE AT NIUGINI OUTLOOK: It has now been a month since Michael Somare promised that after consulting his lawyers, he might have further statement to make to the people of PNG as to why he had a secret Singapore account (confirmed with evidence in a Singapore court) that was still holding an astounding amount of money (for a public servant who testified at his 2011 Leadership Tribunal that the only money he earned was from his public servant's salary) - namely over K900,000 (confirmed with evidence in a Singapore court) out of over K2 million deposited into that account (confirmed with evidence in a Singapore court) by Lim Ai Wah, the Singaporean wife of Philip Doehrman, an American who Michael Somare appointed to head, together with his son Michael Somare Jr, a PNG government trust account containing K156 million that was earmarked to build commun

by ROBERT MORUMBU Several defenders of Peter O'Neill and his infrastructure scam commented on PNG Blogs when the article comparing dictator Kim Jong Un's (North Korea) infrastructure infatuation with Peter O'Neill's infrastructure infatuation. The point made was that both countries have been emphasising iheadlong dedication to infrastructure creation. North Korea has been doing it for years and it hasn't achieved much in improving their integral human development for the people as a whole. PNG is basically following the North Korea model and the results as a far as real development is concerned, is likely to be the same disappointment as North Korea is getting. Peter O'Neill's infrastructure boom is a scam for several reasons. First, a lot of it is built with loan money, which all has to be paid back with interest, using the taxpayer's money. Second and worse, when the infrastructure is built poorly, it falls apart before the loan money used to bu

by JACK STRAUS PETER O'NEILL IS FOLLOWING A VERY SUCCESSFUL STRATEGY THAT ADOLF HITLER USED IN GERMANY TO WIN THE HEARTS OF GERMAN CITIZENS, ALLOWING HIM TO MANIPULATE THEM INTO CREATING GLOBAL DISASTER: Actually it was not only Adolf Hitler who used the trick of building fancy infrastructure to please the people. Next door in Italy, Hitler ally Benito Mussolini did the same thing. A famous saying is that Mussolini succeeded where no other Italian leader could in that he made the trains run on time. Action men were Hitler and Mussolini! Action men like Pita Ipatas and Pita O'Neill! People like action but usually they don't bother to evaluate what the action is leading to in terms of lasting development that doesn't soon fall down again. People like action but they don't bother to contemplate what will be the end result of all that action to make the people happy. In the case of Hitler and Mussolini it all led to World War II and the killing of tens of million

by KAND KULUM IS THERE ANYONE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF PETER O’NIELL’S VULNERABILITY? APPOINTMENTS OF TOP PUBLIC SERVANTS: CLIMATE CHANGE OFFICE To each and everyone, re-direct the bullets to the rightful culprits hiding and causing all sorts of economic problems including distorting Christian teachings and its faith. Peter O’Neill is a scapegoat, though. On the day of appointment of Mr. Ruel Yamuna, the CCDA Facebook page -  https://www.facebook.com/www. occd.gov.pg- , whoever the administrator is/are, forewarned of this foul appointment. “…We would also warn political opportunist to refrain from prograting lies as the new candidate is smart, vibrant, and intelligent. The CCDA is run by a young team of elite Papua New Guineans all below the age of 30 and the last thing we need is Operating on Old School methods and a pyramid structure of stress. We are happy and will be welcoming a young and vibrant blood”. Something smells fishy for this announcement even before the official a

NIUGINI OUTLOOK HERE WE GO AGAIN - THE "RESPECT YOUR POLLIE" SICKNESS COMES TO ENGA, THIS TIME COURTESY OF LOSU LOLAN: We are beginning to think that there is a radical difference between the youth of Enga, whose educational levels overall are much higher than the older generations, and those older generations. The older generations seem to still misunderstand the value of democracy and what is needed to ensure a vibrant democracy. Thus we have Losu Lolan coming out with the challenge that the people of Enga next year re-elect Pita Ipatas unopposed. In other words, turn Enga into a dictatorship. Just like Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe is always using the word respect, so too does Losu Lolan. He feels it is a proper sign of respect to let Pita Ipatas run unopposed next year. We assume that Losu would also be the first fellow in line to put Pita Ipatas on his shoulders like some kind of king or idol worship. The days of kings and queens are over in the world except

WHAT IS IT ABOUT NORTH KOREA THAT MAKES PEOPLE SAY IT IS SO UNDEVELOPED?  by JACKSON RUNDUWALI Some people are going to have a terrible time trying to figure this out because you always thought that it was the infrastructure itself that was development! Maybe even our Prime Minister has things all screwed up and also things that if he can just build infrastructure all over PNG that PNG will become developed. Not quite the case! We need to explain this carefully so that you will understand. Maybe if you know the Prime Minister, you can sit down with him and teach him too. Firstly is the fact that North Korea hasn't built infrastructure all over the rural areas of its country. It has concentrated the nice infrastructure only in the capital city of Pyongyang. Pyongyang has a population of 2.5 million out of a total of 24.5 million for the country as a whole. That means about 90% of North Koreans aren't seeing much useful infrastructure at all. Just like in PNG, wher

by MICHAEL JOSEPH PASSINGAN You can say anything about them, show no respect to them at all, and treat them with personal contempt. You can make fun of them, laugh at them, point fingers at them, and never have a worry in the world that you'll be prosecuted or jailed. That's the way it is in genuine democracies. Who in Australia is ever prosecuted for saying something terrible about the Prime Minister? Or in Germany about the Chancellor? Or in Japan about the Prime Minister? Or in America about the President? Now that we have the new PNG Cybersecurity Act, about which our Prime Minister has come out in print, challenging those who have something critical to say about the government to come out with their names and faces. Very sinister indeed! The idea of the Act seems to be to intimidate people so that they stop making fun of the PM and his government or to reveal the deep darkest secrets about either one, for which there is usually never totally conclusive evidence,