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Steckt wohl dein ganzes Erspartes drin, wie? Ein Kursverlauf, der Bände spricht. Da muss man ja verzweifeln und seinen Frust in anderen Threads kundtun.

Professionalität sucht man hier wohl vergebens. Ich habe kein Interesse, hier zu investieren. Meine Mandanten auch nicht. Naja, MK wäre mir auch viel zu hoch, um eine ordentliche Rendite für die Damen und Herren rauszuholen.

Viel Glück den Investierten. Nekro macht das schon.  

http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/...rnment-house/948274

Papua New Guinea's former Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare has been turned away from Government House by police this afternoon.

ir Michael's supporters were at Government House where they were hoping he would be sworn-in as Prime Minister, after the Supreme Court yesterday ruled him the country's rightful leader.

Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has already indicated he will not respect the court decision which he has labelled as evidence of judicial corruption.

Our PNG Correspondent was at Government House in Port Moresby and he's confirmed that Sir Michael has not been sworn-in as some expected.

Presenter: Bruce Hill

Speaker: PNG Correspondent, Liam Fox

HILL: Liam has Sir Michael turned up and has he been reinstated?
FOX: He did turn up and no he hasn't been reinstated. Him and several of his supporters and members of what used to be his cabinet turned up here saying that they expected to be let in to Government House and they expected to be received by the Governor General and that they were going to be sworn in as PNG's caretaker government to take the country through the elections. That didn't happen, there are around 30 or so policemen out the front of Government House and they politely but firmly told them that they wouldn't be allowed in. We also had been told by someone inside Government House that they were thinking of holding a swearing-in ceremony, but now it might be held tomorrow because of tensions between the two camps. Sir Michael and his supporters say they're now going to, what they say follow protocol and advice in writing the Governor General their request for a reception and to be sworn in and attached to that will be the Supreme Court's decision of yesterday. So they think that they'll go away, send off this written request, and that things might happen very soon. Of course very few things happen quickly in PNG, and everyone except the police has now left Government House.

HILL: So they're actually expecting a swearing-in tomorrow?

FOX: They don't really know, they are expecting it to happen possibly this afternoon, but from the look of things around here and from that message I got from someone inside the Governor General's office, that looks unlikely.

HILL: Look sometimes these scenes outside Government House and parliament can lead to a bit of tension. Was it all reasonably good natured, did people follow protocol or was anyone getting a bit excited about it?

FOX: It was all reasonably good natured, the Governor of the Southern Highlands Anderson Agiru had a little bit of a go at the police saying that they should be following the Supreme Court's orders, and the order has been to reinstate Sir Michael Somare. But look there's none of the tension that was evidenced following the Supreme Court's first order back in December last year. There was a lot of tension. We might remember the scenes of Peter O'Neill barging through the police cordon to get to Government House last year. There's none of that this time around, there's none of that intensity. I think the stakes are a lot lower now, all they're fighting over is the caretaker government, it's not like the winning side can get their hands on the levers of government for a good period of time. We're talking about the next month or two until the results of the election come in. So as I said there's none of that intensity and there's not as much at stake as there was in December last year.

HILL: Well to deal with this situation which the Supreme Court has apparently reinstated Sir Michael Somare as prime minister, the actual Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has decided he's going to call parliament back again. This is despite the fact that parliament was formally dissolved when the writs for the elections was issued. Can he recall parliament if it's been dissolved?

FOX: Look there's some people saying that that can't happen, but then we were talking to Sir Arnold Amet out the front of Government House just a short time ago and he said there are special circumstances in which parliament can be recalled, both in natural disasters and at times of war and during what he said were extraordinary circumstances. That's unclear. But as I said to someone else, to date I think we've seen in the last year and previous years that what's legal and illegal and what's constitutional and unconstitutional doesn't really matter to many politicians. They simply do what they can until someone hauls them about it, be that the Supreme Court or be that public dissatisfaction, that's the way politics operates in PNG. They do what they can until they're hauled up for it.

