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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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Let us all be creative and participate in actions to expose the excessive corruption of this regime.  All they have done is to create hype in the atmosphere to pretend to the world they are doing something but behind everything they are stealing massive amounts of money... Read more from here

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.

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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.

Thank you UN, ICRC, all supporting Countries and Relief Groups

Thank you ICRC and Philippine Red Cross for all your efforts after #Yolanda in the affected Regions of the Philippines! More power to you! Godspeed and God bless you!

Thank you United Nations and United Nations OCHA (Director Khalikov), United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (Secretary Margareta Wahlstrom) for relief and recovery assistance, for your Flash Appeal world wide and to Excellency Ban Ki Moon for taking the time off his very busy schedule to visit Tacloban City! May God bless all of you and more power to you! 

A very warm Merry Christmas and Happy New Year greetings to all your people, officers and workers all over the world!!! We love you all together with all those kind and generous ones from a myriad of countries and relief organizations that shared time, resources, blood sweat and tears for the victims of recent Philippine disaster!

A Letter to Pres. Aquino, Sec. Abaya-DOTC

Open Letter to His Excellency Benigno Simeon Aquino III, 

President of the Philippines

and Honorable Joseph Emilio Abaya, Secretary

Department of Transportation and Communications

Dear President Aquino and Secretary Abaya:

Between 1989-1990, we began the advocacy for a Philippine safety agency that led to the passage of the Republic Act to create the NTSB - National Transportation Safety Board.

Shown below is the reconstruction of the briefing on the need to operationalize the National Transportation Safety Board. We revised the briefing over and over again. The updating of the voluminous data on accidents over land, to include actuarial and statistical computations of the probabilities of new accidents for extended, extrapolated periods, is not included since it would be too tasking for us and we do not have the resources nor are equipped any longer to undertake the job.

In the past, we were fortunate to be working with a foreign counterpart - the Harris Corporation Florida USA, a conglomerate with over 100 companies under its wings, that allowed us to opportunity to campaign for the privatization of the then Air Transportation Office's ATS (Air Traffic Service) as well as to push for the creation of the Philippines' transport safety agency.

- Original proponents for National Transport Safety Board 1994

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Reconstruction and Recovery

The World Bank says that timely reconstruction will help lessen the impact of super typhoon Yolanda. Before we digest these words, it is also significant to look back into the past.

There was a time in fairly recent past when NBC news anchor Brian Williams sounded like a broken record repeating the words over and over again that: Aviation in the United States of America is dying.

This is now true with Philippine air line companies and selected several other businesses in the Philippines right at this very moment.

During the post-Yolanda period, only at least one air line company that very enterprisingly lowered its passenger rates (presumably including for cargo) per seat-mile, notwithstanding that the Philippine government ordered that a number of fees and charges being levied in the aviation sector will be waived, among other behests in order to lessen the burden for victims of the calamity and those that had to fly to ground zero to participate in disaster relief and recovery operations. It is not difficult to hear a wisecrack such as: this suddenly successful air line company must have entered into a conspiracy with Yolanda just to boost its sales.

Dire is a weak description for the situation that a select number of businesses in the Philippines are in right now. More > >

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New Scheme must be in place

Change in how the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC) views disaster preparedness should happen.

From now on, communications should be most primordial and pre-positioning of disaster relief must be done in massive proportions, contrary to the measly, pitsi-pitsi concept envisaged by government agencies.

The wreckage and the resulting deaths, the breakdown of law and order in Tacloban City is a witness to the error of calculation by the disaster management experts of the country.

None of this should ever be allowed to happen again, if all of us, including private sector and government care for our people in this country.

