Where did the Love go?

Congratulations Voreqe, Military Council, Chodo-hohoho, Ganilasu, Nailatikutu, Aiyarsi, Shamimis and Co.

We are making HEADLINES all over the world for all the wrong reasons.

Let me count the ways your publicity seeking STUNTS are stacking up for you :

NEW ZEALAND EDITORIAL

THE AUSTRALIAN-1

THE AUSTRALIAN-2

NZ HERALD

RADIO AUSTRALIA

INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE - Asia Pacific

HOUSTON CHRONICLE

LIVE NEWS.COM

INTERNATIONAL PRESS INSTITUTE

MARIANAS NEWS - MICRONESIA

EARTH TIMES

REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS

THE NATIONAL - PNG

NIU FM

CHINA

INTERNATIONAL PRESS - ITALY

CANADA

NEWSTALK ZB

PR INSIDER - AUSTRIA

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

MICHAEL FIELD (My hero)

SAMOA

CAFE PACIFIC

Just to name a few.

Bloody Wananavu !

Maybe the Fiji Dictatorship clowns really DO think we are just an island ! OMG !

Goodbye tourists Isa Lei ...... Goodbye Investors ... Goodbye Employment ....
Gdby...economy ...moce luvequ ....
Glug glug glug

For they know not what they do

Vinaka vaka levu to the Buwawa Masumasu Group in Namosi for this fine contribution. They also had a message for Voreqe and his men (listen). Amen.

A VERY sorry time for Fiji

Perhaps we celebrated too soon free speech in Fiji this past weekend with the revelation by the Fiji Sun and Fiji Times of the most crooked of people purporting to be the Finance Minister of Fiji.

The 25th and 26th of February 2008 marks VERY SAD days for freedom of speech and the individual human right to free expression in Fiji with the bullying tactics demonstrated by Fiji's petty-minded military dictatorship when they took the Editor of the Fiji Sun away from his family under cover of darkness and deposited him on a plane out of Fiji.

In the daylight they will probably come out with a statement that reads something like this : "Russel Hunter was deported from Fiji because he breached his work permit conditions"

YEAH RIGHT !

Well well well - a few hours after posting this comment, what did I tell you ??? - here is the predicted "statement" :


So predictable eh ! So then whats the bet that Full chow whispered something about "incitement" in Naupote and Eveli's ears after Bainipajamas phoned him about a flea in his ear? Hmmmm .... wonder who that flea might be?)

IN ADDITION , showing himself to be a bare faced liar like the rest of them, Naupoto when asked, claimed to know nothing.

His iMinister Eveli Ulugaga claimed to know nothing.

Qiqilala the Military mouthpiece claimed also to know nothing.

Na maqe ga na maqe eh ?!

Well I must say I do look forward to hearing more from Mr Hunter once he gets to Australia about the EXACT story.

Ok whats next ?

I predict Rabo will be taken in for questioning. Netani will be followed 247 and his phone, house and office bugged. Hunter's wife will be tortured up at the Gestapo. The illegal Fiji TITFORTAT outift will be trying very hard to make mud stick to LQ as part of their overall scheme to try and pin anything just anything onto SDL - all to deflect attention away from Chodohoho.

Stay tuned folks for the next episode in Baini's bipolar vision of the Fiji - the way the world should be.

Shining Journalism in Fiji

Hoorah ! Wananavu !

It's a wonderful weekend for free speech this weekend in Fiji!

Gold Stars and congratulations to Fiji Sun, Fiji Times and fellow Bloggers Solivakasama and TardwatchFiji for producing the sort of bold and shining investigative journalism that has uncovered the Fiji junta's DELIBERATE cover up of their internal blatant wrong doing,corruption, covert cronyism and constant nepotism.

This in the face of threats, violence, intimidation and possible (illegal) arrest and imprisonment.

Vinaka especially to the Fiji Times and Netani - you are a brave man and we salute you! Keep it up boys and girls !!!

We look forward to more breaking news in the mainstream media.


And by the way , as we fully expect, here is the start of the WITCHHUNT from the petty mindset that make up the Fiji junta :

http://www.fijilive.com/news_new/index.php/news/show_news/2226

And for those of you that are trying to catch up, as I am - I quote from the latest post of Jean d'ark on Solivakasama in response to a post from a coup apologist called Budhau:

Jean d’Ark Says:
February 24, 2008 at 5:25 pm

Businesses can be shut down and property can be confiscated because that is how serious tax evasion is.......

