Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Insurgency: Intel Units Monitor NPA Extortion

 Last week an Abu Sayyaf mole in the PNP was arrested.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1467479/abu-sayyaf-officer-who-is-also-a-non-uniformed-pnp-personnel-nabbed-in-sulu
A logistics liaison officer of the Abu Sayyaf Group who was arrested on Friday turned out to be a non-uniformed employee of the Philippine National Police (PNP), Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, the PNP chief, said in a press conference in Zamboanga City on Sunday.

Eleazar identified the suspect as Masckur Adoh Patarasa, a brother-in-law of the late ASG leader Isnilon Hapilon. He was arrested in an intelligence-driven police operation in Barangay Asturias in Jolo, Sulu.

“Investigation revealed that Patarasa is an active non-uniformed personnel of the Philippine National Police presently assigned at Banguingui Municipal Police Station, Sulu PPO [Police Provincial Office] but was also found out to be finance and logistics liaison officer of Dauwla Islamiya under the ASG and was included in the Martial Law Arrest Order No. 1 during the Marawi Siege in 2017,” Eleazar said.

Patarasa joined the Jihadist organization in 2001 under ASG leader Khadaffy Janjalani in Basilan but later shifted to ASG Senior Leader Radullan Sahiron in Sulu, according to Eleazar.

He was also known to have direct contact with Jemaah Islamiyah operative Amin Baco, a.k.a. Guro Jihad, and other ASG members.

Further investigation revealed that Patarasa received funds from Almaida Salvin, a designated terrorist included in the U.S. Treasury’s sanctions list who was arrested sometime in April 2019 for illegal possession of explosives through Merhama Sawari, who was killed in Parañaque shootout together with three suspected terrorists on June 20, 2020.

A brother-in-law of Isnilon Hapilon who was the finance and logistics liason officer of ASG as well as having a warrant out for his arrest since 2017 turned out to be a mole inside the PNP. There is no word on what his role was as a non-uniformed employee and the PNP cannot explain how he was able to join their ranks.

Whatever the case may be this is a shocking instance of the PNP's complete lack of intelligence abilities. Did no one run a background check on this man? It also raises questions of how many more moles are in the PNP and the AFP. Remember the NICA estimates there are 300,000 communist terrorists working for the government at various levels.

Properly gathering and assessing intelligence is very important in defeating the insurgency and the PNP and AFP have shown us time and again they simply do not appreciate the threats that come their way.  How then can the government be trusted to monitor NPA extortion activities this election season?

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1149487

Government intelligence units in Region 12 (Soccsksargen) are monitoring possible extortion activities by communist terrorist group (CTG) members on local politicians in line with the 2022 elections. 

Eduardo Marquez, director of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA)-Region 12, said they are coordinating with various security and law enforcement agencies in the region to track any related movements by the New People’s Army (NPA) and its allied groups. 

In the past years, he said they monitored offers made to politicians for campaign-related activities even ahead of the official filing of certificates of candidacy (COC). 

The Commission on Elections has set the filing of COCs for the May 9, 2022 national and local elections from October 1 to 8. 

“We’re monitoring this early to counter any possible movement or activity and also protect our politicians,” he told the Philippine News Agency (PNA) in an interview on Wednesday. 

Marquez advised prospective politicians and officials seeking reelection to reject these offers and report them to authorities. 

He said giving in to demands for payment of the so-called “permit-to-campaign” and “permit-to-win” fees as well as other arrangements are considered as support to the communist terrorist groups.

What is the point of this charade? They know who is paying the NPA extortion tax. In 2019 the DILG said they had a list of 349 government executives who were paying the CPP-NPA to campaign.

https://www.dilg.gov.ph/news/DILG-349-government-execs-pay-CPP-NPA-extortion-money-permit-to-campaign/NC-2019-1060

The people deserve to know what happened to the officials on this list. Are some of them holding office? Will they be up for reelection next year? Was anyone arrested?

RTF-6 which covers the Western Visayas thinks they will be ending NPA extortion activities soon and very soon.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1149521

The extortion activities of the Communist Party of the Philippines–New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) will soon come to an end with the ongoing investigation being conducted on the alleged support extended to them by companies and even politicians, a Western Visayas Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF6-ELCAC) official said on Thursday.

Assistant Provincial Prosecutor Flosemer Chris Gonzales, RTF 6-ELCAC spokesperson, said the disclosure of National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) Director-General Alex Paul Monteagudo that companies and some politicians are supporting the communist rebels will eventually lead to withdrawal of support to their extortion scheme.

Monteagudo, during Monday's episode of "Tagged: Debunking Lies by Telling The Truth", said the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) is gathering evidence on the allegations to prepare appropriate charges against persons and companies supporting the terrorists.

Monteagudo said 87 companies have been identified supporting the communist rebels but declined to give more details while an investigation is ongoing.

“The CTG's (communist terrorist group) lifeblood and lifeline will be cut. Without the funds generated from their extortion and other terrorism financing schemes, the CTG cannot hope to sustain their terroristic activities,” Gonzales said in a statement released to the Philippine News Agency (PNA).

