Seeking 73+ Volunteers to form the Absolute Majority Government Group
The NA Party is in defensive mode as acting PM Abal slashes and burns his coalition partners settling instead with NA warhorses like Pruaitch to rule and reign going into 2012. The NA Leadership believes they have won going into the 2012 election but they have forgotten the power of the Absolute Majority!
The Absolute Majority is the most powerful thing in PNG Politics and even the mighty Constitution must yield to their every beck and call.
The Speaker is Silenced and the Office of Prime Minister is as a fluid before the power of the Absolute Majority.
Sam Abal has used his god like powers in the NEC to set everything to make sure Arthur Somare is the god of PNG Politics for the next 40 years along with his adopted brothers like Pruaitch and Tiensten.
In response to this there is a group of us in Parliament who are recruiting all of the Back Benchers in the Government, all of the Center Benchers and the entire Opposition Government to form a single coalition of over 73 members which will make up the Absolute Majority.
The Absolute Majority is the Most Powerful Projection of PNG Political Power that there is.
It trumps everything.
Its Power is Absolute inside Parliament.
To them, the entire PNG Constitution is written in pencil easily altered by the subtractive and additive political powers of the Absolute Majority.
The 73+ Club is suggesting promoting Sir Julius to the top post in the interim leading up to the 2012 election after we oust Sir Michael on Medical grounds.
Once we remove the ailing PM and replace him with a man of the same magnitude we will then recreate the entire government in the few months we have left in Parliament.
We will change the constitution by injecting the Articles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People directly into the PNG Constitution. This will give us the advantage in the 2012 elections with our voters.
This will also cause a renegotiation of all petrol/mineral operations in the country including the LNG Project to make sure that all of those agreements comply with the U.N. Declared Articles on Indigenous Rights.
The restructuring of all of those contracts into the favor of the Indigenous Resource Owners will have a huge positive effect upon our Voters.
They will gain much more money, which they will spend, which will boost our economy, which will increase tax returns, which provides more money to the government to develop PNG more and more; and faster and faster.
We also intend to defund the State and Enterprise Ministry and distribute those funds to the membership of the 73+ Group Absolute Majority as District Support Grants. That should be over 100 million Kina each. A notable sum.
We also intend to order all funds left in trust accounts to be returned to the Central Bank to also be dealt out to the 73+ Group Absolute Majority to bring much needed development to their districts just in time for the next general election.
We will also replace and completely shut out all of the current Ministers making sure they have absolutely no money going into the 2012 election.
It is time to turn the tide on the reigning regime by joining together to form the Absolute Majority to make sure our 73+ Group Members have the resources they need to go back and win their seats in 2012.
This is the way to play hardball politics and to win!
If anyone is at all interested…
Most Sincerely,
The 73+G Leadership
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
An Historic Day in Modern World Political History
History has been made today... My Uncle, the Grand Chief Sir Michael Tomari Somare, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, after over 40 years in PNG and World politics, has resigned!
The East Sepik Regional Seat is now vacant.
PNG is captain-less.
Love him or hate him, a historic figure in World Politics has resigned. He is my Uncle Somare.
He was the longest serving political leader on the planet Earth.
He met with Ronald Reagan on his first term as President of America as the original Prime Minister of the newly established Independent State of Papua New Guinea.
He was my greatest living family member. I was always so proud to be his nephew growing up in America. When the white bullies would pick on me and call me stupid because I had just returned from three years living in Angarum and couldn't speak English as well as they could I would remind them that my Uncle Somare started a country. I was the only brown skin kid where I grew up. I was always a New Guinean because of Somare. He made me proud to be a New Guinean.
When they asked me where I was from I would tell them that "I am from Angarum."
They would ask me. "Where is that?"
I would tell them. "It's the Heart of the Sepik River on the Island of New Guinea just north of Australia."
And in response they would say nothing at all.
I met Uncle Somare the first time at the PM's official residence in 1977. I was 7 years old.
In the end we ended up becoming great adversaries.
We had a difference of opinion.
It wasn't much more than that.
My struggles with him actually solidified my Christian Indigenous Political Ideology.
Somare made me feel like anything was possible.
He was a "nobody" who became a World Figure.
The total underdog and Cinderella story.
The Globalists tricked him in the end, unfortunately.
And now it is time for I to face his son Arthur to contest this historic political seat as the next Regional Member and Governor of the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea.
Michael Somare was known as "GOD's Chosen."
The question is who will GOD choose next?
The son Arthur? (Pikinini)
or?
The nephew Timothy? (Kandre)
Epic!
The East Sepik Regional Seat is now vacant.
PNG is captain-less.
Love him or hate him, a historic figure in World Politics has resigned. He is my Uncle Somare.
He was the longest serving political leader on the planet Earth.
He met with Ronald Reagan on his first term as President of America as the original Prime Minister of the newly established Independent State of Papua New Guinea.
He was my greatest living family member. I was always so proud to be his nephew growing up in America. When the white bullies would pick on me and call me stupid because I had just returned from three years living in Angarum and couldn't speak English as well as they could I would remind them that my Uncle Somare started a country. I was the only brown skin kid where I grew up. I was always a New Guinean because of Somare. He made me proud to be a New Guinean.
When they asked me where I was from I would tell them that "I am from Angarum."
They would ask me. "Where is that?"
I would tell them. "It's the Heart of the Sepik River on the Island of New Guinea just north of Australia."
And in response they would say nothing at all.