HILL: Well what's led to this? I mean the writs have been issued, the election campaign was officially underway, why are we now apparently doing a re-run of events that happened a few months ago when there were two rival prime ministers?

FOX: Well that's the Supreme Court's doing, the Supreme Court's decision on the follow-up challenge to the O'Neill government's legitimacy has been pending for some months, and they've decided to hand down the decision on the Monday after the writs had been issued. The timing of this is all up to, the fact that this has all happened is all thanks to the Supreme Court. And there's been some backlash on social media sites saying that they should have just waited until after the election altogether to hand down their decision, what good could have come and now has come from them doing it on Monday?

HILL: Well what about the position of Sir Michael Somare himself? He now claims to have the backing of the Supreme Court, they say he's the legitimate prime minister. There was some toing and froing as to whether he would actually be standing in the election, which is underway now. Has he really clarified now that he will be running again now that the Supreme Court says he's the prime minister, or will he not contest his seat again? Has that been made clear?

FOX: Look all I can tell you is what we were told by his daughter and spokesperson Betha Somare when we were trying to get in contact with him earlier today. She said that he was heading back to nominate to run again in the election. That decision has been both spurned on by popular support back at home, and by the Supreme Court's orders to have him reinstated. Now whether that actually happens or not we have to wait and see. As we know Sir Michael has flip-flopped on this issue both recently and in years before, so I guess we have to actually wait for a formal announcement or to see his name on the ballot paper.

HILL: And Liam just before we go briefly, has this current mess I think we can use that word, going to affect the election campaign? Is it going to affect people's perceptions of Sir Michael Somare or Peter O'Neill in any way?

FOX: We can only go on what both parties have said, both Sir Michael in a statement and Peter O'Neill at a press conference last night have said that they do not want this to affect the elections, that the elections will go ahead as scheduled. So if we take them at their word that seems to be the case. As to affecting their perceptions, I'm not too sure about that, I think the general mood of people now is that they've had enough of this ongoing leadership drama, they just want to get to the elections and take the power of choosing the country's leader into their own hands and out of the Supreme Court.
 

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der breiten öffentlichkeit im Detail erläutert werden.

FoB Thread ;-)))

Könnte man doch bei Hot copper einstellen und voten.  

Das wäre etwas verfrüht, darum stehts auch nur im FoB

............no to do a story.............

Hallo Nekro,

ja, die Zahlen in diesem kompakten und sehr gut aufgearbeiteten Papier sind sehr überzeugend für ein Investment in BCL. Und wenn man denkt, wo wir vor 10 Jahren standen, dann haben wir heute eine derart günstige Situation, die wir uns alle jahrelang gewünscht haben.

Spannend ist sicherlich nicht mehr die Frage, ob der Knoten irgendwann aufgeht. Spannend sind die Fragen, wann und wie sich der Knoten auflöst.
Eine Zerreißprobe für die Nerven ist dabei die Frage, ob das innerhalb der nächsten 12 Monate passiert oder ob der Punkt, ab dem es eine nicht mehr aufzuhaltende Eigendynamik gibt, noch Jahre auf sich warten lässt.

Seit Kosti wissen wir ja alle, die Kursfindung an der Börse wird zu 75 % von der Psychologie bestimmt. Leider ist genau die aktuell im Fall BCL völlig im Arsch.
Dafür sind die restlichen 25 % der fundamentalen Daten derart gut, das man all diese positiven Fakten kaum fassen kann. Der Newsletter macht jedenfalls deutlich, die Landowners haben ihre Hausaufgaben gemacht, die wissen jetzt, was die Stunde geschlagen hat.

