Fiji's forum suspension 'proving unpopular'

Two members of the Pacific Islands Forum have indicated they want the regional body to reconsider its suspension of Fiji.

[JF Aus]

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua has done well to stand up and speak honestly and ask the Pacific Islands Forum to reconsider suspension of Fiji. All news of the situation is not being reported.

The Australian ABC is blatantly boycotting news about collapse of SW Pacific traditional seafood resources and associated trade that formed the backbone of Pacific barter subsistence economies. Fiji is also impacted and so are most other nations dependent on ocean food and trade, fundamental collapse of which has not yet been formerly studied.

The Aus ABC is engaged in dangerous propaganda using emotion. Even at the top of todays Aus ABC Solomon Islands News site about the suspension there is month old video of a SI dolphin export meeting, but real and critically vital news evidence put forward at the meeting has been carefully edited out.

The Aus ABC has edited words and image of photographs I presented at the meeting about nutrient pollution killing seagrass baitfish habitat on which dolphin and fish depend for food. I showed photographs of coral innundated with algae and dead where the algae is present.

At the meeting I also spoke to journalists about a recent 69% increase in maternal mortality in SI that evidence indicates is linked to malnutrition and anaemia caused by traditional ocean food devastation. Even in the village where I was staying during March 2009 a 16 year old delivered a stillborn baby in Auki hospital and 4 days later the mother died.

On one side of the SW Pacific ecosystem humans are now lacking adequate nutrition and on the other side mass starvation of sea birds and numerous strandings of whales is occurring. Again the ABC is silent, autopsy results from Bass Strait whale strandings not being reported.

Evidence is that whales are mammals and mammals have a fear of drowing. When mammals are weak such as due to lack of food they tend to seek shallow water to prevent drowning. Squid and anchovy and pilchard stocks in the Bass Strait feeding grounds where recent whale strandings occurred, are devastated. Baleen whales also eat small fish and squid. Millions of mutton birds and fairy penguins are dead from primary starvation due to food deprivation in the region. Vital areal coverage of seagrass food web nursery on the east coast of Australia and in Pacific island lagoons is devastated.

Despite Aus ABC blackout or gagging of news in the region, the Pacific Islands Forum must become informed of the impact of traditional food resource collapse affecting economies and people. Subsequent stress is a common denominator causing stress and unrest in the region.

[Realist]

JF Aus wrote:

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua has done well to stand up and speak honestly and ask the Pacific Islands Forum to reconsider suspension of Fiji. All news of the situation is not being reported.
The Australian ABC is blatantly boycotting news about collapse of SW Pacific traditional seafood resources and associated trade that formed the backbone of Pacific barter subsistence economies. Fiji is also impacted and so are most other nations dependent on ocean food and trade, fundamental collapse of which has not yet been formerly studied.
The Aus ABC is engaged in dangerous propaganda using emotion. Even at the top of todays Aus ABC Solomon Islands News site about the suspension there is month old video of a SI dolphin export meeting, but real and critically vital news evidence put forward at the meeting has been carefully edited out.
The Aus ABC has edited words and image of photographs I presented at the meeting about nutrient pollution killing seagrass baitfish habitat on which dolphin and fish depend for food. I showed photographs of coral innundated with algae and dead where the algae is present.
At the meeting I also spoke to journalists about a recent 69% increase in maternal mortality in SI that evidence indicates is linked to malnutrition and anaemia caused by traditional ocean food devastation. Even in the village where I was staying during March 2009 a 16 year old delivered a stillborn baby in Auki hospital and 4 days later the mother died.
On one side of the SW Pacific ecosystem humans are now lacking adequate nutrition and on the other side mass starvation of sea birds and numerous strandings of whales is occurring. Again the ABC is silent, autopsy results from Bass Strait whale strandings not being reported.
Evidence is that whales are mammals and mammals have a fear of drowing. When mammals are weak such as due to lack of food they tend to seek shallow water to prevent drowning. Squid and anchovy and pilchard stocks in the Bass Strait feeding grounds where recent whale strandings occurred, are devastated. Baleen whales also eat small fish and squid. Millions of mutton birds and fairy penguins are dead from primary starvation due to food deprivation in the region. Vital areal coverage of seagrass food web nursery on the east coast of Australia and in Pacific island lagoons is devastated.
Despite Aus ABC blackout or gagging of news in the region, the Pacific Islands Forum must become informed of the impact of traditional food resource collapse affecting economies and people. Subsequent stress is a common denominator causing stress and unrest in the region.

Obviously you would agree then the fact coups are now legal in fiji is ok. Re-writing the constitution WITHOUT consultaion or asking fijians what they want or if they want it re-written is ok too. Beating any opponent ( including old and pregnant WOMEN )to the coup to a pulp in the middle of the night ( after kidnapping them ) is ok too. Banning ANY opposing view of fijis dictator in the media with threatened and carried out threats of closure of the media source. Aiding and abetting criminals to escape custody if they help with the fabricated crap they try feed the population. The deliberate attempt to help suspected murders escape to a foreign country ( they were caught due to public due diligence ). To sign assurances to other nations of NO coup. To have court cases ( pre coup ) against the dictator suspiciously disappear. It would help if you targeted the culprits of the lack of fish available JAPAN not the abc.

[bewildered]

ABC propaganda?... not likely..? deteriorating editorial quality?... more likely.

The SI PM should not tolerate this sort of behavior from any government and to stand in a public forum and to announce a reconsideration of suspension is sending the wrong message.

Differences whether its political and social should be managed by governments however Fiji constant coups is an indication that there is a lack of strong leadership and the lack of will to tackle difficult issues.

[Realist]

Out of 15 members 2 said they want fiji included. Fortunately the rest of the pacific isnt as spineless and thick as the 2 members that voted to include fiji.