I met Uncle Somare the first time at the PM's official residence in 1977. I was 7 years old.
In the end we ended up becoming great adversaries.
We had a difference of opinion.
It wasn't much more than that.
My struggles with him actually solidified my Christian Indigenous Political Ideology.
Somare made me feel like anything was possible.
He was a "nobody" who became a World Figure.
The total underdog and Cinderella story.
The Globalists tricked him in the end, unfortunately.
And now it is time for I to face his son Arthur to contest this historic political seat as the next Regional Member and Governor of the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea.
Michael Somare was known as "GOD's Chosen."
The question is who will GOD choose next?
The son Arthur? (Pikinini)
or?
The nephew Timothy? (Kandre)
Epic!
The Money Game
We have to begin to understand that the problems the People of PNG are facing are actually being caused by external forces.
These external forces have to do with the World Financial System in which we live.
The World Financial System is controlled by Wall Street Bankers.
These bankers are in control of the Federal Reserve Bank which is the mother of them all.
The Federal Reserve is in control of the US Dollar.
The US Dollar is used internationally to purchase commodities of all types including gold and energy – PNG’s two main exports.
All of our commodities are sold in US Dollars giving Wall Street a huge advantage over our economy.
To correct this we simply change the law in PNG requiring all PNG commodities to be sold in PNG Kina.
The benefits of doing this are extraordinary for our country.
This will cause a shortfall to occur in PNG Kina among our consumers meaning that they will need to acquire PNG Kina to purchase our resources.
To allow countries to gain PNG Kina reserves in their Central Banks we simply offer service and construction contracts to develop PNG.
The PNG Kina earned by these countries will then be used to pay us for our resources.
What will then happen is that every year a certain amount of resources will be sold to our consumers.
Let’s say that we sell 50 Billion Kina in commodities each year.
That means each year our international consumers will have to provide 50 Billion Kina in development and services for PNG in order to have the PNG currency to come back and purchase our resources.
In this way we translate our resources directly into development and services in the country.
By doing this very simple change to PNG law we will be able to provide all of the infrastructure and services that our People require at the level they expect.
This simple change will also give us the economic ability to build all of the necessary infrastructure for our new gold and energy finds in our country.
The reasoning used to do this is the fragility of the US Dollar.
America has been projecting on the World News that they expect to go insolvent on August 2 of 2011.
To insulate the country we simply explain to the World that we must now remove the US Dollar requirement from our economic system.
It is a global sellers’ market in resources currently caused by the instability of the wars in the Middle East and the rapid development of India and China.
In a sellers’ market the sellers make the rules.
The buyers have no choice but to comply.
The buyers don’t want us to understand this because it will cause them to lose an enormous amount of capital and economic power.
There is a very real opportunity to make PNG Kina into a World currency if we back our Kina up directly with our commodities.
We can do an extrapolation of multiple commodity values and use that extrapolation to give real value to or Kina.
The World currencies are on the verge of collapse.
We must be ready for this in a proactive sense.
By proactively dealing with this problem by changing our laws now before the World Financial System crashes we not only will be able to survive the crash but actually benefit from it.
We benefit by positioning our Kina in such a way that we can offer our Kina as a World currency substitute for the insolvent US Dollar.
These external forces have to do with the World Financial System in which we live.
The World Financial System is controlled by Wall Street Bankers.
These bankers are in control of the Federal Reserve Bank which is the mother of them all.
The Federal Reserve is in control of the US Dollar.
The US Dollar is used internationally to purchase commodities of all types including gold and energy – PNG’s two main exports.
All of our commodities are sold in US Dollars giving Wall Street a huge advantage over our economy.
To correct this we simply change the law in PNG requiring all PNG commodities to be sold in PNG Kina.
The benefits of doing this are extraordinary for our country.
This will cause a shortfall to occur in PNG Kina among our consumers meaning that they will need to acquire PNG Kina to purchase our resources.
To allow countries to gain PNG Kina reserves in their Central Banks we simply offer service and construction contracts to develop PNG.
The PNG Kina earned by these countries will then be used to pay us for our resources.
What will then happen is that every year a certain amount of resources will be sold to our consumers.
Let’s say that we sell 50 Billion Kina in commodities each year.
That means each year our international consumers will have to provide 50 Billion Kina in development and services for PNG in order to have the PNG currency to come back and purchase our resources.
In this way we translate our resources directly into development and services in the country.
By doing this very simple change to PNG law we will be able to provide all of the infrastructure and services that our People require at the level they expect.
This simple change will also give us the economic ability to build all of the necessary infrastructure for our new gold and energy finds in our country.
The reasoning used to do this is the fragility of the US Dollar.
America has been projecting on the World News that they expect to go insolvent on August 2 of 2011.
To insulate the country we simply explain to the World that we must now remove the US Dollar requirement from our economic system.
It is a global sellers’ market in resources currently caused by the instability of the wars in the Middle East and the rapid development of India and China.
In a sellers’ market the sellers make the rules.
The buyers have no choice but to comply.
The buyers don’t want us to understand this because it will cause them to lose an enormous amount of capital and economic power.
There is a very real opportunity to make PNG Kina into a World currency if we back our Kina up directly with our commodities.
We can do an extrapolation of multiple commodity values and use that extrapolation to give real value to or Kina.
The World currencies are on the verge of collapse.
We must be ready for this in a proactive sense.
By proactively dealing with this problem by changing our laws now before the World Financial System crashes we not only will be able to survive the crash but actually benefit from it.
