NATIONAL FISHERIES AUTHORITY ON MINING

Post Courier 14 September 2012

There has been a statement from Mr Sylvester Pokajam Director of the National Fisheries Authority.

He says that the area of the Bismarck Sea where the first commercial deep sea mining will occur is a highly productive fishing ground.

He posed questions on the impact of undersea mining on the marine life, especially tuna.

Mr Pokajam said PNG should have waited until all the sea laws and policies were in place.  He said we should not tamper with the natural habitat.

He said that in addition to tuna, the Economic Exclusion Zone is one of the most productive in the world.

There have been other reports on the deep sea mining and tuna. Please click:

INACCURATE ADVICE ON NAUTILUS MINING

But these have to be seen in the context of the pollution of the Ramu and Sepik Rivers and the pollution from deep sea waste disposal by Ramu NiCo.

The story of the fish starts in the fish nurseries of these rivers.

PANGUNA UNDER THE BISMARCK SEA

The PNG nation is being led up the garden path on undersea mining. It will be nothing like the newspapers report.

In the media we see a ship on a blue sea that has sent down an escavator device that nibbles away at the sea bed.

It will be nothing like that. It will become a Panguna under the sea. The mining will follow the mineral reefs around the Bismarck Sea.

There will be huge undersea explosions just like at Panguna. The yellow fin tuna and other fish will be massively disturbed and killed.

We are being led to think that the substratum will be removed with a small excavator about the size of a truck. Giaman.

It may be that the mining lease will be for a hundred square kilometers. It will mine the tuna rich Magadus Square.

The sea will not be azure blue. In the mining operations that will go day and night forever, the sea will be black.

Offal and waste will go straight back into the sea. But waste can not be dumped in the mining area but will be piped far away.

There will be poisonous waste some of which will produce scum to float on the surface to pollute the surface plankton and cover the Ramu and Sepik deltas. Good-bye tuna. Please click:

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of concern surrounding most gold mines are arsenic, mercury, and cyanide,

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We saw the trucks that served the Panguna mine. There will not be undersea trucks. But we are not to be told that there may be a dozen ships mining over the Bismarck Sea.

Will the smelting and refining take place on the high seas? Surely we have not seen the smelter ship in the picturesque publicity advertisements of Nautilus Solwara 1.

This country is about to be raped. The mining operation may not produce a Panguna under-the-sea but it will go close. It will follow the mineral deposits around the Bismarck Sea.

INACCURATE ADVICE ON NAUTILUS MINING

13 September 2012

I feel the necessity to respond to a letter to the editor of the Post Courier entitled Fishing will not be affected. It was written by Mel Togolo Country Manager Nautilus Minerals.

You might note that the words false report have not been used because of my respect for Mr Togolo.

He was the only person ever to give a large donation to AIDS Holistics out of his own pocket when he worked for another mining company.

He has written that there will be no harm to fishing as the site is 30 kms from the coast line. He writes of the distance from coral reefs.

The objection is about damage to the blue water fish. The young tuna rely on the nutrients from the Sepik and Ramu Rivers.

There is a massive possible damage to be done to the Magadus Square and coast line from the mining up the Ramu and Sepik Rivers, Ramu Nico deep water waste disposal and the Nautilus deep sea mining.

There has been such a fuss over the Ramu Nico waste that we neglect to note that Marengo is a gold mine that will pour poisonous waste into the Ramu River.

It is not well known that Panguna mined gold which explained the poisons in the Jaba River. The gold was secretly shipped out.

Noah Musingku the pyramid shyster claimed to have taken control of the barrels of gold as the basis of his new Bougainville kingdom.

Independent reports refer to a locked room of barrels of gold scraped from the machine rollers crushing the copper ore.

Then there is the mining up the Frieda River. All rivers in the Sepik province flow to the sea. Poisons will end up in the Sepik regardless of the much publicized solid land fill.

Then there is the open sea mining of Nautilus. If gold is mined, there will be poison flowing directly into the sea. Will the refining be done at sea? It will never be monitored.

Within 10 to 50 years, the sea off the Sepik coast will be degraded. The tuna industry will have died 20 years before when the EU identified pollutants in the tissues of tuna caught.

Read the first report below on what the past Minister for Fisheries Mr Semri had to say on the Magadus Square in 2009 and loss of EU markets. Please click:

MAGADUS SQUARE TUNA BREEDING

DEEP SEA MINING IN MAGADUS SQUARE

FILIPINO CONCERN ON MINING AND

WILL MINING INDUSTRY DESTROY

BABY FISH DIE AT FEEDING TIME

We are talking of billions of tons of waste over a long period of time.  The currents will carry waste across the Magadus Square and into the deltas of the Ramu and Sepik Rivers.

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SUPERB DEBATE ON CHRISTIANITY

Over recent months, our blog has featured several reports criticizing views expressed on the blog PNG Attitude. Our views still remain.

I have teased the writers with cartoons of the old men in the Muppets.

But in recent days, there has been a superb debate on Christianity inspired by a rather negative report by Leonard Roka who we believe works at the Divine Word University.

His last report threw up an email address from the Divine Word University. He appeared to deeply criticize the Catholic Church. Please click:

Christianity a problem for us: it drives people off the plot

But there have been several contributors who have added a spiritual perspective that gives great balance. None have criticized outright. 

These writers both expatriate and Papua New Guinea nationals have shown depth of understanding of the early church and translations from Aramaic into Greek.

