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RCBC Fires Dequito
Unscrupulous officials and private individuals have been milking the heritage accounts by conning the holders and signatories of those accounts and enriching themselves by forging the signatures and misrepresenting those real holders and signatories.
What the RCBC scandal is not revealing to the public are details that everyone needs and deserves to know.
Atong Ang held court at Malacanang and the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) as if he was the chairman of the board and that the Office of the President and the DOTC were his empires. The guy is full of shit and yet he was allowed to lord it over government the way he did during Erap’s incumbency. WTF. Ang is now reported by media to be sponsoring a female presidential candidate whose survey ratings have soared into the sky after announcing a fake Supreme Court “decision.”
This is the earlier article about the issue published online:
The Senate Investigation into the stealing of United States Dollars Eighty One Million (US$81,000,000) appears to be useless. They have not been able to unearth the true and real facts about how the stealing of the money actually took place. And where the money is now.
Part I and II of study on Why Internet is slow in the Philippines
We have finally completed the technical paper on Why Internet is slow in the Philippines.
These are the screenshots and images of the doc we finished just about a week or so ago.
Study on Why Internet is Slow in the Philippines
Watch out for the book version of why the internet is slow in the Philippines. We will announce the publication of the technical report and its availability for everyone.
Merry Christmas all, be patient with your slow internet now. Fast internet speed is coming very, very soon to your computers, devices and mobile phones!!!
Slow Internet in the Philippines
Little do the current crop of Philippine stakeholders know that any scarce resource in the telecommunications industry, to inlcude every single one of the specific bandwidths of the various Spectrum of our Radio Frequencies, are only allocated by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).
Some quarters believe that owning the entire breadth of one whole Spectrum, whether one is able or unable to pay the Spectrum Usage Fee (SUF) to the government, is legal and just okay.
It is not legal and it is not okay. It is immoral and an abomination. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the Asian Pacific Telecommunity (APT) will not stand for this. This has got to change.
The ITU recently held its 2015 Conference in Geneva, Switzerland and declared as follows:
“WRC‐15 will provide more bandwidth for mobile– broadband
“Governments worldwide are making available more– spectrum – in line with national broadband planning and desired long term investment in ICT.
“More countries commit towards the uptake of Digital–Dividend band plans and other globally harmonized bands (1800 MHz, 2600 MHz)”
In the next few months, Internet in the Philippines will radically change and not because of above named anomalous practice, but honest-to-goodness adoption of new technology and new business models.
Malacañang vs. Corruption
Malacañang should not take too much offense on the statement of Manny Pacquiao’s trainor, American national Freddie Roach who said over television that his ward The Pacman is essentially more popular than President Pnoy. That quote was invariably just both hype and existential.
Instead, the Palace can focus its attention upon the people on the ground. Take the Mindanao observer interviewed almost a fortnight ago over ABC News Australia. The observer’s comments are instructive. On the question about how he sizes up the renewed hostilities in Mindanao today, the observer’s curt reply was: “President Aquino cannot solve the conflict”.
Just like the past presidents of the Republic before him he is inadequate. He said, that Aquino’s own mother, the late Pres. Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, who was much, more more popular and powerful as Head of State – coming just after a Revolution that toppled an autocrat, thought that she could bind the nation together by holding out open arms to Nur Misuari and Jose Maria Sison, making friends with rebels left and right and forgetting about and neglecting the armed forces, the members of the entire gamut of the security apparatus, who were fighting for the country with blood, sweat and tears.
Her national security adviser was asked to draft written orders to slash and burn about seventy percent of the budget for all military and security, intelligence forces. The act of cutting the fund to our armed services was actually done, when it was finally legal for the late lady president to sign the draft orders.
Subsequently, the late Mrs. Aquino failed in the quest to consolidate her hold on the country. She could not unify the nation neither heal the wounds that kept opening up one after the other, making it ripe on the part of the uniformed services for armed adventurism to smolder.
Now listen to what follows in the observer’s statement: The true power in Mindanao is wielded by the agglomeration of fiefdoms – economic, political and those who flaunt power through the barrel of the gun.