We benefit by positioning our Kina in such a way that we can offer our Kina as a World currency substitute for the insolvent US Dollar.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Contradiction in PNG Constitution
The Preamble of the PNG Constitution states that the People of PNG...
"• pledge ourselves to guard and pass on to those who come after us our noble traditions and the Christian principles that are ours now."
The six foot laws in PNG claiming Indigenous Resources below six feet in indigenous territory not only violate the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People but also the Christian Principles expressed in the Preamble of the PNG Constitution.
"Thou shalt not covet what belongs to your neighbor" is the Christian Principle that is being violated when the PNG State claims indigenous resources in indigenous territory all over the country.
I find it odd that I am the first person in the 35 years of the existence of the PNG Constitution that has noticed this obvious contradiction in PNG law.
I assume the problem is lack of education even on the part of the so called Intellectual Elite in PNG.
How many lawyers and professors are blind to this obvious contradiction?
This is very serious once we realize that the six foot resource laws in PNG caused the Bougainville Conflict and can cause a similar problem in the LNG Project or any other similar project in the country now or in the future.
"• pledge ourselves to guard and pass on to those who come after us our noble traditions and the Christian principles that are ours now."
The six foot laws in PNG claiming Indigenous Resources below six feet in indigenous territory not only violate the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People but also the Christian Principles expressed in the Preamble of the PNG Constitution.
"Thou shalt not covet what belongs to your neighbor" is the Christian Principle that is being violated when the PNG State claims indigenous resources in indigenous territory all over the country.
I find it odd that I am the first person in the 35 years of the existence of the PNG Constitution that has noticed this obvious contradiction in PNG law.
I assume the problem is lack of education even on the part of the so called Intellectual Elite in PNG.
How many lawyers and professors are blind to this obvious contradiction?
This is very serious once we realize that the six foot resource laws in PNG caused the Bougainville Conflict and can cause a similar problem in the LNG Project or any other similar project in the country now or in the future.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
The PNG Government is in violation of Article 26
Article 26
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired.
2. Indigenous peoples have the right to own, use, develop and control the lands, territories and resources that they possess by reason of traditional ownership or other traditional occupation or use, as well as those which they have otherwise acquired.
3. States shall give legal recognition and protection to these lands, territories and resources. Such recognition shall be conducted with due respect to the customs, traditions and land tenure systems of the indigenous peoples concerned.
The PNG laws claiming natural resources below six feet in Indigenous Territory clearly violate the above Article.
The Deputy Opposition Leader, Sam Basil, tried to ask about this Article in Parliament and was shot down by point of orders from Abal, and Kidu who both claimed that PNG was not indigenous.
I would agree with both of them as PNG is definitely colonial.
The opposite of Indigenous is Colonial by the way.
I wonder if Kidu and the gang realized that before they so boldly stated in Parliament that PNG is not Indigenous?
Unfortunately the People of PNG do not have the education level to understand exactly what Kidu and Abal were saying.
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired.
2. Indigenous peoples have the right to own, use, develop and control the lands, territories and resources that they possess by reason of traditional ownership or other traditional occupation or use, as well as those which they have otherwise acquired.
3. States shall give legal recognition and protection to these lands, territories and resources. Such recognition shall be conducted with due respect to the customs, traditions and land tenure systems of the indigenous peoples concerned.
The PNG laws claiming natural resources below six feet in Indigenous Territory clearly violate the above Article.
The Deputy Opposition Leader, Sam Basil, tried to ask about this Article in Parliament and was shot down by point of orders from Abal, and Kidu who both claimed that PNG was not indigenous.
I would agree with both of them as PNG is definitely colonial.
The opposite of Indigenous is Colonial by the way.
I wonder if Kidu and the gang realized that before they so boldly stated in Parliament that PNG is not Indigenous?
Unfortunately the People of PNG do not have the education level to understand exactly what Kidu and Abal were saying.
The U.N. Declaration on Indigenous Rights
Article 1
Indigenous peoples have the right to the full enjoyment, as a collective or as individuals, of all human rights and fundamental freedoms as recognized in the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights law.
Article 2
Indigenous peoples and individuals are free and equal to all other peoples and individuals and have the right to be free from any kind of discrimination, in the exercise of their rights, in particular that based on their indigenous origin or identity.
Article 3
Indigenous peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.
Article 4
Indigenous peoples, in exercising their right to self-determination, have the right to autonomy or self-government in matters relating to their internal and local affairs, as well as ways and means for financing their autonomous functions.
Article 5
Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinct political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions, while retaining their rights to participate fully, if they so choose, in the political, economic, social and cultural life of the State.
Article 6
Every indigenous individual has the right to a nationality.
Article 7
1. Indigenous individuals have the rights to life, physical and mental integrity, liberty and security of person.
2. Indigenous peoples have the collective right to live in freedom, peace and security as distinct peoples and shall not be subjected to any act of genocide or any other act of violence, including forcibly removing children of the group to another group.
Article 8
1. Indigenous peoples and individuals have the right not to be subjected to forced assimilation or destruction of their culture.
2. States shall provide effective mechanisms for prevention of, and redress for:
a. Any action which has the aim or effect of depriving them of their integrity as distinct peoples, or of their cultural values or ethnic identities;
b. Any action which has the aim or effect of dispossessing them of their lands, territories or resources;
c. Any form of forced population transfer which has the aim or effect of violating or undermining any of their rights;
d. Any form of forced assimilation or integration;
e. Any form of propaganda designed to promote or incite racial or ethnic discrimination directed against them.
