PROBLEMS AT TST WAIGANI

Last week, I bought a plate of meat at TST Waigani in Port Moresby. Within about 4 hours I had fierce diarrhoea or pekpek wara.

I waited about two days until the attack subsided and then went down to TST to advise the Indian manager. No sooner did I arrive than I had an attack of diarrhoea so bad that I feared an explosion in the store.

I ran to a shop attendant and asked if I could use their toilet as I was suffering badly. The attendant pointed to a door at the back of the store. I hobbled to the door and entered to find a toilet. I arrived just in time.

After about 10 minutes I emerged to find 6 security guards outside with the head security demanding to know why I was trespassing in the staff toilet. They were going to take me to be arrested by the police.

Then the Gestapo manager arrived and I explained why I was in such a rush. He wanted to know how I knew the toilet was there. I said that a store attendant had told me.

He demanded to know who the person was as he /she would be sacked. I suddenly lost my memory. I was not going to have a worker sacked who kindly helped a customer in deep gastric trouble. I said I could not remember.

I was hauled out to the front of the store but could not recognize the person. The Gestapo security supervisor then hauled me out to the security manager in a vehicle who demanded to know why I was trespassing in their toilet.

I will never go back to TST nor use their Laguna hotel down the road. If I ever went back and had diarrhoea again, I would never go to their toilet. 

I would go to the manager's office and shit on his carpet. I never got to talk about the contaminated plate of meat.

This Indian scumbag manager treated a customer like a piece of garbage. This is not the PNG way. 

I was rescued by the help of a store attendant who did not deserve the sack. Did the manager want me to shit at the check-out??

CLIMATE CHANGE IN MONGOLIA

There was a BBC report on the effects of climate change in Mongolia. Summers are in deep drought and winters are freezing.

The people in the villages live in their homes and keep warm by coal burning fires. This provides a thick blanket of smoke across the land that brings breathing problems to all especially children.

They put more coal on the fires which brings more smoke and more breathing problems and death. The nation is spiralling downward to death for the people.

There are probably billions of coal fires in India, China and Mongolia. And Australia is setting up Adani mine to sell more coal to India. 

China is going big on electric cars but will support the billions of coal burning fires across the land. The world can not win.

FEARFUL QUOTE ON CLIMATE CHANGE

There was a fearful statement on BBC news yesterday on climate change. The speaker said that: 

climate change is not coming. It is here !!!

There are nations in the world that suffer prolonged drought. There are those that suffer the swirling waters of the ocean that devastate coastal areas with cyclones and tsunamis. It may never end. Other areas are turning into deserts.

It is good to see nations in the world benefiting from solar and wind power. The world has been on the slide for 400 years with the burning of coal. Now even the developing nations are doing it too.

HOLIDAY INN CAN BE PROUD

Holiday Inn has been my place of peace for several years, a place among friends.

Holiday Inn Port Moresby can be proud of the fact that their Business Centre has been the hub of family welfare issues for almost 10 years. 

We have put several reports each week on AIDS awareness, needs of family, healthy living, domestic violence  and Rhythm Phonics.

We have provided resource knowledge for hundreds of PNG people and others from overseas. We are now coming to the end of the major issues and will close in the new year.

LEARNING LANGUAGE BY RHYTHM PHONICS

English - weak strong stress

I go

I go

I go to town

I go to town

I go to buy some food

I go to buy some food

I go to school

I go to school

I go to learn to read and write

I go to learn to read and write

I go to bed

I go to bed

I go to bed to sleep at night

I go to bed to sleep at night.

Tok Pisin - weak strong stress

Mi go

Mi go

Mi go long town

Mi go long town

Mi go insait long haus

Mi go insait long haus

Mi go antap long maunden

Mi go antap long maunden

Mi go wantaim em
Mi go wantaim em

Mi go insait long haus wantaim em
Mi go insait long haus wantaim em

Mi go wantaim ol meri

Mi go wantaim ol meri

French - weak strong stress

Sur le pont

Sur le pont

D'avignon

D'Avignon

L'on y danser

L'on y danser

Sur le pont

Sur le pont

D'Avignon

D'Avignon

L'on y danser

L'on y danser

Tout un rond

Tout un rond

Bahasa Indonesia - weak strong stress

Topi saya bundar
Topi saya bundar
Bundar topi saya
Bundar topi saya
Kalau tidak bundar
Kalau tidak bundar
Bukan topi saya
Bukan topi saya
Lacrum, lacrum, lacrum
Falalalah
Lacrum, lacrum. lacrum
Falalahlah
Bukan topi saya
Bukan topi saya

INDEPENDENCE FOR BOUGAINVILLE

Congratulations to Bougainville for their vote on independence. As a friend of PNG, I have grave fears for the future if the PNG parliament does not ratify the vote as soon as possible.