Change not in the horizon over fund scandal

There will be much effort expended in generating change over the PDAF, DAP and Malampaya fund disappearances from the national coffers and their reappearance in the fat bank accounts of thieves in government, especially the Senate and Congress. As it is told in the web journal Post Disaster:

It is difficult to focus on the preparations for the coming nightmare called Yolanda, with a President pretending not to be concerned but pulling strings from all sides to make the sideshow from the haunted CCP-PICC complex a successful zarzuela. A site called omnibusblog called the Senate Hearing that compelled Ms. Janet Lim-Napoles to the witness stand as a mockery of Senate Investigation, instead of devotion to being in aid of Legislation, the writer says it was done in aid of demolition. The site talks about cemetery plots, possible burial grounds for famous legislators and key bureaucrat officials, among other unpleasant figures in society.

An excerpt of the blog article is shown below: 

From the dead to the dead, till death doth us part 

The zarzuela continues. This supposedly "good-intentioned" Senate Hearing, in aid of Demolition, succeeds as a major public relations campaign of world wide magnitude. As a play, the entire production does not rate even a low D grade. It was too transparent to be stage managed, with Madam Janet Lim Napoles talking to her friend-senators as if they were long-lost friends. She does not even use the respectful address of Your Honor and never leads her statements with Mr. Chairman of the Committee.
Madam Napoles was in the Senate at her best element. She even complained that she must be given her free lunch time.

Led by Senators TG Guingona, a known substance abuser and Peter Alan Cayetano, a man insanely driven by the ambition to rise above the person who fed his young models-loving father from the palm of his hand (called Tanda by Sen. Miriam Santiago, ex Judge and former Cory appointee as well as collector of half-million bribe from the lion's share of undocumented 4 million chinese in the Philippines during the 1986 installed revolutionary regime), the drama goes on attempting to be the best Pitong Komikera-Komikerong Itlog show in this part of the globe.

The lady from Lima was also present, hubnubbing with Sen. Santiago during recess with Sens. Cayetano and Trillanes trading ideas from time to time during the interregnum when the Great Madam money giver to presidents, politicians and bureaucrats and money grubber, in the league of Mr. Zaldy Co and Mr. Edwin Gardiola said Time Out, I Have To Eat Lunch. Missing the action was the real lawyer of Madam, Atty. Fred Villamor, for whom the lady of Lima lawyered for Madam Napoles, being an obedient , willing partner with or without her underwear.

On occasion, at least once or twice, it was mentioned that the famous NGO (non-government organization) and PO (people's organization) community organizer, Madam Napoles, even used the dead to populate her NGOs and POs. From her probably great gratitude to the dead, she possibly bought beautiful Heritage Park lots for her benefactors - Senators, Presidents, Congresspersons, the President's top men and women, local officials and national budget bigwigs.

A multi-million several days' partying and catering marks the visit of Ms. Janet Lim Napoles to the Heritage Park in Global City aka The Fort. The Inquirer reports that the Heritage Park mausoleum dedicated to Ms. Napoles' mother even became a tourist spot recently after this same newspaper broke the news on the Napoles fund scam. Read more >>

Philippine Banking Dearth of Knowledge, Poverty in Intelligence

To conduct a comprehensive survey of bank founder-owners, bank managers, investment leaders, trust executives in the Philippines today, will bring one to misery, sorrow and disgust at the level of knowledge of bankers in the Philippines.

This is not to say that such a case exists only in this particular country. It is common in so many other nations. Only a few bankers truly are aware of their real, noble role as a public service institution, giving and delivering the best kind of service to the people.

In a world where there is no plus side to very small revenue or cash accumulation, bankers are inclined to accommodate rich clientele and Alvin Toffler's dark characters who form the other side of the coin of that phenomenon in modern times that he calls rapid wealth creation: criminals, underworld, terrorists, drug kingpins and the like.

Extraordinary is a bank manager from Antipolo who declares, "from our subsidiary bank, if you have a transaction to settle with our mother bank, I can endorse you all the way so they will provide you all the assistance you need." In the case of a bank branch manager of a large bank at V.A. Rufino St., Makati City, the lady manager says it is impossible to endorse a transaction or provide suggestion to the manager of another branch of the same bank. This Makati bank branch manager wants that all transactions must emanate only from her branch.