Article 9
Indigenous peoples and individuals have the right to belong to an indigenous community or nation, in accordance with the traditions and customs of the community or nation concerned. No discrimination of any kind may arise from the exercise of such a right.
Article 10
Indigenous peoples shall not be forcibly removed from their lands or territories. No relocation shall take place without the free, prior and informed consent of the indigenous peoples concerned and after agreement on just and fair compensation and, where possible, with the option of return.
Article 11
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to practice and revitalize their cultural traditions and customs. This includes the right to maintain, protect and develop the past, present and future manifestations of their cultures, such as archaeological and historical sites, artefacts, designs, ceremonies, technologies and visual and performing arts and literature.
2. States shall provide redress through effective mechanisms, which may include restitution, developed in conjunction with indigenous peoples, with respect to their cultural, intellectual, religious and spiritual property taken without their free, prior and informed consent or in violation of their laws, traditions and customs.
Article 12
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to manifest, practice, develop and teach their spiritual and religious traditions, customs and ceremonies; the right to maintain, protect, and have access in privacy to their religious and cultural sites; the right to the use and control of their ceremonial objects; and the right to the repatriation of their human remains.
2. States shall seek to enable the access and/or repatriation of ceremonial objects and human remains in their possession through fair, transparent and effective mechanisms developed in conjunction with indigenous peoples concerned.
Article 13
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to revitalize, use, develop and transmit to future generations their histories, languages, oral traditions, philosophies, writing systems and literatures, and to designate and retain their own names for communities, places and persons.
2. States shall take effective measures to ensure this right is protected and also to ensure that indigenous peoples can understand and be understood in political, legal and administrative proceedings, where necessary through the provision of interpretation or by other appropriate means.
Article 14
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to establish and control their educational systems and institutions providing education in their own languages, in a manner appropriate to their cultural methods of teaching and learning.
2. Indigenous individuals, particularly children, have the right to all levels and forms of education of the State without discrimination.
3. States shall, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, take effective measures, in order for indigenous individuals, particularly children, including those living outside their communities, to have access, when possible, to an education in their own culture and provided in their own language.
Article 15
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the dignity and diversity of their cultures, traditions, histories and aspirations which shall be appropriately reflected in education and public information.
2. States shall take effective measures, in consultation and cooperation with the indigenous peoples concerned, to combat prejudice and eliminate discrimination and to promote tolerance, understanding and good relations among indigenous peoples and all other segments of society.
Article 16
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to establish their own media in their own languages and to have access to all forms of non-indigenous media without discrimination.
2. States shall take effective measures to ensure that State-owned media duly reflect indigenous cultural diversity. States, without prejudice to ensuring full freedom of expression, should encourage privately-owned media to adequately reflect indigenous cultural diversity.
Article 17
1. Indigenous individuals and peoples have the right to enjoy fully all rights established under applicable international and domestic labour law.
2. States shall in consultation and cooperation with indigenous peoples take specific measures to protect indigenous children from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child’s education, or to be harmful to the child’s health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development, taking into account their special vulnerability and the importance of education for their empowerment.
3. Indigenous individuals have the right not to be subjected to any discriminatory conditions of labour and, inter alia, employment or salary.
Article 18
Indigenous peoples have the right to participate in decision-making in matters which would affect their rights, through representatives chosen by themselves in accordance with their own procedures, as well as to maintain and develop their own indigenous decision-making institutions.
Article 19
States shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples concerned through their own representative institutions in order to obtain their free, prior and informed consent before adopting and implementing legislative or administrative measures that may affect them.
Article 20
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and develop their political, economic and social systems or institutions, to be secure in the enjoyment of their own means of subsistence and development, and to engage freely in all their traditional and other economic activities.
2. Indigenous peoples deprived of their means of subsistence and development are entitled to just and fair redress.
Article 21
1. Indigenous peoples have the right, without discrimination, to the improvement of their economic and social conditions, including, inter alia, in the areas of education, employment, vocational training and retraining, housing, sanitation, health and social security.
2. States shall take effective measures and, where appropriate, special measures to ensure continuing improvement of their economic and social conditions. Particular attention shall be paid to the rights and special needs of indigenous elders, women, youth, children and persons with disabilities.
Article 22
1. Particular attention shall be paid to the rights and special needs of indigenous elders, women, youth, children and persons with disabilities in the implementation of this Declaration.
2. States shall take measures, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, to ensure that indigenous women and children enjoy the full protection and guarantees against all forms of violence and discrimination.
Article 23
Indigenous peoples have the right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for exercising their right to development. In particular, indigenous peoples have the right to be actively involved in developing and determining health, housing and other economic and social programmes affecting them and, as far as possible, to administer such programmes through their own institutions.
Article 24
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to their traditional medicines and to maintain their health practices, including the conservation of their vital medicinal plants, animals and minerals. Indigenous individuals also have the right to access, without any discrimination, to all social and health services.
2. Indigenous individuals have an equal right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. States shall take the necessary steps with a view to achieving progressively the full realization of this right.
Article 25
Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinctive spiritual relationship with their traditionally owned or otherwise occupied and used lands, territories, waters and coastal seas and other resources and to uphold their responsibilities to future generations in this regard.
Article 26
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired.
2. Indigenous peoples have the right to own, use, develop and control the lands, territories and resources that they possess by reason of traditional ownership or other traditional occupation or use, as well as those which they have otherwise acquired.