Longwilli  

Copper's bright future shows Kloppers is not all doom and gloom

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/opinion/...l7d-1226363913838

 

 

Die wollen auch beteiligt werden und Ausgleichszahlungen bekommen!?  

da stehen 100k zu 0,75 AUD drin,diese einfach vom illegal erwobenem Mininggeld kaufen und kurz warten,das sollte dann für Ausgleichszahlungen reichen  

..............von heute im FoB Thread ;-)))

http://bougainville.typepad.com/newdawn/2012/05/arms-summit.html

By Aloysius Laukai in Siwai



CEO for Siwai ,JOE ALBERT NORO says that the three days arms summit aims to get the people of goodwill to talk on ways of addresing the Arms issue affecting Bougainville today.

Mr.Noro made these comment when welcoming participants at the opening of the Siwai District Arms summit.

He said that issues highlighted and shouted by the general public at this meeting would be compiled to build the overal resolutions at the end of this summit.

At the end of the summit the team leading this summit will adopt set of resolutions on ways this issue can be addressed in future.

And maybe used as model by other areas in Bougainville.

Mr.Noro said that it was not the crowd that matters for many are called and few a chosen so these few presenters would make an impact on the issue of weapons on Bougainville.

 

...........and Exploration.

....im FoB

http://bougainville.typepad.com/newdawn/2012/05/...mony-presided.html

By Aloysius Laukai

Buin, 22 May 2012: In a public ceremony presided over by ABG President John Momis and the UN Resident Coordinator, David McLachlan-Karr, a new UNDP office for South Bougainville was officially inaugurated on 22 May.
The move of the UN Office from Siwai to the regional capital at Buin marks a new phase in the UN’s engagement with the district administration in the Southern Region. M’eekamui and other key factions were present at the ceremonies demonstrating their solidarity with peace-building work brokered by the ABG and the UN.
In welcoming the establishment of the new office, President Momis highlighted the importance of continued UN engagement and its role in confidence building and support to good governance in Bougainville.
The President also presented title to a block of land near the District Administrative office where the UN would eventually construct a new UN Haus.
In reply, the UN Resident Coordinator thanked the government for its generous grant of land to the UN and said that it was the UN’s intention to remain engaged on Bougainville for the long-term and diversify UN support into development initiatives that would promote economic stimulation, youth skills training programmes and employment initiatives to integrate ex-combatants and women into a new ABG economy.
A tour was made to the Buin Secondary School, Buin Specialized Training Centre, Buin District hospital and the local Police Headquarters.
As a gesture of support to the successful conclusion of the peace games promoted by the UN office at Buka and the ABG in November 2011, UNDP presented a quantity of sports equipment to the district authorities. Two trophies were also donated for the winning men’s and women’s soccer teams in what will become an annual UN-sponsored ABG Southern Region football competition.
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Bitte kurze Info welches Informationsplattform das ist

Danke schön  

http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20120525/frhome.htm

By TODAGIA KELOLA

AN extraodinary scenario occurred at the Waigani Supreme Court yesterday when Deputy Prime Minister Belden Namah accompanied by senior Ministers in the O’Neil-Namah Cabinet, members of the Police and Defence Force stormed into a Supreme Court session presided by Chief Justice Sir Salamo Injia and demanded that he be arrested for treason and sedition.
Sir Salamo was presiding over two contempt matters, one involving lawyer Tiffany Twivey and Mr Namah’s matter when the session was abruptly interrupted.
Earlier in the morning, a warrant of arrest was issued by Sir Salamo for Mr Namah to appear in court at 1.30pm to answer contempt charges.
At about 1.45pm Mr Namah accompanied by policemen walked into courtroom three and openly shouted at the Chief Justice, saying ““enough is enough” and “I warned you, you are the most corrupt person in this country.”
The Chief Justice tried to lift his hands up to calm the situation but upon seeing policemen coming towards him, he quickly made his way out through the judge’s entrance and into his chamber.
His associate Allan Dian tried to follow him and prevent police from entering where he was manhandled.
Mr Namah and his collegue Ministers then left the courtroom when he was asked if he had set a bad precedent. He said: “I gave him 24 hours. Time has run out. That is it.’’
In a statement he said: “The Chief Justice has ignored the proper exercise by the National Executive Council and the Governor-General of their Constitutional powers for his suspension, and avoided the suspension by issuing a permanent order to stay his own suspension. He even presided over his own case. Now, after the Supreme Court has held that all decisions to date of Prime Minister O’Neill and his Cabinet are valid and cannot be subjected to challenge.’’
He said instead of accepting his suspension Sir Salamo chose to remain on the court bench.