Who are these 87 companies supporting the CPP-NPA by giving in to extortion demands? I bet we will never find out and we will never hear of this again. But it cannot possibly matter because according to the NICA the CPP-NPA-NDF has amassed P5.3 billion in three years between 2016-2018.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1149156

The Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) have collected a whopping PHP5.8 billion from 2016 to 2018 alone to finance their terroristic activities in the country and to support the lavish lifestyles of their leaders.

The National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) bared this on Monday at the regular virtual press conference of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) which stated that the bulk of the funds came from foreign donors deceived by the Communist Terrorist Groups (CTGs) into giving donations using issues on human rights and Indigenous Peoples (IPs).

"Malambot ang puso ng mga foreign donors (Foreign donors have a soft heart)," NICA Director General Alex Paul Monteagudo pointed out.

He, however, said the CPP-NPA-NDF could no longer use the same modus here in the country as the Filipinos are aware of the CTGs' deceptive schemes.

Other sources of the funds were collected through the Rebolusyunaryong Buwis Ukol sa Kaaway na Uri (RBUKU) or revolutionary tax imposed and extorted from businesses in rural and far-flung areas, Monteagudo added.

Aside from terrorism, the funds were also being used "to support the lifestyle of their leaders," Monteagudo said, citing as an example Bayan Muna Partylist Representative Carlos Zarate who was using money collected by the CTGs to finance his son's education in Poland as mentioned by President Rodrigo Duterte during his last State of the Nation Address (SONA).

Monteagudo said a high ranking official of the CTGs has admitted that the CTGs could not afford to stop their extortion activities as these have become an important part of their “livelihood”.

"Hindi pwede. Dahil ito na ang aming pamumuhay (It cannot be stopped. Because it is our) livelihood," CPP`-NPA-NDF official Jorge "Ka Oris" Madlos who headed the NPA National Operational Command (NOC), told Monteagudo during their meeting years ago.

The NICA chief said Madlos continues to head the NOC because of his reputation of collecting large amounts of revolutionary taxes.

"Kaya siya naging ulo ng NOC. Lahat ng paraan ginagawa para mafinance ang kanilang operation (That is the reason why he is the head of NOC. They are doing everything to finance their operation)," Monteagudo explained, referring to CPP-NPA-NDF’s other schemes to fund their terrorism, such as using front organizations like the Partylist groups in Congress.

So, the NICA, the Philippines' head intelligence agency, knows how much the CPP-NPA-NDF bring in through extortion, knows how they are spending it, and knows who is the man in charge of gathering this revenue but they can't stop it?? That is unbelievable and screams of incompetence. No wonder the insurgency has lated for 52 years. At this rate it will last another 52 years!

If the NICA can't stop the funding of the CPP-NPA then any revelation from the AMLC about which foreign organizations are funneling money to them would seem to be pointless.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1149648

The Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) has discovered at least 18 foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that have been financing the operations of local communist terrorist groups (CTGs).

This, according to lawyer Emet Manantan, AMLC Deputy Director and Head of the Financial Crime Investigation Group, during a recent virtual briefing of the National Task Force To End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). 

Nakita po namin dito mga euros and US dollars po na pumapasok dito (The currencies deposited in their accounts are in euros and US dollars). May nakita kaming (We found) 440,000 euros (about PHP26 million) in their remittances,” he said, adding that they validated the information with counterparts from intelligence agencies. 

Who are these NGOs and which groups are receiving their money? Not a word is said. Perhaps they don't want to disrupt their investigation. Earlier this year DFA Secretary defended the government's monitoring of foreign NGOs to prevent funding of terrorist groups. In 2019 the government warned the public to not donate to terrorist groups posing as relief organizations. It's clear the government knows who these terroist groups are. They should inform the public by naming them.

Monday, August 9, 2021

The God Culture: 2nd Esdras: The Hidden Book of Prophecy Book Review Part 2

Having examined Timothy Jay Schwab's "Torah Test" for 1st and 2nd Esdras and finding it weighed in the balance and wanting let us now pour over the marginal notes he has added to the text. Like his edition of Jubilees Tim has has annotated the text in an attempt to clarify its meaning and give his unique interpretation. The result is a mishmash of historical errors and heresy.


Take note that Tim declares in the book's description on both Shopee and Amazon:

We are not scholars and this is an educated layman's view of 1st and 2nd Esdras which many will find more valuable than most scholarly approaches. This work will teach and draw conclusions. 

https://shopee.ph/2nd-Esdras-The-Hidden-Book-of-Prophecy-i.345342921.11520349945?position=5

Before diving into the text itself it is necessary to point out that Tim has altered it just as he did the text of Jubilees. Except this time instead of simply inserting his alleged Hebrew name for God, Yahuah, Tim has also taken every proper name that begins with a "J" and replaced it with "Y." Here is an example.