What will keep a bank manager from endorsing a client? And what will prevent the bank manager from Antipolo to continue to give positive, constructive aid to clients in linking up with other branches of his bank?

The manager from Antipolo is the epitome of the banker's public service ethic. The manager from V.A. Rufino in Makati is distinctly the portrait of the imbecile banker.

More than 70% to 80% of bankers in the Philippines suffer from a dearth of knowledge and are extremely poor in intelligence as well as wanting in intellect. No one is to blame except their headquarters office and the kind of education bankers get from the Philippine educational system that cannot afford to teach the correct nuances and shades of meaning of banking jargon.

On the part of bank headquarters, the governing policy of their banking corporations are bereft of the desire to promote broader credit to the entrepreneur population. The hard and fast rules of KYC - Know Your Customer, is extremely distorted and warped so much so that even knowing the potential depositors are thieves, murderers, drug lords, gambling lords, possibly as well terrorists fronted for by their relatives and associates, the bank manager will happily endorse the opening of banking relationship with the criminal and proceed to service that enemy of the public.

Effectively, this makes banks Public Enemy, by association, as launderers of the funds of these members of the underworld.

Indeed, the benefit of the bank accepting as much cash and other valuables from these shady characters is tremendous, at least there should be balancing acts on the part of bank management to add a redeeming value to their inclination to accommodate and protect criminal figures.

Compounding the situation of refusal to give away assistance to clients, is the inability of bankers to fulfill their ultimate obligation to service the customer. In many foreign-to-local transactions, if the scheme utilized is new to the Philippine banker, the transaction becomes bogged down not be the absence of interest of the banker but by the lack of fingertip knowledge and second nature skill to attend to the needs of the client.

The exchange between bank management and client becomes endless with no results being delivered by the Philippine bank, whereas the foreign counterpart bank has already done its role: i.e. transmittal of documentary requirements for fund transfer or credit for the Philippine bank client. The time spent becomes long and tedious that all the initial momentum goes to waste.

If the transaction involves a definite, specific timeline, the transaction will go south. The losses might never again be recoverable. For the poor Philippine bank client, the damage could be enormous and irreparable. But will Philippine banker be touched by the final impact upon the client?

They can never probably be affected, unless they did it on purpose and only in a small way. The reason why the Philippine banker will not even think about the great wrong done on the client is that he doesn't know and therefore he could not care less.

Aquino's Pain of Divestment

Headlines:

Philippine Star: Noy, Abad Defend Disbursement Acceleration Program Fund

Sunstar: Aquino hits those equating DAP to PDAF

Manila Standard: Media Spin vs. DAP done by pols

Tribune: Noy says DAP attack divert attention from pork abuses

Imagine a President of a Third World country having an unrestricted access and power of disbursement of a good part of nearly United States Dollars Fifty Three Billion (the exact figure is USD52,443,398,257.95), the equivalent of the Philippine national annual projected expenditure of Philippine Pesos Two Trillion and Two Hundred Sixty Billion (PHP2,260,000,000,000).

The article below shows how difficult it is for a politician, a head of state to part with unregulated spending money.

Politicians maximally utilize persons like Ms. Janet Napoles who divert Philippine peso skims to the United States in suitcases without fear of the Anti-Money Laundering laws, Mr. Zaldy Co (who even ran for Congress himself and won), and many other fund fixers later masquerading as filthy rich financiers (outside of the Forbes List) to steal billions of money from the national treasury.

Much of the thievery is done through the pork barrel - discretionary public funds that are hardly accounted and form part of political accommodations, horse trading between the Executive branch and the Legislative, including the Judiciary.

With a public sector motivated by greed and wanton plunder of the national coffers often with the quiet collusion of members of the banking sector, there is absolutely no way for the government to censure and reform the banking industry simply because it has no moral ascendancy at all.The Philippine President, Mr. Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino 3rd, does not want the pork barrel to be abolished, as evidenced by his own recent statement over national media in defense of the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) that is a creative new name for pork barrel. Mr. Aquino the 3rd is adamant that he announced the DAP two years ago.

