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A obscure cult has been uncovered in Papua New Guinea that as it would appear, is forcing local villagers to engage in sexual activity, in exchange for a fruitful banana harvest.
"Police were only alerted after one villager from Yamina in Morobe province, trekked for 12 long hours before reaching civilisation so he could report the group who are accused of using threats of violence to force the engagement of sexual activity.
By all accounts, the kinky villagers had obliged, believing their banana harvest would increase ten-fold. However, the leader is still at large after escaping!"
http://www.vivavibrators.co.uk/sex-news-facts/banana-sex-cult-forces-villagers-to-romp-in-public.htmlA obscure cult has been uncovered in Papua New Guinea that as it would appear, is... more
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A tsunami warning was issued for New Zealand and other small Pacific islands after a major 7.9 magnitude quake struck in the ocean off American Samoa, U.S. government agencies said on Tuesday.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, a branch of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, issued the warning after the quake hit about 120 miles southwest of the remote Pacific island of American Samoa. It struck at a depth of 20.5 miles.
A tsunami watch was in effect for Hawaii, Papua New Guinea and other small Pacific islands.
The agency noted that its warning did not mean a tsunami had necessarily been generated by the quake. The warning was issued because a quake of this magnitude had the power to generate a destructive tsunami, it said.
In 2004, a quake in the Indian Ocean generated a powerful tsunami that killed tens of thousands people in Asia.
The representative from American Samoa to the U.S. Congress, Eni Faleomavaega, told NBC News that quake hit between the North Marianas Islands and American Samoa, creating 10 to 15- foot waves in populated low-lying areas like Pago Pago Bay.
"Cars were seen floating," the congressman said of Pago Pago Bay.
He said there will likely need to be mass evacuations of low-lying areas and there will be requests for assistance from Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
He didn't have any reports on numbers of deaths at this time.
The U.S. State Department also said there was no word of American casualties or evacuees.A tsunami warning was issued for New Zealand and other small Pacific islands after a... more
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So now it begins. Papua New Guinea, Tuvalu, Kiribati, the Maldives, Vanuatu... Names of islands that are now experiencing the effects of sea level rise that threatens the existence of life. However, we won't see this on the MSM, because to report on this would then have people actually seeing that climate change/global warming is indeed happening. And in the case of the Carteret Islands, where will the people go? The man quoted in this article stated it should be the industrialized nations that caused this that have to pay for it.
What do you think?
This is a serious problem we have to plan for. Imagine if this were Bangladesh. Where are we going to place all of the climate refugees from these most vulnerable locations? Will the US take some? China? How could Australia when it is now suffering the effects of it as well and water resources are already strained?
Another report that came out last week stated that the US is woefully unprepared for the effects of climate change. California would be a good example of that right now. Why does it seem to me as though we are all in slow motion as this begins to play out? We were warned about this years ago. And still we sit waiting for a meeting in Copenhagen where a group of elitist world leaders will sit and continue to bicker and hash this and that out to best suit their own agendas, while islands sink.
Unbelievable.So now it begins. Papua New Guinea, Tuvalu, Kiribati, the Maldives, Vanuatu... Names... more
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A woman from a remote area of Papua New Guinea was stripped, tied to a pole and burnt to death. Police believe the crime is connected to the island's obsession with black magic.
The victim, who is believed to have been between 16 and 21 years old, was killed after being accused of having an affair and spreading AIDS to one of her killers.A woman from a remote area of Papua New Guinea was stripped, tied to a pole and burnt... more
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Health concerns have been raised over mortuary facilities in the Papua New Guinea capital.
Port Moresby's one and only morgue can cater for about 60 bodies, but it is now full to capacity and can no longer accept new arrivals.
Built in 1991, the Port Moresby morgue can no longer cater for the capital's expanding population.
Shipping containers were brought in as back up, but the refrigeration units are faulty, leaving 20 bodies decomposing inside.Health concerns have been raised over mortuary facilities in the Papua New Guinea... more
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The Indonesian province of Papua is debating whether to introduce a law allowing the government to implant microchips in people living with HIV.
