Uproot the rotten banana tree now!

There is no better opportunity to uproot the bad banana tree that is the present oppressive regime than now.

Time has come to stop complaining about how awful our so-called Filipino race is.  We all know who is causing the trouble.  The only thing that we need to do is to act as one and link hands to form a really powerful front.

The trillions of pesos the regime is stealing from the coffers, thanks to a well self-trained former hungry-as-a-wolf budget chief and unscrupulous finance head of the greatest thief of them all - the leader of the regime, is all a great waste.  When all that money could feed a lot of our fellowmen in the poor sector and build and support roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, barangay clinics, provide jobs and livelihood, create a small dent at least in the brain drain among many other benefits, we are allowing these resources to be stolen right in front of our face.

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Flooding in the Philippines: Lethal and Problematic

by the Resource Recovery Movement, Center for Human and Society

In the recent period, floods plagued a considerable area, encompassing broad sections across the globe.

Heavy recent flooding in India and Serbia, China, Japan among many other areas around the world

With heavy inundations such as these that can often kill with their own sheer power by drowning, is there still a need for the water to be poisonous, toxic and very much hazardous to health or even deadly enough to kill?

In the Philippines, not the Secretary of the Department of National Defense now a bit too advanced in years unlike many past defense secretaries who braved calamities and got wet and dirty on the ground, but the helmsman of the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC) is a mite too busy nowadays. The chief is extremely tied up in many corners that at most times the poor disaster response executive does not even know where to plant his foot next.

Yet it is an inescapable Catch-22 situation. If the new chief of the Philippine Office of Civil Defense and the Secretariat of the NDRRMC follows the examples of his bosses, just stay put and let things unveil all by themselves, the people will be angry.

If the NDRRMC head appears very mobile and busy, the people are still not going to be appeased. They will be just as angry anyway. No option is a better one, even that of balancing between not doing anything and making an effort to be hyperactive.

A senseless new tragedy most recently hit the Philippines - not so much a tragedy as thousands of helpless citizens getting killed.

The powerful storm caused a maritime vessel Maharlika II in Cebu to drown, leaving as many as more than one hundred casualties. As of this writing, 70 persons are missing due to the tragedy.

All over the nation: Floods and landslides, destroyed crops, dead farm animals

ruined houses, buildings, vital installations and much more other forms of damage

A really sensible government will take every means to prevent people from getting caught in floods. Sadly enough, this is never true in the Philippines and not in many places around the world. They will simply snort: Expensive solutions! No one specially me needs them! So they let whole communities drown or suffer getting submerged waist or neck-deep in murky, life-threatening floodwaters

Both children and adults brave the waters in floods. No one puts the fear in their hearts that doing so is extremely dangerous to their health and the effects may only be felt after a long time.

 

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Philippines: Hoping against Hope on Transforming Customs and Internal Revenue

The Philippine Bureau of Customs: Hogs bred for the slaughterhouse

Bureau of Customs (BOC) is taunted as a revenue generating agency, a supposed contributor to the national treasury. In reality, the BOC as an inutile herd of swine, awaiting the date of their final trip to the abbatoir.

Nowhere in the world can you find highest executives of The Customs agency that will say this:

   ●  We are powerless here in this agency. 
   ●  The smugglers, smuggling syndicate dictate every move that we make. 
   ●  We are only able to do what the smugglers approve. If they oppose, we cannot make our move. 
   ●  We are not even allowed to use a Radio Communications net in the agency, anywhere in the port, or wherever the Bureau of Customs is conducting its official or side duties. (That is the least of the restrictions imposed by the syndicates engaged in highly illegal activities in the country's coastal cities and towns.)

If that is the case, the two functions of the Bureau of Customs: regulatory - enforcement and recording - registry, are patently useless. It leaves all of us in a sizable quandary about whether there is any reason at all for the agency to keep getting paid with the hard earned money of the people.

The Bureau of Customs and the Bureau of Immigration are the first, and the last, lines of defense of the country.

At the very same time, they are also the face of the state in many dealings and encounters with subjects from the rest of the world. With the Bureau of Customs being a crippled and inutile agency, we can only begin to imagine what kind of relations they are building with our neighbors? Surely enough these relations cannot and never be positive in whatever sense.

On the other hand, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is supposed to be the bastion of the state's police power to exact the contributions of its subjects for the national good.

For a long time, this has not been happening, will not happen and may never at all happen, despite the posturings of the head of that agency of showing herself / himself as a gun-toting hoodlum aiming to shoot at some target.

