Writ of Kalayaan proposed

WRIT OF KALAYAAN PROPOSED.

"Through Fides M. Lim, spokesperson of KAPATID – a support group of families and friends of political prisoners – and wife of detained National Democratic Front consultant Vicente Ladlad, the relatives told Peralta:

 “The WRIT OF KALAYAAN PROPOSED BY JUSTICE MARVIN LEONEN provides an EXTRAORDINARY LEGAL REMEDY grounded on SOCIAL JUSTICE AND HUMANITY to address the problems of JAIL CONGESTION, SUBHUMAN PRISONERS CONDITIONS amid the continuing pandemic and violations of the RIGHTS OF PEOPLE DEPRIVED OF LIBERTY.

“We only seek justice and we appeal to your SENSE OF COMPASSION and sensitivity to urgently address the SUBHUMAN CONDITIONS IN PHILIPPINE JAILS that have become a systemic problem. The High Court under your leadership can well flesh out the key pointers of Justice Marvic Leonen on the proposed Writ of Kalayaan."

SOURCE - https://mb.com.ph/2020/12/03/relatives-of-political-detainees-press-sc-for-writ-of-kalayaan/

Duterte's economic mismanagement

DUTERTE'S ECONOMIC MISMANAGEMENT IMPOVERISHES THE NATION.

1. The November 2020 inflation was slightly higher than BSP’s forecast range of 2.4-3.2 percent, driven mainly by higher food inflation, particularly for vegetables, fish, fruits and meat.

2.  The national government's debt reached P10.03 TRILLION at the end of OCTOBER, the Bureau of Treasury said on Friday. This grew by P658.81 billion or 7.03 percent from last month primarily due to external and domestic loan availment.

3. The economy shrank by an average of 10 PERCENT during the FIRST NINE MONTHS OF 2020.

4. DEBT-TO-GDP had been projected to jump to 53.9 PERCENT BY END-2020 —poised to be the HIGHEST SINCE 2006’s 58.8 PERCENT —from a record-low of 39.6 percent in 2019. (INQUIRER)

5. Roy A. Endriga:
"This is the breakdown of the Phil debt of P10Trillion as of Oct 2020. 70% is domestic debt 30% is foreign debt. End of Aquino's term the accumulated debt over the years was P5.948Trillion or an increase of 68% over the 4.5-years period of the Duterte admin. The way things look, the loan might double to P12Trillion by end of his term. Kawawa talaga tayo. Di pa nga naubos ang loan ni Marcos(sa 2025 pa matatapos), heto na naman tayo sa panibagong kalbaryo." 

26. "Among emerging markets, the PHILIPPINES scored the HIGHEST —a seven out of 10 in the think tank’s VULNERABILITY SCORE across 31 metrics, which measured policy offsets, economic and financial imbalances, health-related belief scarring, structure of economy, labor market vulnerability and decline in gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2020.

Economic managers on Thursday estimated 2020 GDP WOULD SHRINK BY 8.5 to 9.5 PERCENT THIS YEAR in what would be the Philippines’ STEEPEST POST-WAR RECESSION. (Read more: https://business.inquirer.net/313132/ph-among-countries-with-weak-medium-term-growth-outlook#ixzz6fjZqIcRU).

Three Tokhang principals

The three (3) TOKHANG CRIMINAL PRINCIPALS: 

* DUTERTE = principal by INDUCEMENT. 

* PNP SUPERIORS = principal by INDISPENSABLE COOPERATION. 

* KILLER POLICE = principal by DIRECT PARTICIPATION. 

LAHAT KAYO KULONG, MGA KRIMINAL NA ANIMAL.

HINDI HABANG BUHAY nakaupo si Duterte sa Malacanang. WALANG FOREVER, so to speak. 

Darating ang panahon, the entire JUDICIARY and LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES will undergo a PAINFUL OVERHAUL.

Tandaan ninyo, in political philosophy, the RIGHT TO REBEL AGAINST A TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT and the RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION are INHERENT, NATURAL and DIVINE RIGHTS of the SOVEREIGN PEOPLE.

ChinaTel, a national security risk in the Philippines

RED FLAGS VS. DITO TELECOM (DITO) AND CHINA TELECOM (CHINATEL), as per Sen..HONTIVEROS:

1. China Telecom (ChinaTel), which has a 40-percent stake in Dito, is 100-percent owned by the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

2. Dito’s reporting line is under the State Council of the PRC.

3.  China continues her adventurism in contested territories in the West Philippine Sea.

4. ChinaTel’s partnership with Dito was based on the “imprimatur of President Rodrigo Duterte” who, in 2017, requested China’s Prime Minister Li Keqiang for a Chinese company to run the country’s third telecom operator.

5. China Telecom was predestined to win the license for the third telco in the Philippines.

6. Future administration may overturn the decision that granted Dito its franchise, due to irregularities in the license process.

7. ChinaTel reports directly to the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

8.  ChinaTel had close ties with China’s Armed Forces.

Read more: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1367916/risa-presses-senate-probe-of-ditos-china-links#ixzz6fcrrtOFj
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PDP-Laban, naligaw ng landas

 ANONG NANGYARI SA PRINSIPYO NG PDP-LABAN?

