My Daddy's guvment

Oh yes - its good to be the Dictator's daughter !

One Bernadette Bainimarama got to go on Daddy's Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious recent jaunt to France to pick up one Airbus. Yippee !

I did some research and found out that in the history of the whole world, only one Dictator has ever gone to a foreign country to PERSONALLY pick up a plane. Yep, that honour falls to our one and only country bananabumpkini.

I find that amazing ! Even more so that said dictator can't even fly a plane so WTFruit ?

Isa, I dread to think what the French think of him turning up on their doorstep every time there is a plane to dispense - especially with shoes that so do not match expensive pinstriped suit.

Darn - I missed that - the shoes match the finger - thats right - look closely - 2 of which are pointing at Powl's scarf/handbag. Perhaps it contains the public purse?

Woe-lei.

Back to the lovely Bernadette. Of course her presence in the entourage was not mentioned in any of the official propaganda releases.

Nope not at all.

I checked - nothing in the Ministry of (dis)information releases or by Qorvis or by the Fiji Sun.

Which makes her inclusion on the trip very very un-transparent (is that a word?). Oh well no doubt Grubby Davis will pull me up for my spelling misteak again.

Transparency is of course one of the regime's FAVE words at the moment.

Tsk tsk.

But Bernadette is not greatly blessed in the brains department.

The apple didn't fall far from the tree at all it seems.


The inevitable pull of narcissism, vanity and boastfulness ever present in the lure of Facebook pages was her undoing.

She posted a couple of Look at moi look at moi pics - riding around the world on taxpayers funds - with daddy.

Boy it's good to be the Dictator's daughter!

Last I looked, Bernie had shut down her Facebook page .

I wonder if the penny just dropped ?

De Matanitu nei Ta Bernie?

Fijian Holidays? Think again

Ozzie's Boost Official Development Assistance To Fiji's people

SUVA (Fiji), May 20 - "The Australian government announced Monday that it will provide more than 100 million Fiji dollars (US$54.1 million) in official development assistance to Fiji in the 2013/14 financial year, China's Xinhua news agency reported.

The previous financial year's allocation was around US$48.6 million.

"We're very proud to announce that for the first time this year we will be providing over 100 million Fiji dollars (US$54.1 million) in aid funding. This demonstrates the Australian government's unwavering commitment to the people of Fiji," said Counsellor for Development Assistance in Fiji, Joanne Choe.

According to a statement from the Australian government on Monday, the increased aid flows deliver on the Australian government's promise to double the size of the Australian Agency for International Development's (AusAID) bilateral budget to Fiji over two years.

Managed from the Australian High Commission by the AusAID, Australia's aid programme is focused on reducing poverty and improving basic health and education services in Fiji.

"AusAID is helping the poorest children to attend school more regularly and working to see more babies growing safely through their early years.

"We're also helping to promote food security and increase incomes for poor families. With this increased allocation, we will be able to improve the lives of tens of thousands more people and to reach every province of Fiji," said Choe.

The number of scholarships available for Fiji students each year is increasing in line with the budget from 60 scholarships last year to 80 in 2013/14."
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Bainimarama will however be claiming all the glory of course claiming to be the great benevolence-ator , and all hail to him as he will be the one to announce how HE gives out the books, the scholarships, the bridges, the roads and all the other goodies so he can buy the people's love.

Pfffft ! He may have muffled the local media but has another thing coming as we keep unveiling his regime's lies. Watch this space.

Fiji Tourism joins Air Pacific's clandestine Shark Fin Trafficking Party

Yippee - a marvelous coup for Fiji's image overseas.

Well done to the originators of the new Fiji tourism branding of "where happiness finds you".

Just one question - did anyone bother asking the Fiji regime not to *fin**%^ it up ?!

Shark finning is a brutal practice. A shark is caught, pulled onboard a boat, its fins are cut off, and the still-living shark is tossed back overboard to drown or bleed to death. The wasteful, inhumane practice is done to satisfy a demand for shark fins, which can fetch as much as $300 per pound. The meat, on the other hand, is far less valuable, so fishermen toss it overboard to save space for more fins.

Not only is it an intensely wasteful and harmful practice, it's also essentially pointless since shark fins have no nutritional or medicinal value. And they're practically flavorless. Yet, finning continues, to the point that these animals so vital to the ecological balance of our oceans are about to be wiped out completely.

