Trollinc.org’s take on corrupt mediagirl Margie Cabanayan-Natividad

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We cite Trollinc.org’s article on one of the most notorious members of the media, Ms. Margie Cabanayan-Natividad in league with the likes of Rappler and Co., T. Failong, Corena Sanches, Karen Davela, etc. Charo Concio, below:

The Janet Lim Napoles of Media

What does P10 Billion Pork Barrel Queen Janet Lim Napoles and Margie Cabanayan-Natividad have in common?

By the looks of it, Janet Lim Napoles is threatening to squeal on the illegal deals she’s made with almost all members of the Philippine senate.  Of course, we know that’s she’s either pretending to coo like a stool pigeon or actually attempting to blackmail dozens of politicians to keep herself from going to jail.

This is why it will always be a bad idea to do something illegal with shady people who flaunt their connections as well as their riches.  Doing something illegal is bad enough, doing it with someone who is grossly indiscrete is…

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Corruption at the Bureau of Customs, Department of Finance

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In the past, we rooted for the government to come clean with the then prevailing situation at the bureau where the smuggling syndicates are lording over everything taking place in that area. The syndicate dictates upon the government not to install CCTV cameras, to deliberately sabotage the effectivity of the E2M process, not to use radio net inside the bureau of customs and to refrain from all other activities that will in any way inhibit, constrict, fend off, repel, thwart, stop, prevent or in any way lessen the power and intensity of the syndicate operations at all the Philippine ports (airport, maritime port, etc.)

Recently, the newly appointed Commissioner at the Bureau of Customs was subjected to massive smear campaign, its main attacker being the man who was in the company of noynoy in the car that was shot full of holes by military rebels in the 1989 coup d’etat, The…

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Understanding Faurat – Lessons from Sulu ICRC Hostage Crisis

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3rd of a series

Postcript to Understanding Faurat: When will Counter-Terrorist elements learn?

In the 1st part of this series, we noted that terrorists wage a world war under the guise of Islam. That the war they are waging is more secular, ideological than religious.

In the 2nd part of the this series, we tried to expound in greater length how progressive movements in some parts of the world in the past and today are similar in many ways to that of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria as well as to many other Islamic movements that we labeled as the “Jamaat” groups espousing not jihad or holy war but faurat which stands for revolution and is not a concept propounded by the Holy Qur’an.

We attempted to establish that the problem in many cases is that most of us at the receiving end of terrorist assaults are just patently and totally helpless…

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Sharing Information A Very Difficult Process

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French President François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande, France’s security workers, police and the people of that bastion of Liberté could possibly be in big trouble.

But they will not be alone. The United States, Philippines along with a large chunk of Asia, Israel (an almost 100% likely target always), among several other highly vulnerable countries will be targeted. In the recent attacks in Paris’ (multiple attacks against Charlie Hebdo offices), the Al Qaeda supposedly takes responsibility for the attack. This is mostly just interlocking with the current wave of Iraq-Syria Islamic State group’s highly organized and determined terror acts fueling a vision of a world war.

The Al Qaeda, dominantly Sunni but on many occasions accommodating members of the other faction of Islam – the Shiites – is nearly in a state of collapse even if its remnants are still mostly burning with the same fervor and dedication with…

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Uninvisible, Unsilent World War

Katihan ng Katutubo ng Tatlong Daluyong

Emerging Africa major threat groups that cross transnational borders

The forthcoming rally in France will be unprecedented. While past cooperation between erstwhile enemies have taken place mostly in neutral territory, the coming of the leadership of Spain to France to show solidarity against terror and whatever else that is behind and propelling it, is a great historical milestone.

History will show how deep the enmity that came to develop between France and Spain in the old times.

The so-called usurpation of powers, treachery, vengeance, mutually assured destruction between the two former royalties spanned centuries – even millennia.

Today, with the biggest combine in the world – the United Nations – not having any immediate solution to the uninvisible, unsilent emerging world war – that is actually a proxy war openly featuring the ISIS or ISIL and such insignificant, hitherto obscure groups like Boko Haram, former enemies embrace each other as a…

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Understanding Faurat – Muslims, Revolution

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2nd of a series

Towards new doctrines on standards in engagement

In the 1st part of this series, we expounded on the dearth of the true Islamic component within the Islamic State, many other terrorist groups (Mideast, South Asian, ASEAN or African, Mediterranean models).

In that discussion, we arbitrarily assign the Jamaat – or the movement of liberation type of template. This model has more commonality with Marxist, Leninist, Nietzsche, or other similar left-of-center political ideologies or Nazi Ultra-Rightist that struggles to appear to be from the other end of the spectrum.

Russian, Chinese, German, Libyan, Cuban, Cambodian, other models in revolution, have many aspects in common with the mold however it can be said that much of the intellectual aspects of the political myth of the revolution needed to be adapted to the specific environment. In a more contentious manner, we can almost say that the myth is…

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Understanding Faurat – Islam and Revolution

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What is a Sustainable Remedy to Terrorism?