There would be no value if the previously warring factions on Bougainville started to rebel against Papua New Guinea.

Bougainville has to start arranging its funds probably with Australia. In an era of a move of China into the Pacific, there is danger of China closing in on Bougainville. 

There is a copper mine and opportunities for a naval base that would interest China that is moving within the Australian forward defence zone.

RENEWABLE POWER FOR HOMES AND INDUSTRY.

The way is clear for a massive surge in power generation for domestic and industrial use across the world.

Some day soon, we are going to realize that a town or city can be supplied with solar or wind power by a private company supplying solar panels to houses and factories.

Companies could set up grids across the country from town to town. It could be a massive money spinner for the power company.

There could be thousands of power generation companies. This would be a massive alternative to coal fire burning power stations.

In Papua New Guinea, I have visited villages that look like small Australian country towns. Each house has a solar panel. There are street lights. 

A renewable power company could make the process simpler and more nation wide. 

WESTPAC AND MONEY LAUNDERING FOR PAEDOPHILES

ABC News

There have been reports of the inquiry into bank corruption in Australia that Westpac has been involved in money laundering for Australian paedophiles seeking child sex in the Philippines.

That raises the question as to whether or not the same service has extended to expatriate paedophiles in Papua New Guinea with the support of Westpac PNG.

Paedophile pornography is big business in Australia. Large numbers of paedophiles came to PNG in early 2000 under AusAID with their anti-FAMILY and anti-FAITH agenda. 

That is why they attacked the Positive Living message but failed badly. Papua New Guinea is a society based on family and supported by churches. Nothing must come to destroy that.

JUDGE CONDEMNS A CHILD RAPIST

The National 18 December 2019

A judge has sentenced a man to prison for raping two teenage girls from his village. He stopped them one at a time as they walked along the beach near the village and raped them in the bushes.

The judge told the man he was a fool for spoiling his village life. The girls and their families will never forget he raped them even in years to come when he came out of prison.

Twenty years ago, there would be letters to the editor from men complaining about women wearing trousers or jeans. They should be wearing dresses.

Today PNG women wear short shorts including 9 year old girls supposedly parading their bodies to all. That is one reason why some men see little girls as ready for sex. 

That is not to mention the men, woman, boys and girls who watch child pornography on smart phones. Little boys and girls are just right for paedophile sex so we may conclude from porn.

BREAKING NEWS: END OF THE WORLD

There was a horrifying report on the History channel about the rise in temperature in the world, the result of climate change.

The report said that if the temperature rises over the next 100 years, the world will come to an end. The earth has been heating up from the start of the industrial revolution. 

The world will burn. Civilization will be swept away in a molten holocaust.

The seas will rise and cover continents that disappear under the sea. The sea will cover the land of the Mississippi River basin cutting the USA into two. Bangladesh will disappear as the Ganges delta is inundated. Cities will be swept away.

Millions of people will become refugees with no homes or access to food or clean water. Violence will be the norm. The temperature may rise to 5 degrees by 2111. That will be fatal. 

All creatures will be dead with plagues of parasites bringing sickness to those still alive. Water and heat provide the perfect habitat for disease carrying mosquitoes. 

Even the boa constrictors are moving up through the USA from the Florida everglades. Mosquitoes have been moving up the Kokoda Track in the Owen Stanley Range for several years. It was once too  cold for mosquitoes.

By 2111,  I will long be dead. So will my children and grand children. Perhaps people will no longer give birth when there is no future in sight.

ADAPTING TO CHANGE

As a student and teacher of biology, I have long known that living creatures thrive on this planet if they can adapt to change. Those that can not will slowly die out.

Surely that applies to the human race that is faced with climate change. There are now changes taking place to which we may have to adapt.

Droughts, floods, cyclones and fires may require that all living creatures adapt as creatures did in the ice ages.

If the sea rises, we must either move or lift the level of the land above the sea level. Bush fires may require us not to live in forests or build homes that can withstand fires. 

Perhaps there should be annual nation wide back burning, perhaps at the hands of indigenous rangers. That would be better than putting them in the cells. Perhaps indigenous men and women in the Northern Territory could be recruited into the police force.

