As a parent who has had children beheaded by Muslim terrorists, it was hard not to be hateful until I took an objective look at some numbers. With two billion Muslims in the world if even half of them were violent this world would be long gone. The next thing that struck me it’s that murder rates in Christian countries are unknown in Muslim countries. Google about it and also Google percentile of Muslim terrorists vs. Christian terrorists.

James 1:27 King James Version (KJV)

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
– People and organizations do not like that simple verse. They cannot twist or complicate it. Or manipulate people into thinking They need help to understand it.

48÷.70711=67.88

Diagonal of 48 inch square is almost 68 inches

Example 20 feet long divided by 10 equals 2 feet wide divided by 10 equals 2 inches thick

1
Coating the Glass Plates
Obtain 2 equal-sized glass plates. Plates of the size used as covers for microscope slides would be ideal.

Clean both surfaces of the plates with alcohol. Once the plates are cleaned, handle them only by the edges.

Test the plate faces for conductivity. Do this by touching the surfaces with the leads from a multimeter. Once you have established which side of each plate is the conductive side, place them side by side, one plate conductive side up and the other conductive side down.

Apply transparent tape to the plates. This will hold the plates in place for the next step.
Place the tape along either of the long side of the plates to overlap 1 millimeter (1/25 inch) of the edges.
Place tape over the outer 4 to 5 millimeters (1/5 inch) of the conductive side up plate.

Apply a solution of titanium dioxide to the plates. Put 2 drops on the conductive side up plate, then spread it evenly over the plate surface. Allow the titanium dioxide to cover the conductive-side-down plate.
Before applying the titanium dioxide solution, you may first want to coat the plates with tin oxide.

Remove the tape and separate the plates. Now you’ll treat the 2 plates differently.
Place the conductive-side-up plate on an electric hot plate overnight to bake the titanium dioxide onto the plate.
Clean the titanium dioxide off the conductive-side-down plate and place it where it won’t collect dirt.

Prepare a shallow dish filled with dye. The dye can be made from raspberry, blackberry or pomegranate juice or by brewing a tea from red hibiscus petals.

Soak the titanium-dioxide-coated plate, coated side down, in the dye for 10 minutes.

Clean the other plate with alcohol. Do this while the titanium dioxide-coated plate is soaking.

Retest the cleaned plate to find its conductive side. Mark the side that doesn’t conduct with a plus sign (+).

Apply a thin carbon coating to the conductive side of the cleaned plate. You can do this by going over the conductive side with a pencil or by applying a graphite lubricant. Cover the entire surface.

Take the titanium-dioxide-coated plate out of the dye. Rinse it twice, first with de-ionized water and then with alcohol. Blot dry after rinsing with a clean tissue.

Part
2
Assembling the Solar Cell

Place the carbon-coated plate onto the titanium-dioxide plate so the coatings touch. The plates should be slightly offset, about 5 millimeters (1/5 inch). Use binder clips on the long edges to hold them in place.

Apply 2 drops of an iodide solution to the exposed coating. Let the solution soak through the plate coatings so they’re covered completely. You may want to open the binder clips and gently lift 1 of the plates up to allow the solution to spread over the entire surface.
The iodide solution will enable electrons to flow from the titanium-dioxide-coated plate to the carbon-coated plate when the cell is exposed to a light source. Such a solution is called an electrolyte.

Wipe excess solution off the exposed portions of the plates.

Part
3
Activating and Testing the Solar Cell

Attach an alligator clip to the exposed coated sections on either side of the solar cell.

Connect the black wire of the multimeter to the clip connected to the exposed titanium dioxide coating. This plate is the solar cell’s negative electrode, or cathode.

Connect the red wire of the multimeter to the clip connected to the exposed carbon coating. This plate is the solar cell’s positive electrode, or anode. (In a previous step, you marked it with a plus sign on its non-conductive side.)

Place the solar cell next to a light source, with the negative electrode facing the source. In a school classroom, this can be done by laying the cell on top of the lens of an overhead projector. In a home setting, another light source, such as a spotlight or the sun itself, can be substituted.

Measure the current and voltage generated by the solar cell with the multimeter. Do this both before and after the cell is exposed to light.

