Thursday, September 16, 2021

Coronavirus Lockdown: Mandatory Personal Air Purifiers, Supermarket Discounts, and More!

More news about how the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines is being handled by the public and the government.

While children are at a lower risk of contracting COVID-19 it's not as if they are immune.

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/metro/802670/99-children-positive-for-covid-19-in-qc-orphanage-belmonte/story/

Ninety-nine children are among the 122 people who tested positive for COVID-19 in an orphanage in Quezon City,  Mayor Joy Belmonte reported Thursday.

In a statement, Belmonte said those who tested positive for the virus included 99 children aged 18 and below at the Gentlehands Orphanage in Barangay Bagumbuhay.

According to Dr. Rolando Cruz, Quezon City's Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (CESU) chief, an asymptomatic adult allegedly visited the orphanage and unknowingly brought the virus, which caused the outbreak.

This was denied by Charity Graff, executive director of Gentle Hands Inc., saying they have not received any visitor at all.

Interviewed at Super Radyo DZBB, Belmonte said of the 122 people who tested positive, 51 were children aged two to 10 years old; 48 were aged 11 to 18 years, and 23 were adults.

"Rather than take out the positive patients in 73% of the total population while the testing is still ongoing... the CESU endorsed this to the barangay as a 'special concern lockdown,' this is our version of the granular lockdown," Belmonte said.

She said those who tested negative without symptoms, as well as those who tested negative but with symptoms were separated in other rooms of the private facility.

"The recommendation is to keep everyone inside the facility and just separate them according to their health status," Belmonte said. 

"It is not true that an asymptomatic visitor spread the virus because we have not received any visitors at all, due to the fact that some of the children are immunocompromised and we have prohibited non-members of the staff from going inside the facility," said Graff.

"While it is true that several individuals have tested positive in our facility, the source of the infection is still being traced," she added.

Whatever the source of the infection these children will likely survive and have natural antibodies which would make a vaccine superfluous were they eligible to receive one. 

In Lapu-Lapu City the government is asking businesses to give vaccinated folks discounts.

https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/398476/discounts-in-lapu-lapu-supermarkets-for-vaccinated-individuals-pushed

The Lapu-Lapu City government will ask malls, supermarkets and grocery stores to give discounts to vaccinated individuals. 

Lawyer James Sayson, deputy chief for the Local Vaccination Operations Center (LVOC), said that on Tuesday, September 7, he would meet with the grocery store owners to discuss such an initiative. 

(We will still hold a meeting for that this Tuesday. I will still talk to them. It’s a working proposal.) 

Sayson said that during their meeting on Tuesday, they would also identify if how much would be the discount that grocery store owners would give. 

The proposal, Sayson said, would encourage more Oponganons to participate in the city’s vaccination rollout. 

This is after they have observed the decline of individuals visiting the vaccination sites.

There are plenty of perks like this for the vaccinated to avail but is it really worth taking an experimental mRNA vaccine just to get 5% off your groceries?

Hospitals are overflowing which is why many patients have been shamefully places in tents. Now that it's typhoon season those people will have to be moved.

https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/10/21/cagayan-hospital-clears-tents-of-patients-amid-kiko 

Cagayan Valley Medical Center began its preemptive evacuation of patients ahead of Typhoon Kiko's onslaught, its chief said Friday. 

Tropical cyclone wind Signal No. 3, which warns of destructive typhoon-force winds 18 hours, was raised over the extreme northeastern portion of Cagayan early Friday. 

The referral hospital has 224 virus patients, of which 209 were confirmed to be positive while others were suspected of carrying COVID-19, said Glenn Matthew Bagao. 

(We started the preemptive evacuation of our patients Thursday. Some of them were in tents. We can't risk their safety if the storm and wind worsens. We can't risk our COVID patients and our staff.) 

(We put COVID patients in one room. They're safer there than in tents.) 

Some virus patients were transferred to a room big enough for four or for a family, Bagao said, adding that tents were still in place in the hospital's waiting area and were reinforced in preparation for the typhoon.

Maybe hospital patients should not be in tents. Just a thought.

If you thought this pandemic was going to be over anytime soon you better think again.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1486388/duterte-extends-ph-state-of-calamity-due-to-covid-19-for-another-year

President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday extended the state of calamity placed over the Philippines due to COVID-19 for one more year.

In his Proclamation No. 1218, Duterte extended the state of calamity “for a period of one year, effective 13 September 2021 to 12 September 2022, unless earlier lifted or extended as circumstances may warrant.”

“This declaration will, among others, effectively afford the national government as well local government units (LGUs) ample latitude to continue to implement the COVID-19 vaccination program, utilize appropriate funds including the quick response fund, in their disaster preparedness and response efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19,” Duterte said.

He added this will allow the government to “monitor and control prices of basic necessities and prime commodities, and provide basic services to the affected populations.”

This proclamation will effectively keep the rotating lockdowns going and allow the government to continue enforcing useless health protocols like wearing face shields.  Maybe during this next year more than 30% of the funds allocated for the pandemic will be used.


https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2021/09/09/2125804/less-30-2021-budget-disbursed-pandemic

With less than 30 percent of the P4.5-trillion General Appropriations Act (GAA) disbursed as of July, it is no wonder the country’s economy as well as its health system has barely started to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, Senate deliberations on the proposed budget for next year showed.

At the hearing yesterday of the Senate finance committee, chaired by Sen. Sonny Angara, into the proposed P5.024-trillion national budget for 2022, senators expressed shock that less than 30 percent of this year’s Congress-allocated funds were disbursed when the Duterte administration had dubbed it as the “Reset, Rebound, Recover” spending plan.

