When Media is The Tyrant – Postscript

Postscripts June 11, 2016

UN Rapporteur Prof. Christof Heyns, race: European but hails from South Africa (Afrikaans) issued statements against the Philippines to press the point of respecting members of media, “stop instigating deadly violence.” Professor David Kaye, from the United States has toured the world teaching about international law and denounces the Philippines incoming president’s supposedly giving permission to kill journalists.

Journalists’ killings: UN experts urge Philippines president-elect to stop instigating deadly violence

GENEVA (6 June 2016) – Two United Nations independent experts on summary executions, and on freedom of expression today urged Philippines president-elect Rodrigo Duterte to stop instigating deadly violence immediately. The experts strongly condemned Mr. Duterte’s recent statements suggesting that journalists are not exempt for assassination.

Speaking at a press conference, Mr. Duterte reportedly stated that most journalists killed in the country have done something wrong. ‘You won’t be killed if you don’t do anything wrong,’ the President-elect said, suggesting that victims were partly to blame for their fate.

“A message of this nature amounts to incitement to violence and killing, in a nation already ranked as the second-deadliest country for journalists,” said the UN Special Rapporteur on summary executions, Cristof Heyns. “These comments are irresponsible in the extreme, and unbecoming of any leader, let alone someone who is to assume the position of the leader of a country that calls itself democratic.”

For the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom opinion and expression, David Kaye, “justifying the killing of journalists on the basis of how they conduct their professional activities can be understood as a permissive signal to potential killers that the murder of journalists is acceptable in certain circumstances and would not be punished.”

Cristof Heyns and David Kaye, UN Rapporteurs

“This position is even more disturbing when one considers that Philippines is still struggling to ensure accountability to notorious cases of violence against journalists, such as the Maguindanao massacre,” the human rights expert added.

Mr. Duterte is further reported to have questioned the legal guarantees to journalists who are perceived to have made defamatory comments. ‘That can’t be just freedom of speech. The constitution can no longer help you if you disrespect a person,’ the President-elect stated.

“Such provocative messages indicate to any person who is displeased by the work of a journalist or an activist, for example, that they can attack or kill them without fear of sanction,” Mr. Kaye stressed.

The President-elect has also been reported as promising to pay bounties to police and military officials for every drug lord they turn in. ‘I’m not saying that you kill them, but the order is dead or alive,” Mr. Duterte reportedly said in a televised news conference.

“Talk of ‘dead or alive’ has no role to play in any state that claims to uphold human rights in law enforcement,” Special Rapporteur Heyns stressed, while recalling the limits imposed by international instruments on the conduct of law enforcement forces.

When the people of the Philippines suddenly saw a fake president rammed into their throats, the United Nations did not say anything about the rights of the people not to have a mentally aberrant child-man as president who was never elected by the majority but only by machines.

The entire Filipino nation, absent the members of media who have lucrative careers, suffered for the last 6 years because of this abnormal and corrupted turn of this great nation’s history.

UN is explicitly mum about the fake regime’s absolute immersion in corruption. The PDAF and Malampaya Scandals. The Butch Abad diversion of enormous funds to mysterious destinations on the behest of the old HYAT 10 Group and their deranged leader.

Was the UN involved in this sinister installation, but of course it will not confess. What else is new.

Did the media indulge itself in a campaign to discredit this fake poseur acting as president? It did not dare because most of the owners of media are joined at the chest and abdomen to the fake regime.

When the government did not allow aid to reach the victims of Yolanda, UN did not say a word about Aquino.

Even the foreign donations for Yolanda was transported by airplane to a small district in Switzerland – is it Lichstenstein – by the abnormal boy-man himself and his political adviser Llamas who got himself a brand new Swiss girl friend and dumped Riza Hontiveros. UN is strangely quiet about all these. Despite the worldwide reach of its intelligence superstructure and its very headquarters being in Geneva itself. Perhaps it was in cahoots with the pretend President The Joker?

Neither did it condemn Aquino’s resolve to push through with the Mamasapano affair that led to the Massacre of tens of PNP Special Action Forces members. Neither did UN even lift a finger to prevent an international incident between China and the Philippines during the Quirino Grandstand Massacre. Why?

This time, the president has not even taken his seat at the Office, UN is already increasing the crescendo of the destabilization effort in order for the devious interest groups to accelerate their agenda of a coup d’ grace. From the UN Rapporteurs now to the disgraceful head of the fiendish UN itself, they are all throwing tantrums, in the spirit of destabilization. Short of just saying we are at War with the Philippines (except with the disgusting narcopolitical Liberal Party and its hideous satan-worshipping elements.)

Recently the drug syndicate-linked Liberal Party and Smartmatic just finished committing another massive fraud during the May 2016 election and post election period. The UN is incredibly at peace with this, thus in its perceived great might, giving full credence to the fabric of lies the narcopolitical Liberal Party, COMELEC, Smart Magic is spinning to delude the people that a fake vice president has again been rammed into the throats of the Filipino people. For what end? For them to prolong once again the agony suffered by the masses since Cory Aquino? No way KiMoon!