These are the power vortices, he said that prevent the resolution of the conflict because for as long as the turmoil exists, these power centers exercise control over the resources of the island. These are much, much more powerful than the elected head of state and of course, the government of this Republic.
This revelation is not new. Douglas McArthur’s father (Arthur), a brigadier general assigned to Mindanao in the early 20th century, may have realized the nascent rise of the phenomenon called guerilla warfare. The .45-caliber Colt pistol was invented to stop suicidal amucks dead on their tracks. But guerilla warfare morphed into the fourth generation warfare, terrorism, now a global problem.
Going back to Pres. Pnoy’s dilemma, the Philippine Chief Executive should perhaps be more serious and down-to-earth in his pursuit of peace.
On the other hand, his idealism and the brave advocacy of good governance, that is taking much of the government’s time, talent and resources is slowly evaporating in the midst of the corrosive effects of corruption surrounding his government.
Go to any national agency and you will not find a worker who will tell you that his bosses are spanking pure and clean. Every single one of them are out to make big bucks while in office and sometimes, their actions cannot be fully kept from public knowledge. So the smaller ones down the line will follow the same dynamics guiding his own superiors.
The franchise to illegally make money using one’s position in government ttrickles down to the grassroots. Try doing business in any municipality and you will see what I mean – you will have to go through the gauntlet of corrupt schemes and mechanics it is like passing through the eye of a needle.
If you are lucky enough to pass muster the various local government units, you will end up several tens of thousands or even many millions poorer. That is why foreigners literally abandoned the Philippines as their investment haven because of WHOLESALE corruption. Unbridled, unstoppable, coming from the top down to the bottom.
Have you been to the premier district in the country lately? In Ermita, Manila? The police precinct just in front of the United States Embassy Chancery is manned by policemen wearing sando and beach sandals. Visit their precinct quarters and you will see fifty fighting cocks kept in a gallinera. And listen to their talk about the latest events that brought in dirty money. To think that, “What the Manila Police District does, the entire Philippine National Police follows.” It is such as shame.
Even in the country’s court of last resort, the Supreme Court, the cases are not argued in chambers but discussed in private places in five star hotels or wherever the talks could be kept the least harried and tense. If you try to follow up very keenly on a case with the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court, they will refer you to an official who is traditionally authorized to take the reasons for the court to favor your case. Guess who that official is?
These are challenges facing our beloved President. The question hangs above our heads, will the guy not really be up to it or can he still be able to hack it? We hope and pray for the latter.
NEW ANNUAL ECO CRISIS CONFERENCE
We encourage the Philippine Government, Asian Governments, combines like the United Nations, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, to support this milestone activity from the remainder of 2009 up to 2010.
ANNUAL ECOLOGY CRISIS CONFERENCE
The Resource Recovery Movement will hold the first 2010 Hazards Mapping and Environment Summit (Eco 2010 Summit) in Manila, Philippines. This is ultimately borne about by the tremendous changing of the Philippine landscape and those of other countries in the Pacific Rim in the last few decades. All efforts towards risk mapping in relation to calamities and disasters in the past should now take into consideration the great shifts and transformations in land mass, the enormous amount of rainfall brought about by Climate Change and many new factors that were heretofore not factored into national and sub-national planning by governments as well as even by business establishments and non-government organizations.
Click this link to sign up: Join Resource Recovery Movement!
The 2010 Hazard Mapping and Environmental Summit (HMES) is intended to develop better approaches to mapping risks and dangers to communities in the Philippines and other countries with tropical climates. It takes a cue from the recent experience in China, Indonesia and the Philippines, notwithstanding the previous experiences in Thailand, Bangladesh, Pakistan where scores of people died due to unforeseen occurrences during the incidence of a natural disaster: earthquake, typhoon, tsunami and other calamities. The databasing, mapping and full coordination of efforts towards use and sharing of a full function GIS on hazards, volcanoes, water, flood, forests in the Philippines and Asia, vulnerability areas, liquefaction potential, crisis and hot spots is long due because of the long-running phenomenon of Climate Change in the planet. This is also significant in that the Philippines, among other countries, lies in the Pacific Rim of Fire where a large number of earthquake faults lie.
The most important value of the conference is to determine the plan and the cost of implementing such a plan to make the Philippines and other participating nations safer from increasingly hazardous calamities.