The figure was disclosed by Department of Budget and Management (DBM) officer-in-charge Undersecretary Tina Rose Marie Canda upon questioning from Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto.

“The national budget is almost a fiction as far as its role in national development is concerned,” Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon said during the hearing.

Sen. Nancy Binay said the failure to spend over two-thirds of this year’s budget meant “the streets, the bridges, the farm-to-market roads that we are supposed to use, the farmers are supposed to benefit have not yet been built.”

What can one say? It's completely inexcusable. 

Face shields and face masks are stupid and ineffective enough but now the Governor of Cebu wants all workers to procure expensive and inutile personal air filtration devices.

In her Executive Order No. 42 issued on Sept. 7, Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia said employees of all establishments allowed to operate under general community quarantine (GCQ) must wear face masks and personal air purifiers at all times. Cebu is currently under “GCQ with heightened restrictions.”

Last month, she also required drivers and conductors of public utility vehicles to wear personal air purifiers while at work.

The purifiers, which are said to emit negative ions to ward off air pollutants, cost between P500 and P2,000 in the city.

Dennis Derige, the spokesperson of Partido Manggagawa Cebu Chapter, appealed to Garcia to reconsider her decision, saying the price of a personal air purifier is two to four times the minimum wage of Cebuano laborers.

“There has been no scientific evidence that air purifiers can help prevent COVID-19. No less than the Department of Health (DOH) said so,” he added.

After a lot of uproar the Cebu Mayor issued a statement that this scheme was voluntary. One thing not voluntary in Cebu is wearing a mask while riding a bicycle.

https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/399896/cyclists-given-a-week-to-follow-protocols-or-leisure-biking-will-be-banned-again

(Although it is not easy to wear a mask while biking, if they cannot do it, then they better not do biking. We appeal to the public to follow since we are living in a new normal, it is very risky to bike without a mask, especially if you are after a biker who just spit anywhere.) 

Parilla said that should they continue to be complacent in following these protocols, they would be recommending to the Cebu City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to stop leisure biking, considering that cyclists would still not follow the health protocols. 

Parilla appealed to bikers, who would go inside Cebu City to adhere to protocols implemented here. 

(We appeal to the public to follow the protocols implemented for us to enjoy exercising, especially during these days. We are living in a new normal, so we have to adapt to the new changes and requirements for exercise.)

What is the scientific basis for wearing a face mask while exercising to prevent the spread of COVID? There is none!  This rule is dumb, the people who made it are dumb, and someone should be held accountable for making it a law.


Face to face classes are still banned in the Philippines which is bad for both students and teachers. One teacher has found a novel way of dealing with this problem.


https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1153257

A ninth-grade teacher in Iloilo province wants to make sure he will recognize all his 40 students even if face-to-face classes remain suspended once the new academic year begins on September 13.

Jessie Comprendio, adviser of Grade 9-Blueberry of the Calinog National Comprehensive High School, placed photos of his learners on chairs.

It was during the middle of August when he started to gather pictures of his students through their online group chat.

He also asked for the parents’ consent for their children to submit their photos.

"We are still on blended learning so while organizing the modules on their respective chairs, I could still see the faces of my students," the 42-year-old Comprendio said in Hiligaynon during an interview with the Philippine News Agency (PNA) on Saturday.

Should they happen to meet outside the campus, he could easily recognize them, he said.

When parents go to the classroom on Monday to pick up learning modules, they will only have to look for the chair with their child's photo.

It's neat and creative but if it weren't for this ridiculous situation Duterte is keeping the country in then it would not be necessary to do.

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Filling up a Liter Bottle of Red Horse With Gasoline

I have written a few articles about the illegal gas trade in the Philippines but I thought I would take it a step further and see the depths of stupidity to which people can fall. As an experiment I thought I would see if the local gas station would fill up an empty liter bottle of Red Horse. 

As I approached the place this guy walked past me with his very own soda bottle full of gas.

This was basically a sign from heaven in confirmation of my question. Of course they would fill up my empty Red Horse bottle. They even had a funnel ready for the purpose.


As Rafiki lifted up Simba so I lifted up my empty bottle of Red Horse and told them to fill it up. With no compunction they obliged.

What more can I say here? This whole situation is stupid. These people are stupid. Watch the video below.

 

Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Insurgency: No Chance for Reds to Win

Another week, another proclamation from the AFP that the NPA is weakening and on the wane. This time it's Mindanao.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1152881

The top military commander in Southern Mindanao is certain the New People’s Army (NPA) units operating in the region will soon be eradicated as ranking officials have surrendered and are now actively supporting the government’s anti-insurgency programs.

Focused military operation, coupled with community support programs, will spell defeat for the NPA in Mindanao, according to the Philippine Army 10th Infantry “Agila” Division (10ID) commander, Maj. Gen Ernesto C Torres Jr., in a news release on Tuesday.

Torres presented 12 former high-ranking leaders of the Communist Party of the Philippines-NPA-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) under the Southern Mindanao Regional Committee (SMRC) at a press conference inside Camp General Manuel T. Yan Sr. camp in Tuboran, Mawab, Davao De Oro, simultaneous with the Agila Division’s 15th founding anniversary.

“We need to tell the stories of the former rebels, how they were deceived and exploited, in order to prevent recruitment to the communist terrorist group (CTG),” he said, stressing that his confidence is founded on sustained gains of the 10ID’s intensified operations against armed terrorists.

