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Reports have surfaced that tyrant Frank Bainimarama’s recent trip to New York was not a very pleasant one due to movement restrictions placed on him by the US authorities as a murderous tyrant.

Frank was heavily watched by US intelligence with his movements restricted between his hotel, the UN head office, Fiji office in NY, and the airport.

He was restricted from travelling interstate and was refused to visit the Fiji High Commission in Washington DC.

His supporter and coup apologist, Winston Thompson, had to fly over to NY from Washington to join his old elite buddies Vunibobo and Inoke Kubuabole in licking up to their treasonous boss.

We can confirm that the heat is on between Aiyaz and Frank verses the old indigenous Fijian elites most of whom are members of Frank’s junta cabinet, and other key public service positions.

Sources say that Frank has decided to put all his trust on Aiyaz and his con-artist friend, John Prasad, exposing him to a backlash from within his own military forces powered by Ului Mara’s men.

It is said that Ului Mara is no doubt in control at Fiji’s military camp and that Frank’s blurbs against Mara’s family as one of those “old elites” behind all the coups in Fiji is touching on a raw nerve that will cause a corresponding raw reaction.

Those who understand Fijian politics say there are things happenings at the ground level that Frank is no longer privy to after his decision to go along with whatever Aiyaz Khaiyum tells him to do and say.

Meanwhile, Frank’s biggest threat, ousted Prime Minister Qarase, is understood to be resting at his Mavana village, away from all the rumblings that is boiling up in capital Suva.

Frank on the other hand has been spotted by some of our Fiji based sources, back from the US, with more bodyguards around him.

Who said that this faceless bureacrat has a a distinction in Economics.

Our research has revealed that he was a junior field clerk in the FSC in the late 1970’s . He is reputed to have greased to the CSR bosses with “sispans and sispans of junglee murga and murgi ” to get a FSC sponsorship to USP where he had completed a below average degree.

He continued to grease his bosses in civil service and gradually made his way to the top job now. What he lacked in intellectual rigour and substance , he made it up by greasing and greasing and also backstabbing.

For example it is well known fact that he tried to backstab the previous deputy Governor of the Bank , the outspoken and bright Hari Pal Singh during the days of Savenaca Siwatibau.

This man was totally faceless, gutless and unheard of until now.

What does he know about the right economic prescription for Fiji ?

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ANZ has sealed a world-first partnership to help the powerful China Development Bank.

The partnership will help the CDB achieve its goal of amassing a $25 billion portfolio of Australian assets by the end of the year and dramatically boosting its presence across the Asia-Pacific region.
In a significant boost to the strained relationship between Australia and China, ANZ yesterday became the first global financial institution to sign an agency agreement with the state-owned giant.

The memorandum of understanding, signed by ANZ chief executive Mike Smith in Beijing yesterday, will involve the Australian bank bringing deals to CDB for financing and acting as its agent in Australia, New Zealand and other parts of Asia.

“This is a first of a kind,” Mr Smith told The Australian. “What they are looking for is a partnership to create a conduit into the areas in which we operate, particularly Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. Not so much in the other areas of Asia, although we are willing to work with them there too. They are wanting to get the local expertise, the local feel and local flavour.”

CDB, with about 3.8 trillion yuan ($636bn) in assets at the end of last year, is actively looking for development opportunities in Australia, New Zealand the Asia-Pacific. These could include participation in syndicated loans, in particular those investments with a China element, or providing funding to companies with a solid credit rating of A or above.

The Chinese bank’s preferred investment segments are natural resources and infrastructure, such as water and public utilities with a Chinese connection.

ANZ has set up a special group within the organisation to work with CDB, and the two banks have already struck two major deals within the past few months.

In May, CDB participated in a $US100 million ($115m) syndicated loan managed by ANZ for Woodside Petroleum. ANZ is also the lead banker for the Nadarivatu Hydro Power Project in Fiji, which Chinese company Sinohydro and the Fijian government are building with backing from CDB.

CDB has recently been overhauled — ahead of a possible listing on a stock exchange in coming years — and now has a commercial banking arm.

It is one of two main “policy” banks used by the Chinese government to finance massive offshore debt deals, such as the $US6bn in funding that Fortescue Metals Group must secure by today to meet its deadline for an iron ore supply agreement with the China Iron & Steel Association.

The other policy bank is the Export-Import Bank of China, or Exim Bank. Exim promised Rio Tinto an unlimited line of credit, potentially worth $US20bn or more to develop resources projects, during the giant miner’s negotiations with the state-owned Chinalco earlier this year.

