Monday, April 6, 2020

The God Culture: Dine with the Ancestors Havilah Rites of the Lakanate of Tondo

While tracing a few leads trying to find the origin of the resurgence of the Philippines is Ophir doctrine in modern times I ran across something quite odd that goes by the name of the "Dine with the Ancestors Havilah Rites of the Lakanate of Tondo." On May 12th, 2019 Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture took part in these rites.


The "Dine with the Ancestors Havilah Rites of the Lakanate of Tondo". As suggested by Pastor Paul Medrano, this special rite is a variation of the classic Dine with the Ancestors Ritual but this is done when the participants talks about the Lakanate of Tondo; and the Hebrew, Ophir, and the Lakanate of Lawan connections of the ancient Philippine civilization. This rite happened on May 12: the Dine with the Ancestors Havilah Rites started with the arrival welcome through a ringing of a bell in the House of Dulay Mendoza of the Lakanate of Tondo in Marikina Valley. 
Then the guests talked freely while partaking grapes kept in the ancient plates that came from the Lakan Dula household and red wine on top of an antique table, and beside an antique lamp and the bayonet of Ceferino Dulay, the 4th hereditary leader of the Dulay Clan of Marikina Valley when he was a guerilla leader during WW ll and the guests also played with friendly poodles surnamed by the Philippine Canine Club as Dulay. Then they proceeded to the House of Kapitan Moy, the founder of Marikina shoe industry, Marikina being the Shoe Capital of the Philippines, then walked across the Miraculous Shrine of Our Lady of the Abandoned, one of the ten prettiest churches in Metro Manila and host of the third longest Holy Week procession in the Philippines. Then, the guests proceeded to the secret cemetery of the church to visit the tomb of the Hebrew - blooded Juana Mendoza Cerbito and Ceferino Rivas Dulay, a descendant of Lakan Dula. Then the guests went to the Shoe Museum, an old Spanish Jail where Macario Sakay of Tondo was jailed and presently keeps the famous shoes of Imelda Marcos of Samar Leyte, and, finally back to the House of the Dulay Mendoza for a Marikina dinner of local dishes of waknatoy, everlasting, locally grown fruits, as well as prunes and nuts from the middle eastern countries -- to have the taste of Havilah. Timothy, the author of the famous Solomon's Gold, the God Culture in the You Tube announced a change of his name into Pedro. This rite is only done for Top Leaders of an organization. 
Some of the talks during the visit was that Manila Mayor Isko Moreno is from Allen, a part of Northern Samar, which according to Australian studies, a part of the Philippines which is the homeland of the Polynesians. Otley Bayer said that there are already people in the Philippines 250,000 years ago and this was confirmed by a French study which says that the Philippines has been populated by men as early as 700,000 years ago. Some old Filipino historians still have the mindset of "Filipinos are savage and it has to be discovered and cultured by anything foreign". These local historians refuse to mention that there is a civilization of Viking – like people based in the Lakanate of Lawan in Northern Samar (Samar was derived from Samaria). The Samar civilization was once headed by Datu Iberein as written by historian Henry Scott, and take note of the name -- very Jewish -- and consistent with Jewish Samar from Samaria. These people have siday (native epic) in which one of them is Bingi of Lawan, as mentioned by historian Alcina. They have the Almuraya which is an ancient ruin and they have royal burial jars -- all evidences would point that this civilization could be the biblical Ophir, the homeland of the Polynesians and Viking – like people who sent people to Tondo and different parts of the Philippines. and islands in the Pacific Ocean, including the people of Taiwan.  
https://sites.google.com/site/truelakandula/clanhouse?overridemobile=true
In May of 2019 in between stops on his RISE UP evangelical conference tour Timothy Schwab and his wife participated in the secret "Dine with the Ancestors Havilah Rites of the Lakanate of Tondo."  This consists in partaking of grapes and red wine served on top of an antique table and surrounded by artifacts from the ancestors consisting of an antique lamp and WW 2 era bayonet.  It looked like this:

https://www.facebook.com/batangdula/photos/pcb.2993671647324537/2993670120658023/?type=3&theater

I don't want to be a party pooper but who participates in secret rites in front of the television? And who, when they are invited to an auspicious and secret ritualistic dinner with the ancestors, dresses like a schlub?

https://www.facebook.com/batangdula/photos/pcb.2993671647324537/2993670307324671/?type=3&theater

Did Timothy leave all his pants, polo t-shirts, and shoes back in the states? 