The Collections Commissioners. Madam Kim Henares - Bureau of Internal Revenue.

Mr. John "Sunshine / Sunny" Sevilla - Bureau of Customs.

The enemy of the state in this case, not excluding the smugglers, illegal establishments, criminals, con personalities and terrorists, ad hominem that do not pay their taxes - are the top echelon of the economic pyramid that controls the country's wealth but provide a mere pittance to the public sector in terms of taxes.

Unlike most certainly many of the opulent in countries like Taiwan, Korea, Japan, United States, where tax payments are strictly enforced, the vaunted police powers of the state are laid to waste with mindless grandstanding by the BIR chief of running after champion pugilist Rep. Manuel Pacquiao for earnings that are already tax-deducted in the United States where most of his income derives from.

Invitation to Philippine 2016 elections candidates

In Indonesia as in many other countries around the world, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) undertakes indepth studies about political campaigns. One significant work of NDI is the Political Campaign Planning Manual shown below (click the image below to download pdf document.)

NDI is based at 455 Massachusetts Ave, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20001-2621. It has field offices in many countries around the world. See the list of field offices here.

In the Philippines, a number of centers and institutes - both private and public involve themselves in the study of political campaigns and winning in elections.

Due to the highly partisan as well as feudal-patronage system-based politics and political campaigns in the Philippines, the more cerebral and similarly inclined approaches to drawing voters often does not apply in this country.

However, even given the same kind of structure in such countries as Malaysia, Indonesia and many other Asian countries, technologies and techniques in campaigns that do away with unsightly practices like employing guns, goons and gold also have a chance of delivering votes as evidenced by the victory of many unknowns in the stable of aspirants to significant political posts from Councilor, Congressman, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Vice Governor, Governor, among others proves that honest-to-goodness campaigns can also successfully make candidates win.

There is hope that Philippine elections will become better and that with improved performance on the part of the country's security and law enforcement sector, the regulatory agencies and other quarters that help keep the level of vigilance, peace and stability during poll time high, many desirable candidates will attain to positions where they can pursue policies and true reforms in the country.

It is hoped that this will also be true for all the other neighboring states in Asia, and those in Africa, Europe-Eurasia and the Americas, etc.

Pollmodernization.org invites political aspirants in the Philippine 2016 and future elections to work with us and ensure ascension - installation to public office.

Technology and knowhow for winning elections will be at your fingertips. We have proven case studies, we will add your win to our portfolio.

Koreans Kim Soochae and Kim Yoon Seon Arrested for Sex Trafficking in the Philippines

As reported by BITAG channel 5 program in a news feature video entitled "Subasta," two Koreans Kim Soochae and Kim Yoon Seon were arrested by Philippine law enforcement authorities for multiple counts of the crimes involving Sex Trafficking in the Philippines. The Koreans were apprehended at Andrea Village II, Bacoor, Cavite together with their Filipino cohorts "Cathy" Fabella, Sherwin Tracy P. Belar, along with others.

No less than thirty young women were rescued from the halfway house at Bacoor, Cavite. Some screenshots of BITAG's feature are shown below:

Young Victoria Grant proposes solutions to end banksters' corruption

Social Responsibility: the biggest thing in 2014 and onwards

Image source: Park Media Blog

From this year, 2014 and onward, the floodgates of social responsibility will be opening. This is predicated upon coming events that will hasten to shape both national activity and the behavior of the community of nations.

It was evident in major disasters in the past that a lot of sharing, cooperation and coordination need to be done on the part of the private and public sectors. This time, it will be the private sector that will be leading the way.

There is no telling that the role of the United Nations will diminish. The UN will stay as sharp and and as useful as it had been since its inception, but a lot of actions on the part of its leadership mostly, has taken a great and heavy toll on its credibility and integrity. The UN has to reshape public opinion and retool its communications vehicles to be able to redeem the old virtues that were attached to its name. In the world of international affairs, reputation is hard to build and difficult to lose because if you do, getting back your face will not be as easy as it seems.

The road is long and hard for the people of the world but social responsibility cannot be beaten. It will make many individuals and corporations, organizations and combines shine. Godspeed to those that have already started way ahead of the others. For many groups that want to get ahead in the bandwagon, if they have been oppressing too many people and sectors along the way, like stealing intellectual property or somesuch, the first thing to do is to correct those errors. That is a big step in social responsibility.