Floods and cyclones may force us to change. We conserve the water from the floods that ravage the earth in this era. We adapt. So much rain water ends up in the sea. 

The Dutch protected their lowland centuries ago with sea walls or dykes. Are the Governments of the Pacific sitting around waiting for sea walls to be built for them by Australia or China?

It may be inevitable that the Arctic ice disappears. That means that the living creatures must adapt to the new conditions. Seals eat fish. Polar bears eat seals.

We are told that 100 million people will be affected in low lying areas by sea rises. How are we going to adapt? The Sahara Desert was once lush forest. So too Antarctic that was once forest and rivers before the tectonic plate moved to its present position.

Millions died in the little ice age that ended only 300 years ago. It was so cold that people never moved out of their homes. So too the rats lived in the homes and brought bubonic plague to the people. The rats adapted to the cold. Ancestors of living creatures today survived the little ice age.

Greta Thunberg may become the hero of the generation not a brat as some foreign politician has called her.

DAMAGED KIDNEYS FROM UNHEALTHY LIFESTYLE

Post Courier 12 December 2019

There was a report of a PNG woman with failed kidneys who has to go on dialysis every week. She said that her failed kidneys were caused by her life style as a young woman.

She said she used to eat only processed food and drink soft drink. Now she knows she should have eaten fruit and vegetables and drunk mainly clean water.

This is what we call Positive Living that applies to health in general and not just HIV/AIDS.

People also suffer damaged kidneys by taking too many antibiotics for no reason at all.

MP ADVOCATES MEN'S RIGHTS

This week I rejoiced when I read of a member of parliament advocating rights for men. At last it was being recognized that men suffer violence at the hands of wives and girlfriends.

But no. That was not what the MP meant. He was saying that men  have the right to punish their wives when they do wrong. Is he saying the man never does wrong?

So he is saying that the man is the boss of the family with the right to be violent to wives. That is bush kanaka thinking from way back.

Marriage is supposed to be a meeting of loving care between men and their wives. Both man and woman care equally for family. That is called gender equality.

That applies equally to gay and lesbian same sex couples who have a long history of domestic violence. Please click:

Intimate partner violence in lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex
https://aifs.gov.au/cfca/publications/intimate-partner-violence-lgbtiq-communitiesPeople who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex or queer (LGBTIQ) 
experience intimate partner violence at similar rates as those who identify as .

SCOTT MORRISON IS MODERN EMPEROR NERO

We all know our history of how the Emperor Nero fiddled while Rome burned down. 

We now have a modern Emperor Nero as Australian Prime Minister who is fiddling while Australia burns down and the sea covers the islands of the Pacific. 

What does he need to know to start focusing on climate change??

DEATH TO HIV DROPPING IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA

The National 12 December 2019

Report in the media by Minister for Health and HIV/AIDS Jelta Wong advised that the number of deaths to HIV infection is dropping in PNG.

There may be several causes with people going for HIV testing and starting ART medication early without default. The report advises that there is now a second and third line of treatment that are expensive. Best not to default on the first line.

We hope that AIDS Holistics has played a part with our never-ending promotion of Positive Living. Even the National AIDS Council has run out of funds. Our website here has attracted 106,000 hits from PNG in 8 years. So we are pleased that a life-saving message has been going out for several years to many people.

But most important is our ongoing warning of the dangers to HIV sufferers of cigarettes and alcohol that continue to weaken the immune system and lead to death regardless of ART medication. Remember Peter Momo. Please click:

Why HIV Patients Must Stop Smoking - Healthline
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-hiv-patients-must-stop-smoking-0809149 Aug 2014 ... Anti-smoking advocates wonder, with HIV now very manageable 
with antiretroviral drugs, why would anyone jeopardize their health by ...

Alcohol More Harmful for People With HIV - WebMD

https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20160208/alcohol-more-harmful-for-people-with-hiv-study-suggests8 Feb 2016 ... Even moderate drinking linked to higher risk for death and ... that causes AIDS, even when the virus is suppressed with modern antiretroviral ...

APPLICATION FOR A JOB

Some years ago, I worked in a Business College as the teacher of Business English. I taught writing skills and gave the students a model letter of application.

It was a very polished letter in which the applicant gave a summary of their achievements from prefect at school, member of a sporting club and church youth leader.

I had them write about themselves in a factual and modest way. " I see in myself the capacity to work hard as the member of a team and complete work on time as required.  I believe that I would be respected by fellow employees and clients for an honest, friendly and helpful approach".