ROY A. ENDRIGA:

"ANONG NANGYAYARI SA PDP-LABAN? Sa totoo lang member  ako ng PDP-Laban for quite sometime. Maganda ang platform ng partidong yan, may pagka-reformist ang agenda kaya nagustuhan ko. Halos kadikit ng LP ang programs nila although mas left of center ang PDP-Laban kaysa LP maybe because of Nene Pimentel. Umatend pa ako ng series of orientation lead by Nene Pimentel. For a time hinawakan yan ni Pepeng Cojuangco kaya umalis na ako. Hinawakan din yan ni Jojo Binay kaya lang umalis siya in 2010 dahil tumakbo si Koko Pimentel sa tiket ni Pinoy kaya binuo niya ang UNA. Tapos ngayon ang presidente, si Manny Pacquiao? Sa mga hindi alam ang PDP-Laban ay binubuo ng dalawang partido, Ang Partido Demokratiko ng Pilipinas (PDP) ni Nene Pimentel at Lakas ng Bayan (LABAN) ni Ninoy Aquino.  Isa ang PDP-Laban, kasama ang LP(headed by Jovy Salonga, NP (headed by Doy Laurel) at iba pang civil society groups ang nagpanalo ng UNIDO team na nagdala kay Cory sa Malacanang. Tapos ngayon ang PDP-Laban president ay si Manny Pacquiao? O come on!"

BCDA-MTD BERHAD SEAGAMES ANOMALY.

 WALANG KAMATAYANG KORAPSYON SA GOBYERNO NI DUTERTE. - BCDA-MTD BERHAD SEAGAMES ANOMALY.

SEN. RISA HONTIVEROS:

"Ang project cost sa pagpapatayo ng #SEAGAMES facilities na dumaan sa SWISS CHALLENGE ay 8.5 BILYONG PISO. At sa KONTRATANG siniyasat ng OGCC, 8.5 BILYONG PISO dapat ang ibabalik sa MTD Berhad. 

Ngunit sa kontratang PINIRMAHAN NG BCDA AT MTD BERHAD biglang NADAGDAGAN NG 2.4 BILYONG PISO ang IBABAYAD SA CONTRACTOR. BINIGYAN pa ng 25 TAONG PROFIT-SHARING. 

Ang KORTE SUPREMA na ang nagsabi, ang APPROVED BUDGET FOR THE CONTRACT or ABC na dumaan sa PUBLIC BIDDING o SWISS CHALLENGE ay dapat HINDI BEGIN o DAGDAGAN PAGDATING SA PINIRMAHANG KONTRATA.

Sabi ng Korte sa kaso ng PIATCO: a PUBLIC BIDDING would indeed be a FARCE IF AFTER THE CONTRACT IS AWARDED, THE WINNING BIDDER MAY MODIFY THE CONTRACT and include provisions which are FAVORABLE TO ITS that were NOT PREVIOUSLY MADE AVAILABLE TO THE OTHER BIDDERS."

Sharing is not cyberlibel

ONLY THE AUTHOR OF A DEFAMATORY STATEMENT — NOT THE PEOPLE WHO SHARED IT ONLINE — IS LIABLE FOR CYBER LIBEL.

"RESSA has asked the Makati court TO DISMISS THE SECOND CASE.

Her lawyers cited the SUPREME COURT'S RULING on the cybercrime law which said ONLY THE AUTHOR of a defamatory statement — NOT THE PEOPLE WHO SHARED it online — is liable for cyber libel.

They said there is NO DEFAMATORY STATEMENT in Ressa's own TWEET which reads: “Here’s the 2002 article on the ‘private businessman’ who filed the cyberlibel case, which was thrown out by the NBI then revived by the DOJ. #HoldTheLine."

"As a CITIZEN and as a JOURNALIST, accused enjoys the protection of the CONSTITUTION which guarantees her FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, FREEDOM OF OPINION, and as a journalist, FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. The only limitations are those imposed by law and the decisions of the Supreme Court," said the FREE LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP, which represents Ressa.

"Keeping people informed, using any platform at her disposal (in this case, Twitter), is PART OF HER DUTY AS A JOURNALIST; certainly, the NON-DEFAMATORY statement she wrote TO INFORM people following her on Twitter falls under the exercise of her right under ARTICLE III, SECTION 4 OF THE 1987 CONSTITUTION and cannot form the basis for this charge," the lawyers said in their MOTION TO QUASH.—AOL, GMA News."

Source  - https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/766636/maria-ressa-charged-with-cyber-libel-for-2nd-time/story/

Duterte umamin na walang pakialam sa human rights ng Pilipino.

 INAAMIN NI DUTERTE NA WALA.SIYANG PAKIALAM SA HUMAN RIGHTS NG MGA PILIPINO (ARTICLE III, BILL OF RIGHTS, 1987 CONSTITUTION). ANG HEAD OF STATE NG PILIPINAS AY ISANG TALAMAK NA KRIMINAL.

"It's been made clear countless times in the past: THE PRESIDENT DOES NOT CARE ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS, despite claiming to abide by the 1987 CONSTITUTION. 

At a speech in Cavite on Thursday at an event celebrating the destruction of P7 billion worth of narcotics, President Rodrigo DUTERTE made the statement as explicitly as he could, URGING OFFICERS OF THE LAW TO SHOOT FIRST, AND WORRY ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS LATER. 

"All addicts have guns. If there's even a hint of wrongdoing, any overt act, EVEN IF YOU DON'T SEE A GUN, JUST GO AHEAD AND SHOOT HIM," he said in Filipino. "YOU SHOULD GO FIRST, because you might be shot. SHOOT HIM FIRST, because he will really draw his gun on you, and you will die."