Is this just a regular dinner with some important or rich people? No. It's not. The Lakanate of Tondo is one of the Royal Houses of the Philippines. Sofronio Dulay, also know as Toti, is the Grand Patriarch of the Lakan Dula Clan as well as the Grand Patriarch of the Principalia Hereditary Council of the Philippines.




https://sites.google.com/site/truelakandula/royal-houses

Sofronio Dulay's CV can be read here.  It is rather extensive but when reading it things become clear real quick. He has been involved in print media and at one time worked for the Family Planning Council of the Philippines which is a subsidiary of the International Planned Parenthood Foundation. He even organized an IPPF conference in 1994. According to his biography he was a member of the Knights of Columbus and is currently a member of Opus Dei both Roman Catholic organizations. What kind of Roman Catholic works for Planed Parenthood? His biography and CV coupled with the fact that he is part of a noble house screams globalist and in fact he recently made a video advocating for world government.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRlBhFRMe9A

In this video Sofronio Dulay reads from the Globalist Manifesto and gives his thoughts on the matter. This manifesto can be found on his own website here. Added to the globalist manifesto are the Illuminati Prime Directives. The author of this page says they are not part of the original manifesto but are meant to smear the Jews. Then why add them? Because those directives are the plan for global government. They are the goals many have been working towards for over a century now. Namely population reduction. sterilization, vegetarianism, and the elimination of nationalism. In the above video Sofronio Dulay says something quite odd at 15:23.  He says: 
World government's objective is to save the world, save humanity. Don't ask who is behind me, who is orchestrating me. They are irrelevant!
Obviously someone is behind him orchestrating the show and he knows it. He doesn't want you to know it. "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!" It's a deeper rabbit hole down which to plunge involving his Alma Mater the Asian Institute of Management which was started by the Harvard business school and the Ford Foundation, one of the most unapologetically globalist foundations there is. The AIM is a school whose aim is to train globalists.

Back to the dinner ritual. After partaking of the grapes and the wine and visiting the dead Timothy was reborn.
Timothy, the author of the famous Solomon's Gold, the God Culture in the You Tube announced a change of his name into Pedro. This rite is only done for Top Leaders of an organization. 
Tim ritualistically ate grapes and drank wine on an old table surrounded by the ancestors. Then Tim, as "a Top Leader of an organization," was born again receiving the new name of Pedro. 

Think of the symbology of this secret rite. The symbology of transformation. The grapes are transformed into wine. The symbol of death and rebirth. Wine as the blood of the grape. Wine as blood of the ancestors. Drinking said blood while being surrounded by symbols of the dead ancestors.  The antique lamp with its light representing their wisdom. Both the antique plates and the bayonet being fetish objects which the spirits of the ancestors inhabit. Afterwards they go visit a secret cemetery where the dead ancestors lie buried and pay them homage. One of them even had Hebrew blood coursing through his veins while he lived. Then they go visit a museum where Imelda Marcos's shoes are on display. What about the symbol of the shoes? Figuratively the Marcos' walked all over Filipinos when they were in power. Those shoes represent the power of the ruling elite of which Sofronio Dulay is a part even though he does not want you to know that.
Their unassuming secretive patriarch of the modern times does not rule, he reigns privately with circle of personal advisers, the personal leadership style he inherited from the earlier traditional leaders of the descendancy,  a reaction from the centuries of Spanish persecutions. He might even deny his hereditary and historical role and designation; or he might point to somebody else when talking to a non descendant. Descendants who are close to the patriarch will  not point directly to him as their patriarch but if needed, they will only indirectly identify him as the one who has been very active in coordinating the present Lakanate of Tondo.
https://sites.google.com/site/truelakandula/clanhouse
As the scripture says:  
Psalm 60:8 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.
Meaning Edom shall become a slavish subject just as Filipinos were slavishly subjected to the yoke of the Marcoses. The shoe is a symbol of ruling power.

After all these rituals are completed Tim is then born again taking on the new and secret name of Pedro. Why Pedro? Pedro is Spanish for Peter. The Apostle Peter was the Apostle to the circumcision or Israel.  Now Tim (Pedro) has relocated to the Philippines where he will be holding evangelistic conferences preaching to Filipinos whom he believes are part of the lost tribes of Israel.

Why is Tim (Pedro) in this house of a noble family patriarch, the house of a king as it were, partaking in occult rituals which culminate in the initiatory rite of his being born again with a new name? Such a connection would explain a lot about who Tim is, what he is doing in the Philippines, and who is backing him. Not just any foreigner comes to the Philippines and starts hobnobbing with the royal elite. It appears that it might be Pastor Paul Medrano who brought Tim to the attention of Sofrontio Dulay but I cannot say for sure. I can find no information online about him or what church he allegedly pastors.

Think of the hypocrisy here as well.  Tim (Pedro) says we have to worship on the Sabbath (Saturday) and keep the Feasts of the Lord because all else (Sunday, Easter, Christmas) are pagan. Yet this man has participated in an occult symbolic blood ritual wherein he was born again and given a new name. A ritual that is not so very different than the initiation rites of the Skull and Bones or the Freemasons.