1 Esdras 5:5 The Priests the sons of Phinehas, the son of Aaron: Yahusha the son of Yozadak, the son of Seraiah, and Yoakim the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel of the house of David, out of the kindred of Phares, of the tribe of Yahudah;

Replacing God with Yahuah here is even more egregious than in Jubilees becasue there are no Hebrew texts available for these works which he can compare. His replacement is disingenuous and can in nowise be called accurate. It reflects his biases about  the usage of the divine name, biases for which the Dead Sea Scroll Community would have him excommunicated. His replacing of Y for J in every instance of a proper name reeks of Hebrew Roots, a movement to which Tim is no stranger. It comes off as pretentious. If he wants to speak Hebrew then he should stop speaking English and not mix the two. Stop pretending already. Likewise, if he wants to translate the document a particular way he should do that rather than amend an already existing translation. He is standing the shoulders of men whom he despises.

Timothy has also retained the marginal notes from the original King James translation. That means for the verse cited above, 1 Esdras 5:5, we learn that the text is corrupt.

Yoachim and Zorobabel. This place is corrupt: For Yoachim was the son of Yosedech, Neh.12:10 and not Zorobabel, who was of the tribe of Yahudah. 

Here Tim tacitly admits that the book of 1st Esdras contains corruptions in the text. So why continue to use it? How is a corrupt text inspired scripture?

One note Tim has sprinkled throughout the text is "Messiah quoted 2 Esdras." This is actually not true. The most disingenuous instance of this lie is found at 2nd Esdras 1:30:

Cf. Mt.23:37- 38. Messiah quoted 2 Esdras. Note: This is the 1611 Original Authorized KJV Footnote both in 2 Esd. and M 

This is a lie. The footnotes at 2nd Esdras 1:30 and Matt. 23:37 in the original 1611 KJV are as follows:

Neither at this verse nor the corresponding verse in Matthew do the translators indicate that Jesus Christ cited from 2nd Esdras. It is merely a referent because both verses are similar. In fact, there are three verses referenced at Matthew 23:37. Interestingly Luke 13:34, which is similar to Matthew 23:37 and 2nd Esdras 1:30, does not have a reference to Esdras.

https://archive.org/details/1611TheAuthorizedKingJamesBible/page/n1301/mode/2up

Why is this? Was Jesus quoting 2nd Esdras in Matthew but not in Luke? Tim does not discuss or acknowledge this anomaly. Luke 13:34 does not even show up in the book! This just goes to show that Tim's research is not exhaustive. He misses so many things.

We know that Jesus never cited 2nd Esdras or Jubilees or any other apocryphal book because Jesus always begins his scripture citations with, "It is written" or, "you have heard it is said." When Jesus is quoting scripture he lets his hearers know. This is important because He came to fulfill the scriptures and when he cites scriptures he is letting us know that he is fulfilling them. At no point do His alleged citations of 2nd Esdras follow that pattern.

At 2nd Esdras 7:28 there is an alleged prophecy of Jesus' birth and resurrection. Tim's note reads:

Messianic Prophecy: The only exact prophecy of Messiah’s birth by His name Yahusha and around 0 BC. 

Messianic Prophecy: Yahusha’s death predicted. 

If this book was written by Ezra around 400 B.C. and not after the destruction of the temple then why is this prophecy never brought up in the Gospels? Tim does not say. He has no answer. He does not bring it up in his introduction or Torah Test except to assume its genuineness without actually proving it. There are many prophecies of the birth and origin of the Messiah brought up in the Gospels but this one from 2nd Esdras is missing. It is not mentioned in Matthew 2:4 when Herod inquired about where the Christ would be born. Instead of looking for a child with a specific name as given in 2nd Esdras, Herod slaughters all the children under the age of two. This is an indication of its late date and Christian interpolation. This interpolation is also what explains 2nd Esdras 1:30 and the other passages similar to the Gospels.

This passage is also never used in any apologetic work from the early church or indeed any period of the church. Its absence is another testimony to its spuriousness and inauthenticity.

Three of Timothy's notes on the text are blatantly heretical and blasphemous.

2nd Esdras 3:2 
Yahuah and Yahusha created. Though we leave this insertion, it was not clear to the translators and this cannot overturn precedence. There were 2 Creators as Genesis refers to them as “Us” and “Our” and John 1 is clear Messiah  created too. Elohim is plural. Elohim made not  just El. 

This note is a denial of the divinity of the Holy Spirt, His role in creation, and the Trinity. It is also polytheistic as Tim says here "there were 2 Creators." There was only one creator who is God. But God is triune and all His works are done from the Father, through the Son, and in the Spirit. That is the doctrine of the Trinity in a nutshell, i.e. three divine persons sharing one divine nature and working in concert. That Tim says there are 2 Creators shows he simply has no idea who Jesus and the Father are or what their proper relationship is.


2nd Esdras 7:1 

Elohim is a classification of heavenly being not exclusive to Yahuah and is plural. 

The blasphemous idea that God is one of a class of heavenly beings comes from Dr. Micheal Heiser who teaches: 

The God of the Old Testament was part of an assembly - a pantheon - of other gods. 

The Unseen Realm, pg. 11
The fact is God is neither a member of a class of beings or part of a pantheon of other gods. He is the creator of all being and stands outside all being because all things live and move and have their being in Him. This doctrine equates God with His creatures and embraces polytheism. It is absolutely heretical.