3. States shall give legal recognition and protection to these lands, territories and resources. Such recognition shall be conducted with due respect to the customs, traditions and land tenure systems of the indigenous peoples concerned.
Article 27
States shall establish and implement, in conjunction with indigenous peoples concerned, a fair, independent, impartial, open and transparent process, giving due recognition to indigenous peoples’ laws, traditions, customs and land tenure systems, to recognize and adjudicate the rights of indigenous peoples pertaining to their lands, territories and resources, including those which were traditionally owned or otherwise occupied or used. Indigenous peoples shall have the right to participate in this process.
Article 28
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to redress, by means that can include restitution or, when this is not possible, of a just, fair and equitable compensation, for the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned or otherwise occupied or used, and which have been confiscated, taken, occupied, used or damaged without their free, prior and informed consent.
2. Unless otherwise freely agreed upon by the peoples concerned, compensation shall take the form of lands, territories and resources equal in quality, size and legal status or of monetary compensation or other appropriate redress.
Article 29
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the conservation and protection of the environment and the productive capacity of their lands or territories and resources. States shall establish and implement assistance programmes for indigenous peoples for such conservation and protection, without discrimination.
2. States shall take effective measures to ensure that no storage or disposal of hazardous materials shall take place in the lands or territories of indigenous peoples without their free, prior and informed consent.
3. States shall also take effective measures to ensure, as needed, that programmes for monitoring, maintaining and restoring the health of indigenous peoples, as developed and implemented by the peoples affected by such materials, are duly implemented.
Article 30
1. Military activities shall not take place in the lands or territories of indigenous
peoples, unless justified by a relevant public interest or otherwise freely agreed with or requested by the indigenous peoples concerned.
2. States shall undertake effective consultations with the indigenous peoples concerned, through appropriate procedures and in particular through their representative institutions, prior to using their lands or territories for military activities.
Article 31
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions, as well as the manifestations of their sciences, technologies and cultures, including human and genetic resources, seeds, medicines, knowledge of the properties of fauna and flora, oral traditions, literatures, designs, sports and traditional games and visual and performing arts. They also have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their intellectual property over such cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, and traditional cultural expressions.
2. In conjunction with indigenous peoples, States shall take effective measures to recognize and protect the exercise of these rights.
Article 32
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for the development or use of their lands or territories and other resources.
2. States shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples concerned through their own representative institutions in order to obtain their free and informed consent prior to the approval of any project affecting their lands or territories and other resources, particularly in connection with the development, utilization or exploitation of mineral, water or other resources.
3. States shall provide effective mechanisms for just and fair redress for any such activities, and appropriate measures shall be taken to mitigate adverse environmental, economic, social, cultural or spiritual impact.
Article 33
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to determine their own identity or membership in accordance with their customs and traditions. This does not impair the right of indigenous individuals to obtain citizenship of the States in which they live.
2. Indigenous peoples have the right to determine the structures and to select the membership of their institutions in accordance with their own procedures.
Article 34
Indigenous peoples have the right to promote, develop and maintain their institutional structures and their distinctive customs, spirituality, traditions, procedures, practices and, in the cases where they exist, juridical systems or customs, in accordance with international human rights standards.
Article 35
Indigenous peoples have the right to determine the responsibilities of individuals to their communities.
Article 36
1. Indigenous peoples, in particular those divided by international borders, have the right to maintain and develop contacts, relations and cooperation, including activities for spiritual, cultural, political, economic and social purposes, with their own members as well as other peoples across borders.
2. States, in consultation and cooperation with indigenous peoples, shall take effective measures to facilitate the exercise and ensure the implementation of this right.
Article 37
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the recognition, observance and enforcement of Treaties, Agreements and Other Constructive Arrangements concluded with States or their successors and to have States honour and respect such Treaties, Agreements and other Constructive Arrangements.
2. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as to diminish or eliminate the rights of Indigenous Peoples contained in Treaties, Agreements and Constructive Arrangements.
Article 38
States in consultation and cooperation with indigenous peoples, shall take the appropriate measures, including legislative measures, to achieve the ends of this Declaration.
Article 39
Indigenous peoples have the right to have access to financial and technical assistance from States and through international cooperation, for the enjoyment of the rights contained in this Declaration.
Article 40
Indigenous peoples have the right to have access to and prompt decision through just and fair procedures for the resolution of conflicts and disputes with States or other parties, as well as to effective remedies for all infringements of their individual and collective rights. Such a decision shall give due consideration to the customs, traditions, rules and legal systems of the indigenous peoples concerned and international human rights.
Article 41
The organs and specialized agencies of the United Nations system and other intergovernmental organizations shall contribute to the full realization of the provisions of this Declaration through the mobilization, inter alia, of financial cooperation and technical assistance. Ways and means of ensuring participation of indigenous peoples on issues affecting them shall be established.
Article 42
The United Nations, its bodies, including the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and specialized agencies, including at the country level, and States, shall promote respect for and full application of the provisions of this Declaration and follow up the effectiveness of this Declaration.
Article 43
The rights recognized herein constitute the minimum standards for the survival, dignity and well-being of the indigenous peoples of the world.
Article 44
All the rights and freedoms recognized herein are equally guaranteed to male and female indigenous individuals.
Article 45
Nothing in this Declaration may be construed as diminishing or extinguishing the rights indigenous peoples have now or may acquire in the future.