Printing facility outside Paris where two of the terrorists were neutralized

France just suffered from deadly terrorist attack. The policemen and civilian victims were struck with high powered weapons by terrorists claiming to be ISIS but that authorities are saying are members of and trained by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

Islamic State leader, al-Baghdadi

Whatever the affiliation of those terrorists, it does not matter. What matters is the question that had been ringing in our ears for more than a decade now: Does the Military and law enforcement need to redesign, re-engineer their existing war and peacekeeping method?  Most certainly, they do.

Both military and police science are incontrovertibly applying biblical, Judaic, or else Confucian as well as variants of the marriage of eastern and western strategy and tactics in the conduct of warfare or militia work.

The question is, are…

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If there must be peace

“If there is to be peace in the world,

There must be peace in the nations.

If there is to be peace in the nations,

There must be peace in the cities.

If there is to be peace in the cities,

There must be peace between neighbors.

If there is to be peace between neighbors,

There must be peace in the home.

If there is to be peace in the home,

There must be peace in the heart.”

― Lao Tzu

Increasing safe spaces

Gruesome murder of Ms. Kristelle Davantes Photo credit: GMA 7

The goal of community-based peace, security and safety should be precluded by a more aggressive law enforcement system.

Force impetus should be able to interdict perpetrators of crime similar to the case of the brutal killing of Ms. Kristelle Davantes. Click here for a brief bio of Kristelle at linkedin.

This site fully sympathizes with and supports the family of the late Ms. Kristelle Davantes, together with friends and colleagues who put up the Justice for Kae campaign.

The closure of the case for the peace of mind of those who loved Kristelle, fondly called Kae by those close to her is called for.

This dovetails with the earlier assertion that law enforcement should be more aggressive, more responsive to society and the host community that law enforcers are bound to serve.

Ms. Davantes’ victimology profile fairly relatively fits that of a particular group or groups that prey upon helpless owners of vehicles that the group desires to possess. In many cases, the perpetrators receive an order for a particular year make, model and possibly color of a motor vehicle. The criminal elements will themselves scout for such a vehicle and in a number of cases, will utilize their contacts as scouts for the type of vehicle in question.

Once the closest match is found, the criminals will undertake all means to obtain the vehicle by illegal means and as an unfortunate resort, as in the case of Ms. Kristelle Davantes, by use of excessive force. In this case, the excesses led to the demise of such a promising, young and vibrant person as Ms. Kristelle Davantes.

In special cases such as the modus operandi used in obtaining the vehicle of Ms. Kristelle Davantes, the criminals should have been heavily influenced by prohibited substances or were experiencing the withdrawal effects of said substances, where intense paranoia and fear visits upon the substance abuser and is likely to commit acts that he or she may eventually not even fully remember in the future.

The public sector will rue the scorn of the affected publics and reap exhorbitantly expensive endless negative consequences unless it will pay the steep price to capture or wipe out the elements perpetrating this kind of crime. Email: workers@rebus21.shop.ms.

Articles on Kristelle Davantes:

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Justice for Kae Video Credit: GMA 7

Why was Kae Davantes killed

Justice for Kae

True Price of Corruption

Fouth Generation (4G) Warfare Mindanao

Events in Western Mindanao at the present time all point towards escalating fourth generation war.

4G warfare is defined as early as in 1989 as amorphous (without shape and specific definition), stateless, borderless, non-conventional war. It is also timeless. For demonstration, the overly protracted conflict between Israel and selected Middle East neighbors have overblown into 4G warfare. However, its worst feature is that 4G warfare crosses all lines of demarcation:  it does not distinguish between soldier-combatants and civilians. This form of warfare shows its antagonists engage in all sorts of unimaginable acts and does not follow the Geneva Conventions on agreed upon humanitarian considerations during wartime.

Although some military historians and analysts refuse to accept the 4G warfare (as well as the much-propounded 5th Generation warfare – 5G) doctrine, arguing that both the 4G and 5G concepts of warfare are weak in that they are governed by their own aspects of conventionality it is still in order to recognize the burgeoning threat to life and property, to the economic well-being of a social enclave or a country of minor conflict rapidly escalating into bigger war.

In its most poignant manifestation as the burning of Islamic villages at the outset of the 1980s in Mindanao that led to the long-standing Muslim secessionist posture and the rise of highly non-conventional war in Western Mindanao that spilled over disproportionately to Central Mindanao after the late Salamat Hashim broke ties with Misuari Nur this kind of warfare tactic and strategy ravages everything in its path.

This is being repeated in a formerly Islamic trading capital town, Zamboanga City now populated also by a dominantly Christian population who learned to speak a language that is half Spanish and half vernacular dialect.

Failure in negotiations and lack of crisis scenario planning and management, futures modeling and war gaming exercise among many other significant and trivial factors, brought the present situation in Western Mindanao to what it is today.