In the recent video "What's Going On?" Tim (Pedro) reflects on the nationwide, indeed worldwide, quarantine and lockdown positing that God is forcing the whole world to take a sabbath. 


https://youtu.be/jKZVJqs7iS8

He starts off by saying at 0:58
As I look out over the Philippine landscape I see its majestic mountains of Eden and it causes me to pause and reflect on their importance. On the significance of this land of creation.
How is Tim (Pedro) able to see the mountains of Eden when there is a Cherubim with a flaming sword keeping out all comers? (Gen 3:24)  How did Tim get past that fearsome guardian and into Eden?

Next he says at 1:58
And all of a sudden a familiar sound from a neighboring house. What do Filipinos do when they are home? Well, karaoke of course.  I'm kidding. It's usually special occasions and some after consuming much alcohol but this one they didn't need alcohol for they began singing at 7 am.  Now before one thinks this is a bad thing remember the prophesy of Isaiah the Philippines will sing a new song.
This is exactly what I meant when I wrote that for Tim "Filipinos as they are cease to exist and instead become the idealized fantasies he wishes for them to be." In this case instead of being unbelievably rude by singing karaoke at 7 am it is only a reminder that one day these members of the lost tribes of Israel will be singing a new song to the Lord. What does he think when he opens his window in the morning and breathes in the smoke of a burning trash or leaf pile?


Perhaps instead of seeing and smelling a noxious pile of burning leaves he is reminded of this verse from Revelation:
And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Revelation-8-4/
The latter part of this video consists of Tim (Pedro) lying to his audience by telling them that Constantine changed the Sabbath day to Sunday.

https://youtu.be/jKZVJqs7iS8

It is obvious he did not read the book he is quoting from as he calls the author, Philip Schaff, a Catholic. Schaff was actually a Protestant and he wrote one of the best Church Histories out there. He would do well to read it. If only Tim (Pedro) had read the preceding paragraphs he would have been disabused of the false notion that Constantine changed the Christian day of worship from Saturday to Sunday.
The observance of Sunday originated in the time of the apostles, and ever since forms the basis of public worship, with its ennobling, sanctifying, and cheering influences, in all Christian lands. 
The Christian Sabbath is, on the one hand, the continuation and the regeneration of the Jewish Sabbath, based upon God’s resting from the creation and upon the fourth commandment of the decalogue, which, as to its substance, is not of merely national application, like the ceremonial and civil law, but of universal import and perpetual validity for mankind. It is, on the other hand, a new creation of the gospel, a memorial of the resurrection of Christ and of the work of redemption completed and divinely sealed thereby. It rests, we may say, upon the threefold basis of the original creation, the Jewish legislation, and the Christian redemption, and is rooted in the physical, the moral, and the religious wants of our nature. It has a legal and an evangelical aspect. Like the law in general, the institution of the Christian Sabbath is a wholesome restraint upon the people, and a schoolmaster to lead them to Christ. But it is also strictly evangelical: it was originally made for the benefit of man, like the family, with which it goes back beyond the fall to the paradise of innocence, as the second institution of God on earth; it was "a delight" to the pious of the old dispensation (Isa. lviii. 13), and now, under the new, it is fraught with the glorious memories and blessings of Christ’s resurrection and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The Christian Sabbath is the ancient Sabbath baptized with fire and the Holy Ghost, regenerated, spiritualized, and glorified. It is the connecting link of creation and redemption, of paradise lost, and paradise regained, and a pledge and preparation for the saints’ everlasting rest in heaven.
https://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/history/3_ch07.htm
He does not have to agree with the reasons that the Church has worshipped on Sunday since the time of the Apostles but he has no right to lie about the matter. Why does Tim (Pedro) continue to lie about this subject of the sabbath?  He goes on in the video to say the cross is not a Christian symbol but originates with Mithras. Cleary the man is in a sect of his own making as he advocates positions held by both the Seventh Day Adventists who are Sabbatarians and the Jehovah's Witnesses who call the cross pagan. He also has his own bizarre ideas about the "clock of creation" which he pontificates on in the first part of the video. 