The collapse of the $US19.5bn alliance between Rio and Chinalco in June has contributed to the breakdown in relations between Canberra and Beijing this year, along with the prolonged stoush over iron ore pricing, which ended with the arrest of four Rio employees. Anti-Chinese sentiment in the Australian press and the visit of exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer, who Beijing has branded a terrorist, has also strained diplomatic ties.

Mr Smith said there was a noticeable difference in attitudes towards Australia during his trip to China this week compared with previous visits.

“There is no doubt that it is a little more difficult than it was,” he said. “And I would express that as an aggregation of a number of issues.

“As a business we have received such extraordinary support from the Chinese authorities and I think they are a little nonplussed as to what is happening. I was actually quite surprised this time that there was such a depth of feeling because normally business is business and politics is politics. It’s certainly rattled their cage.”

Mr Smith, who was in China to open ANZ’s first local branch in the country as it works towards becoming one of only a handful of banks with a locally incorporated business, said the situation was “unfortunate and hopefully it will get resolved”.

Mr Smith has several decades of experience in Asian banking, having run the Asian operations of the world’s biggest bank, HSBC, before joining ANZ two years ago. Before that, he was with Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Bank.

ANZ has by far the biggest presence of the Australian banks in China, with minority stakes in several local banks and plans to open as many as 50 branches across the country in the next five years. 

Read more at The Australian

Frank Bainimarama’s condemnation of Fiji’s  ”old elite” is not going down too well with his key supporters.

Sources say Aiyaz Khaiyum, who wrote Frank’s UN speech, was taking an indirect swipe at Koila and Ului Mara, the Mara siblings who are demanding the removal of Aiyaz from the regime quoting him as Fiji’s worst enemy.

And the two Mara’s don’t like the way Aiyaz is manipulating Frank claiming that the pair are concorting to destroy the native Fijian tradition and culture.

It is understood that Khaiyum has been branded as the biggest terrorist threat to Fiji with his anti-indigenous Fijian decrees that denies native Fijians of their indigenous peoples rights.

But other sources are saying  the Maras are slowly etching in to take over power from Frank himself and that they are beginning to garner alot of support from indigenous Fijian communities – something Frank is craving for to save his skin.

Fiji Day in October 10th will mark the launching of the late Ratu Kamisese Mara’s book by their family friend, PNG PM Michael Somare.

Another very subtle way of allevating  the very thing Frank and Aiyaz say must not triumph – Fiji’s “old elite”.

Is Fiji witnessing a slow but sure change of guards?

We think so!

Funny isn’t it…that a Governor with a Post-Graduate degree with Distinction couldn’t even state the obvious. Are we playing safe Mr Reddy? Please grow some BALLs & say it like it is!! Now the public sees you as Leweni’s equal….un-qualified and full of everything else but the truth.

But, assuming that you are right, can you please enlighten us as to what data have you relied upon to reach such a conclusion. Do you have data that clearly links the impact of the Global Financial Crises to Fiji’s economy? What are they? Have you ran an analysis comparing the impact of the Coup with that of the GFC? If you say it’s not that simple, then please simplify it! You cannot reach a conclusion that the GFC is to blame for Fiji’s economic woes, just by guessing….I hope not!

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The military forces and armed personnel are currently inside the Fiji Teelevision office in central Suva. Reliable sources said that the military are after a certain confidential document that was delivered to Fiji TV by an anonymous person last night.

The outspoken former Minister for Multi-Ethnic Affairs in the SDL Govt George Shiu Raj has now abandoned his loyal supporters in the province of Ra and joined the illegal regime band wagon.

Our sources have confirmed that George Shiu Raj is vogorously campaigning and lobbying with Frank and his illegal junta to give him the sugar portfolio. He wants to become the new minister for sugar. He is telling the people in government that he has the recipe to resurrect and salvage the dying sugar industry. This is the same George Shiu Raj that was totally against the removal of government in 2006 and made lots of noises about it. It seems that he has now taken the “cant beat them join them” principle. He has even gone to the extent of going to Kiuva village (Frank’s village ) to attend a village soli and fundraising.

To the people of Ra please wake up and look for a new MP come election time. Do not ever trust your current MP EVER AGAIN. He has taken your vote and your land and resources. He has totally backstabbed the chiefs of the province. He is also trying to own Vaileka town because almost all the developments taking place there involves Shiu Raj. Please beware he is the snake in the grass of Ra.