All that the strongly narcopolitical Liberal Party, its allies in the Church, KiMoonBan and the group behind him are doing points to a future hot flashpoint. Who will die in the process: The members of their group and their quislings in the Philippines at the very time or after they are discovered linked to drugs – manufacturing and trafficking, crime, white slavery, pilfering trillions of funds, grand scale smuggling-economic sabotage, and other heinous, capital crimes or the men beloved of the Filipino people they desperately want to kill?

We the Filipino people have not enjoyed a little bliss like this in a long, long time since Cory Aquino. Don’t be a kill joy KiMoonBan and fuck it all up you dirty piece of shit.

Be silent KiMoonBan and just go as your term expires. And expire in peace with no one to hound your remaining days on earth as a true son of a bitch and satan lover.

The People around the world should Get Involved and help stop these animals from further wreaking havoc on the planet. Especially in the Philippines that has given so much to the world is getting shit in return.

Shut Up! Silence! Resolve the Power Problem!

Philippines: Need for brief moment of silence, full attention to power crisis

July 13, 2014. A simple time of silence and attentiveness is needed. For just a little while, stop the desperate fibbing about DAP, PDAF, Destroy Jinggoy-Estrada-Enrile-Binay, et al.

Let’s for a brief moment focus on a potential flashpoint. The power situation in Luzon and nearby areas is facing a possible threat from incoming tropical storm Rammasun. With the entry of the storm months, any small or major damage might engender greater numbers of power shortages in Luzon. Earlier, during the previous month, it was reported by Manila Times that the worsening power problems will cause severe crisis over the next two years. (Read the news item here.)

As early as 1990, it was already admonished by the Department of National Defense that the Philippines get into the act of laying the infrastructure for surplus power supply for the next twenty five years (from 1990 up to 2015). This suggestion was not heeded. While the intention of succeeding regime after that of Mrs. Corazon Aquino was possibly noble, the deregulation of the power sector did nothing to cure the problem of extreme shortfall in the national requirement for power.

 Photo credit: extremetech.com

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We cannot overstate the potential impact of incoming Tropical Storm Rammasun (local code name Bagyo Glenda). However, with its path going through areas where above ground power transmission lines can possibly be hit by its now strengthening winds, there is no doubt that a number of circuit suspension towers will topple at the height of the storm.

If Rammasun itself does not completely break down major portions of Central and Southern Luzon’s suspension towers and several large number of electric transmission lines, forthcoming typhoons and even more minor tropical storms can do the job.

A large number of preventive activities need to be put in place. During the storm it will be absolutely hazardous to keep live power lines intact just to avoid transmission from tripping. The time to undertake pro-active measures is now, before the strong winds come. And following the exit of Rammasun or Glenda, more pro-active measures can then be taken – considering lessons learned from the passage of the storm.

These however must necessitate that serious attention be given to such kind of effort, beyond the present panicked and frenetic, super desperate moves to throw mud at each other between the group of Philippine president Mr. Aquino and his critics, as well as the Philippine Supreme Court that recently outlawed a fund use scheme called Development Acceleration Program.

In most developed, as well as in many developing countries, storm or typhoon buffers are installed to protect and safeguard farms and other agriculture livelihood centers.  Such storm buffers do not prevent total destruction of crops but these greatly minimize the losses from the havoc wreaked by calamity like extreme freezing, wind, rain, sleet, graupel, hail stones and aside from other threats like pest birds, insects.

Shown below are sample agricultural buffers that safeguard crops from calamity, pest attacks and selected other natural or human-made catastrophes.

Protective structures for overhead circuit suspension towers and power lines are anachronistic and insignificant to members of the power sector – particularly those involved in erecting overhead power transmission lines. This is due to the fact that the public and workers that do the installation of these structures deeply feel the considerably pressing need to have protection against these structures themselves.  Indeed the risk of accidents and getting electrocuted within the proximity of these structures is very high and such incidents cannot be accurately predicted.

On the other hand, there are protective structures built around these towers not to safeguard them but to save living forms like birds and sometimes humans from getting electrocuted.

However, with the occurrence of more and more devastating calamities, disasters, there ought to be a way to secure these installations from unnecessarily easily getting damaged when reinforcing structures could have made them sturdier and allowed them to endure the fusillade coming natural catastrophes like Glenda.

In particular areas, like Tagaytay City, the specifications that must be strictly followed for constructing all kinds of structures from buildings down to simple signages, is one that could make the structure withstand powerful Tagaytay winds sometimes coming to 200 or more kilometers per hour (± 200 kph).

Selected Tagaytay City structures

   

One of the best countermeasures to protect circuit suspension towers from damage during the recent worsening disasters, is reinforcement.  Strengthening the towers, reinforcing power lines either by adding or else replacing some parts with tougher, more resilient components.

