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service, but only up to a certain limit every day. From the product name UNLISURF, they changed the name to NEW SURFMAX.
Corrupt elective and appointed government officials to illegally amass great fortunes at the expense of the people use poverty in Daram, as in many other LGUs as an effective tool and opportunity.
To cite a specific case that we studied in recent past, in the town of Daram, Samar, many families are in chaos as the President of the Daram Association of Barangay Chairmen himself who is a de facto Councilor of the Municipality of Daram and Mayor Lucia la Torre – derogatorily called Mayor Lugaw behind her back by Daram residents – are promoting, financing, massive gambling in the island town.
Small cash supposed to allow a family to buy rice and other necessities, are going into the hands of the suertres bookies bet collectors of Mayor la Torre and Councilor Panki Sabulao (Francisco B. Sabulao, Sr.).
Even if the trade is illegal, criminal and degrades the values of the people and the youth, it will not be stopped as the Mayor herself in in the middle of it.
One of the long-staying members of the clergy in Daram stood up in a podium and spoke, as he said, for the first time against corruption in Daram because in all his time in the town, this was the first time that a wave of immorality and criminal activities has swept throughout the entire island and is infecting everyone, the most vulnerable being the youth of Daram.
In recent past, the religious sector supported the filing of a case filed in Court against Mayor la Torre, a certain Ms. Cobarrubias, a foreign national and other officials and hangers on of the Daram local government for strip mining privately owned farms of Daram farmers.
The farmers were surprised to wake up one morning that their farms were being bulldozed by the party of Mayor la Torre and her friends.
A member of the Astorga clan, the very relative of Mayor la Torre’s own assassinated husband the late Mayor Benito Astorga, stood up against the illegal mining activity that did not have even a single semblance of a permit or license to operate mineral extraction in the town of Daram.
Such a shameful situation for the Mayor but when exhorted to slow down on her money making activities, the Mayor just vituperously and obscenely spat out: Sumati ito hira nga ayaw hin aringasa! Bayad la ito hira nga tanan! (Indicating that she despises the people for accepting her bribes to vote for her during elections).
In such state of poverty, as in a Machiavellian scenario, the emerging distribution of prohibited drugs and unfettered display of immoral romance and sex are both threatening to gradually further corrupt, then numb and kill the people that will be hooked.
At the forefront of these criminal activities are ABC Chairman, Panki Sabulao, his brother Romy Sabulao and the incumbent Mayor Lucia la Torre.
Panki holds dominion in his own turf where his relatives, all Sabulaos, occupy positions of Barangay Kagawads while he is their Chairman.
Road networks, School buildings, other public domains like riverine systems and coasts are in an exceedingly very sorry state.
Not much can be said with the national government.
The people are not helped to prosper. In the time of former President Gloria M. Arroyo, a slush fund was put up by dirty minded officials and placed under DSWD.
This was a carryover of their intense desire to lay their hands on huge amounts of money since the time of the late Pres. Cory Aquino when they were badgering then Chairman Manuel Morato to turn over the money of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office to the DSWD.
The Cory NGOs at the time that took P120,000,000 for a supposed relending program, money that was to be returned to the government after a period. The Cory NGOs did not come back and instead absconded with the relending funds.
Feeling very small at their own humiliation when cases were filed by then PCSO Chairman Mita Pardo de Tavera against them for holding on to the P120-M money of the government they invented the incredible CASH TRANSFER PROGRAM – funds that will not find their way back to the government any longer.
However, from a small fund of more than 1 to 3 Billion Pesos, the evil CASH TRANSFER PROGRAM is now over Seventy Billion Pesos (P70,000,000,000).
That is a far cry from the original P120,000,000 they stole from PCSO and over Two Billion they earned in commissions from the PEACE BONDS scam.They probably think that with over seventy billion pesos, they can now make their own president in 2016 as they see fit.
On top of more than P70 billion, is the renamed pork barrel of Mr. Benigno Aquino the 3rd and this time it’s even bigger than the One Hundred Forty Billion Pesos (P140,000,000,000) that they squandered as mostly gifts to the Kotongressmen and SenaKotong.
In addition, local politicians like the ones in Daram, Samar and elsewhere are criminally allowed to use the funds to tie up future voters in the coming elections in 2016.