Note: The organizers reserve the right to make minor changes in the Conference details prior to the actual Event.
HMES 2010 Organizers
Kudos, Sec. Mendoza; the poor Coast Guard
The DOTC ordered the grounding of Sulpicio Lines floating marine assets.
Congratulations for that. Wow! As we were saying about two days ago, the seaworthiness of the assets of shipping companies need to be thoroughly checked. But the best manner to handle this is to form a safety agency as they are doing in the rest of the world.
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) is being blamed as the ultimate perpetrator of the killing of the victims of the tragedy. Perchance, so too is Sulpicio Lines.
Why the PCG? Because, well, not because the huge and supposedly luxurious MV Princess of the Stars is a quarter of a century old since many ships can still sail long after they have lived for fifty years or half a century.
Not because the MV Princess of the Stars had gone from one owner to another, then another, then another and so on then Sulpicio Lines grabbed it. And it was probably deemed junk by then. And they had a mighty bargain that they possibly held a five-week-long party to celebrate their tremendous steal!!!
Not because the managers of Sulpicio are terrible idiots at running their shipping company that they allowed the MV Doña Paz to sail into a disaster that ate up the lives of thousands of passengers.
Not because the metallic underside of MV Princess of the Stars was so weak that it had to give during the storm when the ship allegedly sumadsad sa bato (for goodness sake, why does Sulpicio send out low quality amphibian boats that can’t withstand rocks?) and the makina ay tumigil. Wow!
That’s both unforeseen, fortuitous event and mechanical error. Just the type for insurance companies to pay for when the source of the accident is not human error — as in that of Sulpicio’s.
So now it’s accident (nabutas ang bakal) + fortuitous event — typhoon Frank, pumasok ang tubig + mechanical accident (namatay ang makina).
Equals = insurance claims of nearly a hundred million dollars from insurers and underwriters.
And add to the equation, the poverty of PCG for which reason, Sulpicio sonofabitches fucking shits gave alms to their weary palms.
Someone said, the PCG is so poor that even their diesel is always up for sale. When the President and the higher ups say: “Hoy, habulin ninyo ang Abo Suyya!” “Mga totoy, hulihin ang mga pirata!” “Oy, ano, intersepin niyo ang mga illegal fishing boats!” “Daliiii!” “Ano ba!?!&%$#” “Kilos na!!!”
The PCG will allegedly only very demurely quip:
“Ay Maaam, Siiir, ay surreee po, wala tayo krudu!!!)
So, Sulpicio knowing, and feeling compassion, gave alms to the Coast Guard. And Coast Guard supposedly feeling the crunch, accepted the beggar’s relief cash. Possibly some relief goods too.
Sulpicio probably knew there was a disaster-in-waiting. They gave out relief cash and goods in advance.
So now, Sulpicio Lines, cannot and can never be blamed. They have to be the final heroes here, when they open their eyes after taking the insurance and see that they have bodies to bury and money to pay to the surviving kin of all the (fucking, why did they have to be) dead.
Only in the Philippines. Only in the Philippines.
The poor are always at the receiving end of bad Justice systems. So the poor Coast Guard has to pay for the crime.
The PCG Commander, Adm. Tamayo has to go, just because he is penniless and powerless. And his people are so dirt poor and hungry that they’re crawling on their belies just to move.
Meanwhile, in the rest of the country, the weather is now improving with a little touch of dark clouds and a teeny weeny stormy condition approaching. The poor Philippine Coast Guard will no longer have to take the alms of shipping company Sulpicio. Their boss, Sec. Mendoza grounded the alms givers.
Tsk! Tsk! Kawawa naman!
May mga pamilya pa naman ang mga kosgard! Kawawa talaga sila!
Kawawa din ang mga nalunod at namatay at mga pamilya!
Dahil sa kanila, may mga yayaman sa lagay at insurance!!! At dahil nagpakamatay sila, aba’y ala silang suwerti. Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!