***
You can also make a solar cell by using 2 small sheets of brushed copper and setting 1 of them on the hot plate for half an hour until the copper turns black. Let it cool and remove the black cupric oxide coating, but leave the red cuprous oxide coating beneath it to serve as your semiconductor. You won’t need to coat the copper sheet with anything, and you’ll use a salt water solution as your electrolyte.

Warnings
Neither the coated glass plate nor the copper sheet semiconductor solar cells produce a large amount of power by themselves. Silicon is used in semiconductors because it is more efficient than either of the materials used in this article; however, individual silicon solar cells are assembled into solar panels.
Things You’ll Need
Glass plates (such as microscope slide covers)
Alcohol (ethanol recommended)
De-ionized water
Voltmeter/multimeter
Transparent tape
Petri dish or other shallow dish
Electric hot plate (1100 watts, if possible)
Titanium dioxide solution
Tin oxide solution (optional)
Carbon graphite pencil or lubricant stick
Iodide solution
Binder clips
Alligator clips
Sources and Citations
http://www.solideas.com/solrcell/english.html

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On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 3:02 PM, Ray Hackett <3659745> wrote:

Part1
Coating the Glass Plates

1. 
   1
   Obtain 2 equal-sized glass plates. Plates of the size used as covers for microscope slides would be ideal.
2. 
   2
   Clean both surfaces of the plates with alcohol. Once the plates are cleaned, handle them only by the edges.
3. 
   3
   Test the plate faces for conductivity. Do this by touching the surfaces with the leads from a multimeter. Once you have established which side of each plate is the conductive side, place them side by side, one plate conductive side up and the other conductive side down.
4. 
   4
   Apply transparent tape to the plates. This will hold the plates in place for the next step.
   • Place the tape along either of the long side of the plates to overlap 1 millimeter (1/25 inch) of the edges.
   • Place tape over the outer 4 to 5 millimeters (1/5 inch) of the conductive side up plate.
5. 
   5
   Apply a solution of titanium dioxide to the plates. Put 2 drops on the conductive side up plate, then spread it evenly over the plate surface. Allow the titanium dioxide to cover the conductive-side-down plate.
   • Before applying the titanium dioxide solution, you may first want to coat the plates with tin oxide.
6. 
   6
   Remove the tape and separate the plates. Now you’ll treat the 2 plates differently.
   • Place the conductive-side-up plate on an electric hot plate overnight to bake the titanium dioxide onto the plate.
   • Clean the titanium dioxide off the conductive-side-down plate and place it where it won’t collect dirt.
7. 
   7
   Prepare a shallow dish filled with dye. The dye can be made from raspberry, blackberry or pomegranate juice or by brewing a tea from red hibiscus petals.
8. 
   8
   Soak the titanium-dioxide-coated plate, coated side down, in the dye for 10 minutes.
9. 
   9
   Clean the other plate with alcohol. Do this while the titanium dioxide-coated plate is soaking.
10. 
    10
    Retest the cleaned plate to find its conductive side. Mark the side that doesn’t conduct with a plus sign (+).
11. 
    11
    Apply a thin carbon coating to the conductive side of the cleaned plate. You can do this by going over the conductive side with a pencil or by applying a graphite lubricant. Cover the entire surface.
12. 
    12
    Take the titanium-dioxide-coated plate out of the dye. Rinse it twice, first with de-ionized water and then with alcohol. Blot dry after rinsing with a clean tissue.

Part2
Assembling the Solar Cell

1. 
   1
   Place the carbon-coated plate onto the titanium-dioxide plate so the coatings touch. The plates should be slightly offset, about 5 millimeters (1/5 inch). Use binder clips on the long edges to hold them in place.
2. 
   2
   Apply 2 drops of an iodide solution to the exposed coating. Let the solution soak through the plate coatings so they’re covered completely. You may want to open the binder clips and gently lift 1 of the plates up to allow the solution to spread over the entire surface.
   • The iodide solution will enable electrons to flow from the titanium-dioxide-coated plate to the carbon-coated plate when the cell is exposed to a light source. Such a solution is called an electrolyte.
3. 
   3
   Wipe excess solution off the exposed portions of the plates.