2nd Esdras 15:23 

In all of scripture Hell is an immediate burning with eternal fire. Esdras clarifies this is and  [sic] immediate burning and their spirits are gone forever. Straw burns quickly and disappears 

This is the heretical doctrine of annihilationism. That means Tim denies there is an eternal punishment for sinners in a lake of fire as the Bible teaches. Instead their spirits burn up and "are gone forever." Tim further elaborates on this in the comments section of his videos by saying that hell is an event and not an eternal torture.

Hell is an event not an eternal torture. Agreed. We have not entered the Flat Earth debate. Yah Bless.
It is not true that Timothy Jay Schwab and The God Culture "have not entered the Flat Earth Debate." They say much about it espousing the view that a flat earth is the correct biblical perspective.
2nd Esdras 6:1 Or, circle of the earth. Note: A circle is 2- dimensional. The ancient perspective was not that of a sphere
I have written elsewhere at length about Timothy's flat earth teachings

In 2nd Esdras 11 Tim interprets the final world empire which will rule the world as being the Holy Roman Empire.
pg. 131

It would be too much to discuss point-by-point Tim's interpretation of this prophecy but I do want to focus on what he has to say about the Holy Roman Empire. It appears that Timothy Jay Schwab has no idea what the Holy Roman Empire is. In his introduction he says that Constantine is the origin, founder essentially, of the Holy Roman Empire.

“They established such pattern from the beginning when Constantine essentially declared Turkey as the seat of the new Roman Empire. He is the origin of the Holy Roman Empire (Final Empire) as he established the control religion that remains the largest in the world to this day.” 

P. 54

Whether origin or founder Constantine had nothing at all to do with the Holy Roman Empire which was founded in 800 A.D. by Charlemagne. It appears that Tim thinks the Vatican is the Holy Roman Empire. Tim's diagram says the Vatican remains to the end and in his videos he has talked about Constantine founding the Catholic Church. In one video he claims Constantine founded the Roman Empire.
1:15:07 ...Constantine the Great, you know the guy that founded the Roman Empire.

This is a statement that beggars belief in its astounding depth of ignorance. It also does not appear to be misspoken.

In another video he says the Catholic Church founded the Holy Roman Empire.

1:02:36 Yes, the Catholic Church founded the Holy Roman Empire. That's a pretty serious thing for a church to claim in history. For a Pope to really be the power behind an entire empire which killed, stole, and destroyed from many. 

Gog of Magog Attacks: FRESH REVELATION: Lost Tribes Series 5: Who is Gog?

In that same video he claims that Josephus founded the Catholic Church which logically would mean that Josephus is the founder and origin of the Holy Roman Empire and not Constantine.

47:38 So, yes Jospehus founded that, what became the Catholic Church. 

Gog of Magog Attacks: FRESH REVELATION: Lost Tribes Series 5: Who is Gog?

Whatever the case Tim is wrong on all three points. Constantine did not found the Roman Empire or the Holy Roman Empire, the Catholic Church did not found the Holy Roman Empire, and Josephus did not found the Catholic Church.  

Tim appears to have a simplistic view of the complexeties of the Middle Ages and the roles of church and state. I would wager that he has never heard of the Investiture Controversy. To think the Pope has any considerable political power today is laughable. The powers that control world finance, the media, politics, science, education, and all the rest are part of a many armed creature. There is no single group controlling it all. There are many groups and they all collude with one another. Tim hits on this idea by noting that communism was financed by the West. That is very true yet most people are unaware of this fact. 

Now let's look at Tim's progression of world empires. Funny enough he ignores the Ottoman and Mongol empires and places emphasis on the West. It appears that the Holy Roman Empire was first. The British Empire came second. Next comes the USA which will eventually be "devoured by the Vatican" so that only the Holy Roman Empire will remain standing. But what happened to the British Empire? The USA took over her duties.

2nd Esdras 11:34 Britain essentially transferred its empire into the "New Atlantis" of the U.S.

There is a lot packed into that note that many might not understand. Francis Bacon wrote a book about a utopian society called The New Atlantis. Occultists such as Manly P. Hall have referred to the USA as The New Atlantis. As the sun was setting on the British Empire the Milner Group, particularly Lionel Curtis, advocated that the U.S. must rejoin the British Commonwealth and that the Commonwealth must evolve into a World Government. That is all true and well documented in Caroll Quigley's Anglo-American Establishment as well as Tragedy and Hope. Likewise, The Pilgrim's Society sought to strengthen ties between the USA and the United Kingdom in the name of clandestine global hegemony. But I am not quite sure that is what Tim means because in his book "The Search for King Solomon's Treasure" he writes:

However, even in the Treaty of Paris of 1783, the United States is defined as part of the Holy Roman Empire to which the King of England remained Prince Elector and the Americans signed it too confirming such but under their British titles still servants of the crown. One cannot separate the two powers regardless of what narratives we have accepted.

The Search for King Solomon's Treasure, pg 212

I will not waste time breaking down all the errors in this passage. Suffice to say the USA was never part of the Holy Roman Empire nor did Americans remain "servants of the crown." What is important to note here is that Tim thinks the USA was never independent but that it was all for show. According to him the USA has been part of the Holy Roman Empire ever since 1783. Since Tim believes the Holy Roman Empire is the Vatican that makes the following note nonsensical.

