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.

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!

Global Geohazards System

Crisis Mapping

In 2008 we determined to create a full-function Crisis Mapping project. This was borne out of the persistent eruption of hostilities in Southern Philippines between both communist – Islamist groups on one side and the government on the other. Fresh from the experience at confronting an incorrigible troublemaker such as the Juma’a Abu Sayyap, or more popularly known as Abu Sayyaf, we resolved to push stakeholders to join in formulating the Philippine conflicts crisis map.

This is modeled after the U.S.-Euro academe’s successful crime and peacekeeping mapping efforts that had led to wide acceptance and invited broad-based support from as many sectors and as many countries as possible.

After all, the value of life is such that people and institutions, states and combines will pay as high a price as possible for the safety of both individuals and enclaves of people.

Supersites (eathquake sites) of the world scientific community has a interactive map showing the areas where big earthquakes are predicted to happen. Click the image to visit Supersites:

Changed Parameters

One year later, the entire universe for the crisis mapping project had changed. It cannot be called a drastic change since the new directions fell within range of  long-held advocacies and persistent efforts. We had began such efforts by provoking officials at the Department of National Defense to modernize.

Among the sources for concepts and ideas of our papers given to the department was an executive formerly engaged as part of a service provider group at a Saudi Arabia military base. The Saudi military and government, thanks to their foreign high-tech service providers in the late 80s were already advanced in the use of GIS, the digitization of all documents, exploiting satellite information among many things.

With various other inputs from visiting colleagues, the advocacy for a fully functional satellite research, GPS and GIS-ready system was pushed at defense department, the National Security Council and at the Department of Transportation and Communications through the suggestion of the administrative officer of the defense secretary.

A large number of milestones were achieved in all of these, one of which was the formulation of the 10-year framework for aerospace concerns and civil aviation development in the Philippines. Ultimately this led to the privatization of the Air Transportation Office that is now the more corporate-run Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines.

Another is the passing of the enabling law for the National Transport Safety Board – patterned from the NTSB model of the United States. Many other small accomplishments were also made along the way, until the shift of our mindset from conflicts mapping into environmental or geohazards mapping. On both these milestones, a company in the United States was the most instrumental of all and provided all the support needed.

Hazards Mapping

That year in 2009 following the terrorist siege at Sulu Province where staff of the International Committee on the Red Cross were abducted by well-connected civilians that turned over the victims to the Juma’a Abu Sayyap for higher stakes in ransom collections, the need for crisis mapping was overshadowed by the critical want for forecasting natural (or even human-made) catastrophes.

While it cannot be discounted that the fighting vs. terror is a universal concern, that political conflicts leading to war is a serious matter, it had to be conceded that disasters ruled the day. When we were running after the terrorists in Sulu Province, one of the laughable incidents was overrunning several camps of the Abu Sayyap simply because they were watching over the boxing match of Manny Pacquiao. You can never do that in a disaster.

When strong rains arrived in Sulu, selected Abu Sayyaf terrorists went down from their lairs pretending to be civilians and acted like very well-behaved refugees in the evacuation centers. Thus it was decided, the shift from conflict flashpoints, crisis mapping will be done in favor of geohazards mapping. (In Quezon Province and Mindoro, among other places, the Philippine communists do the same.

After a considerable number of people died in various disasters in the Philippines, beginning at the time with tropical storm Ketsana (Ondoy), the firm resolve was to transpose all the efforts into a full-scale undertaking to coordinate data, cooperate with neighboring countries on valuable inputs, technology, earth observation, seismologic and volcanology information.

Most especially also, to come up with the definitive integrated map of the Geohazard System from earth observation and other sources to help guide in providing more accurate, timely and well-founded policy, decisions and execution thereof for the sake of disaster readiness.

Above all, to be able to provide credible bulletins, advisories and warnings to the public that whether believed by the receiver, are enough for authorities to haul off potential calamity victims to safer grounds – even with the use of benign force.

This effort in its entirety seeks to define new paradigms and strategies to enhance environmental hazards mitigation and prevent losses from disasters.