Part3
Activating and Testing the Solar Cell

1. 
   1
   Attach an alligator clip to the exposed coated sections on either side of the solar cell.
2. 
   2
   Connect the black wire of the multimeter to the clip connected to the exposed titanium dioxide coating. This plate is the solar cell’s negative electrode, or cathode.
3. 
   3
   Connect the red wire of the multimeter to the clip connected to the exposed carbon coating. This plate is the solar cell’s positive electrode, or anode. (In a previous step, you marked it with a plus sign on its non-conductive side.)
4. 
   4
   Place the solar cell next to a light source, with the negative electrode facing the source. In a school classroom, this can be done by laying the cell on top of the lens of an overhead projector. In a home setting, another light source, such as a spotlight or the sun itself, can be substituted.
5. 
   5
   Measure the current and voltage generated by the solar cell with the multimeter.Do this both before and after the cell is exposed to light.

Mahalo

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Part1
Coating the Glass Plates

1. 
   1
   Obtain 2 equal-sized glass plates. Plates of the size used as covers for microscope slides would be ideal.
2. 
   2
   Clean both surfaces of the plates with alcohol. Once the plates are cleaned, handle them only by the edges.
3. 
   3
   Test the plate faces for conductivity. Do this by touching the surfaces with the leads from a multimeter. Once you have established which side of each plate is the conductive side, place them side by side, one plate conductive side up and the other conductive side down.
4. 
   4
   Apply transparent tape to the plates. This will hold the plates in place for the next step.
   • Place the tape along either of the long side of the plates to overlap 1 millimeter (1/25 inch) of the edges.
   • Place tape over the outer 4 to 5 millimeters (1/5 inch) of the conductive side up plate.
5. 
   5
   Apply a solution of titanium dioxide to the plates. Put 2 drops on the conductive side up plate, then spread it evenly over the plate surface. Allow the titanium dioxide to cover the conductive-side-down plate.
   • Before applying the titanium dioxide solution, you may first want to coat the plates with tin oxide.
6. 
   6
   Remove the tape and separate the plates. Now you’ll treat the 2 plates differently.
   • Place the conductive-side-up plate on an electric hot plate overnight to bake the titanium dioxide onto the plate.
   • Clean the titanium dioxide off the conductive-side-down plate and place it where it won’t collect dirt.
7. 
   7
   Prepare a shallow dish filled with dye. The dye can be made from raspberry, blackberry or pomegranate juice or by brewing a tea from red hibiscus petals.
8. 
   8
   Soak the titanium-dioxide-coated plate, coated side down, in the dye for 10 minutes.
9. 
   9
   Clean the other plate with alcohol. Do this while the titanium dioxide-coated plate is soaking.
10. 
    10
    Retest the cleaned plate to find its conductive side. Mark the side that doesn’t conduct with a plus sign (+).
11. 
    11
    Apply a thin carbon coating to the conductive side of the cleaned plate. You can do this by going over the conductive side with a pencil or by applying a graphite lubricant. Cover the entire surface.
12. 
    12
    Take the titanium-dioxide-coated plate out of the dye. Rinse it twice, first with de-ionized water and then with alcohol. Blot dry after rinsing with a clean tissue.

Part2
Assembling the Solar Cell

1. 
   1
   Place the carbon-coated plate onto the titanium-dioxide plate so the coatings touch. The plates should be slightly offset, about 5 millimeters (1/5 inch). Use binder clips on the long edges to hold them in place.
2. 
   2
   Apply 2 drops of an iodide solution to the exposed coating. Let the solution soak through the plate coatings so they’re covered completely. You may want to open the binder clips and gently lift 1 of the plates up to allow the solution to spread over the entire surface.
   • The iodide solution will enable electrons to flow from the titanium-dioxide-coated plate to the carbon-coated plate when the cell is exposed to a light source. Such a solution is called an electrolyte.
3. 
   3
   Wipe excess solution off the exposed portions of the plates.

Part3
Activating and Testing the Solar Cell

1. 
   1
   Attach an alligator clip to the exposed coated sections on either side of the solar cell.
2. 
   2
   Connect the black wire of the multimeter to the clip connected to the exposed titanium dioxide coating. This plate is the solar cell’s negative electrode, or cathode.
3. 
   3
   Connect the red wire of the multimeter to the clip connected to the exposed carbon coating. This plate is the solar cell’s positive electrode, or anode. (In a previous step, you marked it with a plus sign on its non-conductive side.)
4. 
   4
   Place the solar cell next to a light source, with the negative electrode facing the source. In a school classroom, this can be done by laying the cell on top of the lens of an overhead projector. In a home setting, another light source, such as a spotlight or the sun itself, can be substituted.
5. 
   5
   Measure the current and voltage generated by the solar cell with the multimeter.Do this both before and after the cell is exposed to light.