"Human rights, you are preoccupied with the lives of the criminals and drug pushers. As mayor and as president, I have to protect every man, woma, and child from the dangers of drugs. THE GAME IS KILLING...I SAY TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS, I DON'T GIVE A SHIT WITH YOU. MY ORDER IS STILL THE SAME. BECAUSE I AM ANGRY," he added. 

SOURCE - https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2020/12/03/2061268/i-dont-care-about-human-rights-duterte-says-urging-cops-shoot-first?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebooku

DUTERTE'S abusive and undemocratic WEAPONIZATION OF THE law against MARIA RESSA.

DUTERTE'S abusive and undemocratic WEAPONIZATION OF THE law against MARIA RESSA. 

"INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERS AMAL CLOONEY called "absurd" the latest cyber libel charge against RAPPLER CEO MARIA RESSA, which stemmed from the SECOND COMPLAINT of WILFREDO KENG, the same businessman who had already gotten the journalist CONVICTED  months before.

“This absurd case threatens to send a journalist to prison for a SINGLE TWEET that simply REPOSTS AN OLD NEWSPAPER ARTICLE," Clooney said in a statement on Thursday, December 3.

Clooney and fellow UK lawyer Caoilfhionn Gallagher lead Ressa's international legal team.

"THREATENING a journalist with CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS AND IMPRISONMENT for an INNOCUOUS TWEET AND SCREENGRAB is the behavior of a DESPOTIC REGIME, not a proud democracy with a long constitutional tradition of respect for FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION," Gallagher said.

Ressa was charged and ordered arrested last week for CYBER LIBEL, over a TWEET she made in 2019 where the journalist posted SCREENSHOTS OF AN OLD ARTICLE LINKING BUSINESSMAN KENG TO AN ALLEGED MURDER.

Ressa posted SCREENSHOTS of the article because the news website that published it, PHILSTAR.COM, DELETED THE STORY that day after KENG raised the possibility of LEGAL ACTION.

Charging over SCREENSHOTS is uncharted territory in the young Philippine cybercrime law because the SUPREME COURT has ALREADY RULED that SHARING a supposedly libelous post is NOT A CRIME."

SOURCE -  https://www.rappler.com/nation/amal-clooney-calls-maria-ressa-second-cyber-libel-charge-absurd?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

The Truth About Yolanda-Ding Velasco

 TRUTH ABOUT YOLANDA

By Ding C. Velasco

Dear Friends:

On the day after Yolanda, Kringkring Gonzales, Mayor husband Alfred Romualdez and their two kids were seen walking towards Tacloban City center because they were caught by the onslaught of Typhoon Yolanda at their seaside resort - where they almost lost their lives when the "daluyong" or storm surge flooded their resort. They appeared dirty and bedraggled having survived Yolanda by the skin of their teeth at their beach resort.

A week later, Kringkring was interviewed by ABSCBN in Manila where she, in tears, narrated how she and her family escaped death by crawling into the "kisame" of their house in their beach resort, because the storm surge flooded their resort.

Kringkring did not publicly disclose that two days prior to the arrival of Typhoon Yolanda, she and husband Alfred were on an overnight hiking trip with close friends, and that they only arrived at their beach resort on the afternoon of November 7, 2013.

So, having just arrived and tired from a hiking excursion, they were physically spent, so they rested and slept. Mayor Alfred wasn't able to even report to Tacloban City Hall the day before the typhoon.

While the Tacloban City DRRMC did open up evacuation centers in many Tacloban City public schools without their City Mayor - the biggest mistake of Mayor Romualdez was his failure to understand the effect of a thirty to forty foot storm surge that would be generated by the 335 kph Typhoon. And this "daluyong" will crawl from the beach to the higher grounds and will engulf everything with 40 feet of seawater.

So, when Yolanda hit in late evening of November 07, the unadvised citizens of Tacloban City along the shorelines were the first to die of drowning. Then when the surge flooded the low lying City, the thousand evacuated to the public schools inside the city, died of drowning too. This was evident because thousands of bodies were recovered in the vicinities of the schools. This in itself was a clear case of "nonfeasance" on preparedness on the part of Alfred Romualdez.

In the interest of fairness, it was the 180 man Albay contingent led by then Albay Governor Joey Salceda who arrived first in Tacloban City, not Duterte and his Davao contingent. Salceda brought with him a dozen doctors, some nurses, medicines and two ten wheeler water tankers we call here in Albay as "WatSan" tankers, which combined, can convert twenty thousand gallons of river water per day to clean, potable  drinking water - that they can  distribute to communities because the majority of the water pipes of the Tacloban Water District were damaged.

Salceda also brought two teams of divers with their own motor boats which helped to collect the bloated bodies along the beaches and shoreline.

Only the US Navy arrived earlier than Albay in Tacloban City.

The most covered incompetency in the entire  Typhoon Yolanda mess was the failure of Mayor Alfred Romualdez to  understand storm surge. Had he understood it, he wouldn't have allowed himself and his family to sleep in their beach resort and he would surely have ordered the mandatory evacuation of all vulnerable citizens on the low lying areas to higher grounds and therefore - could have avoided thousands of casualties.

To cover up for his stupidity, the entire Romualdez and Marcos clan started the Fake News angle that the  deaths and succeeding controversies around Yolanda were because of the mishandling of PNoy and Mar Roxas. And because PNoy, who was still President just ignored how he was wrongly pilloried, the fake news of Yolanda being his fault started to take root.