Torres also reported that in the area of the Agila Division, the 17 guerilla fronts in 2016 have been reduced to just six.

In terms of affected villages, the number sharply dropped from 193 in 2016 to just 12 this year while the number of firearms used by the NPA was reduced from 1,150 five years ago to just 300 now.

Eastern Mindanao Command head, Lt. Gen. Greg Almerol, who also attended the event, said they will neutralize the remaining members of threat groups before the end of the term of President Rodrigo Duterte.

“We are confident that the LGUs (local government units) and government agencies will sustainably address the issues being exploited by the CTGs. I believe that the only way we can end local communist armed conflict is through our collective efforts and performing our mandates religiously," Almerol said.

Castillo said the root cause of insurgency is poverty and it must be addressed based on the blueprint of the NTF-ELCAC.

"There is a chain that binds them to poverty. We should address the primary economic needs of farmers and we base that on EO 70,” she said

Ramos noted the CPP is imploding and lacks direction.

"It's about mental health, lack of collective efforts within the party, and trust on the struggle," she said. “It’s time to take care of myself and of course, give time to my family. We will continue fighting for rights and our ideologies.”

The root cause of the insurgency is poverty therefore the government needs to "address the primary economic needs of farmers." You know what they are saying here? They are saying FARMERS fill up the ranks of the insurgency! And here I thought the NPA was bursting with students turned human rights activists after being deceived by their Marxist professors at the University of the Philippines.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1152871

Youth groups have joined the government's fight to end insurgency by forming the Supreme Student Council Society of the Philippines (SSCSP).

In Monday's "Tagged: Debunking Lies" weekly online press conference, young leaders nationwide lamented how the youth’s potentials are wasted once they get involved with organizations connected with the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF).

For the past few yearsang nagiging main recruitment talaga ng mga communist terrorist group is mga universities So, kami ngayon ang haharap sa mga universities para himukin lahat ng mga kabataan na makiisa sa Supreme Student Council Society of the Philippines (Universities have become the main recruitment center of communist terrorist groups. We take it as our duty to go into universities to influence the students to join our group),” SSCSP vice president Kim Soguilon said.

Youth for Peace and Development Movement Philippines national president Alexis Micutuan said his group’s mission is to produce empowered and peace-loving leaders equipped with leadership, knowledge and skills, and passion for volunteerism.

“We have been doing peace dialogues with different secondary schools in our provinces and municipalities to inform the youth on the recruitment process of the left-leaning groups so that they will be aware and they can protect themselves against being recruited,” he said.

If universities are now "the main recruitment center of communist terrorist groups" then poverty is not the root cause of the insurgency and farmers are not to blame. So, what is the root cause of the insurgency? Maybe it's driven by bored and lonely housewives or feminists who need an outlet to smash the patriarchy. In that case  send out the female celebrities and beauty queens.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1152877

Filipino women should lead the way in keeping their families intact as communist terrorist groups try to destroy the most basic unit of society.

During the weekly press conference of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) on Monday, members of the newly formed women’s group Magdalena Mission: Alagang Ate said they want to help mold the future generation of home builders.

The group is composed of celebrities, beauty queens, educators, and other empowered women, formed amid the Covid-19 pandemic to protect human rights and advance women’s welfare.

Pia Morato, a journalist, educator, and one of the convenors, said they aim to help shape the future of the younger generation.

We have under attack the most basic unit in our society which is the family. Let’s face it. That is what insurgents often hit, the most basic unit. You destroy that, you destroy society,” Morato said.

Just imagine all these "empowered women" fighting the communists. And when did the CPP-NPA become anti-family? What document have they published advocating the destruction of the family? This appears to be a new line of propaganda from the government.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1151235

Aside from being anti-development, the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army (CPP-NPA) is also against the community and family, and will do everything it can to break up these bonds.

This, according to National Security Adviser, Secretary Hermogenes Esperon, Jr., during an interview with the Cabinet Report program hosted by President Communications Operations Office Secretary Martin Andanar on Aug. 20.

"(You know, the NPA, I can say that they are anti-family, not only that they try to separate the association of farmers, association of women, association of the youth. They are breaking up the family, they have a hatred for the family. They don't want the children obeying their parents)," he added.

Esperon, who is National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) vice-chairperson, cited the case of Bayan Muna party-list Rep. Eufemia Cullamat, who he claimed continue to recruit Indigenous Peoples (IP) into the NPA despite having her daughter killed in an encounter with military troops in  Barangay San Isidro, Marihatag, Surigao del Sur on November 28.

"(What she does is  continue to convince or recruit IPs in Surigao to join the NPA. This is strange. Her daughter was killed in an encounter, I was saddened by the fact that her daughter was killed and yet she seems not to have visited [wake])," he added.

Earlier, Presidential Human Rights Committee Secretariat Executive Director, Undersecretary Severo Catura, said the destruction of families, especially those of IPs, due to communist terrorist recruitment and radicalization, is the reason why the government is pushing hard to end the threat posed by the CPP-NPA.

"This destruction of our families is actually what drives the state, our government to end the local communist armed conflict because it will always be our responsibility to quell all continuing threats to the right to life, liberty, and security of persons, especially of our children in IP communities," added Catura, who is also NTF-ELCAC spokesperson for international affairs, peace process, and human rights concerns, said.

The CPP-NPA is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States, European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Philippines.

Esperon said the CPP-NPA uses hatred to fuel anger and agitate their recruits against the government.

In fanning hated among their new recruits, communist terrorists would usually use the narratives on the lack of development and poverty experienced by these individuals and their families.