More information here. 

Air Pacific outed as Pacific's major Shark Fin trafficker into Asia

 

MICHAEL FIELD

 International airline Air Pacific – soon to be rebranded as Fiji Air – has been exposed as one of the world’s major carriers of shark fins into Hong Kong.

In an extensive investigation, the South China Morning Post has reported that the airlines’ new Airbus A330 aircraft were, according to a group of pilots familiar with its operations "basically a thinly-disguised freighter" carrying shark fins to the territory from Pacific islands.

Hong Kong is the world centre for shark fin trading with the fins used to make an expensive soup.

A coalition of environmental groups claim in a letter to the airline that a “substantial amount” of the shark fins imported into Hong Kong arrive on Air Pacific.

We sought reaction from the main stakeholders in the regime who produced the following responses.

FROM the outgoing airline's Chief Executive David Finlarger and the Regime's swanky Attorney General Mr Aiyarse Finyum the following correction to our story:

And FROM the Regime's absolute ruler Mr Buiniqiorama, the usual brainy and quick-witted come-back- at-you denial question :

Qorvis and Mrs Obama

 

Don't mention the land

If there was any doubt that Fiji was already a Police State, this was just buried by a landslide with the amazing statement recently issued by a Fijian policeman :

"Any political party or member found spreading lies to cause trouble will be charged", the Fiji Police Force has warned. Speaking to Fiji Sun yesterday, Police chief of operations Assistant Commissioner of Police Rusiate Tudravu hinted that they have "mounted a joint operation with the Republic of Fiji Military Forces to monitor political activities".

I wonder whether Rusi really understood what he was saying or whether he was told to parrot the current collective mantra that emanates from the Fijian dictatorship?

I am intrigued at how Rusi would truly define the value (of the "lies") of which he so boldly speaks.

The value would require both a purpose or worth,  and a beneficiary or receiver, and require answers to the questions

"Lies according to whom ?" and
"Lies for what ?".

Collectivism is an answer to the first question.

It declares value to the Collective, and this is the group Rusi "belongs" to ie. the dictatorship - who are attempting to determine the standard of 'good' which benefits the group.

At the root of Rusi's pronouncement is the regime's belief that a Collective is more than just individuals interacting together. It is the belief that the group is an entity itself, more important than the sum of the individuals.

Mere citizens have become secondary to the Regime Collective.

Our well-being ,our opinions and our future hopes and aspirations are ignored if the group has something to gain (their superiority, their stay in continuous power). We see this in the decrees issued, & regulations and permits we are required to seek from the junta if we wish to gather together for political purposes, discuss anything that the regime might not want us to discuss, even to march down the street.

These have been formulated to suppress our rights and curb our freedoms as we individuals are not recognized nor respected. We are merely a tool for the group.

Collectivism as a concept,  perceives a group of individuals as having a single identity similar to a person, therefore considers itself to have ideas, able to think, has purpose, and then acts to achieve goals. It also has a personality, called culture, and can profess to have standards and principles the Collective should follow. Aiyarse Kaiyum is always arguing that it has shared rights, as well (just look at his daft constifusion).

Since the Collective is actually just individuals interacting, the Collectivists have to change their views of individuals, so they will morally evaluate people according to the results of the Collective. If the Collective manages to accomplish something great like for example secure  a Bollywood movie on Fiji's shores, or win the Sevens in Russia, united praise is showered upon the nation ... ie ( "we" achieved this and that etc) .

When the nation dives into economic decline, everyone else is to blame (including Australia, NZ and Samoa).

And if an individual refuses to acknowledge the superiority of his Collective, than he is a traitor and is eliminated. This is the result of Collectivism.

Collectivism demands that the group be more important than the individual. It requires the individual to sacrifice himself for the alleged good of the group.

So.............. as I was saying about the land - that is, the ISSUES to do with i-taukei land that we are not allowed to mention ............

I read somewhere that Fascism allows citizens to pretend that they own property, but they must use it in accordance with the wishes of the state. Since ownership under fascism means the ability to control a piece of property, the ownership is actually in the hands of the government.

Bahut goodness golly gosh that does sound familiar ! 

More on this issue here .