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DOZENS of people are believed dead and a number of Australians are injured after a tsunami was sparked by an 8.3 magnitude quake in the Pacific.

There are reports of people being washed out to sea and whole villages being destroyed by up to five deadly waves.

One unconfirmed report suggests 40 people from the Samoan village of Lalomanu – on the southeastern end of the island of Upolu – have been killed.

New Zealands Foreign Affairs office said it had received reports of five people dead in Samoa and “many more washed out to sea”. One report said the island was hit by 4m waves.

There are also reports of at least 14 dead in American Samoa.

The Australian Government said a number of Australians had been injured.

“The early reports don’t suggest that any of them are very serious, but they are in hospital,” parliamentary secretary for international development assistance Bob McMullan told Sky News.

“My advice is that the Australians are stable,” he said.

“All of them have been able to contact their own families directly and none of them have said to the high commission they need any special extra assistance.”

He said reports from Australians suggested the event was “very frightening, both for the extent of the earthquake and the impact of the tsunami”.

“We’ve contacted all the Australians we can and we are trying to make sure they are as safe as we can help them to be.”

Australian consular officials in Samoa were at local hospitals to offer assistance, he said.

An emergency hotline has been set up for anyone worried about friends or relatives on 1300 555 135.

Do you know anyone affected. Email us at news@news.com.au

The tsunami struck Samoa and American Samoa this morning and a large swathe of the Pacific was put on tsunami alert.

There was no threat to Australia, and the tsunami reached New Zealand at height of 40cms without causing significant damage.

New Zealander Graeme Ansell said he saw the beach village of Sau Sau Beach Fale in Samoa being levelled.

“It was very quick. The whole village has been wiped out,” Ansell told National Radio from a hill near Samoa’s capital, Apia.

“There’s not a building standing. We’ve all clambered up hills, and one of our party has a broken leg. There will be people in a great lot of need ’round here.”

Red Cross tsunami appeal

Local reporter Jona Tuiletufuga said there were up to 70 villages in the worst-hit area of Samoa each housing between 300 and 800 people.

Posts on the New Zealand Herald Twitter page said:

Samoa radio getting calls from all over the island of reports of houses destroyed.

Samos – Other villages reportedly with many deaths include Vailoa and Malaela in Aleipata – one of the worst hit villages

The powerful quake jolted people awake. In Apia, families reported shaking that lasted for up to three minutes.

“It was pretty strong; it was long and lasted at least two minutes,” one resident told local radio.

“It’s the strongest I have felt, and we ran outside. You could see all the trees and houses were shaking,” he said.

Sulili Dusi told New Zealand’s National Radio that “everything dropped on the floor and we thought the house was going to go down as well”.

Local media said they had reports of some landslides in the Solosolo region of the main Samoan island of Upolu and damage to plantations in the countryside outside Apia.

A 1.5-metre tsunami wave swept into the American Samoa capital Pago Pago shortly after the earthquake, sending sea water surging inland about 100m before receding, leaving some cars stuck in mud.

Electricity outages were reported and telephone lines were jammed.

In Fagatogo, water reached the waterfront town’s meeting field and covered portions of the main highway, which also was plagued by rock slides. 

In New Zealand residents of low-lying areas on the Coromandel coast were told to flee this morning.

The New Zealand Herald reports a 90cm wave hit Tolaga Bay on the East Cape this morning.

In Auckland, police asked people to stay off popular beaches in the area.

Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre

US Geological Survey

With AFP and Reuters

Watch vidoe here http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26145503-401,00.html

Oh Sada Yada Yada Yada!!!

You can’t seriously think that everything is fine in Fiji.

Perhaps the following pointers will jolt you back to reality:
- increased unemployment
- inflation
- political uncertainty
- loss of investor confidence
- undermined property rights
- reduced freedom of speech
- militarization of the civil service
- loss of experienced and qualified civil servants and private sector players
- lack of independence of the judiciary
- loss of faith with the police force
- crippled sugar industry
- low tourist arrivals
- suspension from the Pacific Island Forum, Commonwealth and UN peacekeeping program
- etc etc etc

Given the above, things will not improve in the near future Sada. You don’t have to be a genius to figure that out.

So enough of your baloney Sada. Fiji and its people deserve more.

Sada Reddy’s Lies are Second-Rate

Sada Reddy, the illegal Governor of the Reserve Bank of Fiji, wants us to believe that our economy has been hit by the global financial crisis, not the illegal seizure of power by a tin-pot dictator.