He also slammed CPP founding chair Jose Maria "Joma" Sison and other NPA leaders for living a luxurious life in Europe with the funds extorted by their NPA guerrillas.

"(There a lot of funds being collected by the NPA but who benefits? The likes of Jose Maria Sison, who is now living a good life in Europe, some of them even have their children studying in universities abroad)," he added.

Not only is the CPP-NPA anti-family but they have a "hatred for the family." It's good propaganda but what is their source? That the NPA tries to recruit people? The AFP and PNP recruits people who are forced to be obedient not to their parents but to the hierarchy. That goes for any organization. The CPP does not appear to have any specific statement concerning families on their web page but in their program the CASER (Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms) there is much pro-family sentiment.

https://ndfp.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/FINAL-Jan-17-2018-NDFP-CASER-2017-Web-version-Ver2.0.pdf

Section 5. The Parties shall provide extensive social welfare programs for street children. These include, but are not limited to, addressing the economic needs of the parents and family members, providing conditions for their proper care and development, rehabilitation services, education and training, and the like. 

Perhaps they mean the CPP-NPA hates the families because they employ child soldiers?

https://www.kalinawnews.com/88ib-neutralized-4-npas-captures-9-members-including-12-year-old-child-soldier-seizes-16-high-powered-firearms-in-a-running-gun-battle-in-bukidnon/

The troops of the 4th Infantry (Diamond) Division encountered CPP-NPA Terrorists (NPAs) today at a forested area in Brgy Mabuhay, San Fernando, Bukidnon. The incident resulted in the killing of 4 NPAs, the capture of 9 other NPAs including a 12-year old child-soldier, and the seizure of 16 high-powered firearms. 

In response to information from residents that a group of NPAs is on recruitment and extortion activities at their community, the elements of 88IB under the operational control of the 403rd Infantry Brigade of the 4th Infantry (Diamond) Division immediately conducted strike operations to protect the populace in the said area from NPA atrocities. The troops subsequently encountered more or less 20 NPAs under alias MIGZ, Front Secretary, Guerilla Front Malayag of the Sub Regional Committee 2 (SRC2) of the North Central Mindanao Regional Committee (MRC). 

Maj. Gen. Romeo S Brawner Jr., Commander of the 4ID, disclosed that a 1-hour running gun battle ensued around 8 o’clock in the morning that initially resulted in the seizure of 3 AK47 Rifles, 4 M16 Rifles and 1 M203 Grenade Launcher, the killing of 4 unidentified NPAs, and capture of 2 others. 

It is a running gun battle wherein our troops were eventually chasing after the NPAs who are scampering towards different directions after the initial firefight. With the persistence of our troops during pursuit operation, they were able to subsequently capture another 7 NPAs including the 12-year old child-soldier, and seized another 8 high-powered firearms composed of 2 AK47 Rifles, 3 M16 Rifles, 1 M14 Rifle, and 2 M653 Rifles. The pursuit operations are still ongoing”, Maj. Gen. Brawner Jr. said. 

Maj. Gen. Brawner Jr. also conveyed his sincerest condolences to the families of the dead NPAs. He added that the tragic demise of the said NPAs and the recruitment of a 12-year-old minor is a manifestation of the futility of the armed struggle. The series of victories against the NPAs this past weeks, he said, is a testament of the people’s trust and confidence in our soldiers.

Just what was that 12 year old child doing with the NPA and how did he get there? Was one of his parents an NPA terrorist? Could be. Th armed struggle is certainly futile. It has been 50 years and the CPP-NPA has no real gains to speak of. They hold no territory and their leaders are in jail or in exile. It may take another 50 years but they will fall.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1152886

More former top-ranking cadres of the New People’s Army (NPA) have exposed the lies and deceit committed by the communist terrorist group (CTG) in their “tell-all” to the public during a virtual press briefing on Tuesday. 

Roberto Rosete Jr., alias Ka Bobby, who spent 32 years of his life in the communist movement, eventually becoming the commanding officer of the Pulang Bagani Command 3, said the claim of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) - NPA of winning the war against the government is a lie, realizing that there is no chance of winning its revolutionary war. 

“I became a member of the Southern Mindanao Regional Command in 1990. In 2010, I already doubted the direction we are taking because nothing has really happened in waging war with the government. They said we will win against the government. It is not true at all because we really can’t,” Rosete said. 

He recalled that he wanted to return to the fold of the law in 2010 but was afraid to make a move because his comrades said he would be executed by the military. 

“When I surrendered in August 2018, everything I thought about the government has changed. I was fooled by their lies. I should have surrendered earlier,” Rosete added. 

Kurt Russel Sosa, alias Ka Ugnay, a former political instructor of the Weakened Guerilla Front (WGF) 3, Sub-Regional Committee 4 (SRC) - SMRC said he surrendered because he was fed up with the group's lies and deceit. 

“The moment I surrendered, I realized that there are plenty of ways to help the people, contrary to the ideologies taught to us. They made us believe that only armed struggle is the solution to solve the difficulties experienced by the Filipinos,” Sosa said. 

Joy James Saguino, alias Amihan, deputy secretary of SRC1, said he was enlightened about the government's efforts in solving various issues through the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). 

We, the former rebels are in full support to the NTF-ELCAC. The trend of mass surrender is a strong manifestation of the impact of EO 70. The reason I get back to Davao to surrender and help the government is that I see the preciseness or the right path taken by the government to solve communist insurgency,” he said. 