http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=68443

Posted at 03:10 on 25 May, 2012 UTC

Papua New Guinea’s country director for the United Nations Development Programme says reconciliation in the south of Bougainville’s main island has allowed it to open an office in Buin.

Much of the south of Bougainville has for years been under the control of former militants tied to the Me-ekamui group, making it difficult for the government, its agencies and other bodies to establish a presence.

The UNDP’s PNG country director, David McLachlan-Karr, says they have been maintaining a small sub-office in Siwai, but he says the environment has improved due to reconciliation efforts, and this has allowed the move to Buin.

   “In a big ceremony on Tuesday we had singing groups and we opened up a new office inside the district administration and the president [John Momis] himself, who was there, gave the UNDP a grant of land right opposite the district offices where we will eventually establish a purpose built UN office but at the moment for us it is a very satisfactory and a very positive sign that things are actually getting back on track in the south.”

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http://ramumine.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/...n-into-png-mining-sector/

http://www.bnamericas.com/news/metals/...lity-law-firm-says/304321531

http://www.godmode-trader.de/nachricht/...tenzial-Comex,a2838779.html

Trotz zunehmender Nervosität angesichts der bevorstehenden Wahlen füllt sich das Orderbuch langsam mit vorsichtigen Kauforders bei steigenden Preisen. Leider sind die Umsätze noch niedrig. Das aber könnte sich nächste Woche ganz plötzlich ändern.

Zumindest der Boden scheint gefunden!

Alles zum Affentheater in PNG auf www.bougainville-copper.eu

............after chief justice charged
Quelle: PNG Attitude, 25.5.2012

AUSTRALIA’S MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Senator Bob Carr, today counselled all sides in PNG to act with restraint following developments in Port Moresby concerning Chief Justice Injia.

Senator Carr said he had spoken directly with the PNG Foreign Minister Ano Pala to discuss the issue.

“As a friend of Papua New Guinea, Australia urges all parties to act with restraint in very difficult circumstances.
Papua New Guinea has taken the crucial decision to proceed to elections in accordance with the Constitution — to give the PNG people the chance to determine their national leadership. It is important that recent events not distract from proceeding to those elections in a peaceful and orderly way.
Australia remains fully committed to assist Papua New Guinea in the planning and holding of its elections.”  