For keeping as many power transmission lines and suspension towers safe, these buffers can be installed even for short-term purposes. In this case, prior to the landfall of Rammasun (Glenda), some safety measures can be installed. At the very least, lesser damage can be expected from the storm in case Rammasun (Glenda) will develop fast into a super typhoon.

As of this time, while there are a large number of power plant operations in Luzon are bogged down, if a substantial portion of the grid will suffer damage, the potential for burgeoning power outages will be great.

Rammasun is expected to hit the Philippine area of responsibility in the next 48 hours. For the love of God, stop bickering just for a short while and do something about this problem. If the Philippine government fails to listen to suggestions that could increase chances of preventing critical power outages in Luzon, then it must be the most inutile regime this country ever had in the entire history of this nation.

Photo credit: US NOAA

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Photo credit: Accuweather

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Update 1 Video Credit: westernpacificweather.com

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Update 2 Photo – Video Credit: westernpacificweather.com

Related articles:

GMA- Storm signals in various areas of RP as Glenda nears

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 #Glenda #Rammasun #power crisis #government corruption

Notes on the coming of Glenda

A Moment of Quiet Please: Power at Risk

A simple time of silence and attentiveness is needed. For just a little while, stop the desperate fibbing about DAP, PDAF, Destroy Jinggoy-Estrada-Enrile-Binay, et al.

Let’s for a brief moment focus on a potential flashpoint. The power situation in Luzon and nearby areas is facing a possible threat from incoming tropical storm Rammasun. With the entry of the storm months, any small or major damage might engender greater numbers of power shortages in Luzon. Earlier, during the previous month, it was reported by Manila Times that the worsening power problems will cause severe crisis over the next two years. (Read the news item here.)

As early as 1990, it was already admonished by the Department of National Defense that the Philippines get into the act of laying the infrastructure for surplus power supply for the next twenty five years (from 1990 up to 2015). This suggestion was not heeded. While the intention of succeeding regime after that of Mrs. Corazon Aquino was possibly noble, the deregulation of the power sector did nothing to cure the problem of extreme shortfall in the national requirement for power.

Photo credit: extremetech.com

Photo credit: imageshack

We cannot overstate the potential impact of incoming Tropical Storm Rammasun (local code name Bagyo Glenda). However, with its path going through areas where above ground power transmission lines can possibly be hit by its now strengthening winds, there is no doubt that a number of circuit suspension towers will topple at the height of the storm.

If Rammasun itself does not completely break down major portions of Central and Southern Luzon’s suspension towers and sever a large number of electric transmission lines, forthcoming typhoons and even more minor tropical storms can do the job.

A large number of preventive activities need to be put in place. During the storm it will be absolutely hazardous to keep live power lines intact just to avoid transmission from tripping. The time to undertake pro-active measures is now, before the strong winds come. And following the exit of Rammasun or Glenda, more pro-active measures can then be taken – considering lessons learned from the passage of the storm.

These however must necessitate that serious attention be given to such kind of effort, beyond the present panicked and frenetic, super desperate moves to throw mud at each other between the group of Philippine president Mr. Aquino and his critics, as well as the Philippine Supreme Court that recently outlawed a fund use scheme called Development Acceleration Program.

In most developed, as well as in many developing countries, storm or typhoon buffers are installed to protect and safeguard farms and other agriculture livelihood centers.

Such storm buffers do not prevent total destruction of crops but these greatly minimize the losses from the havoc wreaked by the calamity.

For keeping as many power transmission lines and suspension towers safe, such buffers can be installed even for short-term purposes. In this case, prior to the landfall of Rammasun (Glenda), some safety measures can be installed. At the very least, lesser damage can be expected from the storm in case Rammasun (Glenda) will develop fast into a super typhoon.

As of this time, while there are a large number of power plant operations in Luzon are bogged down, if a substantial portion of the grid will suffer damage, the potential for burgeoning power outages will be great.

Rammasun is expected to hit the Philippine area of responsibility in the next 48 hours. For the love of God, stop bickering just for a short while and do something about this problem. If the Philippine government fails to listen to suggestions that could increase chances of preventing critical power outages in Luzon, then it must be the most inutile regime this country ever had in the entire history of this nation.

Photo credit: US NOAA

Photo credits: weather.com

Photo credit: Accuweather

Update 1 Video Credit: westernpacificweather.com

Update 2 Photo – Video Credit: westernpacificweather.com

Related articles:

GMA- Storm signals in various areas of RP as Glenda nears

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.

Writings on the Wall

It was forecast at the early part of October that new information will come to the fore about the PDAF scandal perpetrated by husband and wife Jaime and Janet Napoles as well as lawyers, accountants, runners, drivers, maids and house boys as well as dead people whose names were used in the NGOs.

These details of the new findings revealed currently changes the picture for all of us. Suddenly, the air feels rotten, the smell is too pungent. It is as if the smell of a decayed, decrepit, rotting Malacanang is spreading all over the country.

As www.qualitychange.org admonishes for now, “for change to happen, wake up everyone.”