Amihan was impressed by EO 70 for clearly recognizing the root cause of the armed conflict that encompasses political, social, historical, and economic issues. 

“Finally, the government has seen the causes and how this insurgency should be addressed. The national peace framework enlightens and inspires me that combat operations are not a solution to solve insurgency problems,” he said. 

"This has not happened in history in any counter-insurgency campaign. This only (happened) under the Duterte administration. The NPA lost its space on combat operations, as well as their mass bases."

It's funny how this former rebel is now praising the Duterte administration. Why would he do that? It's no wonder he is "in full support to the NTF-ELCAC" which gives all surrendering rebels a lovely bribery package including housing, job training, and cash. Otherwise both Joy James and Ka Bobby who spent 32 years in the NPA would be dead. In a just and sane world they would be dead. But this is not a just and sane world. This is the Philippines.

Monday, September 13, 2021

The God Culture: Viewer Comments

Over the course of a score of articles I have systematically dismantled the teachings of Timothy Jay Schwab and The God Culture. Any right thinking person can see straight through the man as on the first listen their baloney detector should blare out a warning siren. Sadly this is not the case for many listeners as The God Culture's Youtube channel continues to grow with 115k subscribers as of this writing. So much for being censored. You do not get to 115k subscribers while being censored. 

Both the number of subscribers and the fact that many new viewers are watching because the Youtube algorithm recommended The God Culture's videos belies Tim's claim that Youtube is censoring him and his group.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4iXpV-9yp4&lc=UgweZMu1lQR-H6WEYQF4AaABAg

Ugali Tamu This was really fascinating. Thanks to the algorithm for suggesting it

The God Culture Indeed. Yah Bless

The screenshot above is from a deleted video which was later re-uploaded because of a copyright violation. That The God Culture decided to save that comment and post in the comment section of the re-upload shows just how oblivious they really are. If Youtube was censoring them then their videos would not be suggested by the algorithm. Perhaps this person is now a subscriber.

It is the subscribers and viewers who drive the channel. Yet, I have not had much to say about them. Suffice to say many of them are deluded. Reading their comments it is apparent that some of these people do not have the mental capacity or methodological skills to do what Tim tells them to do which is "test all things," including him. 

Did you know the demolition of the twin towers on 9/11 was actually a plot to steal Marcos' gold?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4jPw42KkdI&lc=Ugx_eLEL2j0H-rHfFGp4AaABAg.9RfX7hb_J0O9Rg9cJ--Nfa

George Santos I WISH YOUR CAPTION WILL COME TRUE. THIS PLANE.T WILL BE A GOOD PLACE WITHOUT AMERICA. THE SO CALLED DEMOCRAZY IS JUST A COVER UP TO INVADE OTHER COUNTRIES ECONOMY. DID YOU 911 BOMBING IS JUST A FIASCO TO DIVERT PEOPLES ATTENTION TO THE TRUE NATURE OF TWIN TOWER BOMBING TO STEAL 3.5 THOUSANDS KILOS OF GOLD WHICH OWNED BY PRES. MARCOS AND THAT BOMBING USED AS A TOOL TO MAKE WAR TO BIN LADEN AND AFGHANISTAN WHICH AMERICA SHAMEFULLY LOST TO MUCH SMALLER GROUPS OF ARM MEN COMPARED MUCH MORE PROWESS. AMERICA A TROUBLE MAKER THAN PEACE MAKER.

luz ramon Right except on the gold ,Marcos outsmart them that’s why they punished Imeldàs Tacloban city by using their HARPP to produce Yolanda disaster

Silly me I thought the destruction of the towers was perpetrated by the US government as part of the Project for a New American Century's call for a new Pearl Harbour event as an excuse to gain control of the Gulf region. Who knew it was just a smokescreen for a robbery!? No word on where Marcos' gold was actually stashed but apparently "they" did not find it and in retaliation "they" used HAARP to manifest super typhoon Yolanda to Tacloban City 12 years later in 2013. Why did "they" wait so long to get revenge and why did "they" think an appropriate way to avenge themselves against Marcos was to destroy Tacloban City? The commenter does not say.

There are actually a lot of comments on The God Culture's videos about Marcos's gold. Here is one  typical of the many false claims which have been floating around social media especially since Duterte became President.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4jPw42KkdI&lc=UgyFAKAWtfzAf1TD5yB4AaABAg

•∆ᥲᥣᥣρ ∆• Little did you know that the founder of world Bank is Jose Rizal and Ferdinand Marcos that's why Pres. M once said"This Nation Can Be Great Again" The 2/3 golds in the world came from Philippines the Gold of Solomon( Philippines didn't stole she mined) that will benefit the whole world but America so jelous of the Philippines they make WW2 steal the gold from Ophir, not just that they blow up the twin tower 9/11 Philippines needs to rise again, AMERICA BRING BACK THE GOLDS from Ophir Yah bless

The God Culture Yah Bless

Not only were the towers destroyed to steal Philippines' gold but the USA also started World War 2 to steal the gold! How ridiculous. I suppose if you forget Hitler's invasion of Poland and his bombing of London as well as Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbour and their aggression in East Asia and then hit yourself in the head a few times with a hammer it all makes sense. The fact that this lie has found any life can be attributed to the ever hopeful nature of Filipinos who vainly dream that, despite being downtrodden and backwards and at the bottom of any quality of life index, they are actually the best, brightest and strongest people in the world who are being held back, not by their own failures and incompetence, but by the evil forces of colonialism. There is a whole Facebook page dedicated to the lie that claims Jose Rizal actually died in 1962.
The Bretton Woods institutions were created in the aftermath of World War II. The chief benefactor of the World Bank was Dr. Jose P. Rizal, who lived in the Vatican until 1962 as Fr. Jose Antonio Diaz
Jose Rizal died at the hands of the Spanish long before Marcos was even born. Neither one of the two are the founders of the World Bank. But how does The God Culture respond to this nonsense? Does Tim bother to correct this commenter? No. He says Yah Bless and condones this lie. God does not bless lies. Yah, however, does.