Mahalo

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Solar PV, or photovoltaic, panels convert the power of the sun’s light into electricity. They are made up of many individual solar cells, wired together to increase their power. Solar cells that are made for commercial production are fashioned out of specially prepared silicon wafers and glass. This process is too difficult and expensive for the amateur to replicate at home. However, you can build a different, simpler, though less-efficient one at home out of other materials.

Things You’ll Need
2 small flexible copper sheets
Fine grit sandpaper
Electric stove
2 liter plastic soda bottle
Knife
1 liter measuring cup
Salt
Spoon
Multimeter with alligator clip leads

Wash your hands to remove any dirt and grease. Scrub two small copper sheets with sandpaper to remove the thin layer of oxides that coat any metal that is in contact with air.

Put one of the copper sheets onto the burner of the electric stove. Turn the burner to its highest setting and let it heat up. It will first turn orange, red and purple, and then finally black. The black substance is cupric oxide. Heat the sheet for 30 minutes after it has turned black in order to thicken the coating of cupric oxide.

Turn off the burner and let the copper sheet cool to room temperature. As it cools it will shed much of the cupric oxide that had formed. Once it is cool, scrub it gently under running water to remove the rest of the cupric oxide. It is better to leave some black spots than scrub too hard. The sheet should now have a reddish color, which is cuprous oxide. It reacts to sunlight much as the silicon of the commercial cells does.

Cut a plastic bottle in half with a knife. Gently bend both of the copper sheets so that they can fit into the bottle. Put them in the bottle in such a way that they do not touch each other.

Pour about 1 liter of hot water into a measuring cup. Slowly pour salt into the water, mixing as you pour. Once the salt stops dissolving, the water is completely saturated. Pour this salt solution into the bottle with the copper sheets. Leave about an inch of the sheets protruding above the water.

Set a multimeter to read DC current at its lowest level. Clip the positive terminal lead of the multimeter to the top of the clean copper sheet. Clip the negative terminal lead to the other sheet. Place the cell in direct sunlight. The multimeter should show that your cell is generating as much as 50 microamps of current. Switch the multimeter to read DC voltage, and you should see approximately ¼ volt.

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Tsai Building A-2
Tamuning, GU 96931
(671) 632-5120
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Guam
SARE Coordinator:
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Tamuning, GU 96931
(671) 632-5120
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Cooperative Extension
Service
University of Guam
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On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Ray Hackett <3659745> wrote:

Laila Pierson
Lanchon Chamorro
119 South Marine Drive
Tsai Building A-2
Tamuning, GU 96931
(671) 632-5120
SisterMary
Technical Advisor:

Mahalo

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$500 of material=World’s fastest hydrofoil sailboat. http://sunrun.biz

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Ray Hackett <3659745> wrote:

as at:Shysters have long trawled the South Pacific with schemes to extract millions from gullible locals, writes Rowan Callick

IT’S fitting that Peter Foster should end up in jail in Vanuatu, the island where James Michener wrote Tales of the South Pacific, the source of the classic musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein. For Foster is part of a long line of international confidence tricksters who have washed up on the Pacific islands to conjure cash from governments, conniving politicians
or naive locals.

The Pacific attracts them because it is comparatively cheap to live there, because the islanders are hospitable and accept guests at face value, because institutions are mostly weak and unlikely to dig up their past misdemeanours, and because the tyranny of distance can protect them from pursuers.

Foster, captured on Sunday by Vanuatu police as he tried to escape through a window from the Port Vila home of friends Wayne and Celeste Furness, until recently Gold Coast antique dealers, faces charges in Vanuatu of illegal entry, in Fiji of fraud and immigration infringements, and in the Federated States of Micronesia over a $580,000 scam. He attempted to escape Justice in Fiji by providing the new military regime with evidence of corruption within the old government it had removed. In Vanuatu he’s brokered a deal that should allow him to return to Brisbane, by ratting on Kell Walker and his crew, who allegedly helped him flee Fiji on Retriever1, a converted navy minesweeper.