Today, no DDS will believe that in all of what transpired since November 2013; and despite the international acclaim that PNoy did better at Typhoon Yolanda than Bush did with Hurricane Katrina - PNoy and Mar Roxas were made out as the bad guys when the truth was the contrary.

Typhoon Yolanda was the strongest Typhoon or Hurricane to ever hit land on recorded history and PNoy did very well - considering the Pope was able to say Holy Mass in Tacloban City fourteen months later, in January 2014.

Militarization is Good Business

 ANLENG VILLANUEVA:

"AYAW ng gobyerno ng PEACE TALK kasi wala na silang pagkakitaan kapag nangyari yan. For me, armed struggle is BUSINESS."

Addendum:

MANUEL LASERNA JR.:

1. Habang ang mentality ng AFP at ni Duterte ay dugo, baril at punglo, at hindi AMICABLE PEACE NEGOTIATION, walang katapusan ang  communist rebellion sa Pilipinas.

2.  Hanggang may inequality, social injustice, elitist democracy, feudal landlordism and warlordism, government corruption, bureaucratic capitalism, oligarchic cronyism, extreme poverty, homelessness and joblessness, weak and corrupt institutions, political oppression vs democratic dissent, gross human rights violations, absence of rule of law,  disrespect for the Constitution, etc., the frustrations of the poor and hopeless citizens and victims of social injustice will compel them to look for alternative modes of struggle for reforms, including protracted Marxist or Islamic  revolution.

The entire social, political and economic system that governs our lives as a nation needs fundamental change and cultural  paradigm shift.

AFP's insincere press releases of sympathy are useless. Its corrupt and tyrannical generals, like the rest of the government bureaucrats, technocrats and functionaries, have sold their souls and principles to the populist authoritarian Duterte and his clique. The sovereign Filipino people condemn these unpatriotic cowards.

VP Leni Robredo as a Leader

 "WHY  VP ROBREDO IS BRILLIANT. She leads with science, not politics. She  speaks with candor and respect, not excuse and abuse. She plans ahead  for success rather than justifying past failures. She raises Filipinos  up rather than cursing, tagging, and bringing them down."

~ JOE AMERICA

#LabanVPLeni
#Protect VPLeni

ADDENDA:

1.  VICE PRESIDENT LENI ROBREDO, who recently drew the ire of President Rodrigo Duterte, warns against "the cosmetic courage of bluster, or power, or brute strength." #BonifacioDay

2.  “MAS DAPAT PAKINGGAN IYONG MGA LOCAL OFFICIALS kasi sila iyong nakakaalam kung ano iyong sitwasyon on the ground—hindi puwedeng one-size-fits-all,” Vice President Leni Robredo said.

“Iyong mga local officials na palagay nila mataas pa iyong community transmission, para sa akin kailangan silang pakinggan, eh, kasi sila rin iyong mahihirapan kapag hindi sila pinakinggan.”

3.  "DAPAT YUNG BOSS NI SECRETARY BRIONES AY 'YUNG MGA BATAS NA KAILANGAN MATUTO, ‘yung mga TEACHER na kailangan ng tulong, HINDI SI PRESIDENTE."

Ito ang mensahe ni Vice President Leni Robredo kay DepEd Sec. Leonor Briones matapos idistansya ni Briones ang DepEd mula sa Community Learning Hubs na proyekto ni Robredo.

"Dahil sa statement nila, siyempre kahit ako naman teacher, kahit ako principal, kahit ako DepEd official na lokal, kahit alam kong mabuti iyong programa, mag-aalala ako na baka pag-initan ako o baka ma-sanction ako kasi nagsabi si Secretary Briones na ayaw nila iyan," Robredo said. #UnangHirit

READ: https://bit.ly/37gSnxT
WATCH: https://bit.ly/2JlK5fQ

A Governor Speaks Against Duterte

 From Gov. Lito Coscolluela...

To Digong DuDirty: When you insult women with your vile behaviour, I think of my loving mother, my only daughter, my caring wife, and my many decent women relatives and friends. I know they are insulted, and I AM INSULTED TOO.

When you insult gays by your demeaning reference to "bayot", I FEEL JUST AS INSULTED as my brother-in-law who is gay and decent.

When you insult maids with your dirty venial sin joke, you insult not only the kasam-bahay we try to dignify through higher pay and respect for their personhood, you insult an entire nation, INCLUDING ME, because our sense of and desire for decency is violated.

The truth is, your demeanor is an insult to the Code of Ethics for Public Servants.

I AM THUS TAKING YOUR INSULTS PERSONALLY, AND I AM TELLING YOU I HAVE HAD ENOUGH.

With all due respect to your followers, I am calling on every decent Filipino to say ENOUGH! I

I ask them to keep you away from our children, away from our women, and away from Malacañang.

If you have a problem with that, tell me where we can meet and settle our differences. Man to Man.

- Gov Rafael Lito Coscolluela

E N O U G H 😡

Next Target: 2022 Election

 Next target ni Duterte...2022 presidential election manipulation to ensure victory for Sara w/o H and BungGu. A la May  2019 senatorial election smartmagic feat. 

SEN. LEILA DE LIMA:

"Anyone who seeks to steal our elections is an enemy to our people and our democracy. They should be treated as such.

I was told that last night, it circulated over the social media that someone from the Senate is attempting to insert a provision in the national budget to give COMELEC the authority to waive the safeguards for the procurement of equipment and materials under Sec. 12 of the Automated Election Law, as amended.