2nd Esdras 11:35. The U.S. will be devoured by the Vatican

If the USA was declared part of the Holy Roman Empire in the Treaty of Paris in 1783 then this has already happened. Tim's prophetic chronology is thus not in sync and this is because of the historical errors he makes especially in his misidentification of the Holy Roman Empire.

Vatican II has steadily eroded the power and legitimacy of the Catholic Church for the past 50 years now. It is an ecumenical and immoral mess at the moment with an outright heretic, Pope Francis, currently leading her. Aside from that the current destruction and dismantling the USA is undergoing is the same as that of Western Europe and it has nothing to do with the Vatican and everything to do with Jews in academia and the government who have created the current cultural climate over decades using the media which they control. See The Culture of Critique by Kevin MacDonald for more information on that point.

The major reason Timothy Jay Schwab teaches 2nd Esdras is scripture is because he thinks it proves his pre-flood cosmology and the route of the Lost Tribes to the Philippines. 

Throughout the text, we expound on the antediluvian cosmology including the Rivers from Eden, chart the vision of the Eagle Empire with our interpretation, and most especially, we provide a foundation in creating maps using 2nd Esdras along with other scripture and history to locate the Lost Tribes of the Northern Kingdom of Israel. If this book was written between 70 A.D. and 218 A.D. as some scholars assert, it still remains an incredibly valuable tool in these respects though we will prove that date wrong. This restored knowledge is full of revelation – too full to ignore and too accurate to minimize.

pg. 12

Let's briefly take a look at that cosmology and the route of the Lost Tribes.

On page 103 Tim has this picture:

p. 103

"The World Ocean was formed by the flood" is such a nonsensical statement that does not explain the diversity of fresh and salt water marine life on the planet. Also if the Rivers from Eden are now ocean trenches then identifying them in the Bible as if the people were familiar with them would be unintelligible. I have written about this at length in another article where I disprove Tim's claim that Daniel was ever in Susa.  

From pages 139-145 Tim has maps to show the alleged migratory routes of the Lost Tribes. There is absolutely nothing new here as he has mapped all this out in his videos and in his previous book "The Search of King Solomon's Treasure." If he thinks Israelites devolved into Negroes, Kurds, and Filipinos that is all fine and dandy. Many people have attempted to track the Lost Tribes but no one has ever found them. Tim thinks that there are residual traces of ancient Hebrew in Philippine place names which proves that there are Lost Tribes here but I have quashed that supposition in another article.

It's really the same old misinterpretations going on with Ferrisol, Pomponius Mela, Dinoysius the Tourist, and the Periplus of the Erythean Sea being touted and twisted to prove Tim's case. As I have proved elsewhere by actually citing him, something Timothy does not do, Abraham Farrisol does not locate the Lost Tribes anywhere near the Philippines. However in this book Tim gives us something new by labeling the Behaim Map of 1492.

pg. 143

In his sourcebook Tim did label a few of the scattered islands on this map as various Philippine Islands but he did not label the two peninsulas as he does here. These peninsulas are both mislabeled. Burma is actually the "aurea chersonese" or Golden Peninsula which is the Malay Peninsula. What Tim has labeled the Malay Peninsula is known as the Dragon's Tail.

The Dragon's Tail is a modern name for the phantom peninsula in southeast Asia which appeared in medieval Arabian and Renaissance European world maps. It formed the eastern shore of the Great Gulf (Gulf of Thailand) east of the Golden Chersonese (Malaysia), replacing the "unknown lands" which Ptolemy and others had thought surrounded the "Indian Sea".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Tail_(peninsula) 

If Tim had actually put in the research he claims he has then he would not have made this colossal boner. Thomas Suarez discusses the Dragon's Tail at length in the eighth chapter of "Early Mapping of Southeast Asia" which is a book Tim has cited in his research. Has he even read that book or just cherry picked a few paragraphs to support his claims? I have pointed this out to him several times in my articles so he cannot be ignorant about the Dragon's Tail. He likely just ignored this fact. If so, that is not merely bad scholarship but total dishonesty. 

Timothy Jay Schwab's research is not reliable at all. This close look at his new book over two articles has revealed error after error. No wonder Tim admits, "We are not scholars." However, there is nothing educated about this layman's view of 1st and 2nd Esdras. The fact is Timothy Jay Schwab is not a trained historian or geographer or linguist or an expert in any field concerning the Bible or ancient history. He is first and foremost an adman with his college degree being in marketing. Tim is basically Don Draper and only a fool would seriously receive a theological education from Don Draper.