Therefore, since the 3rd made a public disclosure of this benign, saintly kind of pork barrel, the spending thereof has to really be just and fair but only for all the horrible looking money making ogres concerned, the 3rd not excluded.

There is nothing in this sanitized, beatified, canonized pork barrel for the small entrepreneurs who need money for developmental projects.

Any intervention that must be done to change the way things are being done in the banking system will be initiated by the citizenry as well as well meaning members of the private sector. The issue is not all about simple patriotism, love for country, but the obligation of the creatures sitting in comfortable niches to return to their host country a share of what they have amassed over the years and decades of siphoning the hard earned money of ordinary people in whose names the Philippine bonds and treasury bills are created, among other debentures that average citizens of the Republic are bound to pay for during their maturity.

No banker will not acknowledge this fact, but they close their eyes due to their all-consuming greed and insatiable lust for more and more money, without looking back to where they came from and who are the source of the incomes they derived from their very expert manipulation of currencies, notes, bonds, bills and all the shit in banking. Click here for the rest of this article.

Clearly, Philippine President Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III is suffering from impending separation. Since this president is single, he certainly cannot foresee severing ties with a partner in life.

Its losing the DAP that he fears most. For one who lived in the Malacanang Palace as a youth with his sisters during the height of his mother's power as revolutionary president, enjoying the numerous boxed, suitcased and crated gifts intended for the First Family, losing the DAP is a nightmare. After the term of his late mother, the boxes, suitcases and crates stopped coming.

At the Palace, the new ruling groups would hardly share their blessings. As the then former First Family lamented, life had become too difficult for them at the time. The late lady president would not stop being best heard, best seen, best read with her PR magician Ms. Deedee Sytangco always at her side and beck and call. Her closest sympathizers, Ms. Corazon "Dinky" Soliman propped the late president up as a champion of social development such that in a huge gathering, she said: "I am Cory Aquino! I am NGO."

Now the contractors, NGOs, together with politician and government bureaucrat BFFs, are making waves in the financial community for reaping huge harvests of monies and caching these away in private vaults and banks.

Like the owner of an enterprise, those riding high in the windfall of profit from exceedingly unexpected sales, Aquino cannot divest himself of the DAP. This president will hold on to DAP with determination.

One of the pundits blabbering in the late night watering holes mused about a hint of retirement.

Pundit said, the dark forces are on the heels of Finance Secretary Cesar V. Purisima. Mr. Aquino he said, wants his people to get to the bottom of the attacks on his finance secretary and find out if he will eventually be the target of the attacks. Click here for a glimpse of the assaults against Sec. Purisima.

This pundit person said Malacanang ordered the applications for the supposedly legitimized small town lottery to be scrapped as early as May 2013. Most of the applicants are the same persons behind illegal gambling, the real lords of numbers games in person. The applicants lobbied for continuance, but in vain says pundit.

All the upfront fees collected over the last three years, totaling hundreds of millions up to billions have been forfeited in favor of the administration key people and their subalterns. Hundreds of gaming groups lost their bets on this Administration. It will be back to status quo, pundit reported. No more legitimate Pambansang Loterya ng Bayan (PLB). The hidden numbers game is on again. The counter lobby against PLB was made by a Central Luzon gambling emperor that lords over all illegal gambling in that region and even became closely identified with the former lady chief executive, whose nemesis happened to be Mr. Aquino. Central Luzon emperor wins with his generous offer, thus goodbye all to the hundreds of PLB applicants.

Pundit says, it spells hordes, mountains of invisible income for the powers-that-be. Together with the DAP, that strengthens the Palace but could also, as pundit muses, be a signal for a quick get-away.

We, the little ones will never really know until some illustrious event comes up. At least there is a glint of an idea about why there is so much pain in divestment. Too much, unbearable, pain.