Sincerely, Madam Arroyo should read this…
Dear Madam President:
MV Princess of the Stars’ sinking is a terrific tragedy. It is another point scored against government in the subject of safety. You have every right to be angry at the incident. A law has already been passed providing for the creation of the National Transport Safety Board (NTSB) out of an original proposal to former President Fidel V. Ramos for establishing a Philippine Safety Council by Executive Order (EO). Instead of putting out an EO due to the need for the creation of a new office, legislation was sought by former Pres. Ramos. Congress complied and before the end of his tenure as President, the NTSB law was passed.
However, I remember with grave sadness Congress and DOTC complaining that after the law was enacted Ms. Emilia Boncodin told them in a letter sending back the manuscript of the enacted law, that sorry, government has no money. That is patent bull shit, Madam President. Boncodin meant that DBM had nothing to spare to support a new agency such as a safety agency. Ms. Boncodin had it all wrong. She has so much money in the banks, in real estates, in houses and lands named after her relatives, in shares of stocks of blue chip PSE listed corporations, and in many other places who knows where!
Boncodin merely stopped short of telling Congress and the Executive Branch: don’t fuck with DBM because it is mine! Don’t even salivate after DBM money because it is mine alone to dispense!!! Shit!!!
(Above, photo of shit ugly Miss Emilia/Emily Boncodin, adoptive daughter of Madam Cory Aquino. Golden Gown sold by Syracuse.)
For the love of God, during her (Boncodin’s) time, she even demands cash or checks just before releasing funds to a payee (contractor, supplier) of the government via the DBM and her take runs to millions up to a high of hundreds of millions or even more! And she won’t release the money unless she gets her suitcase- or boxfull of money, a cheque or even a post-dated cheque (PDC), the bitch! Garapal, Madam President! Masyadong garapal, that Boncodin!
And then she and her fellow thieves who banded together in the group called HYATT 10 (Dinky Soliman, Mely Nicolas, King Deles, etc. who got at the very least 100 million each from the Peace Bonds Super Scam) had the nerve to say they were resigning from a corrupt government. Their group HYATT 10 came to be known as Black and White Movement (BnW) — that high and mighty group doing its best to moralize the country to their own brand of stupid morality. Again much later they became the Former Senior Government Officials (FSGO) — the same stupid corrupt maniacs by another name. Now they say they are the BUSINA! The shits, Madam President, the wretched of our society.
Boncodin (not to mention her fellow thieves), is / are to blame for many of our poor people’s, of all our citizens’ woes. DBM’s word is like God’s Law. What DBM says, sticks. When DBM speaks, all the Cabinet and all the Legislators, all the Judiciary trembles. The MV Princess of the Stars would never have happened if DBM did not torpedo the law and acted on it so its intent will be actualized.
But selfish interests prevail over humane compassion and respect for life and property. Self-aggrandizement comes first before the universally recognized concept of not letting non-land worthy, unseaworthy and non-airworthy assets be allowed to embark from their stations.
This is notwithstanding that said assets should also not be allowed to set off in very inclement weather conditions. So that none nor nothing will blamed if a mishap takes places.
Therefore Madam President, whether or not Ms. Boncodin will be put in jail for superlative performance of corruption in government during her time from a simple Director, Assistant or Under Secretary then Secretary, it is most respectfully prayed, albeit begged that you finally take the final steps towards operationalizing the NTSB.
From a moral standpoint, the MV Princess of the Stars tragedy is not just accidental deaths of the innocent, hapless casualties! It is a deliberate mass murder of helpless victims just because of that overwhelming determination to amass a hideously humongous amount of dirty wealth!!!
It will be feather in your cap and I grant that you’ll be remembered for a long time for advocating safety more than the other presidents had ever done! At least FVR will be cited for possibly certifying the proposed safety bill as urgent, if that ever happened. But it will be to your credit that the law finally became a reality!
Remember, you have always said you respect the Rule of Law. Well, let’s give the Law its due. Godspeed!
More power to you and may you have a successful trip outside of the country!
Sincerely yours,
Girbaudz
If Anwar could read this…
Dato’ Seri Anwar bin Ibrahim, all-time favorite political figure of Malaysia was in the Philippines reportedly for two days. From his itenerary he was to attend a forum at RCBC on Islam and Peace. From the media, we are told that he met first with former president Fidel Valdez Ramos together with his spouse MP Wan Azizah wan Ismail, then he went to No. 1 Polk St., Greenhills for a dinner hosted by Erap for him and Desperate Housewives star and Jon Stewart’s slut, Cory Aquino.