The God Culture teaches a weird and strange doctrine so they naturally attract weird and strange people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh5zX4AUaQk&lc=UgwbYYzSkBOfd_Fgp9R4AaABAg
Philip Jones There were no DINOSAURS!! They were invented to support the THEORY OF EVOLUTION!

The God Culture No argument on that here. Yah Bless.

Philip Jones  @The God Culture  I thought you were insinuating they were possibly the Giants. Glad you were not. I am lucky enough to have a fully activated Pineal Gland and I can tell you this Earth was created exactly as it says in Genesis. Stars are not Suns or solid objects. Matter cannot leave this Earth nor enter. Only Spirit can do that. I have witnessed Miracles many times because an activated pineal gland allows one to see the world at a much higher frequency and 'behind the veil' of the Material world. I enjoyed your analysis of Jubilees and will 'tune in' again.

The God Culture Yah Bless.
Think of all the effort one would have to go to in order to invent dinosaurs. First you have to manufacture the skeletons of a myriad of different species and then you have to place them deep in the earth all around the planet. Some of them you have to encase in rock and ice! It's a lot of trouble and a task beyond any one man's ability to perform. It's also a straight out lie. The first dinosaur fossils were discovered BEFORE Darwin's theory was ever published. But how does Tim respond to this nonsense? He agrees and says, "Yah Bless." Perhaps Tim's pineal gland is also activated and he has a steady supply of DMT flooding his consciousness. Why else would he agree with Philip Jones who is obviously a nut?

Many of the people that comment on The God Culture's channel clearly do not know their Bibles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM-zeQsNvRA&lc=Ugx58mAoczGKeWKYBgx4AaABAg
Sage Peace Is it true that John the Baptist was actually the last rightful Aronic high priest and passed his priesthood to yeshua

The God Culture The Last Great Prophet even. Indeed. Yah Bless.
A commenter asks if John the Baptist was the last rightful Aaronic High Priest and that he transferred that priesthood to Jesus Christ. Tim agrees that he was. The issue of the priesthood of Jesus Christ is very important for understanding His work and mission.
Hebrews 6:20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Jesus Christ is made a priest "after the order of Melchisedec." The next chapter tells us what that means.

Hebrews 7:11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.

14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.

It means the law has been changed. We have a better testament through Jesus Christ. One that is different from the Mosaic law. I'm not going to get into that here but it is important to know because The God Culture teaches that the law has not been changed and that we must still keep the Levitical law. That has caused some confusion amongst his viewers. One commenter wants to know how to keep the feasts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpYFD-7BuuM&lc=UgwCfyY-CYkt-qMZEht4AaABAg
klober I’m excited to do the Feasts of Yah but confused on what to do. Please do make videos on the Feasts! Salamat and Yah bless!

The God Culture We will in time. There is much to figure out but for now, it is important to keep them even if not to the letter. Yah Bless.
Another commenter asked if we must offer sacrifices on the feast days and Tim replies no because Hebrews says that His blood, that is the blood of Jesus Christ, is sufficient and animal's blood is not. That is true but so is the fact that since Jesus is not a Levite priest that the law has been changed which means there is no more keeping the feasts. The Bible is very specific on how to keep the feasts and it includes sacrificing. Tim's answer that one must keep the feasts "even if not to the letter" is blasphemy since God requires us to follow all his instructions to a T. He has told us how to keep the feasts but Tim has decided to ignore God's rules for his own interpretation.

Here's another comment where both the commenter and The God Culture show their ignorance of the Bible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PigUZ69R-kA&lc=UgzsZHWJGh-2UNe8MhR4AaABAg
CourageousFunny.....20 years ago I debated with my 88 year old Sunday school teacher about Abraham!! She stated he was an idol worshiper because his dad was. I said, "No! The Bible does not say Abraham worshiped idols!" She still disagreed, but The Ruach (Holy Spirit) put that thought into my head! Praise The Father for He is good!! Yah Bless you guys and another awesome lesson from The Father!

The God Culture: Indeed. Unfortunately, many of us have been that Sunday School Teacher over the years indoctrinated into false interpretations that were never even there in the first place. Yah Bless.
This commenter says that he debated with a Sunday school teacher who taught that Abraham worshipped idols. He said "the Bible does not say Abraham worshiped idols." Not only that but the Holy Spirit put that thought into his head. Tim agrees. But they are both wrong. The Bible does say Abraham worshipped idols.
Joshua 24:2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.
The "they" in this verse refers to Terah, Abraham, and Nachor. It's pretty plain from this text that Abraham was an idolator who "served other gods." The notion that he did not comes from that Rabbinic midrashic tradition which Timothy loathes but which is firmly ensconced in Jubilees. In fact, in his video "Abraham Burns Down Temple of Idols" Tim uses a clip from a children's movie titled "Young Abraham" which is ENTIRELY BASED ON the Midrash. Here are a list of sources for the clip. 

https://www.chabad.org/kids/article_cdo/aid/1660316/jewish/Young-Abraham.htm

The first draft of the script was written by two Rabbis.