There is NO EXCUSE for COMELEC not to undergo regular procurement.

If they cannot do their job, they have no business running a most crucial institution. They better just resign. Any attempts at negotiated procurement for election equipment can only be seen as negotiating the elections itself.

I urge my colleagues in the bicameral panel to be vigilant against any dangerous amendments like this. I pray for my colleagues’ success for the sake of our country.

Our elections are sacrosanct to our democracy. And COMELEC should resist any attempts by anyone to undermine its credibility, NO MATTER WHO APPOINTED THEM."

(Twitter posts of De Lima)

Sen. Bong Go, Duterte's Caregiver and Senator

 "Sukang-suka na ang bayan kay BUNGGU. Ang image at behavior niya, as a public servant, ay nakakainsulto sa Konstitusyon at Senado. SENATONG siyang naturingan at  tumatanggap ng milyon-milyon taon-taon mula sa kaban ng bayan pero ang tunay mong trabaho ay maging PRESIDENTIAL CAREGIVER, MUCHACHO, ALALAY, UTUSAN, MESSENGER at FIXER. 

NAKAKAHIYA si BungGu. Makapal ang mukha. Walang delicadeza. Walang respeto sa constitutional doctrines of SEPARATION OF POWERS at CHECK AND BALANCE in government. KASUKLAM-SUKLAM din ang kawalang bayag ng buong  SENADO. Hindi ito  kumikilos upang imbestigahan at parusahan ang UNETHICAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL BEHAVIOR ni BungGu as a member of the Senate."

~ Manuel Laserna Jr.

#SmartMagicTSINAtor

VP Leni Robredo

NENE GUEVARRA’s article on VP LENI  ROBREDO: 

The Gospel about the widow who gave out of her poverty reminded me of Vice President Leni Robredo.

The Office of the Vice President gets the smallest appropriation in the entire bureaucracy. Her office proposed a budget of P720 million for 2020, but the DBM only approved P679 million.

The office has no access to the perks that government officials enjoy. She was heavily criticized for using a military aircraft for her relief operations in Catanduanes—which eventually turned out to be a false information.

She is not invited at all to official functions to which her office is entitled to. Her office is bereft of all the trimmings that the 2nd highest office in the land deserves—and yet she gives, out of her poverty.

The Gospel says that this is the highest form of giving—“The poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They gave out of their wealth, but she out of poverty, put everything, all she had to live on.”

I did not know VP Leni. Mayor Jesse kept his personal life private.

I only got to meet her in the inauguration of the Jesse Robredo Institute of Governance in Bicol University. I spoke before her and drenched the podium with tears.

When she spoke next, she did so with calmness, composure and courage. I thought that she must be made of steel.

The only time I saw her shed a tear was when she received a posthumous award that was given to Mayor Jesse by the Ateneo University.

The VP must really be a special creature. She embodies tenacity, fortitude and audacity. A normal human being would crumble with all the insults, insinuations, crass jokes, allegations, innuendoes, and criticisms that are thrown at her.

And yet, she bears them with head high and great dignity.

The Vice President works silently and without any fanfare. The morning after the storm, she is already out in the streets showing people that government cares.

She brings help to show that her promises are not empty and that she means what she says. While everyone is curled up on his/her bed and watching people suffer through their TV screens, she rides motor boats, treks muddy roads, fulfilling her mission to seek those in the periphery and give them hope.

I am convinced that she is powered not by ambition. She was a reluctant candidate and had to answer a despondent call to ensure that her district was represented in Congress. 

Perhaps, circumstances pushed her into running for the Vice President post. But she made the best of what was destined for her. 

After being stripped of what should have been her official post in government as head of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC), she wasted no time to sulk, complain and criticize.

She launched “Angat Buhay” with the support of the private sector and raised P353 million worth of resources that benefitted 224,336 families in the poorest localities in the country.

Without any government funding, schools, health centers and housing units were constructed. Capital and livelihood training were given to farmers. 

Today, the Marawi housing project of the VP stands out as being the most organized and admired.

But make no mistake about the humility with which she carries out her mission. The VP is intelligent and resolute.

As a homemaker, she set out rules that even the most outstanding mayor in the Philippines followed. He had to take out the garbage and tutor the daughters in the evening.

As Vice President she speaks her mind out, bravely fighting for what she thinks is right, even if her stand is diametrically opposed to government’s.

She thinks federalism is not the way to go. She opposes the imposition of the death penalty. She repeatedly raises the grave violation of human rights in the extrajudicial killings.

She is a gracious listener in meetings, but firmly raises better alternatives that need to be considered. She is sharp, logical, and studies hard. And of course, she has had the best mentor in governance.

VP Leni shows us how to give without counting the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to labor and ask not for reward. She must have been a Jesuit in her other life.

Dr. Milwida M. Guevara is the Chief Executive Officer of Synergeia Foundation, an NGO that aims to improve the quality of basic education in the country.

Mabuhay ang NPA! - Duterte

 DUTERTE, KOMUNISTANG HILAW NG DAVAO. -  

"MABUHAY ANG NPA, AND I WILL NOT TAKE THAT BACK,” DUTERTE REPEATED during his Sunday television program “Gikan sa Masa, Para sa Masa.”

SOURCE - https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/738022/duterte-cheers-rebels-mabuhay-ang-npa. 