Anwar is not loved by his former mentor — Dr. Mahathir Mohamad — Malaysia’s former Prime Minister-PM. Some of the other incumbents and has-beens in Malaysia do not like Anwar. No wonder they threw him in jail.
It is merely because, Anwar is open about cooperating, as needed, with the West, something that is abominable to many fundamentalist and self-declared nationalists and patriots of Malaysia. The primary defense if you ask me, is that Anwar had to diplomatically deal with the rest of the world being the Malaysian emissary on finance and economic matters. That was the job Mahathir originally gave him in the first place. But as always, no one is able to please everybody all the time. Human nature.
Anwar simply had no qualms about trying to please all fellow Malaysians, fellow Muslims and other creatures about the things he was doing for the good of Malaysia. So that’s how he got into trouble.
Erap and Cory think they are Anwar’s closest friends. Where does that leave the Lady by the Pasig? Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo? Not necessarily in the kankungan. Not necessarily.
When he was younger, Anwar as an activist, travelled to the Philippines and sought refuge here among fellow intellectuals and activists. Not surprising if Anwar will be well-acquainted with Nurijin Misuari popularly known as Nur, who was a protege of former activist Renato Constantino, the father of Carina Constantino David, wife of Randolph David.
Along with Nur Misuari, there were others with whom Anwar interacted with very deeply in the Philippines. Among them was intellectual, Cesar A. Majul, foremost historian and deeply respected professor in the University of the Philippines and in the whole community of scholars, academicians and intellectuals. Another was Majul’s own ward, Prof. Jalaluddin. And possibly, currently Institute of Islamic Affairs Prof. (Ustadz) Julkipli Wadi, more or less a counterpart of Jalaluddin.
From the venerable Prof. Majul, Anwar learned to respect Jose Rizal, Apolinario Mabini and other Filipinos more than most pinoys could ever ever do. In a way, Anwar volunteered himself as a student of the great Prof. Majul.
The present events in Malaysia are staggering, although they are peaceful and never tainted with threats of coups by paid-for nincompoop generals, colonels, majors, captains, lieutenants, sergeants and privates or even military deserters and very very brave non-military quislings, nor hyfalutin reform and armed revolution blackmailing threats by communists, nor the hostaging of the peace through a punitive wave of high crimes.
Anwar is riding the crest of the wave of these events. Together with his spouse Dr. Azizah they are creating a more open, more democratic society out of our brother Malay nation.
Sen. Heherson Alvarez said so in his late-night interview with Anwar and Dr. Azizah that was possibly done at Dusit Hotel, in Makati, for TV station channel 4. (At least that’s what the camera kept showing during the intermissions.)
Anwar’s political party recently harvested a huge victory during the recent parliament elections in Malaysia, taking about one third of the entire delegates of the Malaysian Parliament. The United Malay Nationalist Organisation or UMNO, has slowly lost its credibility and its coalesced political parties are in danger of switching to the side of Anwar.
From a very positive point of view, Anwar has arrived in Malaysian politics. It would be regrettable however if he would be treated by the powers that be like the late Madame Bhutto, who had to go down by an assassin’s bullet.
I pray that the Malaysians will be decent enough to allow the waves of change to sweep over their country as peacefully as can be. I will not fault Anwar for considering Erap and Cory as friends. As persons, they must have shown kindness and goodness to Anwar, in one way or the other. As politicians and professionals, there is nothing for me to say about a relationship between Erap – Cory and Anwar. I doubt if they have anything good to contribute to the Malaysian peaceful revolution that could help. If for no other reason, Anwar should not even touch Erap and Cory’s tainted politics with a ten-foot pole.
I will not pretend to be the blogging expert on demonology, but after all, even in Islam, there is Pazuzu, one of the arabic terms for Satan or Devil — also generically known as the jinn or “genie” and Anwar must be wary of Erap and Cory’s Pazuzu.
Mabuhay! Future Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim!!! May your struggle in Malaysia bear fruit! May God be with You!!! May the Pazuzu not influence you in any way! We will all pray for your victory!!!
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