I will tell you why he focuses on the sabbath so much.  It is because his whole scheme of religion (relationship he says) consists in faith in Christ plus keeping the law.

https://youtu.be/P1bOSmv711k

In the video "Lost Tribes Series: Part 4A: Grafted Into the Kingdom" Tim (Pedro) lays out on the table for all to see what he thinks salvation consists of. The gist of it is that a man must believe in Christ and keep the law. The law has not passed away says Tim (Pedro) therefore we are bound to keep the Mosaic law. He does not mention this but the Mosaic law includes commandments about sacrifices, festivals, shaving, dietary laws, menstruation and many other things of which the Apostle Peter says:
Acts 15:10: Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Acts-15-10/
The Mosaic law does not consist of just the ten commandments as a code for personal holiness. Rather it consists of hundreds of laws designed to erect a religious and civic polity for the nation of Israel.  It is a national code of law involving all circumstances of life. The Mosaic law with all its promises and curses (Deuteronomy 28) is the substance of the covenant God made with the nation of Israel. Apart from living in a society that is structured on this code, apart from being in the covenant nation of Israel there is no keeping of the law.

Tim (Pedro) is an absolute fool to think he or anyone can keep the Mosaic law. The law demands perfect obedience and neither Tim (Pedro) nor anyone else will ever manifest that obedience. Without engaging in a protracted theological discourse let me point out that in this video Tim (Pedro) spews forth his extreme ignorance of the scriptures and the plan of salvation it contains.

He is ignorant of the new covenant which differs from that made at Sinai.  Jeremiah 31: 31-34.

He is ignorant that this new covenant is made through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. Matthew 26:28.

He is ignorant of the fact that Jesus Christ is not a priest after the order of the Levites but after Melchisidec and that as a consequence of the priesthood changing the law has been changed.  Hebrews 7:11-12.

He is ignorant of that fact that Paul equates the covenant at Mt. Sinai with Hagar, who represents the flesh, and bondage.  Galatians 4:22-29

He is ignorant of the fact that the law is a schoolmaster who leads us to Christ. Galatians 3:24

He is ignorant of the fact that righteousness does not come through the law nor is their a synergy between the law and faith but all our righteousness comes from Christ or else he died in vain. Galatians 2:21.

He is ignorant that Jesus Christ himself abrogates the Mosaic law in the Sermon on the Mount when he says several times, "You have heard it said...But I say unto you." For example Jesus contradicts Moses by forbidding divorce except in the case of adultery and by forbidding the divorced parties to remarry. That is to say Jesus forbids divorce and remarriage which is stricter than even Moses!  (Matthew 5:32 and Matthew 19:3-9) Anyone who has divorced their spouse except for adultery or married a divorced person is in a state of lawlessness and no amount of law keeping can rectify that situation.

He is completely ignorant of the power and sovereignty of God saying at the beginning of this video that God did not cause 9/11 while in the video "What is Going On?" he refuses to say God has brought about COVID-19. The God he worships is completely caught unawares by these events whereas the Bible is very clear that God brings about all things and does whatsoever he will upon the earth.  
Amos 3:6 “Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?” 
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Amos-3-6/
Isaiah 45:7 “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” 
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Isaiah-45-7/
Daniel 4:35 “And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?” 
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Daniel-4-35/
In short Tim (Pedro) is ignorant of church history, ignorant of the purpose for which Jesus Christ died and rose again, ignorant of the plan of salvation, ignorant of man's spiritual state (Jeremiah 17:9) because he thinks man is able to keep the law, ignorant of the new covenant, ignorant of the necessity of having a circumcised heart, ignorant of the need to be born again and filled with the Holy Spirit, ignorant of basic Christianity which teaches that the law is fulfilled in and by Christ, ignorant that the Gospel saves while the law condemns. As John says:
John 1:17 "For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” 
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/John-1-17/
But then again Tim (Pedro) might not be ignorant of these things at all. Rather he might be willingly teaching these false doctrines as he says he was once a part of the church and now he rejects what the church teaches! He is out to change paradigms and "Challenge Tradition." If that is the case then he is nothing but an obstinate heretic.

Where do we even go from here?

Now that we know Tim (Pedro) has participated in an initiatory occult ritual with the Roman Catholic Patriarch of one of the royal houses of the Philippines it is time to ask who is this man? Why is he hanging out with the royal elite who promote globalism? Who is funding him and his evangelistic conferences? Who brought him here to preach his false doctrine? Who are the members of his alleged research team? How far down does the rabbit hole go with The God Culture and Timothy (Pedro) Schwab?