And it is even more critical where the Minister in charge is concerned.

Don’t you realize how ridiculous it looks having one set of rules for him, and another set for everyone else?

None of the 10 FIRCA sacked workers were sent home for doing anything wrong.

The only thing that linked them was their work on the Chaudhry file at some stage. And then all of a sudden, bogus charges were somehow magically trumped up against them and they were all sent home.

We hear constantly about how we need to encourage a culture of whistle-blowing in Fiji as a counter to our sub-culture of corruption.

But what do we see when the rubber hits the road for a Regime that prides itself on anti-corruption credentials? Sweet FA!

Chaudhry did NOT volunteer his tax information to anyone as you claim – remember, he was trying to cover this up, not sort it out. I

It was only when FIRCA appointed a tax agent for him that all these details started coming out.

Re-possessing his file is EXACTLY what Chaudhry had his pit-bulls do.

And that is exactly what some of the sacked workers were sent home for – having a copy of Chaudhry’s file in their desk, or office.

You would have to be pretty dim not to be able to work out what happened there.

One minute, a group of normal professionals with no political axes to grind are just following the trail of evidence and the merits of the case. And the next thing, they find themselves STOPPED from doing their jobs by their newly appointed bosses (newly appointed by whom?) or sent home on contrived charges.

With all the problems FIRCA is facing from having to try and recover tax arrears from businesses that are now languishing in the economic doldrums caused by the Regime’s coup, you’d think Chaudhry would spend more of his time trying to fix the economic problems he/they caused in the first place. But no – instead he just spends extravagant amounts of time and effort trying to remove all trace of his own misdeeds. T

his is the same complaint we hear in the FSC – that he spends all his time, focus and effort trying to establish his own control over the industry, rather than simply addressing its many problems.

And in the end, what benefits do we see flowing out of that expensively-won control? Nothing! Ditto for FIRCA! And ditto for the Fiji economy!

Dictionary definition of corruption ....:
“lack of integrity or honesty;
use of a position of trust for dishonest gain or personal benefit”.

Chaudhry has been completely bereft of integrity and honesty throughout this whole saga. He has thought nothing of allowing poor, honest workers take the fall for him on this!

And he has used his position to appoint cronies to quash ongoing investigations into his tax evasion case! This regime is supposed to be all about accountability, good governance and an end to corruption.

But is has been demonstrably WORSE than the ousted Government on all these counts.

And now, even when it is caught red-handed with irrefutable evidence, the Regime is simply unable walk-the-clean-up-talk!"

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Good on ya J'DA

Mad Cow disease rampant in FIji

Oilei ragone, Bubu is hopping mad ! These water cuts and power cuts are RIDICULOUS! Basic things like being able to wash babies pikini and showering the makabuna is a massive undertaking these days. Not the mention the daily cost of just living and making ends meet ! In this day and age, it is a disgrace !

In only 14 months, our Fiji has been taken to it's knees by these people and we the people are being made to suffer for the greed & love of power and money of only a handful of people hiding behind the gun. What cowards!

It has been very painful observing all of the disgraceful behaviour of the puppets in this illegal regime every day, so much so, I don't know whether to laugh or cry and pull my (now white) hair out!

As there are too many things going on all at once to comment on, I've decided we have a rampant disease in Fiji that I can only liken to a whole bunch of mad cows continuing to go berserk ; frothing at the mouth in the pursuit of personal vendettas and evil political and powerhungry agenda's.

From an economic & business standpoint, the iIG don't much have a clue. There are basic everyday commonsense tenets governing business, economy, professionalism, diplomacy, relationships, civil liberties etc. that are being ignored, abused and trodden on everyday by these people in Fiji - where does one start to begin commentary ? (PS : Kudo's must go to fellow Fiji Freedom Bloggers who have kept the movement of information alive : http://solivakasama.wordpress.com/ , and http://tardwatchfiji.wordpress.com/ , and http://fijidemocracynow.com/ - keep it up fellas and keep yourselves safe from the military cyber Darth Vader's)

So by analogy lets give it a go, shall we ?

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell the lot and retire on the income.

SOCIALISM: You have 2 cows and you give one to your neighbour.

COMMUNISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk.

FASCISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk.

AIY-ASS' S CORPORATION: He has two cows. He sells one out, and forces the other to produce the milk of four cows. He accuses the media for it's demise but hires a team of expatriate consultants to place the case before the courts to analyse why the cow has dropped dead.