We are reminded of the meaning of Agape love.

There has been mention of the value of Scripture as guidelines for living starting with the Golden Rule "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you".

This report has added a touch of class to PNG Attitude.

CHOOSE TRAINERS CAREFULLY

We have to take care in the choice of trainers in gender equity and HIV/AIDS.

In promoting a family approach, we need to use older men and women who have been married and have children.

They will understand the issues of marriage and parenting better than a 22 year old woman who is unmarried, has no children and may be lesbian.

We have to sympathize with a group of expatriate gays and lesbians conducting awareness training for a group of soldiers.

Imagine a gay man standing before a company of soldiers and telling them about gender equity.

It would take one cat-call from the audience for the course to be spoiled.

He dare not say that he has been bashed by his boyfriends many times. A lesbian advisor would do no better. There would be a walk-out or a riot.

That is one reason why AusAID advisors conducted awareness for soldiers wives but not the soldiers. Please click:

AUSAID LESBIANS TRICK PNGDF

They are ideologically committed to not having heterosexual trainers male or female. The gay and lesbian agenda has to be followed.

So just avoid talking to men and focus on women and girls. We are ideologically committed to women and girls anyway.

That is why PNG welfare officers should be cross-trained as AIDS counsellors. They fit the criteria perfectly as being mature, parents, grand-parents and supporters of family.

NEW DAY DAWNS ON GENDER

The National 12 September 2012

After a long decade of gender inequality in the Papua New Guinea HIV/AIDS response, there is now a balance.

We can thank the removal of foreign lesbians who focused on rights of women and girls but did little to change the awareness of men.

The strategy was to blame men. Women and girls would be trained in their rights but then go home to be bashed by their husbands and fathers.

I have rights !! Whack. Ahhhhh !!

A perfect scenario for a foreign lesbian takeover. A self-fulfilling prophesy. No awareness for men. They were the enemy whose job it was to bash women.

But there is now a breath of fresh air in the National HIV/AIDS response. According to the media report, a survey of the National AIDS Council has shown gaps in the program.

That means that key positions were in the hands of foreign and national lesbians. Awareness programs were for women with men excluded.

AusAID played the same trick with awareness programs for the PNGDF three years ago.

They conducted programs for wives of soldiers but not soldiers. Please click:

AUSAID LESBIANS TRICK PNGDF

The AusAID lesbians wanted the soldiers to just keep bashing their wives.

We will keep watch from this time to make sure that the lesbian agenda has not gone underground in a massive re-strategizing.

In the national response, there will be a balance between men and women who manage the gender awareness programs. That is a pleasant change. There will be more gender programs for men.

There should be a focus on both rights and responsibilities.

TAKE ME OFF YOUR EMAIL LIST

There are vicious tricks that can be played by cyber bullies on unwary cyber victims, particularly those with multiple addressees.

There will be people who politely ask to have their addresses removed. For AIDS Holistics, this occurred at irregular intervals. The request was complied with.

The address can be accidentally reincluded if someone responds some weeks later and uses an old email address list. The response includes the address to be taken off.

There will be cyber activist bullies who have the complete old list that is used at all times on fake emails.

The cyber victim may at times be unaware that there is a hate campaign going on as the cyber bully has excluded the victim's address.

The victim can not respond as he does not know he is the subject of hate going out to his own addressees.

Other hate mailers are responding with hateful words but the victim is still blissfully unaware.

There were other tricks too. A hate mailer can send an email to all demanding of the victim to be taken off the list.

This person then sends a fake email in the name of the victim with his own fake address.

This gives the opportunity to scream and shout that the victim is a cyber stalker. I told you to take me off !!

There were others who send hate mail on Google.

When the victim sent an email, he was abused as the person had demanded to be taken off the email list. But the bully is now attacking on Google not email. Please click:

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Our good friend, Bruce Copeland, is not crazy or insane, as the Papua New Guineans

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Gay and lesbian cyber bullies have tried to convince the world that the founder of AIDS Holistics is a crazy homophobe.

But the fact remains that the Positive Living campaign is about family, faith, nutrition, exercise, peace, clean water, fruit and vegetables and more.

The virulent hatred and attack on the Positive Living message began with the world gays and lesbians in 2001.

Read the hate report above and find that this probably originated in America.

The anonymous author does not know the founder of AIDS Holistics and is writing blind.

In 2004, an anonymous cyber creep posing as a forensic psychiatrist from UCLA in America wrote to all.

The claim was that the founder of AIDS Holistics had all the characteristics of a serial killer.

Another homosexual cyber creep posed as Father Reyne to counsel the founder about his family abuse and violence.

He was obviously a fake as a real priest would keep the matter confidential and not include 80 addressees.

He was never heard of again when asked his parish, order and bishop. The founder and 80 addressees waited in vain.

The gays and lesbians in the Pacific have run out of anonymous talent. There is not a homosexual in the world who could smash down the Positive Living message as we have promoted.

AIDS Holistics has mainly defended the Positive Living family message. Any homophobia came later with hatred and dirty tricks of the AusAID and UN gays, lesbians and paedophiles.

Not a hate letter or vicious accusation could make a dent on our commitment.

Had the world gay and lesbian activists been respectful and followed a policy of live and let live, destruction of the gay and lesbian agenda would not have happened. But they wanted it all.

The world is reading this blog.