To end this review I want to take a look at Tim's new website to promote this book. Just like all his other websites he has my blog name concealed beneath a picture of him and his second wife.


https://www.2esdras.org/about

Why is this? Does he really think that people search for my blog by name or that it will redirect traffic to him? The fact is Tim is very paranoid about me and my blog. He is so paranoid that he is even rude to commenters on his videos because he thinks anyone contrarian must be me.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8MyNjBZld4&lc=UgwEQ0EtFCPMJiUUFe14AaABAg
We take such hits every hour and usually just delete them because we know it's the same blogger and his associates. We did not delete you. Your opinion is welcomed but if ever we have a sense one is that blogger, we do not allow him to pollute our stream. He has connections inside YT and FB and they censor our regular subs not even notifying them nor posting their comments at times yet they always allow those trolls in. You may raise questions just don't get offended if we sense you are one of those trolls because we don't roll over for them. Yah Bless.
What associates is he talking about? The man really thinks I make sock puppet accounts to comment on his videos and that I have connections inside Facebook and Youtube. That is ludicrous. What else is ludicrous is how Tim goes on and on about Youtube censoring him for not notifying his subscribers. Many people have this problem. Here is a Youtube video on how to fix it. It has nothing to do with censorship.

Though I have not received any papers yet I am aware that Tim has filed a case against me for libel and is hoping to see me in jail soon.

The Hanukkah HOAX? Is This Biblical? Time to test.
NOTE: Some have actually come in claiming March is not Winter. This is likely an illiterate blogger who just can't read and understands very little of anything yet still writes illiterate and illegal trash which is all he appears capable. He will likely be in jail soon anyway as he is a criminal.

Imagine an American calling someone a criminal because of their opinions! He says that in order to dismiss rather than engage with me. When advertising his books Tim claims that in four years no one has made a single dent in his case. That is not true as for the past year and a half I have systematically broken down his videos and books, revealing Tim to be a man who misinterprets, twists, and ignores information. In short I have definitively and repeatedly proven Timothy Jay Schwab to be a heretic and a liar. He does not like that so in order to silence me he has threatened me with a lawsuit and jail time. If Tim ever does see me in court he will quickly realize the mistake he has made as I am nothing like the phantom over whom he obsesses. 

Friday, August 6, 2021

Retards in the Government 218

  It's your weekly compendium of foolishness and corruption in the Philippine government.




https://www.panaynews.net/ombudsman-suspends-calumpang-kap-for-simple-misconduct/

The Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas suspended punong barangay Roberto Niño Jr. of Calumpang, Molo district for one month for simple misconduct. 

Niño’s suspension stemmed from appointing Geraldine Blanco as barangay secretary despite her being supposedly not officially a resident of Calumpang at the time she was appointed. Such was a violation of Republic Act 7610, or the Local Government Code, according to the Ombudsman. 

In his defense, Niño denied the charges. While admitting that he indeed appointed Blanco as barangay secretary, he asserted that the latter was residing in Ciudad de Iloilo Subdivision, Zone 8 of their barangay, and this was known to him prior to appointing her as such. 

Niño further raised the fact that the barangay council concurred with his appointment of Blanco. 

However, according to the Ombudsman, Blanco may now be actually residing in Calumpang and her residency therein may very well have started on Jan. 20, 2018 prior to her appointment as barangay secretary on July 1, 2018, albeit her candidacy for barangay captain of Barangay West Timawa (Molo) in the May 2018 elections rendered even this point doubtful as such candidacy would have required her to be an actual resident of West Timawa for at least one year immediately preceding election day; otherwise she would have been disqualified. 

The Ombudsman added that granting, that Blanco had actually started residing in Calumpang on Jan. 20, 2018, she still should not have been appointed as barangay secretary on July 1, 2018. 

The anti-graft body said Blanco just fell a little short of the total period of residency required for the appointment to said position. 

The Ombudsman said Niño should accordingly be held administratively liable only for simple misconduct with a penalty of one month suspension.

A barangay chief was suspended for a month for appointing as secretary someone who did not meet the resident requirements for the job. Apparently it was a technicality that no one was aware of was not intentional which is why the suspension is only for a month.

Anti-narcotics agents in Maguindanao arrested on Friday two suspected drug peddlers, one of them a village councilman in Lanao del Sur, and seized P3.4 million worth of crystal meth.

Anthony Naive of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency(PDEA) in Maguindanao identified the suspects as Alinor Orac, 40, and Ibra Farhan, 43.

Farhan is an incumbent councilman in Guinaopan village of Tamparan town, Lanao del Sur, Naive said.

Naive said that PDEA agents were tipped about the suspects’ selling drugs inside their vehicle, prompting the buy-bust operation.

The suspects agreed to sell meth to an undercover agent along the national highway in the village of Tambo in Sultan Mastura town, Maguindanao at 4 p.m. on Friday.

Seized from the suspects were 500 grams of meth with an estimated market value of P3.4 million.

A village councilor was busted for selling drugs.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1466927/gunmen-kill-traffic-enforcer-facing-homicide-rap-in-bulacan
A traffic enforcer facing homicide charges was shot dead by unidentified assailants on a motorcycle in Barangay Caypombo this town on Thursday (July 29), police said.

Col. Esmael Conde Gauna, Sta. Maria police chief, said the fatality, identified as Mario Domingo, was sitting in front of a laundry shop at about 3:30 p.m. while taking a break from his post when the gunmen approached and shot him

Several empty shells for a .45-caliber pistol were recovered by the police from the crime scene.