Betraying key contacts is a common strategy among conmen who get caught, and reveals another remarkable feature of their story in the Pacific: they have been able to gain ready social access, often within remarkably short periods, to presidents and prime ministers, police chiefs and judges.

Most are men, but there’s been one remarkable woman, Princess Laila. She flew in 1992 to Papua New Guinea, where she was greeted royally. Foreign minister Michael Somare – now the Prime Minister – deputed his chief of staff to travel around the country with her as she investigated options for the $57 billion she claimed to be preparing to invest. Her credentials essentially consisted of her claim that she was a grand-daughter of deceased Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie.

Mekere Morauta was then managing director of the PNG Banking Corporation. He says she arrived in his office "dressed in a flowing white robe, like an angel", and paraded her bangles, allegedly worth $US250,000 each, and her "million-dollar" necklace. Her jewellery, she said, demonstrated her access to large sums of money provided by Middle Eastern royalty, held in Swiss banks. The PNG government could borrow this at low interest rates, and the agents – led by herself would naturally be entitled to handsome commissions, which she would generously share with senior PNG politicians and bureaucrats. She focused on attempting to gain access to the Lihir gold project, which has since become a considerable mine.

On arrival on Lihir island, where a cargo cult was flourishing, she introduced herself to landowners as a fellow Third World victim of rapacious Westerners and as an alternative developer of the resource.

Actually, she held a US passport. Her name was Laila Pierson and she operated out of a general store in the US territory of Guam, where hopeful Lihir landowners vainly faxed requests for financial help using her codename, Mommy.

When Morauta became prime minister, he found PNG besieged by confidence tricksters. In 2000 he halted negotiations between the Milne Bay provincial government and the Knights of Malta, Sovereign Order, Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem, Foundation of Poland, who were about to gain a guarantee licensing them to raise $200 million.

When Paul Pora was finance minister of PNG, he authorised John Alexander de l’Instant-Parade of Brisbane, a migrant Dutch chef also known as John Smith, to raise $US800 million internationally. The commission would have totalled
$US80million. De l’Instant-Parade also discussed with PNG ministers plans to set up oil and gold refineries, a tanker fleet and a fish cannery. He said: "I’m ot in it for personal gain. I’m anti-colonial. I’m a Scorpio: tough but fair."

A former economic adviser to PNG said that during that era, a dozen years ago, "you’d go in to a minister’s office and be introduced to an oddball with a big briefcase who said he had a billion dollars to lend to PNG", including a fake former mayor of Tehran seeking an up-front fee to obtain a loan for the beleaguered government.

Brisbane-bred Peter Walker was then accelerating his bid to snatch a PNG Highlands gold project from Placer Pacific. But, as lawyer Peter Lowing then said: "The only mining he has done is at the stock exchange." The former chief executive of Private Blood Bank, who had been sentenced to two years’ jail in 1993 over the company’s amazing share price rise – aided by hints of its discovery of a cure for AIDS – paid for 16 Papua New Guineans, including key landowners, to visit Sydney, telling them he could raise $920 million in Hong Kong for the mine by floating a firm of which he would be
managing director.

Walker’s associates escorted the group in a lift to the Placer office near Circular Quay, and a photo of them was taken with the Placer logo in the background, after which they immediately descended in the same lift. The apparent object was to enable the group to return with the photos as proof that while they had talked with Placer, they could get a better deal
from Walker.

The Porgera mine’s approval was consequently delayed when, on their return, the landowners told their fellows that the new Walker deal would provide each of them with a fully furnished Swiss chalet-style two-storey home and a vehicle, and a super mansion for the provincial premier.

Even long-closed mines hold a lure for colourful foreigners. On September 30, 2004, self-styled Prince Jeffrey Richards of Rockhampton and Lord James Nessbit of London arrived in Bougainville on a plane chartered from the Gold Coast that landed illegally, leading to the pilots and owner being fined $146,000. Wearing camouflage uniforms and carrying side-arms, they immediately took up roles as advisers to Francis Ona, the rebel leader who had shut down the mine and was by then calling himself King Francis. He later committed suicide.