http://bougainville.typepad.com/newdawn/2012/05/...ougainville-s.html

25051269NOMINATE IN BOUGAINVILLE

By Aloysius Laukai

A total of Sixty nine candidates have nominated to contest Bougainville seats in the 2012 PNG General Elections.
After close of nominations yesterday, 13 candidates nominated for the Bougainville Regional seat currently held by FIDELIS SEMOSO.
For the South Bougainville seat currently held by the Minister for Bougainville Affairs, Stephen Pirika Kamma 14 candidates have nominated.
For the North Bougainville open, 20 candidates nominated to contest the seat currently held by MR. LOUTA ATOI.
And Central Bougainville Open seat which is currently held by the Communication Minister Jimmy Miringtoro would be contested by 22 candidates.
In the Regional seat candidates are JOE LERA the former Commissioner for South Bougainville Region in the Bougainville administration, woman candidate and former ABG member for Central Bougainville representing Central Bougainville women, MAGDALENE TOROANSI, another unknown woman candidate, LYNNETTE ONA, Former ABG Lawyer KAPEATU PUARIA, former clerk of PNG National Parliament, SIMON PENTANU,SAM CAROL,JIMMIE MOSE, ALBERT MAGOI, former ABG Vice President in the Kabui led government, JOSEPH WATAWI, Former BRA Commander, ISHMAEL TOROAMA and Buka Air-condition man, HENRY ONSA, Bougainville Musician and former ABG Member representing Ex-combatants in North Bougainville, MARCHELIN GETSI and including the sitting member FIDELIS SEMOSO.
The Central Bougainville Open seat will be contested by mostly heavy weights in the Central Bougainville Region.
They include the sitting member and Communication Minister, JIMMY MIRINGTORO Lawyer THOMAS TAMUSIO, Strong women advocator and woman leader THERESA JAINGTONG, Former Central Bougainville Member SAM AKOITAI, MARTIN MIRIORI,WESLY THOMAS, Former UNDP Boss for Central Region JUSTIN BORGIA, former ABG member for KOKODA, RODNEY OSIOCO, former ABG member for Rao, LEO REIVASI, Chairman of the Panguna Landowners Association, CHRIS DAMANA, CHRISANTO KOROKORO, Arawa Businessman SIMON BARANANKO, the current ABG member for Kongara who resigned to contest the National seat, DOMINIC ITTA, LAURIE PATRICK and WILLIAM REINHART.CLARENCE DENCY,DOMINIC DIUKA,JOE TARUNA,LOHIAL BUAIA NUAU,Meekamui strongman CHRIS BAO,MATHEW KUSA and JOSEPH SIPU.
For South Bougainville the fight would be between two heavy weights the current Sitting member and Minister for Bougainville Affairs, STEPHEN KAMA PIRIKA and former member for South Bougainville MICHAEL LAIMO the others are PETER MANUKA, TIMOTHY MASIU the media director for the East New Britain Governor, Businessman, PETER BANA,JOSEPH MOIKUI, DAVID KAUA,JOSEPH PARUM, THADEUS KAILE, former Local Level Government Officer PATRICK HEROMATE, RAYMOND KAKAPONI, GABRIEL PANGTEI, MICHAEL ANUGU,PETER CHANEL TENGKA.
For the North Bougainville seat, The current sitting member, LOUTA ATOI is being challenged by many new and aspiring leaders starting with ISAAC HEKEN THOMPSON,DONALD HAMAU TATO,RACHAEL OPETI KONAKA, Buka businessman WILLIAM NAKIN,NOEL SAREI,HILLARY TSUNNO, Bougainville’s Movie star, ALBERT TORO, the current ABG sitting member for Hagogohe who resigned to contest this seat, ROBERT HAMAL SAWA, DOMINIC TOAPALA TUMARR, JOHN SISIASI, former ABG member for Atolls, TAEHU KEALI PAIS,GERARD MASA,SYLVESTER NIU,JOHN BITI BULE,DAMIAN KORA, MICHAEL HAMOUN ROSS and the former ABG member for Peit and Bougainville Tourism promoter, LAWRENCE BELLEH, former Education Boss, TONY TSORA, former ABG Deputy Speaker, FRANCESCA RIANNA SEMOSO.
Campaigning throughout Bougainville has been quite with candidates and the supporters slowly gearing up for aggressive campaigns towards the end of Campaigns.
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http://ramumine.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/...ny-loewenstein-interview/

By Ash Pemberton & Antony Loewenstein

Independent journalist and author Antony Loewenstein visited Papua New Guinea in January and February as part of his research for an upcoming book and documentary about disaster capitalism and privatisation.

He spoke to Green Left Weekly‘s Ash Pemberton about the influence of the resource industry in PNG, its links with government and private security forces, the rising influence of China and PNG’s domestic politics in light of upcoming elections.

* * *

What is the resource industry’s relationship with the PNG government?