A dirty coven full of thief tricksters and master illusionists
This wastage of good money is an affront to millions of Filipinos who are suffering every day, every night, and every hour of the day over their lack of resources, inadequate pay that simply putting up a breakfast, lunch, supper and coming to work are a big dilemma to the average Filipino.
There is always not enough to come by while the thieves are wallowing in trillions of loot in the national government and multi-millions of dirty money in the local levels.
At a certain point as the patience of the people wears off, a sudden and very drastic upheaval will happen. Even if the regime or local officials order the Armed Forces and the Police or attempt to co-opt them not to allow such uprising to develop, nothing can be done about it anymore.
The pain of hunger and the psychological pain of working every day, getting deducted for huge taxes while the allies of the thieving regime are left untouched with all their doctored tax returns and accumulating wealth ever growing cannot be assuaged by an impoverished set of policies and criminal behavior of government. The impending upheaval cannot be controlled nor stopped.
All the signs are already there and the precedents are too many for comfort: the recent umbrella revolution in HongKong, the Arab Spring Revolution in Middle East Asia and in Africa, the retaking of Ukraine independence from Russia, the attempt of Scotland to be a free republic and so many other events in our midsts. In the final analysis, everything must come to an end, even the single minded corruption in this regime, despite the resources in the control of the evil cabal.
As the Oriental saying goes, when the great men rule, the small men scamper away. When the small men eat at the castle and take over the great men, the great men retreat. Then as the small men run away again, no longer hungry but overloaded and bloated with food and other goodies for another day, the great men take the limelight once more and the cycle goes on and on and on.
Ultimately, the lack of heart, the coldblooded persecutions and oppression by the regime of the poor and the middle class, the ruthless inaction in the times when the need for government’s presence is required will be what will bring this regime of small men down and finally put an end to the devilish creatures running the foul-smelling, decaying, rotting establishment like dirty, hungry scavengers no more worthy than our own poor, lowly pagpag eaters.
Corruption at the local level is now more glaring and blatant than ever. Thanks to the superlative efforts of the incumbent regime to steal from the coffers of the Philippine Government.
Daram is plagued with a serious disease under the incumbent Mayor Lugaw (Dra. Lucia La Torre viuda de Astorga).
One of the cases is the small island town of Daram in the province of Western Samar.
The people of Daram have a mind to call the sister of former Mayor Benito Astorga as their Mayor even though the incumbent local chief executive that the Daram residents derisively call as Mayor Lugaw managed through voter disenfranchisement, fraud, padding and vote buying to cheat her way to victory and defeat their candidate Mayor Severa Astorga Buquid.
If not for her frenzied cheating, Mayor Lugaw could never have won against Severa Astorga Buquid whose career in government is untainted. After retiring from the Pagibig Fund, an agency that handles billions of financial resources, deals with banks and manages the money of tens of millions of members, Severa Buquid has not been the subject of any administrative nor criminal case involving stealing of public funds.
Whereas, the current Mayor Lugaw is the target of too many complaints surrounding the theft of taxpayers’ money, no different from the national government that is running away with billions of funds through their DAP, PDAF and other means of absconding with the resources in the people’s treasury.
Daram is plagued with a serious disease under the incumbent Mayor Lugaw (Dra. Lucia La Torre viuda de Astorga).
The funds provided by national government, subnational government agencies and Congresswoman Milagros Tan, Governor Sharee Tan, are being diverted in large part by the incumbent Mayor Lugaw.
If a national agency audit and inspection of the infrastructure projects in Daram will be conducted, it will be found that all of the completed most recent (under Mayor Lugaw) projects are impossibly substandard.
For a very small island municipality, current Mayor Lugaw maintains a large number of casual ghost employees at the Municipal Local Government of Daram.
The brother of Mayor Lugaw a formerly small time contractor who can hardly manage to obtain a contracting job, Noel la Torre proudly considers himself a Big Time Contractor who is into Big Time deals in all aspects of Contracts to Supply and Construct. Brother Noel la Torre with the blessing of her sister, Mayor Lugaw, is behind all the substandard construction in Daram and now his contracting prowess is extending to other towns and cities in Samar. Soon or possibly already happening at present, Mayor Lugaw’s brother Noel will also be obtaining contracts in Leyte and other parts of the country.
The team of Mayor Lugaw, wannabe contractor Noel la Torre, a certain Mr. Fuentes who is reported to be Lugaw’s Municipal Administrator, the Municipal Treasurer, the Municipal Engineer has engendered extreme, blatant corruption that the Municipality of Daram has never seen before.