If he wants to say this he should explain why the biggest crash in our economy was in 2007 and 2008 BEFORE the global financial crisis struck in October 2008.

If he wants to tell lies, he should learn to tell better ones than this.

If he’s going to entice investors to Fiji he needs to understand that he’s talking to business people who know the truth about the international economy.

What this tells us about Sada Reddy’s pathetic lies is that they are targeted at the domestic audience, not foreign investors.

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We say – Shame on you Sada Reddy for trying to cover up tyrant Frank’s misdeeds and its subsequent negative repercussions on Fiji’s overall well-being! Sada Reddy obviously has short and selective memory. He has forgotten that Frank’s coup was in December 2006 while the global recession took its hit around September 2008. Fiji’s economy was already heading towards doom way before the September 2008 recession, a self-inflicted Fiji recession initiated by murderous Frank Bainimarama. Sada Reddy, you’re not worthy to be in that position if the basis of your agenda is supported by numerous lies that has become synonymous to your name. Tell the truth Sada!

The Governor of the Reserve Bank of Fiji says political developments in his country have had only a very minor impact on the Fiji economy. In an in-depth interview with Pacific Beat, Reserve Bank Governor, Sada Reddy, gave an upbeat assessment of Fiji’s economic prospects and some insight into the direction the interim government will take in its 2010 budget, which is due to be announced in November. On the international front, Governor Reddy lashed out at countries, he said, are attempting to block Fiji’s access to international loans.

Presenter: Jemima Garrett
Speaker: Fiji’s Reserve Bank Governor, Sada Reddy
Fiji’s Reserve Bank Governor, Sada Reddy, speaking with Jemima Garrett. And if you want to hear all of that interview with Sada Reddy tune in to Pacific Beat tomorrow, where it will be a feature in the second half of the program.

GARRETT: Late last week Fiji’s Reserve Bank announced the country’s foreign reserves had hit 1 billion fiji dollars for the first time.

Reserve Bank Governor, Sada Reddy, describes the record foreign reserves figure as a major milestone, helped along by the 20% devaluation of the Fiji dollar in April, a 188 million fiji dollar line of credit from the International Monetary Fund and a reduction in imports.

The devaluation came shortly after the abrogation of Fiji’s constitution and the imposition of strict media censorship.

Despite the ongoing political problems in Fiji Governor Reddy says political developments have only a very minor impact on the economy.

REDDY: That’s really.. when you have a situation like that, it does affect the economy to some extent, especially in terms of aid flows and foreign loans and all that, but it has not had any major, major impact on the economy as such. Of course travel bans and all that do have an impact. Good people are unable to accept positions in the government and the statutory bodies, and so in that sense it has got an affect, but not directly on the economy as such.

GARRETT: Many experts are saying the political situation is now the biggest negative factor affecting Fiji’s economy, because it’s affecting investment and confidence. How do you respond to that.

REDDY: Well, on the margins certainly it may be affecting, but business people and many other countries are probably going through similar or worse political situations. The business people get on with business and as long as they see that their business is secure in the long term and the rules and regulations are transparent and certain, they will continue to do business. I don’t think it is a major issue.

GARRETT: Fiji Reserve Bank Governor Sada Reddy.

Governor Reddy is optimistic about Fiji’s economic outlook. He says the tourism industry is already picking up and, having spoken with key industry figures in fishing and bottled water, he expects those to follow suit.

Mr Reddy forecasts 2% growth in 2010, up from a .2 % contraction this year and he predicts the 2010 budget, due out in November will be milder than many expect.

REDDY: I don’t think the budget will be tough, I think the budget will be more growth oriented in terms of promoting export. It will try and discourage imports and also try and I think the government is looking at making the civil service more efficient than it was in the past. I think more will be done in terms of investment, building investor confidence, providing a more certainty in terms of policy in the medium term I think. Those would be the thrust. Overall in terms of government framework, in terms of that deficit to GDP, all that will be contained. Government will spend more in terms of infrastructure. They are already starting. Our reserve bank message to government is to invest more in infrastructure which has been neglected for a number of years.

GARRETT: Next week, Governor Reddy will attend the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the world bank Group in Istanbul in Turkey.

One of his tasks will be to look for loans from multi-lateral organisations for Fiji’s infrastructure spending.

Fiji’s interim government has complained Australia and New Zealand are using their clout to persuade international organisations to join their campaign for the return of democracy in Fiji, by refusing assistance.

Governor Reddy says he will urge those countries that have long term interests in Fiji to support Fiji’s access to finance.