Gauna told the Inquirer that Domingo was out on bail since July 13. The traffic enforcer was previously charged with homicide after a vendor he handcuffed and tried arresting on July 4 died of a heart attack.

A traffic enforcer who was charged with murder after a man he arrested died of a heart attack has been assassinated.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1148864

A policewoman assigned at the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (NOCPPO) headquarters here was among the six charged before the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office after they were linked to an illegal gambling operation in Hinigaran town.

In a virtual press briefing on Friday, Col. Romy Palgue, police provincial director, said Master Sgt. Bebzie Nicor is charged with the violation of Presidential Decree 1602, which provides stiffer penalties for illegal gambling.

Nicor is the designated secretary at Palgue’s office at the NOCPPO headquarters, a position she held even during the terms of the previous provincial directors.

“I do not tolerate (this) so effective immediately while being investigated, I relieved her from my office for the conduct of an impartial investigation,” Palgue said.

He said Nicor was among the individuals rounded up by authorities during an operation against an illegal cards game in Barangay Quiwi on July 25.

PNP officer charged with illegal gambling.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1467309/high-value-target-village-watchman-fall-in-batangas-drug-busts

Police arrested a “high-value” target and a village watchman (barangay tanod) in separate buy-bust operations in Lobo town in Batangas province early Sunday, police said.

Lobo police reported that anti-narcotics agents collared Efren Cerezo Jr., 41, after he sold P500 worth of shabu (crystal meth) to an undercover cop in Barangay Fabrica around 1:30 a.m.

Authorities seized two plastic sachets of shabu from the suspect, who was tagged as a “high value individual” in the report.

Later, police also busted Arnel Aldover, 46, village watchman in Barangay Masaguitsit, in another sting operation at the town center around 3 a.m.

Village watchman busted for drugs.

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A barangay councilor and another man were arrested after seizing more than P3 million worth of suspected shabu in Sultan Mastura, Maguindanao, authorities said Sunday. 

According to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Bangsamoro region, a barangay official from Lanao del Sur was one of the two suspects caught in the operation in Barangay Tambo on Friday. 

7 sachets of shabu worth P3.4 million were allegedly confiscated from the suspects. 

The suspects are set to be charged with violating the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. 

In Davao del Sur, a government employee was arrested in a buy-bust operation last Saturday in Sta. Cruz.

That's two government officials, one an employee and one a councilor, busted for drugs.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1467911/former-party-list-coordinator-in-sorsogon-nabbed-for-illegal-firearms
A former coordinator of a party-list was arrested for possession of illegal firearms in a search operation on Monday morning in Sorsogon province. 

Police Major Maria Luisa Calubaquib, Bicol police spokesperson, said the police served a search warrant against Revor Jesoro, former provincial coordinator of Magsasaka Party-list, at his residence in Barangay Salog in Sorsogon City at around 7 a.m. 

Confiscated during the operation were a hand grenade and three caliber. 45 pistols with several live bullets. 

Judge Refober Gerona of the Regional Trial Court Branch 53 in Sorsogon City issued the warrant against Jesoro for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

No drugs, however, were found in his home. 

Meanwhile, Magsasaka Rep. Argel Cabatbat said in a statement following Jesoro’s arrest that the suspect resigned from his position last May 21 “because of certain differences in views and in the execution of certain programs in Sorsogon.”

A former party-list coordinator has been arrested on firearms charges.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1149038

For bribing a policeman in exchange for the dropping of cases against two suspects in a frustrated murder case, a deputy City Prosecutor and a lawyer will spend the next six to 10 years behind bars.

In a decision promulgated on July 29 and recently made available online, Sandiganbayan's Sixth Division found Zamboanga City Deputy City Prosecutor Roselyn Murillo-Mamon and defense counsel Pherhram Surian Saiddi guilty of violating Republic Act 3019, otherwise known as the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act.

Mamon is also perpetually disqualified from public office.

The charges arose after the two offered PHP200,000 to Police Officer 3 Flavio Enriquez Jr. in 2013 in exchange for the dropping of frustrated murder cases against Phon Mohammad and Dadoh Mansul filed before the Zamboanga City Regional Trial Court Branch 14.

An entrapment operation by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI)-Western Mindanao Regional Office, headed by lawyer Peter Chan Lugay on Aug. 16, 2013, subsequently led to Mamon and Saiddi's arrest.

Saiddi, Enriquez said, directly handed him the brown envelope containing the money.

In their defense, the two claimed they offered Enriquez "blood money" for the settlement of the case.

A government prosecutor and a lawyer were both found guilty of bribery. They said they were offering "blood money" which is just one more thing wrong with the Philippine justice system. A murderer should not be able to pay his way out of being prosecuted.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1468378/5-nueva-ecija-cops-linked-to-kidnap-slay-of-online-seller
Five Nueva Ecija police officers and two civilians were linked to the kidnapping and murder of an online seller whose body was later found charred, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said Tuesday. 

PNP chief Guillermo Eleazar said PSSg Benedict Matias Reyes, PSSg June Malillin, PCpl Julius Alcantara, PMsg. Rowen Martin, and PSSg Drextemir Esmundo, along with Franklin Macapagal and Dario Robarios, were linked to the kidnapping and murder of online seller Nadia Casar, according to PNP’s Anti-Kidnapping Group (AKG). 