The prince and the lord held the royal seals for Me’ekamui, the tiny mountainous kingdom ruled by Ona.

Peter Tsiamalili, co-ordinator of the successful election that restored autonomous government to Bougainville, said at the time: "These two conmen are taking Francis for a ride. The people up on the mountain are totally convinced: they will believe any white man up there. (Richards and Nessbit) are telling them they are related to Queen Elizabeth II."

Nauru’s 8000 inhabitants were once the richest people per head in the world because of their share of the phosphate mined on their island, largely by workers from elsewhere in the Pacific. But in the past few years they have struggled to stave off bankruptcy. Their investments have frequently been hijacked in bizarre directions. A couple of years ago, the Nauru government suddenly announced that a firm from India, Hiranandani Corp Worldwide, would obtain half the Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust’s properties and manage the entire portfolio.

The firm was run by brothers Raj and Asok, who come from Singapore and did property business there and in Sydney. They shared a white Rolls-Royce Corniche with the name Royal Brothers etched on the side in gold leaf. They were jailed in Singapore in 1999 for a year, charged with criminal breach of trust.

In 1993, Nauru’s then investment adviser Duke Minks, an entrepreneur from Liverpool, England, diverted $4.24 million in phosphate royalties into a musical on the life of Leonardo da Vinci that he co-wrote and produced. Leonardo, Portrait of Love premiered in London to a black-tie audience that included 150 Nauruans, led by then president Bernard Dowiyogo and most of the cabinet. One review was headlined: Night of the Guano. It closed within a month.

After Fiji suffered its first successful coup almost 20 years ago, a military march through Suva was shunned by the upset inhabitants but cheered on by New Zealander Paul Freeman, dressed in long khaki shorts, socks and sandals, who handed out business cards purporting to prove his membership of the US Intelligence Service.

He subsequently accompanied members of the new regime on a trip to purchase arms in Southeast Asia, before falling out with them, after which he shifted to PNG and Solomon Islands, reinventing his background each time. He achieved a record of sorts by being declared persona non grata in all three places.

But perhaps the most colourful of all this cast is Nath Ghosh, an Indian who was based in Thailand five years ago when he saw a great opening in Vanuatu. Usually cream-suited, with chunky rings on each finger, he resembles Orson Welles and was last heard of in Munich, where he swallowed a knife to avoid being extradited to India, where he was wanted on charges brought by several bankers, for obtaining cheques worth $11million in fictitious names.

He took an 82kg rock to Vanuatu, claiming it contained the world’s biggest ruby, worth $317 million, and deposited it in a bank. In return he sought from the government bearer bonds worth $574 million, 140 per cent of the then gross domestic product, which quadrupled Vanuatu’s foreign debt. He was also given forest, fishing and mineral concessions by then prime minister Barak Sope, who travelled internationally with him.

After losing power, Sope, a former student radical who attended Melbourne’s Essendon Grammar School, was jailed for three years for having forged signatures on bonds worth $33 million for Ghosh. He later won a presidential pardon on account of ill health, in time to campaign and win back his old seat at a parliamentary election.

Maxime Carlot Korman, a former prime minister, gave a gushing press conference in Port Vila about a visit with Ghosh to what he called a spectacular Thai resort that Ghosh apparently co-owned with the Thai Princess Mother, whom Korman described as an extremely resourceful person, who should be invited on a state visit. The much loved Princess Mother, Sangwal Talapat, had died five years earlier.

Rowan Callick is The Australian’s China correspondent. He has worked extensively in PNG and the Pacific.

Laila Pierson
Lanchon Chamorro
119 South Marine Drive
Tsai Building A-2
Tamuning, GU 96931
(671) 632-5120
SisterMary
Technical Advisor:

Mahalo

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I founded www.adapt.org in 1980 it now has over 50 million members.
$500 of material=World’s fastest hydrofoil sailboat. http://sunrun.biz

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Ray Hackett <3659745> wrote:

as at:Shysters have long trawled the South Pacific with schemes to extract millions from gullible locals, writes Rowan Callick

IT’S fitting that Peter Foster should end up in jail in Vanuatu, the island where James Michener wrote Tales of the South Pacific, the source of the classic musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein. For Foster is part of a long line of international confidence tricksters who have washed up on the Pacific islands to conjure cash from governments, conniving politicians
or naive locals.