Ghost Medical Supplies, the sale of expired medicines that when tested and seen not to be fit for human consumption is being dumped into the sea, the sudden and surprise rising of a Lucia la Torre – Noel la Torre and family’s Building in Real Street in Tacloban City coming from money belonging to the people of Daram, as well as other towns that now the team of Lugaw has managed to penetrate with their systematic plundering techniques of local government resources through sale of their family Pharmacy store’s goods. Lugaw, brother Noel and their cohorts have now engaged in contracting with all the vulnerable other towns in Samar where no delivery is being made.
The Municipal Health Officer, Dra. Mabuting resigned due to incredible excesses in the purchase of the simple Thermometer realistically valued at about Twelve Philippine Pesos (Php12.00) but was being bought by Mayor Lugaw from her brother for more than One Hundred Philippine Pesos (Php100+++).
Among the several front – dummy trading outfits used by Mayor Lugaw, an enterprise belonging to one Ms. Elvira Abad, is being chased by the Bureau of Internal Revenue for non-payment of millions of worth of income from Mayor Lugaw and her team’s illegal businesses. Abad is crying foul since she was a mere “commissioner” or recipient of royalty from the use of Mayor Lugaw’s team of her name as a supplier-contractor, being only a dummy like Senator Trillanes’ pet peeve.
All the Seminars in the LGU of Daram are being controlled by Mayor Lugaw, Lucia la Torre viuda de Astorga, and are being held in their house in Catbalogan City with no one having any nerve to complain against Mayor Lugaw for fear of reprisal.
Mayor Lugaw’s Municipal Treasurer acts like a Daram Municipal Central Bank. The Treasurer has a very thriving pautang (loan shark) business.
Mayor Lugaw, her Treasurer, the Municipal Administrator – said to be one Mr. Fuentes and the Municipal Engineer are now individually blessed with large shares of their loot from stealing the taxpayers’ money in Daram.
One Daram Municipal Councilor made a privilege speech against the anomalous transactions in Daram. Following the said speech in the Municipal Sanggunian, the poor Councilor received numerous death threats from the Mayor and her team.
The former boy friend of Mayor Lugaw, a gallivanting ex-Army Major used to be part and at the center of the Lugaw Crime Team’s activities. Unfortunately for Mr. Ex-Army Major, his wife learned about the illicit affair he was having with Mayor Lugaw. The brave, angered wife rushed to Daram, brought a gun along with her and reclaimed her husband from the clutches of the evil Lugaw, the Daram Queen of Thieves and supplier of death-causing medicines.
It was fortunate for the corrupt cabal in Daram that Mr. ex-Army Major boyfriend decided to go home. If ex-Army Major had refused, Mayor Lugaw and the Don Juan ex-Army officer would be dead by now. At the very least much of the brouhaha over stealing from the coffers in Daram would have died down.
It has therefore become an urgent agenda and a necessity for the people to undertake all means under their own capacities to push for a change in the regime. Millions await with bated breath the exit of the now extremely bloated members of the family and closest turd lieutenants of the imbalanced boy in the Palace, but that will not happen with those with the real power and capability to stir the change not participating in the effort.
Everyone is exhorted to conscienticize their politicians and indigenous and natural leaders to now move in earnest to kick out and remove the cancer from the country’s innards. Enough is enough.
by the Resource Recovery Movement, Center for Human and Society
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?
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. |
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. |
Extent of floodwaters made parts of Metro Manila look like islands in the midst of the sea and boats just needed to be on the scene as if they were part of the woodwork |
Reckless Wholesale Dumping
of Agro-Industrial Waste
Specially trained elements of the China Coast Guard – among others – undertake SAR operations within the bounds of the People’s Republic of China. Taiwan has its own CMC Taiwan Rescue.
In the Philippines, in 1990-1991, the authors were requested to form a plan for the Reactivation of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Forest Ranger Battalion. Together with the plan, also submitted were other proposals relevant to disaster response.
Siltation is the pollution of water by fine particulate terrestrial clastic material, with a particle size dominated by silt or clay. It refers both to the increased concentration of suspended sediments, and to the increased accumulation (temporary or permanent) of fine sediments on bottoms where they are undesirable. Siltation is most often caused by soil erosion or sediment spill.