Some weeks later, two students withdrew from the course. The foolish dean of studies claimed it was because I was a rotten teacher.

I met one of the young men down town and asked why he left. He said that he and his friend applied for a job using my letter format and both were successful. So they left. Haha.

JUDGE CONDEMNS PAEDOPHILE STEP-FATHER

Acting judge Mr Justice Numapo strongly condemned a paedophile step-father who had just been sentenced to prison for molesting his step-daughter who had lived with him and wife since she was a baby.

He had repeatedly raped her to the point that he had damaged her vagina and given her gonnorhoea with massive fear. Justice Numapo said he had made his step-daughter afraid of him and all men for all her life. Bastard.

Justice Numapo has had my deep respect over many years from the time he was Chief Magistrate in Lae. He may remember me.

WRITING SKILLS GRADES 1-12

I have been teaching English all my working life. Most successful has been in Papua New Guinea where most modern students have no idea of how to write polished and rhythmic sentences. 

Many have no skill in lifting themselves out of baby English that they learned in elementary school. They write short sentences and repeat words.

My name is John. I live in  village. It is a small village. It is a village near the river. The river is the Sepik River. I live with my mother and father. My father works in Wewak. My mother lives in the village. I have two brothers and two sisters. My brothers and sisters go to school. The school is in the village. I go to school too.

Many PNG teachers are my dear friends. But many have no idea of how to teach polished English. They think that if they teach about nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, tense and clauses, the students will magically put it all together.  Most will not succeed.

I have a reputation of lifting students to distinction and credit standard at every school where I was employed. In the last year, I have met two past students from Bumayong and Busu High Schools. 

One is a lecturer in English at Balob Teachers' College and the other teaches English to Grades 9-12 in a Port Moresby school. Both remember the skills they had learned in my classes.

I teach students to put patterns together in polished complex sentences and carry on with dozens of exercises until they have mastered the skills over one or two years. I teach listing that the students use in all writing.

I saw Peter. I saw Paul. I saw Mary.

I saw Peter, Paul and Mary.

I opened the door. I went inside. I put a letter on the table.

I opened the door, went inside and put a letter on the table.

Opening the door, I went inside and put a letter on the table.

Papua New Guinea suffers from unemployment. 
It suffers from family violence.
It suffers from corruption in Government.
It suffers from tribal wars.

Papua New Guinea suffers from unemployment, family violence, 
corruption in Government and tribal wars.

These skills are the basis of teaching polished English. Students move from Rhythm Phonics to rhythmic polished English as they proceed through to Grade 12.

Unfortunately the squiggle, squiggle sound out the word phonics ends in lower primary school. Students go on with baby writing.

When students finish writing a paragraph for me, they have to circle every word repeated and write the paragraph again. They are learning a key writing skill that many will never forget.

EDUCATION GETS PHONICS WRONG

For so many years, PNG education has lurched from error to error in teaching literacy. They relied on foolish expatriates.

The greatest error occurred 30 years ago with vernacular language pushed on to Education by amateur linguist Professor Tom Dutton of Australian National University and the Summer Institute of Linguistics. 

Most problems arose from that time. I was at the conference at Divine Word University in 1989 and objected to the focus on vernacular but was ignored by so-called experts in linguistics. They had their own half-baked hidden agenda. I represented the RAAF School of Languages.

I told them students had enough problems learning English without being confused and diverted into vernacular. Somehow, vernacular was pushed into the Department of Education with resultant chaos over the next 20 years. My view was correct.

Teaching of phonics died in the 1960s when foolish US teachers decided that memorization was an inferior way to learn. All memorization died with multiplication tables, songs, poems and nursery rhymes no longer chanted in class. Education lost its soul.

Rhyme and rhythm helped students put sentences together joined by weak stresses - and, to, but, with, from, up and down. Students went from simple to complex, part to whole and known to unknown. 

From the beginning students would learn the letters of the alphabet. They would recognize each individual letter and chant sequences as we came to know on TV Sesame street.

a b c d e f g
h i j k l m n o p

Then they would put small similar words together using the sounds of the alphabet.

man, can, ran, fan.
mat , cat, rat, sat, fat, bat, hat,
ball, call, tall, fall,
sun, bun, gun, run.

All the while, they would be chanting nursery rhymes and taking in the weak and strong stresses. Within 6 months, they would recognize 300-500 words connected by weak stresses !! 