The Pacific attracts them because it is comparatively cheap to live there, because the islanders are hospitable and accept guests at face value, because institutions are mostly weak and unlikely to dig up their past misdemeanours, and because the tyranny of distance can protect them from pursuers.

Foster, captured on Sunday by Vanuatu police as he tried to escape through a window from the Port Vila home of friends Wayne and Celeste Furness, until recently Gold Coast antique dealers, faces charges in Vanuatu of illegal entry, in Fiji of fraud and immigration infringements, and in the Federated States of Micronesia over a $580,000 scam. He attempted to escape Justice in Fiji by providing the new military regime with evidence of corruption within the old government it had removed. In Vanuatu he’s brokered a deal that should allow him to return to Brisbane, by ratting on Kell Walker and his crew, who allegedly helped him flee Fiji on Retriever1, a converted navy minesweeper.

Betraying key contacts is a common strategy among conmen who get caught, and reveals another remarkable feature of their story in the Pacific: they have been able to gain ready social access, often within remarkably short periods, to presidents and prime ministers, police chiefs and judges.

Most are men, but there’s been one remarkable woman, Princess Laila. She flew in 1992 to Papua New Guinea, where she was greeted royally. Foreign minister Michael Somare – now the Prime Minister – deputed his chief of staff to travel around the country with her as she investigated options for the $57 billion she claimed to be preparing to invest. Her credentials essentially consisted of her claim that she was a grand-daughter of deceased Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie.

Mekere Morauta was then managing director of the PNG Banking Corporation. He says she arrived in his office "dressed in a flowing white robe, like an angel", and paraded her bangles, allegedly worth $US250,000 each, and her "million-dollar" necklace. Her jewellery, she said, demonstrated her access to large sums of money provided by Middle Eastern royalty, held in Swiss banks. The PNG government could borrow this at low interest rates, and the agents – led by herself would naturally be entitled to handsome commissions, which she would generously share with senior PNG politicians and bureaucrats. She focused on attempting to gain access to the Lihir gold project, which has since become a considerable mine.

On arrival on Lihir island, where a cargo cult was flourishing, she introduced herself to landowners as a fellow Third World victim of rapacious Westerners and as an alternative developer of the resource.

Actually, she held a US passport. Her name was Laila Pierson and she operated out of a general store in the US territory of Guam, where hopeful Lihir landowners vainly faxed requests for financial help using her codename, Mommy.

When Morauta became prime minister, he found PNG besieged by confidence tricksters. In 2000 he halted negotiations between the Milne Bay provincial government and the Knights of Malta, Sovereign Order, Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem, Foundation of Poland, who were about to gain a guarantee licensing them to raise $200 million.

When Paul Pora was finance minister of PNG, he authorised John Alexander de l’Instant-Parade of Brisbane, a migrant Dutch chef also known as John Smith, to raise $US800 million internationally. The commission would have totalled
$US80million. De l’Instant-Parade also discussed with PNG ministers plans to set up oil and gold refineries, a tanker fleet and a fish cannery. He said: "I’m ot in it for personal gain. I’m anti-colonial. I’m a Scorpio: tough but fair."

A former economic adviser to PNG said that during that era, a dozen years ago, "you’d go in to a minister’s office and be introduced to an oddball with a big briefcase who said he had a billion dollars to lend to PNG", including a fake former mayor of Tehran seeking an up-front fee to obtain a loan for the beleaguered government.

Brisbane-bred Peter Walker was then accelerating his bid to snatch a PNG Highlands gold project from Placer Pacific. But, as lawyer Peter Lowing then said: "The only mining he has done is at the stock exchange." The former chief executive of Private Blood Bank, who had been sentenced to two years’ jail in 1993 over the company’s amazing share price rise – aided by hints of its discovery of a cure for AIDS – paid for 16 Papua New Guineans, including key landowners, to visit Sydney, telling them he could raise $920 million in Hong Kong for the mine by floating a firm of which he would be
managing director.

Walker’s associates escorted the group in a lift to the Placer office near Circular Quay, and a photo of them was taken with the Placer logo in the background, after which they immediately descended in the same lift. The apparent object was to enable the group to return with the photos as proof that while they had talked with Placer, they could get a better deal
from Walker.