Article 46
1. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, people, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act contrary to the Charter of the United Nations or construed as authorizing or encouraging any action which would dismember or impair totally or in part, the territorial integrity or political unity of sovereign and independent States.
2. In the exercise of the rights enunciated in the present Declaration, human rights and fundamental freedoms of all shall be respected. The exercise of the rights set forth in this Declaration shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law, and in accordance with international human rights obligations. Any such limitations shall be non-discriminatory and strictly necessary solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and for meeting the just and most compelling requirements of a democratic society.
3. The provisions set forth in this Declaration shall be interpreted in accordance with the principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, equality, non-discrimination, good governance and good faith.
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United Nations website copy is at http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/drip.html
Indigenous peoples have the right to the full enjoyment, as a collective or as individuals, of all human rights and fundamental freedoms as recognized in the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights law.
Article 2
Indigenous peoples and individuals are free and equal to all other peoples and individuals and have the right to be free from any kind of discrimination, in the exercise of their rights, in particular that based on their indigenous origin or identity.
Article 3
Indigenous peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.
Article 4
Indigenous peoples, in exercising their right to self-determination, have the right to autonomy or self-government in matters relating to their internal and local affairs, as well as ways and means for financing their autonomous functions.
Article 5
Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinct political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions, while retaining their rights to participate fully, if they so choose, in the political, economic, social and cultural life of the State.
Article 6
Every indigenous individual has the right to a nationality.
Article 7
1. Indigenous individuals have the rights to life, physical and mental integrity, liberty and security of person.
2. Indigenous peoples have the collective right to live in freedom, peace and security as distinct peoples and shall not be subjected to any act of genocide or any other act of violence, including forcibly removing children of the group to another group.
Article 8
1. Indigenous peoples and individuals have the right not to be subjected to forced assimilation or destruction of their culture.
2. States shall provide effective mechanisms for prevention of, and redress for:
a. Any action which has the aim or effect of depriving them of their integrity as distinct peoples, or of their cultural values or ethnic identities;
b. Any action which has the aim or effect of dispossessing them of their lands, territories or resources;
c. Any form of forced population transfer which has the aim or effect of violating or undermining any of their rights;
d. Any form of forced assimilation or integration;
e. Any form of propaganda designed to promote or incite racial or ethnic discrimination directed against them.
Article 9
Indigenous peoples and individuals have the right to belong to an indigenous community or nation, in accordance with the traditions and customs of the community or nation concerned. No discrimination of any kind may arise from the exercise of such a right.
Article 10
Indigenous peoples shall not be forcibly removed from their lands or territories. No relocation shall take place without the free, prior and informed consent of the indigenous peoples concerned and after agreement on just and fair compensation and, where possible, with the option of return.
Article 11
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to practice and revitalize their cultural traditions and customs. This includes the right to maintain, protect and develop the past, present and future manifestations of their cultures, such as archaeological and historical sites, artefacts, designs, ceremonies, technologies and visual and performing arts and literature.
2. States shall provide redress through effective mechanisms, which may include restitution, developed in conjunction with indigenous peoples, with respect to their cultural, intellectual, religious and spiritual property taken without their free, prior and informed consent or in violation of their laws, traditions and customs.
Article 12
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to manifest, practice, develop and teach their spiritual and religious traditions, customs and ceremonies; the right to maintain, protect, and have access in privacy to their religious and cultural sites; the right to the use and control of their ceremonial objects; and the right to the repatriation of their human remains.
2. States shall seek to enable the access and/or repatriation of ceremonial objects and human remains in their possession through fair, transparent and effective mechanisms developed in conjunction with indigenous peoples concerned.
Article 13
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to revitalize, use, develop and transmit to future generations their histories, languages, oral traditions, philosophies, writing systems and literatures, and to designate and retain their own names for communities, places and persons.
2. States shall take effective measures to ensure this right is protected and also to ensure that indigenous peoples can understand and be understood in political, legal and administrative proceedings, where necessary through the provision of interpretation or by other appropriate means.
Article 14
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to establish and control their educational systems and institutions providing education in their own languages, in a manner appropriate to their cultural methods of teaching and learning.
2. Indigenous individuals, particularly children, have the right to all levels and forms of education of the State without discrimination.
3. States shall, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, take effective measures, in order for indigenous individuals, particularly children, including those living outside their communities, to have access, when possible, to an education in their own culture and provided in their own language.
Article 15
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the dignity and diversity of their cultures, traditions, histories and aspirations which shall be appropriately reflected in education and public information.
2. States shall take effective measures, in consultation and cooperation with the indigenous peoples concerned, to combat prejudice and eliminate discrimination and to promote tolerance, understanding and good relations among indigenous peoples and all other segments of society.
Article 16
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to establish their own media in their own languages and to have access to all forms of non-indigenous media without discrimination.
2. States shall take effective measures to ensure that State-owned media duly reflect indigenous cultural diversity. States, without prejudice to ensuring full freedom of expression, should encourage privately-owned media to adequately reflect indigenous cultural diversity.
Article 17
1. Indigenous individuals and peoples have the right to enjoy fully all rights established under applicable international and domestic labour law.
2. States shall in consultation and cooperation with indigenous peoples take specific measures to protect indigenous children from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child’s education, or to be harmful to the child’s health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development, taking into account their special vulnerability and the importance of education for their empowerment.
3. Indigenous individuals have the right not to be subjected to any discriminatory conditions of labour and, inter alia, employment or salary.