Sometimes siltation is called sediment pollution, although that is an undesirable term since it is ambiguous, and can also be used to refer to a chemical contamination of sediments accumulated on the bottom, or pollutants bound to sediment particles. Siltation is the preferred term for being unambigiuous, even if not entirely stringent since it also includes other particle sizes than silt.
The problem on global scale
The intensification of agricultural activities is a recognised contributory factor to the current rapid rate of soil erosion on a global scale. As well as being a valuable resource, topsoil also contains nutrients which can negatively alter the balance of freshwater ecosystems. Erosion by rivers is a natural process and the presence of sediment of all sizes is necessary to support healthy freshwater ecosystems. When fine sediment is over-supplied it can infill the spaces between river gravels and pebbles and lead to problems such as the loss in interspatial habitat, binding of polluting molecules and the de-oxygenation of the substrate. Siltation in rivers is intrinsically linked to the erosion of topsoil by wind and rain action but accelerated (we use the term ‘aggravated’) by land use and land management practices.
Wye and Usk Foundation
Siltation
A Wye tributary smothered by sedimentation
River restoration works helping to trap silt in the bank rather than it damaging gravels
Silt is a granular material derived from soil or rock of a grain size between sand and clay. It may occur as a soil or as suspended sediment in a surface “water body” (Water Framework Directive speak for river, stream, lake or groundwater source). It may also exist as soil deposited on a river or lake bed. Siltation is very bad news for our rivers and many of their inhabitants. With faster run-offs from forestry, increased grazing pressures and, typically, potato, strawberry or maize crops, fine sediment loads on some streams smother the bed and kill off invertebrates and fish eggs, resulting in reduced spawning success or abandonment by fish. The fine sediment loading of our rivers has trebled since 1980 and in the most severely affected streams egg survival has been reduced to 0%. Much of this damage is avoidable and our knowledge is increasing of the whereabouts of vulnerable sites and which land use practices put the rivers at the greatest risk.
Following on from more than a decade of leaflet drops and advisory booklets, the “Catchment Sensitive Farming Initiative” aims to mitigate damage in the most vulnerable catchments such as Lugg, Ithon and Garren but it too has the disadvantage of being only voluntary and has limited funding for remedial work. Cross compliance is built into the current grant scheme, whereby grants may be reduced or removed in the event of bad agricultural practices but it lacks the will for enforcement.
The Foundation continues to be alert to the damage caused by siltation and fencing out stock remains an absolute priority where it is a problem, as is preventing and repairing erosion. The subsequent restoration of natural widths (i.e. narrower) that result from fencing enable streams to resist more effectively the worst effects of siltation.
To summarise, silt affects aquatic life is in several ways:
· Spawning gravels become compacted· Invertebrate types and numbers are reduced· Acts as a vehicle for certain pesticides and phosphates· Read more from here
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Self-doubting prophecy
“Residents in low-lying and mountainous (sic) under signal #4, #3, and #2 are alerted against storm surges which may reach up to 7-meter wave height (sic).”
ACTIONS TAKEN
o NDRRMC Operations Center disseminated Severe Weather Bulletin No. 6 on Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) to all OCD Regional Centers through SMS and facsimile and uploaded on the NDRRMC website for further dissemination to their respective local disaster risk reduction and management councils (LDRMMCs) from the provincial down to the municipal levels
o Directed RDRRMCs concerned through the OCD Regional Centers to undertake precautionary measures in their areas of responsibility (AOR) and subsequently advised local DRRMCs to initiate pre-emptive evacuation of families in low-lying and mountainous areas if situation warrants.
Metro Manila floods
A German scientist sensibly ventilated the suggestion to seed with grass and eventually to aggressively vegetate, generate new forest cover (the former one being totally depleted) upon the higher grounds overlooking both Pangasinan and parts of Central Luzon such as Zambales, Tarlac and Pampanga.
However, the Secretariat of NDRRMC, the Office of Civil Defense (OCD), a bureau of the Department of National Defense (DND), has a plan to put in place a Project DINA – this stands for Disaster Information for Nationwide Awareness Project. The OCD website published the following brief on this project:
Shown below are the sample candidate big volcanic and earthquake sites that passed evaluation and are now included under supersites.
The earthquake faults at San Andreas, Iceland, Hawai’i, Italy’s Mt. Etna and New Zealand at this time are considered as permanent supersites.