MAMA BERNIE'S CORPORATION: She has two cows. She redesigns them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produces curd and whey instead of milk. She creates a clever cow cartoon image called 'Cowkimon' resplendent with pearls and markets it worldwide. Retires to Dubai.

TELENI'S BUREAUCRATISM: He has 2 cows. One cow purposely blinds itself with a dart and yells out "Bullseye"! He shoots this one, and milks the other then throws the milk away claiming it was milk of amnesia ...

AH KOY'S CORPORATION: He has two cows. He re-engineers them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month and milk themselves with all proceeds going to Cowtec Koy Corp ........... with the help of a "bang-just like that" Chinese "soft" loan.

THE PRESIDENT'S CORPORATION: He has two cows but he doesn't know where they are. He decides to have a sleep.

SHYSTER'S CORPORATION: She has 5,000 cows. None of them belong to her. Half are sick and dying. She takes all the benefits of having them but writes a report to the dying cows accusing them of causing themselves to be ill, threatens the owners with claims they do not care for aboriginal cows in Australia ; and is behind the plan to ban the IBA as they wished to investigate her claims that evaporated milk comes from thirsty cows.

NAWALOWALO/GANILAU CORPORATION: They have two cows bought for 2c and $50 respectively. They have 300 people milking them. They claim that they have full employment and high bovine productivity and kill the journalist who plans to report the real situation.

MAHEN'S CORPORATION: He has two cows called Paisa and Rajendra. He worships them as he believes his cows could really jump over the moon, like in the nursery rhyme, if it got a really good run at it.

FIRCA-ISM: They take 2 cows from you and call them Gold and Water; then shoot you.

YABAKI-ISM. He has 2 cows. He gets confused which one is which so he has more whiskey.



MAVANA CORPORATION: They have no cows. Everyone thinks they have lots of cows. They tell you that they have none but no-one believes them so you isolate them and tell Vodafone to record all their phone conversations. ... mu mu mu mu mai .... They STILL have no cows but they will still fight for cows rights to be part of a democracy ....

KAILOMA CORPORATION: You have two cows. Business seems pretty good. You close the office and go for a few beers down the club

KUIVA CORPORATION: You have two cows. The one on the left looks very attractive.

BAINI'S SURREALISM: He has two giraffes. Chaudary & the Military Council (ie. the iGovernment) requires him to take band conducting lessons with Lewenski in China followed by brain surgery in India.

FIJI iTAUKEI CORPORATION: Your Indian neighbour has two cows. You have a coup. Now you have two cows. You kill one for the lovo celebration.

FIJI INDIAN CORPORATION: You have all the cows. You have a coup. You keep the cows and also grab the land to put them on.

A FIJIAN ARMY CORPORATION: They have two cows. They count them and learn they have five cows. They count them again and learn they have 42 cows. They count them again after a phony bomb scare interruptus ordered by Ops scares a group of women learning how to write proposals and a peaceful public seminar ; ...... and learn they have 2 cows. They stop counting cows because Bainimarama said they can count them until the cows come home. They ask Driti to read between the cows.

On Whose Authority?

Cyclone Gene victims need all the funds the authorities can accumulate. Our infrastructure for water and roads needs funds, our children are dying of typhoid and consequences of not having clean water, social welfare recipients cannot get their money, and what does the great disaster called Bainigadevakalialia do?

Take a trip to India with full posse of bodyguards and hangers on to inspect a hospital ?

Unbelievable !

What madness !

What a lie !

Why didnt Parmesh just say ... the great dictator has a funny ticker and he's going for his medical !?

Great timing mate ! And another great big fat LIE to lay on the dung heap !

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A great letter in today's Fiji Times from the commonsense gang .....

Whose authority?

WHO gave Doctor M Krishnamurthi the authority to come and consult and make recommendations about the use of native land?

Does he have land of his own that is used in the manner he is recommending?

Since it seems his report was commissioned by Mahendra Chaudhry, we wish to remind Voreqe Bainimarama to keep a close watch on members of the interim regime.

He promised to clean out corruption but he's lost the plot be bringing in people such as Chaudhry to run our affairs.

Leave the issues about land and get on with the business of getting us to the polls.

At the same time, show us evidence of corruption you vehemently profess to have and stop wasting taxpayers' money on overseas trips.

Vani Veikoso
Turkey
Naomi Roberts
Australia