The relationship is an incredibly incestuous one between the PNG government and the resource companies. It doesn’t make much difference who’s in power.

The real power in PNG undoubtedly does lie in elements of the government, but also equally as powerful are resource companies not based in PNG, but Australia, the US or parts of Africa.

PNG is an amazingly wealthy country resource-wise. Sadly, pretty much since independence from Australia in the mid-1970s, a variety of forces — local politicians, often a very complicit media and also resource companies — created a country with very few regulations, able to be exploited.

The most infamous example of that, where I spent some time early this year, was in Bougainville with the Rio Tinto mine there. This led to the civil war that killed thousands upon thousands of people.

The tragic reality is there is now talk about reopening that mine. Of course, that should be the decision of the Bougainvillians, but personally speaking I think that would be a travesty.

I saw the environmental catastrophe that was caused, let alone the social dislocation that occurred. There is no serious offer on the table to fix that up, to repair the environment.

Rio has talked about spending some money on environmental clean-ups, but the amount of money that would be required to do the job properly is arguable beyond what Rio has and what they’re willing to spend.

And in some ways the environment is not fixable anymore. I saw polluted waters, huge areas of land that had been turned into pure sand in the middle of former forests.

When journalists, myself included, have written about the environmental vandalism and crimes committed by Rio, the response by Rio and forces close to them has been: “How dare they speak out, there are local people who want the mine to reopen so they can get more money to work on the economy.”

There’s no doubt opinions are mixed on how people there feel about the mine reopening. People who are talking about possibly supporting the mine reopening are doing it out of desperation.

Bougainville is incredibly poor, its in desperate need of money. There are some who talk about other ways to raise money for the economy, such as tourism and agriculture.

One of the peace treaties that was signed between the PNG government and Bougainville was to allow a referendum on independence for Bougainville and that’s going to happen at some point in the next years.

The fear that many people have in Bougainville is that if they become independent — which I understand is what most people do want — they worry how they are going to survive economically.

That very bad situation almost forces the hand of people who say “we don’t want the mine to reopen, but it may be a ready source of finances immediately”.

That just one example of what’s undoubtedly a massive resource exploitation and, more importantly, exploiting the desperation of locals who are very poor — its unbelievably underdeveloped.

If you go to a lot of towns and areas around where the mine used to be, its like going into a time warp. Its really mad. You can go to towns near the mine and its like the war finished last week.

There’s still burnt-out buildings, there’s petrol stations full of graffiti. Things are grim.

And that’s to some extent why some individuals who fought with the resistance against the mining company seemed resigned to the fact the mine might reopen.

What is the the relationship between resource companies and private security forces in PNG? In particular, you’ve written about multinational company G4S.

G4S are the world’s biggest security company. They are based in Britain, they have hundreds of thousands of employees in countless countries. For a number of years, they used to run and manage the detention centres here in Australia and their record was, to say the least, pretty appalling.

They have become unhealthily close to the PNG government. The main issue in PNG in terms of energy and resources apart from mining is the LNG [liquefied natural gas] plant, scheduled to open in 2014. It is run by Exxon Mobil..

Exxon Mobil and the PNG government have formed an incredibly close relationship with G4S, to the point where G4S employees are ubiquitous, you see them everywhere.

In many places in the highlands and areas near Port Moresby where the LNG plant is being developed, there are countless reports, including from Oxfam and Human Rights Watch, of G4S working for Exxon and being against the local people.

There are countless examples of where local individuals, tribes and groups are resisting what is happening to their territory both in terms of the environmental destruction and lack of benefits that Exxon promised. G4S becomes almost Exxon’s crack force, it becomes their protection.

The reality is the relationship between G4S, the government and Exxon is only going to tighten because resistance, including violent resistance, to the LNG plant is growing.

The resistance is not because, as Exxon and some others have said, that people just don’t like development. The truth is the average PNG person that I met would like to have better schools, healthcare, education — all the things the average person wants.