(These criminal-minded people who are wicked to the bone deserve to rot in prison.) 

Initial investigation by the AKG revealed that Casar and a Grab driver were kidnapped by at least five men last July 20, Tuesday afternoon, in Barangay Tagpos in Sta. Rosa town in Nueva Ecija. 

The Grab driver was robbed of his cellphone along with P4,500 in cash but was released the day after. 

Casar’s body, however, was only found on Sunday at Sitio Pinagpala, Palayan City, Nueva Ecija, where it was buried by the suspects, according to the AKG. 

The five police officers and the two civilians were identified by a witness, according to the AKG. 

The police said Reyes, Malillin, Alcantara, and Robarios are now in custody while Martin, Esmundo, and Macapagal remain at large. 

The PNP chief also sent his condolences to Casar’s family as he vowed to give swift justice for her death. 

(I will personally look into this case and will make sure that these rotten eggs will face justice in court and be accountable for their crimes.)

Five PNP officers were involved in the killing of an online seller. No word on the motive.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1468800/police-captain-dies-in-gun-accident-in-batangas

A junior police official was killed after his gun accidentally went off in San Pascual town in Batangas province on Tuesday, a report said Wednesday.

San Pascual police reported that Police Captain Rjoval Lopez, 36, assigned at the Philippine National Police headquarters in Camp Crame in Quezon City, died after his service pistol, a 9mm Glock, accidentally went off inside his parked car in Barangay Del Pilar at around 11:30 a.m.

The report said the victim’s sister, Marshel Gauang saw her brother at the driver’s seat while checking his service firearm for safety before entering the house.

Gauang said the pistol suddenly went off, the bullet hitting his brother’s head. The police officer died on the spot, the report said.

Another PNP officer killed by his own gun.

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Admitting that they are still facing a blank wall regarding the killing of radio blocktimer Reynante Cortes, Cebu City cops say they are now reconstructing the crime scene and completing their association matrix to help uncover the broadcaster’s attackers.  

Crime reconstruction is a crucial step in analyzing how Cortes was killed last July 22 in Barangay Mambaling, basing upon the information and evidence they gathered from their investigation, says Police Lieutenant Colonel Wilbert Parilla, deputy director for operations of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO).  

Parilla said that previously, they were baffled by the autopsy results of Cortes showing that there were two entry wounds found in the body of the victim yet only one bullet was recovered.  

However, the ballistician has explained that the firearm used, a 5.56 high-powered long firearm has a bullet designed to break when fired.  

(With regards to the firearms used, it was confirmed by the ballistician that it was a 5.56. There is only one bullet shot but it split when it hit Cortes’ arm and reentered (to the chest), resulting in two trajectories. It was confirmed by the ballistician that there was only one bullet shot.)

How the heck does the PNP not know how bullets work to the point they are baffled about how a corpse can be shot once but have two exit wounds? This screams of incompetence on their part.

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A farmer died while his colleague was injured after their barangay chairman allegedly shot them in Pastrana town in Leyte Wednesday morning. 

Jamesbert Abanes, 35, was declared dead on arrival at the hospital, while Arnulfo Abanes, 68, continued to be treated. 

Police identified the suspect as Lanauan Barangay Chairman Rogelio Empillo.  

Personal grudge is viewed by authorities as a motive for the crime. Based on the initial investigation, the victims and suspects previously had an argument. 

According to police, a resident informed them about the hunt. They found the victims lying on the farm and immediately took them to the hospital in Palo town. 

Prior to the incident, Jamesbert was working on the irrigation of his farm near the suspect’s farm. 

The barangay chairman allegedly got angry with Jamesbert and shot him several times. When Arnulfo arrived, the suspect also shot him.

This same barangay chairman was arrested in 2018 on firearm charges.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1149350

A police officer assigned in Central Luzon was arrested for alleged involvement in gunrunning activities in Metro Manila, the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) said on Wednesday. 

CIDG chief, Maj. Gen. Albert Ignatius Ferro identified the suspect as Lt. Roy Bravo, 46, assigned at the Bocaue Municipal Police Station (MPS), who was arrested by CIDG members after offering to sell a caliber 9mm submachine gun worth PHP75,000 to an undercover agent in a buy-bust operation at a gasoline station along Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (Edsa) corner Danlig St, Makati City at around 5:45 p.m. Tuesday. 

Seized from the suspect were one Intratec caliber 9mm submachine gun, assembly magazine; suppressor/silencer, one Pietro Beretta caliber 9mm pistol, assembly magazine for caliber 9mm Pietro Beretta pistol, 14 rounds of caliber 9mm ammunition, a PNP ID, a pair of PNP field service uniform and his vehicle with plate number NDK 6153. 

Bravo entered the service in September 1998 and was promoted to police lieutenant via lateral commission in March 2019. He was assigned to various PNP units particularly in Maritime Group, Highway Patrol Group, PRO 3 Regional Headquarters, Bataan Police Provincial Office (PPO), and Bulacan PPO.

A 23 year veteran of the PNP was arrested for running guns.