REDDY: Nobody gains by undermining any country’s economy. We all will be losing in the long run. So I would urge those countries which are taking particular sides or want to impede our access to international capital markets, that they look at these policies in terms of long term interests of the region and of Fiji.

GARRETT: Would you include Australia among those countries?

REDDY: Well, I will not name countries here. I think the countries know which countries are taking certain positions with respect to Fiji and I would leave it at that.

Demand for employment in overseas private security positions from former Fiji soldiers is said to still be strong.

A retired army officer, Lieutenant Colonel Sakiuasa Raivoce, an agent for Global Risk Strategies, says he gets at least ten people a week to inquire about job opportunities.

The interim Prime Minister, Frank Bainimarama, has complained to world leaders in New York that his country’s troops have been barred from joining any new UN peacekeeping operations.

Lieutenant Colonel Sakiuasa Raivoce says this is part of the continuing drop in overseas opportunities for Fiji’s current and former soldiers:

“Doing security work and military work is tailor-made for our men. They like to do something exciting, going out to trouble spot areas and do work in security duties and all that and also because of the money involved. Most of them will not want to work in Fiji and earn less money.”

But he says the global financial downturn and steady withdrawal of US forces from Iraq have seen a fall-off in security work available.

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Bainimarama employed economic terrorist Chaudhry as his Finance Minister – who got $2million by playing the race card to Mother India

The dictator Frank Bainimarama was once again playing the race card, telling the United Nations that he carried out the coup to crush racial supremacy and to weed out corruption in Fiji.

And he told the local press that he informed the Commonwealth Secretary-General that he did not want to include Laisenia Qarase and Mahendra Chaudhry in his directionless roadmap because the two would bring politics into the picture.

If so, why did the dictator bring Chaudhry into his interim Cabinet as Finance Minister and stood by him when the Fiji SUN exposed Chaudhry as the $2million Minister, who had obtained the money from India after weeping and crying about racial persecution of his Indo-Fijian voters.

It is time Chaudhry spoke out – and he must inform us how much the dictator was illegally paid to buy a house for his daughter in Suva, and other illegal payments Chaudhry signed for the tin-pot and idiotic and coward dictator of Fiji.

Frank Bainimarama is not only a wooz but a coward and a jealous, envious man!

He told the less than 10 people who sat in to listen to his bullcrap in NY that “the way of the old (Fijian) elite must never triumph again”.

So who exactly was Frank referring to and what is his definition of the words “old elite”?

Can he name those “old elite” family line(s).

Are they indigenous Fijian chiefly families or was Frank referring to businessy filthy rich Indo-Fijian and colonial European families?

Can he deny that some of the “old elites” he is referring to are the very ones who convinced him to carry out the coup of 2006 with plenty more appearing in the scene a few years down the line when things were abit settled?

Is he referring to the Maras, Ganilaus, Nailatikaus, Boles, Inoke Kubuabola, Winston Thompson, Vunibobo, Jim Ah Koy, and those law-breaking immoral hangers on he has around him?

Or is he referring to the Punjas, Patels, Tappoos, Motibhais, Narseys, Solankis, Tartes, Cupits, Stinsons, Proberts, and those other well established families from the 1970s who have contributed immensely in Fiji’s economic growth over the years through risk-taking and sheer hard work?

It seems that Frank is envious of well educated successful Fijian people who are able to apply their skills in the commercial and political world to make a living for themselves against those like him who have nothing else but their cowardly act to use guns as a means to their end.

If Frank’s idea of an elite refers to those who succeed in whatever area they’re in, then Frank Bainimarama’s bull about focusing on growing Fiji’s economy via the business sector in 2009-2013 is hogwash.

Whether Frank likes it or not, there will always be more successful people than himself and his junta apologists because they’ve earned the right and are gifted to be where they are through sweat,blood and tears without reverting to his holliganism gun-hounding methods.

Frank has a deathly attitude in suffocating the hen that lays the golden eggs coining them as elites based on their ability to build an economy for themselves and the people of Fiji.

Frank’s idea of replacing the old elite (whoever they are) with his gun-tooting junta elite just lack credibility and legitimacy simply because being the coward that he is, he has no guts to attain power in a lawful manner.

His choice of words in ”old elite” clearly refers to generational family lines who seemed to have enjoyed political, social and financial dominance in Fiji over the decades.

But there are only a few of those type of families in Fiji whom we have named above.