Article 18
Indigenous peoples have the right to participate in decision-making in matters which would affect their rights, through representatives chosen by themselves in accordance with their own procedures, as well as to maintain and develop their own indigenous decision-making institutions.
Article 19
States shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples concerned through their own representative institutions in order to obtain their free, prior and informed consent before adopting and implementing legislative or administrative measures that may affect them.
Article 20
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and develop their political, economic and social systems or institutions, to be secure in the enjoyment of their own means of subsistence and development, and to engage freely in all their traditional and other economic activities.
2. Indigenous peoples deprived of their means of subsistence and development are entitled to just and fair redress.
Article 21
1. Indigenous peoples have the right, without discrimination, to the improvement of their economic and social conditions, including, inter alia, in the areas of education, employment, vocational training and retraining, housing, sanitation, health and social security.
2. States shall take effective measures and, where appropriate, special measures to ensure continuing improvement of their economic and social conditions. Particular attention shall be paid to the rights and special needs of indigenous elders, women, youth, children and persons with disabilities.
Article 22
1. Particular attention shall be paid to the rights and special needs of indigenous elders, women, youth, children and persons with disabilities in the implementation of this Declaration.
2. States shall take measures, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, to ensure that indigenous women and children enjoy the full protection and guarantees against all forms of violence and discrimination.
Article 23
Indigenous peoples have the right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for exercising their right to development. In particular, indigenous peoples have the right to be actively involved in developing and determining health, housing and other economic and social programmes affecting them and, as far as possible, to administer such programmes through their own institutions.
Article 24
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to their traditional medicines and to maintain their health practices, including the conservation of their vital medicinal plants, animals and minerals. Indigenous individuals also have the right to access, without any discrimination, to all social and health services.
2. Indigenous individuals have an equal right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. States shall take the necessary steps with a view to achieving progressively the full realization of this right.
Article 25
Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinctive spiritual relationship with their traditionally owned or otherwise occupied and used lands, territories, waters and coastal seas and other resources and to uphold their responsibilities to future generations in this regard.
Article 26
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired.
2. Indigenous peoples have the right to own, use, develop and control the lands, territories and resources that they possess by reason of traditional ownership or other traditional occupation or use, as well as those which they have otherwise acquired.
3. States shall give legal recognition and protection to these lands, territories and resources. Such recognition shall be conducted with due respect to the customs, traditions and land tenure systems of the indigenous peoples concerned.
Article 27
States shall establish and implement, in conjunction with indigenous peoples concerned, a fair, independent, impartial, open and transparent process, giving due recognition to indigenous peoples’ laws, traditions, customs and land tenure systems, to recognize and adjudicate the rights of indigenous peoples pertaining to their lands, territories and resources, including those which were traditionally owned or otherwise occupied or used. Indigenous peoples shall have the right to participate in this process.
Article 28
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to redress, by means that can include restitution or, when this is not possible, of a just, fair and equitable compensation, for the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned or otherwise occupied or used, and which have been confiscated, taken, occupied, used or damaged without their free, prior and informed consent.
2. Unless otherwise freely agreed upon by the peoples concerned, compensation shall take the form of lands, territories and resources equal in quality, size and legal status or of monetary compensation or other appropriate redress.
Article 29
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the conservation and protection of the environment and the productive capacity of their lands or territories and resources. States shall establish and implement assistance programmes for indigenous peoples for such conservation and protection, without discrimination.
2. States shall take effective measures to ensure that no storage or disposal of hazardous materials shall take place in the lands or territories of indigenous peoples without their free, prior and informed consent.
3. States shall also take effective measures to ensure, as needed, that programmes for monitoring, maintaining and restoring the health of indigenous peoples, as developed and implemented by the peoples affected by such materials, are duly implemented.
Article 30
1. Military activities shall not take place in the lands or territories of indigenous
peoples, unless justified by a relevant public interest or otherwise freely agreed with or requested by the indigenous peoples concerned.
2. States shall undertake effective consultations with the indigenous peoples concerned, through appropriate procedures and in particular through their representative institutions, prior to using their lands or territories for military activities.
Article 31
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions, as well as the manifestations of their sciences, technologies and cultures, including human and genetic resources, seeds, medicines, knowledge of the properties of fauna and flora, oral traditions, literatures, designs, sports and traditional games and visual and performing arts. They also have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their intellectual property over such cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, and traditional cultural expressions.
2. In conjunction with indigenous peoples, States shall take effective measures to recognize and protect the exercise of these rights.
Article 32
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for the development or use of their lands or territories and other resources.
2. States shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples concerned through their own representative institutions in order to obtain their free and informed consent prior to the approval of any project affecting their lands or territories and other resources, particularly in connection with the development, utilization or exploitation of mineral, water or other resources.
3. States shall provide effective mechanisms for just and fair redress for any such activities, and appropriate measures shall be taken to mitigate adverse environmental, economic, social, cultural or spiritual impact.
Article 33
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to determine their own identity or membership in accordance with their customs and traditions. This does not impair the right of indigenous individuals to obtain citizenship of the States in which they live.
2. Indigenous peoples have the right to determine the structures and to select the membership of their institutions in accordance with their own procedures.
Article 34
Indigenous peoples have the right to promote, develop and maintain their institutional structures and their distinctive customs, spirituality, traditions, procedures, practices and, in the cases where they exist, juridical systems or customs, in accordance with international human rights standards.