Xi Jinping is Duterte's Defender

 DUTERTE, AHENTE AT TUTA NG KOMUNISTANG TSINA:

“The assurances of [President] XI JINPING were very encouraging… ‘WE WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO BE TAKEN OUT FROM YOUR OFFICE, and we will not allow the Philippines to go to the dogs,’” DUTERTE quoted Xi as saying during a send-off ceremony to Filipino scientists who will study Benham Rise (Philippine Rise) in Casiguran, Aurora.

SOURCE -  https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/05/15/18/duterte-china-wont-let-me-get-ousted 

Hallucination: Duterte-Xi Jinping-Putin Triumvirate?

 DUTERTE, ITINAKWIL ANG AMERIKA. PINAGMALAKI NA SIYA AY TUTA NG KOMUNISTANG TSINA AT RUSSIA.

"AMERICA HAS LOST NOW. I'VE REALIGNED MYSELF IN YOUR IDEOLOGICAL FLOW," he told business leaders in BEIJING on Thursday. "And maybe I WILL ALSO GO TO RUSSIA TO TALK TO PUTIN and tell him that THERE ARE THREE OF US AGAINST THE WORLD: CHINA, PHILIPPINES AND RUSSIA. It's the only way."

SOURCE - https://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/20/asia/china-philippines-duterte-visit/

Tabogo DDS Dutertards

 The TABOGO DDS DUTERTARDS know that DUTERTE IS A LOST CAUSE. Their problem is how to find the COURAGE to admit their stupid mistake and the WISDOM to  change. Mabuburo sila sa loob ng DDS ECHO CHAMBERS nila.

Addendum:

DING C. VELASCO:

"The Philippine Communist insurgency should have ended in the time of CORAZON AQUINO when she genuinely believed that the only way forward was DIALOGUE and allowing the Left to be part of Government so they can help effect the changes they longed for. There was only one problem - Corazon Aquino wasn't greedy and power hungry enough to seek the second term she was entitled to under the new 1987 Constitution because her first six years wasn't enough to permanently cast the changes necessary to stop the Insurgency.

The new confrontational tack being pursued now by RODRIGO DUTERTE will only produce MORE DEADLY BODIES AND SWELL THE RANKS OF THE INSURGENTS just like in the 70s when the GREATEST NPA RECRUITER was MARCOS himself.

He never learns from History because Rodrigo has never been a student of History; he is this way because what guides him is his EGO. Not history, and certainly not the  lessons of those who came before him."

Duterte Used the CPP NPA NDF in 2016 to Become President

 ANG PAGMAMAHAL, PAG-AALAGA AT SUPORTANG PINANSYAL NI DUTERTE SA CPP NPA NDF SA DAVAO SA MATAGAL NA PANAHON AY BUKAS NA LIHIM SA AFP, PNP, DILG AT MALACANANG. GINAMIT NIYA ANG CPP NPA NDF UPANG SAKUPIN ANG MALACANANG NOON 2015 ELECTION. - 

(1) “(DUTERTE) said as mayor of a city in Mindanao dealing with “REVOLUTIONARY ” and “IDEOLOGICAL ” groups such as the COMMUNIST PARTY of the Philippines and MORO revolutionary groups, THE WAY TO DEAL WITH THEM IS TO TALK TO THEM.

(2) "December last year, DUTERTE DREW FLAK when his pronouncement during a VISIT at the COMMUNIST PARTY of the Philippines quoted him as saying that HE PAYS REVOLUTIONARY TAXES. A YOUTUBE video later circulated accusing him of GIVING P125 MILLION AS ANNUAL REVOLUTIONARY TAXES."

(3) DUTERTE: “I can talk, but I can’t talk them out of their ideology. You have to realize the Communist Party is entering its 45th year here. YOU HAVE TO ADMIT THERE’s BEEN HISTORICAL INJUSTICE COMMITTED ON THE PEOPLE.”

(5) "DUTERTE said the NATIONAL GOVERNMENT should deal with the revolutionary groups BY TALKING PEACE."

(6) “Crimes I can deal with it. But with the revolutionary (groups), I give it to the (national) government, but here, I ADVISED GOVERNMENT NOT TO MAKE ARRESTS OF REVOLUTIONARIES ” (DUTERTE) said.

(7) DUTERTE ON NPA's REVOLUTIONARY TAXES :
“I CANNOT PUT IT TO A STOP. SO FACTOR THAT IN YOUR INVESTMENTS. IF YOU PAY TO THE BIR (Bureau of Internal Revenue), YOU PREPARE ALSO FOR THE NPA.”

(8) DUTERTE:  “YOU GIVE CREDIT TO THESE REVOLUTIONARIES, you can exchange words and deal with them." 

SOURCE - http://davaotoday.com/main/politics/new-peoples-army/npa-taxation-a-reality-just-pay-them-says-duterte/

Duterte and his Officials Should be Covid-19 Response Models

MGA OPISYAL NG GOBYERNO NI DUTERTE PINARINGGAN NG WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION -

"The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged government officials to ensure that they observe the exact guidelines they expect their constituents to follow as not doing so would only confuse the public and make it harder for them to effectively control the spread of the new coronavirus.

WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus pointed out that time and again they have reminded that to reduce the number of infections, it’s important to wear masks, practice hand hygiene and observe physical distancing.

“We expect leaders to be examples. We want leaders to be models. We want influencers to be models … [T]hey have to set the example,” Tedros said at a briefing in WHO’s headquarters in Geneva on Tuesday.