It is now anticipated, that since half of the base of support of Misuari is in the Zamboanga Peninsula and Basilan and both enjoy proximity to Central Mindanao where a sizeable faction of the Salamat Hashim group are found, troubles will ultimately spill over to Central Mindanao.

It is merely a matter of time before the atrocities escalate into unmanageable proportions and spread over to other major islands in the northern part of the country.

Considering that coinciding with events in 1995, during the merging of Christian Democrats with Islamic political parties, Muslim communities sprang up like mushrooms all over the Philippine archipelago, the base of support for all secessionist leaning organizations formerly isolated in the South, has now expanded into staggering size.

This is a precursory requisite for borderless warfare that will no longer be confined merely to the South, unless mitigating circumstances will arise and relative peace once more will be enjoyed in larger parts of the country.

For the uninitiated government technocracy, peace could be merely wishful thinking at the present, but it is achievable. The best stopgap should lie in what was began by former Director of the National Security Council and erstwhile Adviser of the late President Corazon Cojuangco Aquino.

The Hon. Dr. Emmanuel Valdez Soriano, intimately close to and known by the current Secretary of National Defense, Gen. Voltaire Tuvera Gazmin while he was Group Commander of the Presidential Security Group at the time, thought about conflict in terms of macrocosmic models.

In several sessions with him at his non-descript office in Makati City, the former National Security Adviser repeatedly tasked the building of models for flashpoints monitoring. Other more strategic modeling were undertaken during his watch. This concept was introduced several times into the succeeding administrations to no avail even with Gen. Jose Tan Almonte and former President Fidel Valdez Ramos re-inventing the process with the creation of Tactical, Policy and Strategic commissions under the National Security Council and putting managers under these newly formed units. The novel offices however were limited to simple reading and proofreading of letters, studies, proposals instead of engaging in flashpoint monitoring, crisis mapping and futures modeling.

The present National Security Council cannot hold a candle to the old wise men who headed that office. From the top to bottom, they don’t even know what story to believe and who to trust in. They cannot identify one solid fact to be true and lies are often taken as gospel truth. Furthermore, Dr. Emmanuel Valdez Soriano was not particular about personal wealth or expenditures, was hardly engaged in things that beclouded human judgment such as addiction to substances and other vices, which cannot be said of his present contemporaries.

The defense establishment is headed by a humble and modest former junior colleague of the doctor who declined the appointment to defense secretary several times stating his reason to be that there are more than 200 congressmen and there are 24 senators. In effect, as Secretary of National Defense, he will have 224 more bosses than His Excellency President Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III who is only one person, notwithstanding that His Excellency, The President will have several little presidents all over him, as well as close family, friends and what other.

Following the uncovering of the dirt and shit soiling the faces, shirts and undergarments of of our venerable 224 and top men and women of line agencies of the bureaucracy, Gen. Gazmin’s humility and modesty befitting of a better man, is probably just in the right place.

The constitution of top leadership of the security cluster defines the present situation now unfolding in Western Mindanao. However, even if the correct solutions will be undertaken by a private-led initiative, no one can dare say that it will be against the grain. In most other advanced or backward states, the concerned citizens of nations always rise up to the challenge of contributing to their country during crisis. In case of what is happening now, this call is made to the private sector, the clergy, all the other sectors, to rise up and be counted. At no other time but in crisis and the fights of Emmanuel Pacquiao are people ready to agree, link hands and even work together. This is one of those times and everyone who wants to help must come out and lend a hand. Left ungoverned, the security cluster will commit one faux pas after another to ensure that the trouble in Mindanao will last for a minimum of another ten years such as during the time of Pres. Marcos.

This time, it will not merely be Malaysia just training the Misuari fighters and some Christian Social Democrats supposed warriors thrown into the picture (formerly courtesy of Sen. Jovito Salonga). With the Salamat Hashim and Indon relatives in high places, royalty and business elite, the support of Indonesia with possibly increased help of several Malaysian political factions, without discounting that of some of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation members for the Misuari group can push the current troubles into a full functional 4G level.

The answer to the troubles in Zamboanga lies in diplomacy and a political solution. The sustaining of the effort to increase safe spaces should be found in properly supported future modeling, crisis mapping, scenario building and counteraction-countermeasures planning, as well as a wide range of related activities along this line. This is where the rest of the country could pitch in to boost a sagging government conflict resolution strategy.

To make things lighter than they are now, the irony is that there are cellular mobile phones even His Excellency The President is using that are merely operating on 3G. How the hell really is government going to respond to 4G? Email: workers@rebus21.shop.ms.

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Bloomberg.com on spreading violence in Zamboanga

Xinhua.net warning about threat escalating

ANC: Analyst says government must listen to Misuari

Sunstar: Cebu raises alert level

Philippine Star: Government force augmentation – 500 Scout Rangers sent to Zamboanga

CNN early news on hostage taking in Zamboanga