To research and write the script, the producers of the $1.8 million project Saadyah El Haddad and Eliyhau Cohen approached two Montreal-based Chabad rabbis, Yisroel Bernath and Zvi Herschovich. 

“The goal was to bridge traditional Judaism and Hollywood,” says Rabbi Bernath, Director of Chabad NDG and Loyola Campus. After an exhaustive study of numerous Midrashic sources and commentaries, the pair submitted the first draft in March of 2006, but they were “involved throughout the following years to monitor the project to ensure that the film stayed true to the text.” 

I am not sure how Tim came across this clip but apparently he is totally unaware that "Young Abraham" is a critically acclaimed film directed by an animator, Todd Schaefer, who has worked on many high profile productions such as the recent Animaniacs revival and Space Jam sequel. One commenter asked him where the full movie could be watched.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWgY5HBZ9OQ&lc=UgzmKnxLkzaztACKMEl4AaABAg
AmazonJelled Sushi What show does the clip from? I like to watch it, abraham there is cute and funny.

The God Culture Unfortunately a movie that never made it and only clips remain. Yah Bless.
Tim, as ever, is wrong. First of all he cannot even tell this commenter the name of the film so that they can go look it up. Secondly. the movie is available to rent or buy on Amazon. Or you can watch the writer's commentary on the film uploaded to Facebook last year for the its tenth anniversary. The whole movie is there but without sound as the commentary is ongoing.

Despite contradicting the scriptures Tim thinks the stories concerning Abraham in Jubilees actually fill in the gaps. Now he is thinking like the Rabbis whom he despises so much. These stories are just more proof that Jubilees is a Midrash or commentary and was not written by Moses and is not scripture.

Many of Tim's videos deal with science. Specifically a rejection of science. It's no wonder then that a commenter enthusiastically rejects science.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jAQ08tJUpY&lc=UgzkLtG_LKv8Rqqksfx4AaABAg
Dad Dudes Science must destroy it tells unreliable theories in human. It must not be a subject in schools! Fuck science

The God Culture Actual Observation and experiment is great but the stuff they are peddling in our schools? We agree should not be taught as fact because it is not. Yah Bless.
Yeah! Fuck Science! Except science is just a set of tools. Well, the scientific method is a tool which gives us science like biology, geology, chemistry, etc. It's also a method that tells us tectonic plate movement is real because it fits all the OBSERVABLE data. But Tim rejects that fact as well as the rotundity of the earth and its distance from the sun.  It's a no-brainer that Tim would say "Yah Bless" to "Fuck science." The man actually hates knowledge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48-XtI0JAIs&lc=UgzUw2bDimvFZk67IyZ4AaABAg
Kevin Friest i know Constantine tampered with the old testament. i wish we still had the library of Alexandria. that lost data would certainly have cleaned up the story. because of constantine , a known homsexual and pedophile, i cast doubt on some of yhe bible. we have to rely on feel good response and guessing . i feel you are correct but there are nomerous deletions and additions. this makes it easy to miss interpret . add to that a planet full of satan loving churches bearing the image of Godly. thank you for the information.

The God Culture You mean the occult library of Alexandria? Why? We found the library of the very Temple Priests who were exiled to Qumran. Their library is the Bible at Messiah's time. It certainly proves tampering especially in the Pharisees deleting and adding books following by the Catholic Church who is really just a Pharisee concoction all the same. If you want to know what was in the Bible at the time of Messiah, look to Qumran which is the Biblical Bethabara where Messiah was baptized. Alexandria will net you Gnostic junk infused and even the Septuagint was already missing books form the Temple library. There is only 1 track in history, the priests whom Moses and even Jacob entrusted with scripture. This was their calling and they kept the Bible at Qumran. Yah Bless.
This commenter makes some rather bold and unfounded claims. He claims that Constantine tampered with the Old Testament and that he was a "known homosexual and pedophile." Sources please? One can simply read Eusebius' Life of Constantine as well as his History of the Church to dispel those lies. But all Tim can say is Yah Bless. 

The only thing Tim takes issue with is the commenter wishing the Library of Alexandria had not been lost. He calls it occult and says all we need is Qumran. But there is no "track" in history to the Qumran community being exiled priests who kept the pure and real Bible. That all comes from Tim's head. Unless one is ready to admit that these people were Essenes no one even knew of the existence of this community until 1947 when the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. Jesus Christ Himself never challenged the legitimacy of the Pharisees or scribes but says that they sit in the seat of Moses and should be listened to.
Matthew 23:Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,

Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:

All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

And why would we want the texts that made up the Library of Alexandria? Because of all the knowledge about the ancient world they would contain, of course. One of the known lost books which was part of the collection of the Library of Alexandria is Eratosthenes' Geography, as well as the books which informed his work, wherein he proves the circumference of the earth. As it is we only have fragments. This book would unequivocally disprove Tim's false assertion that the Greeks thought the earth was flat.

While the Greeks were disabused of the notion of a flat earth they did believe in geocentricity. It would not be until the Renaissance that Nicolas Copernicus worked out the heliocentric model of the universe. But did you know that Copernicus was hired by the Catholics to push that model? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHfciR4xApQ&lc=Ugwn8PogRxD4CUfDyV54AaABAg
M. Mariato Look man everyday we live in the Jesuit heliocentric solar system this is blasphemy why do none of you commentators point this out everyday of the week is named for a different god and we are forced to live in this paradigm using the Gregorian calendar. The Nicolaitans literally translates to The followers of Nicolaus...Nicolaus Capernicus was hired by the Catholics to create the solar system and everyone worships NASA. I don't think Yahusha is speaking about holidays...I live on YAHs' vast plain not in Nicolaus Capernicus' heliocentric solar system...this is a bigger problem for the world then Christmas. SCIENCISM is a pagan religion. Paul even said "one man esteems a day and one man esteems everyday the same and God has accepted him who are you to judge another man's servant." "If you put yourself under one law then you must place yourself under the whole law and Christ has become of none effect." Yah bless...