They learn the words they already know and put patterns together that they will use as the basis of sentences for the rest of their lives.

The teacher can put silly sentences together using the small words already chanted. Students drill connector words that form part of every sentence.

The fat cat sat on the mat with the rat.
The rat sat in the hat.
The man ran with the can in his hand.

Then the students can chant patterns they already know.

Jack and Jill went up the hill.

Mary had a little lamb.

Little Jack Horner sat in the corner. 
Wee Willy Winkie runs through the town.
Oh arise all ye sons of this land. (apologies to daughters)
Let us sing of a joy to be free.

Appreciation of rhythm and rhythm went through to grade 12 with words derived from Latin. Most words consisted of prefix (weak) root (strong) and suffix (weak).

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Two years ago, I conducted Rhythm Phonics workshops for 800 primary and elementary teachers in Lae. They loved it but were disappointed that I was unable to be employed to go from school to school over a year.

The workshops were organized by Mr Jiram (Secretary) and Mr  Tangui (Senior inspector). The groups of teachers were told that I was the top teacher of English in the province. At least my work gave consultancy Bilum Books the guidance to move away from squiggle phonics.

Now I am in Port Moresby and ready to unleash Rhythm Phonics on primary and elementary teachers in the capital city.

I go

I go

I go to town

I go to town

I go to buy some food

I go to buy some food

I go to school

I go to school

I go to learn to read and write

I go to learn to read and write

I go to bed

I go to bed

I go to bed to sleep at night

I go to bed to sleep at night

I wake up in the morning light

I wake up in the morning light.

Elementary students could chant this from memory within a week before moving on to 30 more groups of patterns. 

At the end of two months, they knew the basics of simple words and rhythm sentences. We explored all the words they might know. They chant and clap to each sentence.

I was born in Bu-ka-vu
I go to school in E-ri-ku.
My parents live in Bu-ti-bam.
I am in grade 2.

The process of sounding words squiggle squiggle is far inferior. It does not prepare students to appreciate the rhythm and rhyme of English.

I recall every song and poem I ever learned from childhood. I learned the rhythm and rhyme and never forgot as school children will do if they go back to chanting poems, nursery rhymes and songs.

My father was a Queensland drover and would tell me bush poems when I was 6 years old. I have never forgotten 67 years later.

Lost

He ought to be back said the old man
unless there is something amiss.
He only went to the two mile 
and he ought to be back by this.

He would ride that reckless filly
He would have his wilful way.
And now he's not back by sundown
and what will his mother say?

......... 15 more verses.

Not bad for a 6 year old. Every other student who learns poems, songs and books by heart will have a life long knowledge of sweet English.

RUGBY AUSTRALIA LOSES TO ISRAEL FOLAU

Only paedophile child abusers go to hell. Two PNG men were reported charged in the media today. One was a teacher. If not arrested, he may seek employment with UN or AusAID as a paedophile activist.

Post Courier 5 December 2019: Dean Richie: Bravo Izzy on your victory for free speech. The bullies can go to hell. 

Rugby Australia's out of court settlement clearly demonstrates that no sporting body has the right to muzzle a person's religious beliefs.

How dare a sporting body think they can vilify and sack a young man for his personal views.

Do I agree with Folau's ideologies? No.

Should he be permitted to express them? absolutely.

ARREST INDIGENOUS TERRORISTS IN AUSTRALIA

We applaud the decisive way the Chinese Communist Party has controlled the Uighurs of Sinkiang. Australian indigenous terrorists can be dealt with in the same way.

The solution to increasing activism in Australia is to strip the citizenship and land rights from the indigenous people and place them in correction and training camps in Arnhem Land.

Any indigenous person who has criticized the Australian Government should be arrested, transported to Arnhem Land and trained to be law abiding citizens at the risk of further punishment. All Government services are to be removed. All indigenous politicians are to be sent to camps for life.

Indigenous people are deemed to be foreigners with families not recognised. Their rights are to be removed by legislation.

These indigenous terrorists are to speak only English and memorize the Australian Constitution. If released and found to have forgotten the words, they are to be re-arrested.

Australian guards report on any infractions and are to put indigenous terrorists into solitary confinement. The camps are to be guarded by armed anti-terrorist soldiers with orders to kill any escapee.

Within 20 years, the indigenous people should have become extinct. Their land is to pass to white Australians.

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This report is intended to be a hideous joke to highlight the anti-confucian and inhumane treatment of the Uighurs by the Chinese Communist Party.

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