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Incidentally, in the PHILIPPINES, presidential spokesperson HARRY ROQUE and Sen. MANNY PACQUIAO were assailed over the weekend as photos circulated online showing packed crowds in their respective events, IN VIOLATION OF THE  GOVERNMENT’s DISTANCING PROTOCOL."

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RA 1700, Anti-Subversion Law, Already Repealed in 1992 Yet

"Digong is ignorant of the law. RA 1700 or the Anti-Subversion Law was already REPEALED by Congress in 1992, hence any membership in any subversive organization or association like the Communist Party of the Phil ( CPP) is no longer punishable.

With the passage of the PARTY LIST LAW in accordance with the 1987 Constitution, all progressive group like BAYAN MUNA, MAKABAYAN , GABRIELA, ANAKPAWIS , etc joined and registered with the COMELEC and participated during the National Elections and are now in CONGRESS as Party List Representatives."

~ ATTY. MANUEL TEOXON

ADDENDUM:

ATTY. MANUEL LASERNA JR.:

(1) HABANG ang mentality ng AFP at ni Duterte ay dugo, baril at punglo, at hindi AMICABLE PEACE NEGOTIATION, walang katapusan ang  communist rebellion sa Pilipinas.

(2) HANGGANG may
* inequality,
* social injustice,
* elitist democracy,
* feudal landlordism and warlordism,
* government corruption,
* bureaucratic capitalism,
*oligarchic cronyism,
* extreme poverty, homelessness and joblessness,
* weak and corrupt institutions,
* political oppression vs democratic dissent,
* gross human rights violations,
* absence of rule of law,
* disrespect for the Constitution,
* etc.,

the frustrations of the poor and hopeless citizens and victims of social injustice will compel them to look for ALTERNATIVE MODES OF STRUGGLE FOR REFORMS, including protracted Marxist or Islamic revolution.

The entire social, political and economic system that governs our lives as a nation NEEDS FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE AND CULTURAL PARADIGM SHIFT.

AFP's insincere press releases of sympathy are useless. ITS CORRUPT AND TYRANNICAL GENERALS, like the rest of the government bureaucrats, technocrats and functionaries, HAVE SOLD THEIR SOULS AND PRINCIPLES to the populist authoritarian DUTERTE and his clique. The sovereign Filipino people CONDEMN these UNPATRIOTIC COWARDS.

Lifeless Body as AFP's Trophy

"Elements of the MILITARY whose faces have been blurred in a photograph triumphantly preening over the obviously posed lifeless body of the young rebel with a cause whom they have slain in an encounter are the terrorists of the oppressed and beleaguered indigenous peoples of Mindanao, like the LONG-SUFFERING LUMAD. 

The PROPAGANDA PHOTO with the DEAD 22-YEAR OLD JEVILYN CULLAMAT cradling a PLANTED FIREARMS speaks a thousand words of the TERRORISM AND DEPRAVITY OF STATE AGENTS, and the CULPABLE NEGLECT AND DISCRIMINATION OF GOVERNMENT which impel people to resist the errant and ABUSIVE POLICIES OF THE AUTHORITIES.

Cullamat was a member of the LUMAD PEOPLE who was identified by the military as a MEDIC, NOT A COMBATANT, in an NPA outfit.

Also evidently PLANTED was the array of assorted FIREARMS reportedly recovered from the encounter WHEN NO ONE ELSE WAS KILLED except Cullamat.

- REP. EDCEL C. LAGMAN
01 December 2020

ADDENDUM:

BAYAN MUNA REP. EUFEMIA C. CULLAMAT:

“Mahal ko ang anak ko na nagmahal sa bayan. Ipinagmamalaki ko siya.  Bayani siya ng mga Lumad at ng buong bayan.”

Bilang isang ina, basag ang puso ko ngayon sa balitang nasawi ang anak kong si Jevilyn sa isang insidente sa Marihatag, Surigao del Sur. Matindi ang aking pagdadalamhati sa pagkapaslang ng aking bunsong anak.

Mariin kong kinokondena ang ginawang PAMBABASTOS AT PAMBABABOY SA LABI NG AKING ANAK. Hindi siya bagay, hindi siya isang TROPEO NA IPAPARADA PARA LAMANG SA PROPAGANDA NG MILITARY. HINDI NIYO NA GINALANG ANG PATAY, BINABASTOS PA NINYO ANG NAGLULUKSA NAMING PAMILYA. Hinihiling ko sa militar na huwag gamiting tropeo ang bangkay ng aking anak. Hayaan ninyo ang aming pamilya na makapagluksa at makapagbigay ng parangal sa kabayanihan niya.

Mahal na mahal ko si Jevilyn. Isa siyang tahimik at mabait na anak. Pinalaki namin siya na maging makabayan, matapang, at may sariling pag-iisip at paninindigan. Sa aming mga Lumad, bawat bata ay inaaruga para maging kapaki-pakinabang at mag-ambag sa komunidad. 

Ang desisyon niyang lumahok sa armadong pakikibaka ay hindi simpleng bagay, at BUNGA NA RIN NG PANG-AABUSONG DINANAS NAMING MGA LUMAD AT ANG MATINONG KAHIRAPAN NA NASAKSIHAN NIYA.  Nakita ng kanyang dalawang mata kung paano PINASLANG NG MGA PARAMILITARY ang aming mga lider na si Dionel Campos, Datu Bello Sinzo, at Executive Director ng ALCADEV na si Emerito Samarca noong September 1, 2015.