Friday, April 3, 2020

Retards in the Government 148

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


https://news.mb.com.ph/2020/03/25/negros-town-brgy-councilor-robbed-killed-in-public-market/
A village councilor was robbed and gunned down by an unidentified man at a public market in Barangay Antipolo, Pontevedra, Negros Occidental on Monday. 
Kagawad Edward Dominic Algara, 45, was standing inside his feed supply store when the gunman arrived around 11:20 a.m. 
Capt. Rhojn Darell Nigos, town police chief, said Algara was with his two helpers when the robber, whose face was covered, stormed the store, declared a hold-up, and allegedly shot him. 
The gunman then fled on board a motorcycle.
A barangay councilor shot dead inside his own store.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1098018
A village councilor in Murcia, Negros Occidental was shot dead by two men on a motorcycle while manning the checkpoint in Barangay Minoyan on Thursday night. 
Police identified the councilor as Rex Dalmacio, a retired soldier. The victim was able to fire back, killing one of his assailants. 
The shooting happened at about 11:40 p.m. while Dalmacio was enforcing the municipal curfew on the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) together with four barangay tanod or village watchmen, who were also shot and wounded by one of the gunmen. 
 Maj. Robert Dejucos, town police chief, said in an interview that the case is considered solved with the arrest of the second suspect, who is also wanted for murder based on a standing arrest warrant issued against him.
At least he was able to shoot back and kill one of his assassins.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1097929
Three alleged drug personalities including a dismissed police officer were killed in a shootout with anti-drug operatives in a village in Polomolok town, South Cotabato province on Wednesday night. 
Lt. Col. Lino Capellan, spokesperson of the Police Regional Office-12, identified the slain suspects as former Police Officer 1 Joel Labuen, Gary Montero and a certain alias “Kokoy,” all residents of Polomolok. 
Capellan said the shootout ensued during a buy-bust operation launched by joint elements from the PRO-12’s drug enforcement unit, South Cotabato police drug enforcement unit, and the Polomolok municipal police station around 7:15 p.m. in front of the DARBC cemetery along Farm Road in Barangay Cannery Site.
Capellan said Labuen was found positive of using shabu in a mandatory drug testing in early 2016 and was later dismissed from service due to his “continued involvement in illegal drug activities”. 
“He was a top target and included in the IDID (inter-agency drug information database) list,” he added.
Another ex-cop involved with drugs.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1249967/pnp-raps-filed-vs-cavite-town-mayor-2-others-for-spreading-fake-news
PNP spokesman Brig. Gen. Bernard Banac said Saturday that the PNP Regional Anti-Cybercrime Unit in Calabarzon filed charges against Noveleta Mayor Dino Reyes Chua after receiving complaints that the local government official was the alleged mastermind behind a circulating claim that Noveleta already has its first COVID-19 case. 
The complaint supposedly said that Chua was behind the Facebook post of a certain Maggie Bernal, who shared photos of the alleged COVID-19 patient in Cavite Medical Center. 
The PNP unit also found that Maggie Bernal is a troll account allegedly created by Chua in 2010  to attack his political opponents. 
But according to the Rural Health Unit of Cavite, the photo of the patient is from Makati City. An online news portal Latigo News TV allegedly also shared the false information.
This is hilarious. The mayor created a fake Facebook in 2010 account to attack his political opponents. For 10 years he has been using this account but now the coronavirus pandemic has brought and end to his trolling.

Medical professionals who would volunteer to be frontliners at referral hospitals for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) would be compensated with P500 daily, according to the Department of Health (DOH). 
Based on the website shared by the administrators of the Viber community DOH PH COVID-19, the volunteer doctors, nurses, and other medical workers would be deployed to the Lung Center of the Philippines in Quezon City, Philippine General Hospital in Manila, or Dr. Jose N. Rodriguez Memorial Hospital in Caloocan. 
Each volunteer will have to render eight hours of daily work for 14 consecutive days. A mandatory on-site quarantine that would last for two weeks will follow after. 
The compensation of P500 daily also covers the quarantine period. 
Non-medical professionals who would volunteer to help would likewise receive the same amount.
If the bulk of the P27 billion coronavirus emergency bill had not gone to the Department of Tourism perhaps these people could be getting more than $10 a day to risk their lives fighting this virus.
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1250770/sorsogon-village-councilman-gunned-down
A barangay kagawad (village councilman) was shot and killed inside his residence in Sorsogon City on Sunday night. 
Colonel Roque Bausa, Sorsogon police director, said in a report that at around 7:30 p.m., Pantaleon Ditan, 42, was shot several times by a lone gunman in Barangay (village) Sugod, Bacon District.
Another local official shot dead!

https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/298324/police-files-charges-against-lawyer-cebu-city-councilor-for-posting-unverified-covid-19-info
The police has filed the charges against Lawyer Rommel Rosito and Cebu City Councilor Niña Mabatid for posting separate unverified information about coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. 
Meanwhile, Police Colonel Hector Grijaldo, chief of Cebu City Police Office (CCPO), said they, too, have filed the charges against Mabatid, who also  posted on her Facebook account information about patients who allegedly died due to Covid-19 which was still not verified by the DOH. 
Grijaldo said they filed the charges last Friday, March 27, and was already received by the prosecutor’s office. 
Mabatid already aired her side about the issue and said she did not mean to cause panic to the people upon posting the information she has received that three deaths have been recorded of suspected Covid-19 cases. She also said she is ready to face the charges. 
“My Facebook is an avenue of my freedom of expression. I am a public official and vice chairwoman on the committee on health and I cannot help but react to the first-hand information I have received of the 3 deaths. But take note it’s suspected because they were not tested. Why? Because our testing kits just arrived and they are not enough to test the PUIS and PUMS here in Cebu City,” said Mabatid.
This is the second or third LGU to be charged for distributing unverified news about the coronavirus situation. It seems like people will have to be much more careful in what they post on Facebook. 