And by the way, many of those “old elites” are probably dead or half-dead by now making his argument rather lame unless of course if he is referring to the “old elites” children and grand-children?

So who are these “old elite” family line Frank is referring to?

Could they be the same ones who fooled him to commit treason and are sucking his blood dry right now?

Is Frank beginning to realise that he is a gullible victim of the “old elite” he is now determined to strangulate?

Is his UN speech to crush the “old elite” confirmation of the pressure he’s getting from members of that old elite establishment to step aside and to put them back into their position of stolen power?

We think so!

The Young Peoples Concerned Network has written in support to the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama and his campaigners on reforms for/on USA Health Care.
 
We see the need for Health Care reform in the United Sates from a Human Rights perspective and hope policymakers and elected representatives in congress can participate in this historic opportunity to recognize that Health Care is a Right and not a commodity or privilege.
 
The current Health Care reforms fall in line with the Right to Health Care enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 25.
 
We believe that any reform to the USA health care system can set the benchmark for many other nations to adopt similar responses to health care in their own nations. Health Care reform will also benefit Fiji Citizens that now work and live in the USA and restore dignity to the health care system currently in the USA that discriminates against immigration status, basis of income, health status and ethnicity.
 
As long as Health Care reform sticks to the principles of Human Rights, the YPCN will gladly support the efforts of the Obama administration to get health care.
 
The reform package of President Barack Obama eliminates gaps in the health care system that currently provide health care on the basis of wealth,, citizenship status, ethnicity and health status. All persons in the USA have the right to equally treatment under a comprehensive and quality health care system that is in turn accountable to the people. The US government is ultimately responsible for ensuring that public agencies and private companies make health care decisions based on health needs and not on profit margins. This means that more money needs to be pumped into the health care system, bodies set up to reaffirm accountability, and the public administered health system expanded to make health care more accessible to the common people.
 
The YPCN will support the reforms and hopes that in time such comprehensive discussions on Health Care reform can be supported in Fiji. Currently Fiji’s health care system is dissipated by poor service, under funded, under staffing, and many other development issues. Mental Health Care Service Providers are faced with unique difficulties that include Stigma and under-prioritized by successive governments and community leaders. Fiji’s health care system that include Private companies and Public agencies have fallen short in meeting the Right to Health Care that must be easily accessible, accountable and affordable. Fiji Citizens both in the United Sates and here in Fiji are always going to huge lengths to see a doctor and dig deep into their financial resources to pay for routine and simple medical procedures and consumers are exposed stressed out and underpaid health care staff. The Health Care reforms by Barack Obama can mean a lot for Fiji and create the same feelings and responsibilities debate that is currently in play in the USA.
 
Health Care is your Human Right.
 
 
 
Peter Waqavonovono
YPCN
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Now that they’ve heard the squeal from the pig’s lips perhaps the troops at QEB who value their institution will start to realise that they may be facing a future where they’ll be banned from UN peacekeeping.

The tin-pot dictator’s complaints about the UN ban on further peacekeeping missions means that he knows the lobbying by Australia and New Zealand is working.

It’s as clear as day that the abrogation of the constitution revealed a truth that could be concealed before then. Fiji’s government is now a tin-pot regime run by a tin-pot dictator and the RFMF are turning into the second-rate tool of this tin-pot regime.

Through their years of peacekeeping our military forces developed the skills they now use to control a civilian population. Whether it’s their checkpoints, rounding up of ringleaders or censoring the media, their time in the world’s hotspots has given the RFMF a good grounding in how to handle a civilian population.

But what they may not realise is that the experience of running a military junta which controls everything is corrupting their military skills. Now they’ve grown so used to forcing people to accept their will, bashing and threatening everyone that opposes them, that they’ve lost their understanding of winning the hearts and minds of the people.

The professional skills of the RFMF are being diluted every day they’re run by the second rate toadies that Frank surrounds himself with. Frank has never successfully commanded a rowboat, let alone an operational command in peacekeeping. And he’s enforcing his own lack of competence on the entire RFMF. All the best officers have been pushed out or bribed to move to civilian appointments.

It’s this lack of military competence that will eventually spell the end of the RFMF. They will lose their role as peacekeepers not only because of lobbying by Australia and New Zealand but also because the RFMF brand is being spoilt by a tin-pot dictator who owes his command to politics rather than military command skills.

Navosavakadua

Our mate radiolucas shoots down the bull shyte from pro-regime bloggers by telling it like it is.

Read it here – http://realfijinews.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/the-road-to-true-parliamentary-democracy/#comment-2657