The God Culture Indeed He most certainly is. Watch our Sabbath Series. This is a debate you cannot have. Scripture settles it abundantly and Paul fragments out of context don't even represent his view accurately. Yah Bless.
Copernicus died just as his book "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres" went to print. His cause was later taken up by Galileo who was famously PERSECUTED by the Roman Catholic Church and was forced to recant his heliocentric beliefs. This commenter is an idiot for suggesting that Copernicus was "hired by the Catholics" and so is Tim for agreeing with him. The only thing he is right about is what Paul says concerning the law.

Constantine gets such a bad rap in Tim's erroneous history and theology it is no wonder someone would comment nonsense about him. Maybe Tim does not know that Constantine is venerated as a saint by the Eastern Orthodox. Here is his icon.


He is venerated because he PROTECTED Christianity. For all his faults if Constantine had not converted and made Christianity the state religion the Church would have been persecuted for a much longer time. That makes the next comment and answer all the more perplexing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCwDTRzkYqo&lc=UgxUdWlPsvp0ksYajOp4AaABAg
wonderbee100 Makes me wonder what happened to the True Church of God...Did they continued on till this day?...Or did they ceased to exist and are just being restored today?...Where are the Seven Churches Of God in the book of Revelation today?...So many questions...Hope you will have a video series about the Seven Churches of God...Thank you for explaining the Sabbath....GOD BLESS YOU....

The God Culture Oh, those are the right questions. Few truly explore that and when you research it, you find the true ekklesia silenced in history. This is what Constantine really did. He eradicated the 7 churches in Turkey largely but not in whole. Tracking them though is difficult specifically. However, we can track the Lost Tribes of Israel whom this message did reach and many of the early ekklesia are there. Many pulled back from the cities in Turkey and went into the mountains of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria in modern Kurdistan. The Southern Kingdom migrated en masse into Africa. Really, our Lost Tribes Series is the best way to track this. Yah Bless.
This person is hearing Tim's strange doctrine and realizes that no Church has ever observed the Sabbath. She asks, "What happened to the True Church of God" and specifically the Seven Churches from the Book of Revelation. Tim responds that Constantine silenced the True Church and largely eradicated the Seven Churches. Really? Citation please. It never happened. Constantine was not an enemy to the Church. I know Tim will respond that Constantine ALTERED the practices of the Church and introduced a false religion founding the Holy Roman Empire but none of that ever happened. This is why it is important to be familiar with Church history. The Body of Christ, the visible Church, has been alive and well for 2000 years. Jesus Christ said he would build His Church and the gates of hell would not overcome it. This lady wants answers but all Tim has for her are lies.

If the True Church disappeared and was subverted and silenced in history then it would be IMPOSSIBLE for Tim to know what the Church is or that the so-called True Church was silenced. It's the same as saying there is no True Church.

Let's look at one final and very important comment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4iXpV-9yp4&lc=UgzmdH1lUUi6g7Eeg8J4AaABAg
Marcelo De La Vega Hello Tim, When you have the time. Please if you can I would like to know what happens with all marriages done under the catholic church, and everyone that was baptized in the catholic church or any other church. All this is a lie, how can we have YHWH blessings?

The God Culture Understand marriage is before Yahuah not any church. They have nothing to do with it. Yah Bless.
The commenter asks a question that was solved long ago during the Donatist controversy. I won't get into that here. What's important is that Tim says "marriage is before Yahuah not any church." What a total hypocrite. I have called him out for a twice divorced woman being his second wife. Jesus says such a union is adultery. In response Tim appealed to the Church saying that they properly vetted him and his wife.
Timothy Jay Schwab lives in the Philippines with his beautiful wife, Anna Zamoranos-Schwab, a Filipina who works with him. The couple met at church in Florida where they ministered together for two years before deciding to court leading to marriage. After extensive prayer and vetting by the large church in which they ministered, they were married in that church by those pastors following Biblical and civil laws. 
If "marriage is before Yahuah not any church" then all that vetting and prayer and following of so-called Biblical laws, there is no Biblical law that allows for a man to marry a divorced woman since Jesus forbids it, does not matter one whit. So, why does Tim boast about it as if it does? Because he is a hypocrite who cannot justify the unjustifiable. One moment his marriage is justified because it was sanctioned by the Church, the same Church he now rejects, and the next moment he does not need the Church to validate his marriage. He should pick one or the other because it cannot be both.

This is just a sampling of the many comments to be found on The God Culture's videos. They are all quite revealing. What they reveal is that these people are in no position to test anything Timothy Jay Schwab says. They are totally incapable of such an endeavor as evidenced by their lack of Biblical knowledge, their adherence to false histories, and their utter disdain for science. These people listen to Tim gladly and uncritically. Why? Because of all the positive things he has to say about the Philippines. But these aren''t just positive things. They are deluded fantasies based on twisted readings of both scripture and history. 

I am amazed that this man has any followers but I have to check myself because Quiboloy, the INC, the Mormons, and the Jehovah's Witnesses each have millions of followers and they all teach the most incredible lies. Truly human gullibility has no bounds.