“If you play politics and I find out that’s what you did, I will suspend you. And for those who are really absconding with the money, I will detain you. Maybe I will release you after COVID ends,” Duterte said.

“Kung local official ka, immediately, suspended ka. After that, meron pang demanda. Hindi sila makakalusot kay Presidente (If you’re a local official, you will be suspended. After that, you will face charges. You can’t get away with it. The President will never let that happen),” he said in an interview with state-run Radyo Pilipinas. 
In his address to the nation on Monday night, Duterte announced that his administration has allotted PHP200-billion relief assistance to some 18 million poor families affected by the implementation of enhanced community quarantine in Luzon. 
Duterte also vowed to run after local officials who will embezzle, hoard or divert money, food, and other supplies intended for aid to rightful beneficiaries.
Sad that these admonitions have to be made.
https://www.rappler.com/nation/256457-duterte-draws-flak-saying-frontliners-lucky-die-philippines
(There are doctors, nurses, attendants who died. They were the ones who died helping others. They are so lucky. They died for the country. That should be the reason why we die.) 
“It would be an honor to die for your country, I assure you,” he added.  
The country’s top medical association warned that health workers were not getting enough protection and that hundreds of medical staff were in quarantine after exposure to coronavirus patients. 
The President’s remark quickly drew backlash online, with many users pointing out doctor’s deaths could have been avoided if the government prepared earlier for the outbreak.
Duterte says it is an honor for these doctors and nurse to dies for their country. Others say the deaths were preventable had the government been adequately prepared.


https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1252439/iloilo-city-mayor-decries-red-tape-delay-in-covid-19-aid-from-national-govt

Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas has expressed frustration over how national government agencies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in his city. 
“We really have to fend for ourselves if the national government will not be able to help us,” he said at a press conference on Wednesday (April 1). 
“All local government units should stand up on our own. We should partner with the private sector and help ourselves because it is hard to wait for the (help) of the national government agencies,” he said. 
He said national government agencies should not insist on requirements and other bureaucratic processes as local government units and private donors are already giving support to help address the pandemic. 
He also lashed out at the DSWD for requiring local government units to submit by April 3 a list of target beneficiaries of the national government’s social amelioration program for those worst hit economically by the pandemic. 
Calling the April 3 deadline “stupid,” Treñas said LGUs were being required to come up with a list that would include informal settlers, drivers, construction workers, sari-sari store owners and those who lost their work and livelihood due to travel restrictions. 
“How can we come up with (that) list on or before April 3? That’s impossible,” he said.
The mayor also called on the DOH to conduct aggressive COVID-19 testing especially on PUM and PUI.
 
“If there is no aggressive testing, how do we know who is positive People who are asymptomatic will continue going out of their houses,” he said. 
He said that this was what’s being done in South Korea, Taiwan and Sweden.
Sounds like there is not a lot of coordination between Manila and LGUs. A lot of confusion.


https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1098499

A village official here was killed by motorcycle-riding gunmen amid the stringent security measures due to the enhanced community quarantine amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) crisis. 
Capt. Edwin Duco, Zamboanga City Police Office (ZCPO) information officer, identified the slain government official as Noel Alan Calapardo, a councilor of Barangay Victoria here. 
Duco said Calapardo was fatally shot around 8:15 a.m. Wednesday along the Maria Clara Lobregat Highway in Barangay Boalan, this city. 
Duco said investigation showed that Calapardo was driving his motorcycle towards Barangay Victoria when repeatedly shot by one of two men riding in tandem in a motorcycle that tailed the victim.
Another LGU killed by a motorcycle assassin.


https://news.mb.com.ph/2020/04/02/checkpoint-volunteer-shot-dead-1-hurt-in-qc/
A 38-year-old male volunteer manning a quarantine checkpoint in Quezon City was shot to death by four men on board two motorcycles on Wednesday. 
Lt. Col. Romulus Gadaoni, Batasan Police Station Commander, identified the victim as Ronald Cumayas, who was allegedly under drug’s watchlist. He sustained multiple gunshot wounds. 
A report reaching the Quezon City Police District Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit (QCPD-CIDU) stated that the incident happened along Eagle St. in Sitio Veterans in Barangay Bagong Silangan at around 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday. 
Police said Cumayas was serving as a barangay volunteer to man the street amid the curfew hours when he and a fellow volunteer, identified as 20-year-old Aldredo Batino, saw four masked men on board two motorcycles approaching them.
A barangay volunteer manning a checkpoint who was on the drug list. Did anyone in the barangay office know?


The Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) is asking the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to investigate Vice President Leni Robredo for actions that they say "compete with" or are "calculated to undermine" the national government's efforts amid the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) scare. 
According to PACC Commissioner Manuelito Luna, the Office of the Vice President’s initiatives such as its free shuttle service, its dorm for health workers and its donation of personal protective equipment for health workers on the frontlines "compete" with the Departments of Health and Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), along with the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.   
It is not clear which initiatives Luna believes compete with the government agencies.
Robredo is a part of the national government so how can she even compete with them? Nobody in the Duterte administration wants her around anyway. Now when she has found solutions that work the administration wants to tear her down. The PACC issued a statement that this all comes not from them as a group but only from one of their members.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1252941/pacc-commissioner-clarifies-were-not-asking-nbi-to-investigate-robredo
Commissioner Greco Belgica, in a statement, moreover said that fellow PACC Commissioner Manuelito Luna’s previous statement was merely his “personal opinion” and request, and does not reflect the sentiments of the anti-corruption body as a whole. 
“PACC is not asking anyone to investigate VP Leni Robredo,” Belgica stated. 
“It was a personal opinion and request made by one of the commissioners of PACC that does not reflect the sentiments of the commission,” he added. 
Earlier, Luna said that the NBI should probe Robredo for “illegal solicitations” aside from her efforts to fight the viral disease.
Perhaps the PACC should prevent individual members from issuing opinions which do not reflect them as a whole.

This is the warning of Garcia after receiving reports of politicking in the distribution of quarantine passes and the listing of beneficiaries for the relief assistance during the ECQ. 
(This time, this is not about being a voter or not. This is about the needs. If a constituent has not been able to earn a living and has no means to buy rice, help him.) 
Garcia said she received reports that some barangays in the local government units (LGUs) under the province even asked for voter’s ID or certification before they are given quarantine passes or listed for the relief assistance.
Sad that such a warning has to be issued.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1252557/duterte-warns-left-vs-challenging-govt-amid-covid-19-crisis-i-will-order-you-detained
President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday night warned leftist groups and violators of the “enhanced community quarantine” in Luzon not to “challenge” the government during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, saying that he would not hesitate to have them shot. 
“Don’t do anything foolish and go on a riot because I will order you detained and I will let you go after this COVID-19,” Duterte, speaking partly in Filipino, said in a taped speech. 
“Don’t test the Filipino. Do not try to test it. You know, we are ready for you. Violence or shooting or killing, I will not hesitate to order my soldiers to shoot you. I will not hesitate to order the police to arrest and detain you,” he added. 
And if they would create trouble and put uniformed personnel in danger, the President said he would give the police the right to “shoot them dead.” 
“My order to the police and the military, as well as the barangay officials, is that, when you create a disorder and there would be an occasion that you fight back and their [the authorities’] lives are put in danger, shoot them dead.” 
Duterte issued the warning after 20 protesters demanding food and other assistance were arrested in Quezon City for staging a rally without a permit amid the month-long Luzon lockdown. 
According to reports, around 100 people from the urban poor community in Barangay Pag-asa flocked to one side of Edsa on Wednesday morning.
If people start starving and begin to do desperate acts would he really have them shot down? Why does he speak as if they are not Filipinos?


https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2020/04/01/2004791/pimentel-seeks-right-privacy-following-report-he-was-rushed-hospital
A staff member of Sen. Koko Pimentel said the lawmaker seeks respect to his right to privacy following a report that he was rushed to the hospital as he battles COVID-19. 
News5 quoted Ron Munsayac, a staff member of Pimentel’s office, as saying that the lawmaker is “requesting his right to privacy and his right to get well.” 
An ABS-CBN report quoting an unnamed source said Pimentel was rushed to hospital in Metro Manila because he “was not feeling good.”
It's funny because Sen. Koko Pimentel publicly violated quarantine protocols and now he is asking for privacy.

Thursday, April 2, 2020

Picture of the Week: This Little Piggie Went to the Market

Did someone order lechon? 


I understand this guy might not have a truck to properly transport these pigs but couldn't he at least cover them with a tarp? Driving down the open road definitely means these four guys are covered in dirt and bugs. Maybe that's not as bad as the fact that they will be sliced open on the wooden tables of the market. Gross, nasty, unclean wooden tables harboring all sorts of bacteria. Masarap!  