The Porgera mine’s approval was consequently delayed when, on their return, the landowners told their fellows that the new Walker deal would provide each of them with a fully furnished Swiss chalet-style two-storey home and a vehicle, and a super mansion for the provincial premier.

Even long-closed mines hold a lure for colourful foreigners. On September 30, 2004, self-styled Prince Jeffrey Richards of Rockhampton and Lord James Nessbit of London arrived in Bougainville on a plane chartered from the Gold Coast that landed illegally, leading to the pilots and owner being fined $146,000. Wearing camouflage uniforms and carrying side-arms, they immediately took up roles as advisers to Francis Ona, the rebel leader who had shut down the mine and was by then calling himself King Francis. He later committed suicide.

The prince and the lord held the royal seals for Me’ekamui, the tiny mountainous kingdom ruled by Ona.

Peter Tsiamalili, co-ordinator of the successful election that restored autonomous government to Bougainville, said at the time: "These two conmen are taking Francis for a ride. The people up on the mountain are totally convinced: they will believe any white man up there. (Richards and Nessbit) are telling them they are related to Queen Elizabeth II."

Nauru’s 8000 inhabitants were once the richest people per head in the world because of their share of the phosphate mined on their island, largely by workers from elsewhere in the Pacific. But in the past few years they have struggled to stave off bankruptcy. Their investments have frequently been hijacked in bizarre directions. A couple of years ago, the Nauru government suddenly announced that a firm from India, Hiranandani Corp Worldwide, would obtain half the Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust’s properties and manage the entire portfolio.

The firm was run by brothers Raj and Asok, who come from Singapore and did property business there and in Sydney. They shared a white Rolls-Royce Corniche with the name Royal Brothers etched on the side in gold leaf. They were jailed in Singapore in 1999 for a year, charged with criminal breach of trust.

In 1993, Nauru’s then investment adviser Duke Minks, an entrepreneur from Liverpool, England, diverted $4.24 million in phosphate royalties into a musical on the life of Leonardo da Vinci that he co-wrote and produced. Leonardo, Portrait of Love premiered in London to a black-tie audience that included 150 Nauruans, led by then president Bernard Dowiyogo and most of the cabinet. One review was headlined: Night of the Guano. It closed within a month.

After Fiji suffered its first successful coup almost 20 years ago, a military march through Suva was shunned by the upset inhabitants but cheered on by New Zealander Paul Freeman, dressed in long khaki shorts, socks and sandals, who handed out business cards purporting to prove his membership of the US Intelligence Service.

He subsequently accompanied members of the new regime on a trip to purchase arms in Southeast Asia, before falling out with them, after which he shifted to PNG and Solomon Islands, reinventing his background each time. He achieved a record of sorts by being declared persona non grata in all three places.

But perhaps the most colourful of all this cast is Nath Ghosh, an Indian who was based in Thailand five years ago when he saw a great opening in Vanuatu. Usually cream-suited, with chunky rings on each finger, he resembles Orson Welles and was last heard of in Munich, where he swallowed a knife to avoid being extradited to India, where he was wanted on charges brought by several bankers, for obtaining cheques worth $11million in fictitious names.

He took an 82kg rock to Vanuatu, claiming it contained the world’s biggest ruby, worth $317 million, and deposited it in a bank. In return he sought from the government bearer bonds worth $574 million, 140 per cent of the then gross domestic product, which quadrupled Vanuatu’s foreign debt. He was also given forest, fishing and mineral concessions by then prime minister Barak Sope, who travelled internationally with him.

After losing power, Sope, a former student radical who attended Melbourne’s Essendon Grammar School, was jailed for three years for having forged signatures on bonds worth $33 million for Ghosh. He later won a presidential pardon on account of ill health, in time to campaign and win back his old seat at a parliamentary election.

Maxime Carlot Korman, a former prime minister, gave a gushing press conference in Port Vila about a visit with Ghosh to what he called a spectacular Thai resort that Ghosh apparently co-owned with the Thai Princess Mother, whom Korman described as an extremely resourceful person, who should be invited on a state visit. The much loved Princess Mother, Sangwal Talapat, had died five years earlier.

Rowan Callick is The Australian’s China correspondent. He has worked extensively in PNG and the Pacific.