I think one of the problems has been Exxon, among others, promised a hell of a lot to a range of local communities in the areas where the LNG plant is, and most of those promises have not been fulfilled.

Exxon and other companies go into villages and say: “We want to come onto your land. We’ll give you a bit of compensation. We’re gonna give you schools, healthcare, a nice hospital and a range of other things.”

Initially, some communities welcome that, and you can understand why.

In a range of areas across PNG, because communication is pretty bad and there is not a big internet culture, people are only now realising there are so many examples of local communities being shafted by companies who promise a lot and deliver little.

Then, when communities get pissed off, when they might sometimes sabotage a pipeline or storm a local office demanding their rights be heard, the security company is used to protect Exxon is G4S.

That’s where you start having a very problematic relationship within the communities themselves. Because you have locals fighting locals.

You have local G4S staff fighting local villagers who are pissed off with the company. That brings major tensions in society — violence, insecurity, alcoholism, domestic abuse and a range of other problems.

The collusion between Exxon and G4S is problematic because the PNG government, whose military is unbelievably corrupt, increasingly relies on a foreign private security force to do the job that should, in theory, be done by the local military or police force.

The sad reality is that in the vast majority of cases the local people are being shafted and the vast majority of the money from resources exploited in PNG is not going to the local people.

There are some examples of the [Peter] O’Neill government introducing free schooling for certain years. That’s been welcomed by people, and that’s supposedly coming from some of the revenue from the LNG plant.

But as a report by local figures in PNG found recently, the country is essentially run by a quasi-mafia. That sort of corrupt culture has been endemic for a very long time.

But in my view, the presence of those companies is very rarely providing benefits for the vast bulk of the people. If you are going to exploit resources, locals need to benefit from that.

Yet in every type of UN human development measure, PNG people are struggling, to put it mildly.

How likely do you think it is that the situation around the LNG plant is going to degenerate into violence?

If you ask me is a Bougainville-style conflict very likely over the LNG plant, the short answer is I don’t know. I did hear from a number of activists campaigning against the LNG plant that they’re worried that that sort of conflict is very possible.

Most of the violence so far against the LNG plant has been relatively low level. I’m not minimising the deaths, but we’re not talking about a huge civil conflict yet.

But, of course, the LNG plant is not open. I heard constantly when I was there that the communities who live in those areas have learned a lot from the Bougainville struggle.

No one is dying to go to war. People don’t, generally speaking, have a desire to go to war. Even if you win a war, communities get destroyed.

The Bougainville resistance won that war undoubtedly, but Bougainville is a destroyed area. You win the war, but you can almost lose the peace.

People haven’t forgotten that and Bougainville still remains a very important part of people’s collective memory in PNG.

I think its inevitable that civil strife and rising violence against Exxon and G4S — and the PNG government providing political cover for them — will grow. That’s been happening for the past six months.

You have an unfortunate political culture from O’Neill down. In some ways it doesn’t make much of a difference who runs the country.

The general sense is that the PNG government, who is being hugely funded and supported by foreign aid — from Australia and others — and by Exxon and others, have a largely uncritical view toward the resource industry. This is despite the fact that they know the majority of the PNG people are not benefiting from it.

A lot of people were very critical, when I was there, of the role Australia plays. Australia’s position in PNG is quite central.

Australia gives roughly $500 million in aid each year. It is a huge amounts of money, and [Kevin] Rudd when he was foreign minister increased it.

The problem is that the Australian government, through AusAID, has a new program advocating assisting mining companies who are exploiting PNG.

Of course its not framed like that, its framed as: “PNG is minerally and energy rich; the companies are going to go there anyway; how do it in such a way that we can assist the PNG government to use that money more wisely?”

In theory, you might say that sounds really good. But the problem is when you have such a broken political culture and the record of a range of companies — Rio, Exxon, Shell, pretty much any major Western energy company — is pretty much to a company, woeful.