The bill proposes tracking the movements of HIV-positive people who behave in what some MPs describe as an irresponsible way.
The proposal is the most controversial of a swathe of programmes to tackle the spread of HIV in Indonesia.
Papua has one of the worse infection rates outside Africa.Dr Manangsang - a medical doctor who is also a member of Papua's parliament - put the bill forward.
As well as proposing to use microchips to track people's movements, it also suggests tattooing as a way of alerting health officials to carriers of the virus.
It recommends mandatory testing for all Papuans, with special ID cards issued to those who test positive.
Papua is home to almost half Indonesia's cases of HIV, the result of a vibrant sex trade and large numbers of migrant workers.
But it is also the area of the country least equipped to deal with it.
Fewer than 20% of local clinics have the means to test for the virus, while much of the population lives cut off from towns, without electricity, vehicle access or phone coverage.The Indonesian province of Papua is debating whether to introduce a law allowing the... more
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The Papua New Guinea jungle has given up one of its darkest secrets - the systematic slaughter of every male baby born in two villages to prevent future tribal clashes.
By virtually wiping out the 'male stock', tribal women hope they can avoid deadly bow-and-arrow wars between the villages in the future.The Papua New Guinea jungle has given up one of its darkest secrets - the systematic... more
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The eastern half of the island of New Guinea - second largest in the world - was divided between Germany (north) and the UK (south) in 1885.
The latter area was transferred to Australia in 1902, which occupied the northern portion during World War I and continued to administer the combined areas until independence in 1975.
A nine-year secessionist revolt on the island of Bougainville ended in 1997 after claiming some 20,000 lives. The eastern half of the island of New Guinea - second largest in the world - was... more
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Major players in the food and cosmetics industries are coming under heavy pressure from environmental activists to stop manufacturing and selling products that contain palm oil.
Major players in the food and cosmetics industries are coming under heavy pressure from environmental activists to stop manufacturing and selling products that contain palm oil.
"Companies like Hostess and Nestle are perpetuating rainforest destruction and human rights abuses by using palm oil in their products," said Leila Salazar-Lopez of the San Francisco-based Rainforest Action Network (RAN).
On Tuesday, Salazar-Lopez's group led a series of demonstrations targeting supermarkets in a number of major cities and towns across the nation, including Austin, Boston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, and San Francisco.
The demonstrators demanded supermarkets apply stickers reading, "Warning! Product May Contain Rainforest Destruction" on any item that contains palm oil, an ingredient that is widely used in food and cosmetics products.
Researchers say that increasing worldwide demand for palm oil is driving the construction of plantations in the tropical forests of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea.
These forests are disappearing at the rate of 2.5 million acres every year due to clear cutting to make way for palm oil plantations. Scientists warn that the continued construction of plantations in the tropical jungles can have disastrous consequences for the global environment.
Indonesia's tropical forests are considered some of the world's great carbon sinks and hence a solid source of defense in the fight against global warming.
Peat lands in the province of Riau on the island of Sumatra, for example, have the capacity to store over 14 billion tons of carbon -- roughly one year's global greenhouse gas emissions. But that is changing fast as commercial concerns continue to move in.
The environmental group Greenpeace claims that, due to palm oil plantation growth, about 25 percent of the peat forests in Riau have already disappeared, and there is so far no indication that the remaining ones will be shown any mercy.
Forest destruction is considered responsible for about one fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. Greenpeace research links 4 percent of annual global emissions to the damage caused by palm oil companies to peat forests in Indonesia.**continues**Major players in the food and cosmetics industries are coming under heavy pressure... more
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...At the same time. Many at the exact hour.
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...At the same time. Many at the exact hour.
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Matthew Caney's documentary on Papua New Guinea's lack of education about sexually transmitted diseases....Matthew Caney's documentary on Papua New Guinea's lack of education about... more
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