Article 35
Indigenous peoples have the right to determine the responsibilities of individuals to their communities.
Article 36
1. Indigenous peoples, in particular those divided by international borders, have the right to maintain and develop contacts, relations and cooperation, including activities for spiritual, cultural, political, economic and social purposes, with their own members as well as other peoples across borders.
2. States, in consultation and cooperation with indigenous peoples, shall take effective measures to facilitate the exercise and ensure the implementation of this right.
Article 37
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the recognition, observance and enforcement of Treaties, Agreements and Other Constructive Arrangements concluded with States or their successors and to have States honour and respect such Treaties, Agreements and other Constructive Arrangements.
2. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as to diminish or eliminate the rights of Indigenous Peoples contained in Treaties, Agreements and Constructive Arrangements.
Article 38
States in consultation and cooperation with indigenous peoples, shall take the appropriate measures, including legislative measures, to achieve the ends of this Declaration.
Article 39
Indigenous peoples have the right to have access to financial and technical assistance from States and through international cooperation, for the enjoyment of the rights contained in this Declaration.
Article 40
Indigenous peoples have the right to have access to and prompt decision through just and fair procedures for the resolution of conflicts and disputes with States or other parties, as well as to effective remedies for all infringements of their individual and collective rights. Such a decision shall give due consideration to the customs, traditions, rules and legal systems of the indigenous peoples concerned and international human rights.
Article 41
The organs and specialized agencies of the United Nations system and other intergovernmental organizations shall contribute to the full realization of the provisions of this Declaration through the mobilization, inter alia, of financial cooperation and technical assistance. Ways and means of ensuring participation of indigenous peoples on issues affecting them shall be established.
Article 42
The United Nations, its bodies, including the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and specialized agencies, including at the country level, and States, shall promote respect for and full application of the provisions of this Declaration and follow up the effectiveness of this Declaration.
Article 43
The rights recognized herein constitute the minimum standards for the survival, dignity and well-being of the indigenous peoples of the world.
Article 44
All the rights and freedoms recognized herein are equally guaranteed to male and female indigenous individuals.
Article 45
Nothing in this Declaration may be construed as diminishing or extinguishing the rights indigenous peoples have now or may acquire in the future.
Article 46
1. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, people, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act contrary to the Charter of the United Nations or construed as authorizing or encouraging any action which would dismember or impair totally or in part, the territorial integrity or political unity of sovereign and independent States.
2. In the exercise of the rights enunciated in the present Declaration, human rights and fundamental freedoms of all shall be respected. The exercise of the rights set forth in this Declaration shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law, and in accordance with international human rights obligations. Any such limitations shall be non-discriminatory and strictly necessary solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and for meeting the just and most compelling requirements of a democratic society.
3. The provisions set forth in this Declaration shall be interpreted in accordance with the principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, equality, non-discrimination, good governance and good faith.
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Christian Indigenism
Christian Indigenism as a Political Philosophy
What is Christian Indigenism?
Definition of Christian: that which has to do with the legal principles spoken of by Jesus Christ and His agents. These Christian Principles can be found in the Hebrew/Christian Bible.
Definition of Indigenism: that which has to do with Indigenous Rights concerning an indigenous way of life experienced by Indigenous Peoples all around the Planet. A summation of these rights can be found in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.
Firstly it is Christian because the philosophy argues that the New Covenant Principles of Jesus Christ are a perfect foundation for the societies legal system.
Indigenism is basically the belief that Indigenous Peoples have certain inalienable Indigenous Rights and those rights should be used as an economic and political foundation for the society in general.
The Laws of Christ are quite finite. All other laws would then fall back to the Indigenous Governments to decide what is best for their Indigenous Citizens.
In this way democracy would fall within the parameters of Christian and Indigenous Law.
Unlimited Democracy has a tendency to become ultra violent over time. The Christian Indigenism philosophy allows for Democratic Principles to be applied but restrained by Christian and Indigenous Law.
Christian Law becomes the Primary or Universal Law. Indigenous Law becomes the Organic Law to any particular area or people under the guidelines of the UN Articles on Indigenous Rights.
This seems to me to be a very equitable political philosophy and that's why I created it.
Tim Koeser
What is Christian Indigenism?
Definition of Christian: that which has to do with the legal principles spoken of by Jesus Christ and His agents. These Christian Principles can be found in the Hebrew/Christian Bible.
Definition of Indigenism: that which has to do with Indigenous Rights concerning an indigenous way of life experienced by Indigenous Peoples all around the Planet. A summation of these rights can be found in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.
Firstly it is Christian because the philosophy argues that the New Covenant Principles of Jesus Christ are a perfect foundation for the societies legal system.
Indigenism is basically the belief that Indigenous Peoples have certain inalienable Indigenous Rights and those rights should be used as an economic and political foundation for the society in general.
The Laws of Christ are quite finite. All other laws would then fall back to the Indigenous Governments to decide what is best for their Indigenous Citizens.
In this way democracy would fall within the parameters of Christian and Indigenous Law.
Unlimited Democracy has a tendency to become ultra violent over time. The Christian Indigenism philosophy allows for Democratic Principles to be applied but restrained by Christian and Indigenous Law.
Christian Law becomes the Primary or Universal Law. Indigenous Law becomes the Organic Law to any particular area or people under the guidelines of the UN Articles on Indigenous Rights.
This seems to me to be a very equitable political philosophy and that's why I created it.
Tim Koeser
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