I was in Madang, for example, where there’s the Ramu nickel mine run by the Chinese and the record of that is bloody appalling as well. So I’m not suggesting this is just Western companies.

Sadly, PNG is a really worrying sign that the growth of China as a world superpower is not going to make much difference in terms of how they view exploiting communities.

China is moving into PNG in many ways. My sense when I was there was most people were worried about that.

There is a lot of mistrust toward Chinese companies operating there and their record in a range of areas — mining, fishing and others — in terms of environmental destruction is very bad.

While you were there, were you able to gauge the mood of the public toward Prime Minister Peter O’Neill and his rival, former PM Sir Michael Somare?

When I was there, across the political divide, I found virtually no support for Somare at all. People’s view was that he’s an old guy, his time has passed, he’s too close to the Chinese, the country’s insanely corrupt, its time for a change.

O’Neill was seen as someone younger, a fresh face, hadn’t been tested yet which was seen as a positive. He was starting to offer free education for some years of school, which was seen as a very, very positive thing.

People were hopeful that there would be some kind of way of making the country less corrupt, more accountable.

O’Neill has talked about that at least. I would be fairly confident to say, and I could be wrong, that if there’s an election held next month, he’s going to win pretty convincingly.

His attacks on the judiciary recently have not been received too well in some circles, but I doubt it will affect his electoral prospects too much.

Even if Somare runs, people see him as a bit of a doddery old fool. He was seen as the father of PNG — he was there in ’75 when Australia handed over the country to the PNG people.

But people look around them and say “Our country is broken”. Somare was a key leader for the last 30 years and he’s left the country in a pretty bloody bad shape.

So if there is a way to improve that, then I think people will embrace that. But the irony is, considering all the issues we’ve talked about, there’s not much difference between him and Somare in terms of blindly backing resource companies. That’s the reality.

But a lot of people there that I spoke to thought that maybe, in baby steps, O’Neill would do things a bit better. People see its not going to be huge change.

Tolles Interview das den Grundkonflikt sehr gut beschreibt. Doch am Ende kommt - "vor der Moral das Fressen", wie Brecht so schön sagt.
Die Gegner träumen und verschwenden nur die Zeit ihrer Kinder.
Und deshalb wird die Mine öffnen, auch wenn es noch etwas dauern kann.

Ich wünsche allen Geduld.
oyoo  

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| UPDATED: 29 May 2012 15:36:40

Papua New Guinea has gone from two prime ministers to none, with parliament declaring the office vacant until Wednesday.

Deputy Speaker Francis Marus opened Tuesday's special sitting of parliament saying the Supreme Court had declared Sir Michael Somare was the legitimate prime minister.

He added, however, that Sir Michael couldn't serve in the position because he was disqualified from parliament for missing three consecutive sittings.

"This means there is now a vacancy in the office of prime minister," he said.

"I formally declare there to be a vacancy in the office of prime minister.

"Tomorrow, therefore, is when a new prime minister will be appointed – nominations for the office of the prime minister will be first on the agenda for tomorrow."

The surprise move was made shortly after MPs gathered in parliament.

Prime Minister Peter O'Neill was not present, however his deputy, Belden Namah, was.

The Supreme Court last week ruled Sir Michael Somare was the nation's legitimate PM, sparking a series of dramatic events that culminated in O'Neill's government declaring a state of emergency in three provinces.

In December last year, PNG briefly had two prime minister's and two cabinets after the court handed down its first decision.

Comment is being sought from Mr O'Neill.

When asked about Mr Marus's declaration that the prime ministership was vacant, Mr O'Neill's spokesman Daniel Korembao said he knew nothing about it.

"I don't know about that, you'll have to ask the deputy speaker."

Shortly after the declaration, Mr Namah called a caucus meeting in parliament's stateroom and was overheard saying he'd seek legal advice.