Bagamat bilang isang ina ay nag-alala rin ako at masakit ang mawalan ng isang anak, nanaig pa rin ang respeto ko sa naging desisyon ni Jev.

Anupaman ang sabihin ng mga buwitreng pumapaligid ngayon sa bangkay ng aking anak, ito ang tanging masasabi ko: HINDI NASAYANG ANG KANYANG BUHAY NA INALAY NIYA PARA SA BAYAN AT PARA SA PAGDEPENSA NG AMING LUPANG NINUNO.  Malaking karangalan sa akin na nagkaroon ng isang anak na naging martir at mandirigma.  Mahal na mahal ko ang aking anak na buong buhay na naglingkod at nagmahal sa bayan.

Walang pag-alinlangan kong sasabihin ito: IPINAGMAMALAKI ko si Jevilyn dahil LUMABAN SIYA sa isang SISTEMANG MAPANG-API lalo na sa aming mga LUMAD. Walang nanay na magtatakwil sa anak na nagsantabi ng pansariling interes at nag-alay ng kanyang buhay para sa bayan at  para sa pagdepensa sa aming lupang ninuno.

Legal Leftist Partylists

ARMED COMMUNIST REBELS VS.. LEGAL LEFTIST PARTYLISTS (MAKABAYAN BLOC), CONTRADISTINGUISHED - 

CHR SPOKESPERSON JAQUELINE DE GUIA:

1. "De Guia said there must be DELINEATION between people WHO HAVE TAKEN UP ARMS or joined the armed combat and those WHO HAVE NOT."

2. “We DO NOT SUPPORT ARMED VIOLENCE and we have also CAUTIONED THE GOVERNMENT AGAINST RED TAGGING INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NOT TAKEN UP ARMS AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT. There has been NO EXPRESSED DECLARATION FROM OUR COURTS OF WHO THE TERRORISTS ARE,” de Guia said in an ANC interview.

3. “For those who have not taken up arms, if they are exercising their CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS, THEY CAN DO SO FREELY. The DANGER OF RED TAGGING is this is a blanket, a SWEEPING GENERALIZATION, regardless if you have TAKEN ARMS OR NOT. That PUTS LIVES IN DANGER,” de Guia added.

4. "De Guia was referring to the ARTICLE 3 Section 4 of the PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION which states that “No law shall be passed abridging the freedom of SPEECH, of EXPRESSION, or of the PRESS, or the right of the people peaceably to ASSEMBLE and PETITION THE GOVERNMENT for REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES.”

SOURCE - https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/766315/chr-non-armed-groups-aren-t-communists/story/?utm_source=GMANews&utm_medium=Facebook 

Endless Rebellion

 HANGGANG may 

* inequality,
* social injustice,
* elitist democracy,
* feudal landlordism and warlordism,
* government corruption,
* bureaucratic capitalism,
*oligarchic cronyism,
* extreme poverty, homelessness and joblessness,
* weak and corrupt institutions,
* political oppression vs democratic dissent,
* gross human rights violations,
* absence of rule of law,
* disrespect for the Constitution,
* etc.,

the frustrations of the poor and hopeless citizens and victims of social injustice will compel them to look for ALTERNATIVE MODES OF STRUGGLE FOR REFORMS, including protracted Marxist or Islamic revolution.

The entire social, political and economic system that governs our lives as a nation NEEDS FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE AND CULTURAL PARADIGM SHIFT.

AFP's insincere press releases of sympathy are useless. ITS CORRUPT AND TYRANNICAL GENERALS, like the rest of the government bureaucrats, technocrats and functionaries, HAVE SOLD THEIR SOULS AND PRINCIPLES to the populist authoritarian DUTERTE and his clique. The sovereign Filipino people CONDEMN these UNPATRIOTIC COWARDS.

Peace Talk

Habang ang mentality ng AFP at ni Duterte ay dugo, baril at punglo, at hindi AMICABLE PEACE NEGOTIATION, walang katapusan ang  communist rebellion sa Pilipinas.

Addendum:

Hanggang may inequality, social injustice, elitist democracy, feudal landlordism and warlordism, government corruption, bureaucratic capitalism, oligarchic cronyism, extreme poverty, homelessness and joblessness, weak and corrupt institutions, political oppression vs democratic dissent, gross human rights violations, absence of rule of law,  disrespect for the Constitution, etc., the frustrations of the poor and hopeless citizens and victims of social injustice will compel them to look for alternative modes of struggle for reforms, including protracted Marxist or Islamic  revolution.

The entire social, political and economic system that governs our lives as a nation needs fundamental change and cultural  paradigm shift.

AFP's insincere press releases of sympathy are useless. Its corrupt and tyrannical generals, like the rest of the government bureaucrats, technocrats and functionaries, have sold their souls and principles to the populist authoritarian Duterte and his clique. The sovereign Filipino people condemn these unpatriotic cowards.

Corruption at Duterte's PITC

Walang kamatayang korapsyon sa gobyerno.

News:

"The Commission on Audit (COA) earlier found that part of the P33 billion held by the PITC included OCD funds for the purchase of relief supplies in the last five years as well as the procurement of fire trucks for the Bureau of Fire Protection that have not yet materialized.

The state auditing agency earlier warned the PITC to “stop the practice of utilizing the unused balances from completed projects for other purposes, unless authorized in accordance with the provisions of the General Appropriations Act.”

The COA said PITC’s earnings from interest income on fund transfers from various source agencies for the period 2016 to 2019 had reached P1,406,727,544."