It aims to see to the welfare of populations vulnerable to geohazards such raging flash floods and stampede of debris (Ondoy 2009, Ormoc flash flood 1991, Cagayan de Oro flash floods 2011), powerful storm surges (Yolanda 2013), earthquakes (Bohol 2013, Baguio 1990), volcanoes (Pinatubo 1991), landslides, and tsunamis.

Global Geohazard System

There is a need to develop better approaches to mapping the risks and dangers to communities in the Philippines – correlating such risks with hazards in other neighboring or even fairly distant countries that are linked with Philippines within the world geohazard system (WGS) or global geohazard system.

Like water that seeks its own level, most if not all, geologic and hydrologic risks, among other environmental hazards, have a way of interconnecting – in the sense that the world is chopped up into a whole lot of boundaries while such hazards challenge these boundaries.

A fault like the Philippine fault might be known to lie across the length of the Philippine archipelago but it is connected to Taiwan in the north and if you further examine the same from the perspective of tectonic plates, you will note that you will reach both ends of the world from different routes just tracing interconnections between the tectonic plates – that all have a bearing on nearly every seismologic activity anywhere in the globe.

One of the minor reasons for the shift was our discovering that the organizers of the highly valuable 3rd International Geohazards Workshop in 2007 did not invite the Philippines. While other very extensive gatherings were held later where the Philippines was represented, it must be said that the value of that conference by the ESA–NASA et al in Italy cannot be discounted.

Discussions on earth observation could help Philippine scientists technology experts, among those of other countries, as well as closely network the developing countries’ geohazard specialists with the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites that have the ultimate capacity of providing ground penetrating data about seismologic events, or even unnatural potential hydrologic threats, space data on tropical storms, typhoons and so on.

Call for international cooperation, sharing

Now that we have firmed up our resolve not to dwell on political crisis and conflicts, we extend our hand as far out in invitation to all members of the scientific community, developers and providers of technology for geohazard mapping, outer space activity specialists, earth observation networks, to help us stage the first international geohazards mapping and environment summit in Manila, Philippines from the first to the second week of December 2014.

It is sought that the kind support of CEOS and its member agencies will be available so that all aspects of discussions and working meetings will be more meaningful.

Among the best of the best in the community of geohazard experts, it is hoped that brothers and sisters geohazard specialists of Malaysia will not be last to respond to our call, because we believe that they ought to come to the conference we are moving heaven and earth to accomplish.

Our conference site on the web is still under construction at this time, but we hope to have it ready by January 2014. We have brainstormed a set of topics upon which sharing with experts will be done. We invite all those interested to prepare papers closest to their hearts however, without us limiting their breadth of knowledge and experience in their selected areas of expertise.

We hope to see you in December 2014 in Manila and believe that there is always a way for all kinds of points to connect when the stimuli is present. In our case, the stimuli we can best provide is the best of the best of Filipino hospitality and genius in improvisations.

Acknowledgments:

Some, but not all of those that gave us inspiration and support for this undertaking are most heartily thanked for whatever contributions were obtained from them, in one way or another. These institutions are listed below, not in any kind of order. We will provide a more complete list during the conference proper in 2014.

Peter Meier, Jen Ziemke, Tom De Groeve, Barbara Weeke
Department of Science and Technology

Saudi Arabia Royal Air Force, Ministry of Defence

Department of National Defense

Department of Transportation and Communications

Former Defense Secretary Orlando S. Mercado

Office of Civil Defense

Armed Forces of the Philippines

Philippine National Police

Harris Corp.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

UN Outer Space Affairs

Antonio Causing

GGOS Workshop

The United Nations

United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction

Transparency International

Office of the President, Republic of the Philippines

Congress of the Philippines

Senate of the Philippines

Themes:

Climate Change, Disaster, Ecology, Environment hazards,Forecasting, Geohazards, Mapping, killer quake, earth observation, earthquake, earthquake faults, flood, GGS, Global, hydrology, imagery, information, liquefaction, mapping, Mt. Pinatubo, Ondoy, public warning, satellite,seismology, storm surge, tidal wave, tsunami, typhoon, volcano, WGS, World geohazards system, Yolanda