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Ma Anand Puja the Filipina Nurse Who Poisoned An Oregon Town

Wild Wild Country is a documentary currently streaming on Netflix about a cult that took over an Oregon, USA town in the early 1980's. At six hours the series is largely comprehensive but leaves out a lot of details and barely scratches the surface of how evil this cult was. Based around an Indian guru named Rajneesh the devotees were called Rajneeshees or sannyasins. 

The documentary is readily available and there are other videos about this cult all over Youtube. If you know nothing about them go watch the Netflix series or some of the other videos or read the Wikipedia entry. What I want to discuss here is one particular follower of Rajneesh known as Ma Anand Puja. 

  

Was born in Manila in 1947 as Diane Ivonne Onang, and grew up in California. She became a registered nurse in California in 1976 and trained at the LA County Hospital. In the years following her certification, Puja claims to have worked in clinics around Asia including the Philippines and Indonesia from 1977-1979, but in other interviews she claims to have been the director of Kern Country Medical Centre for several years during the same period. Whatever the case, she was in India in 1979 where she came into contact with sannyasins and the Pune one ashram.  After becoming a sannyasin,  astonishingly quick,  she became Director of the Rajneesh Health Centre in 1980,  until she fled with Sheela from Rajneeshpuram in September, 1985.
http://sannyasnews.org/now/archives/4933
The personal details about this lady are scant. She was born in Manila, immigrated to America at a young age, trained as a nurse, joined the cult, and eventually became the Director of the Rajneesh Health Centre. That is an ironic name because it was at the health centre where Ma Anand Puja cultured germs which she used to poison the town The Dalles, Oregon. It is also where she stored the Haldol which was used to drug the beer given to homeless people the cult invited to live with them. This was to keep them subdued. She also attempted to cultivate and weaponise the AIDS virus. In effect the health centre was a laboratory of death and disease.

The background story to all this is that in 1981 The Rajneesh cult immigrated en masse from India to Oregon. After a few years they attempted to take over the county. To do so they needed enough votes to change the county board. Oregon has a law that one only need live in the state for 20 days to become a registered voter. In a flash of genius the leaders of the cult sent out members around the country to bus in hundreds of homeless people who would in turn register to vote and consolidate the cult's power in the county. But the plan backfired and none of the homeless men were allowed to register to vote. In retribution it was decided to poison the town so no one would be able to show up on election day. 

The documentary Wild Wild Country does not answer the question of how the cult was able to obtain drugs and germs. But the book Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War gives us a lot more detail. I will quote at length from this book.
The investigation eventually established that the cult had experimented in 1984 and 1985 with poisons, chemicals, and bacteria. The commune's germ-warfare chief was a thirty-eight year-old American nurse of Philippine origin who had been a close ally of Sheela's since their days in Poona, India. Ma Anand Puja, whose real name was Diane Ivonne Onang, supervises medical care at the commune. One of the "Big Moms," as the commune's three women leaders were known, Puja wielded enormous power. 
A stocky woman with narrow eyes, a fixed sneer, and jet-black hair, Puja was known to some sannyasins as "Nurse Mengele." She was obsessed with poisons, germs, and disease. 
David Barry Knapp, known as Krishna Deva, or K.D., the mayor of Rajneeshpuram, later testified for the prosecution after being taken into a federal witness-protection program. He said that Puja had given Haldol, a powerful tranquilliser, to many of the violent. mentally disturbed homeless people whom the cult had brought to the ranch to help win the county elections. Acting under orders from Puja and Sheela, sannyasins had injected hypodermic syringes filled with the prescription drug into tea consumed by the homeless. They has also stirred it into their mashed potatoes.

Another key witness told prosecutors that when state medical authorities asked Puja to account for the large Haldol purchases, she ordered her assistants to fabricate records to disguise its actual use. Several had left the commune rather than break the law.
 
Puja was responsible for buying the prescription and over-the-counter drugs that the Rajneesh Medical Corporation kept in the Pythagoras pharmacy, as well as its medical supplies. 
Because she headed a medical corporation, she was entitled to buy such products from commercial medical supply companies like VWR Scientific and even obtain dangerous pathogens from the American Type Culture Collection, the giant private germ bank located first in Maryland and later in Virginia from which doctors, clinics, and hospitals order germs for research and standard diagnostic tests. 
An invoice from the ATCC shows that the cult ordered and received a variety of such pathogens, among them the Salmonella type, said Skeels, people would almost certainly have died in the outbreak. 
The invoice also listed Salmonella paratyphoid, which causes a similar illness, though not a severe, and, most startling of all, Francisella tularensis, which causes tularaemia, a debilitating and sometimes fatal disease. U.S. Army scientists in the 1950s had turned F. tularensis into a weapon, and is still remains on the nation's list of germs a foe might use in a biological-warfare attack.

Finally Puja had obtained orders of Enterobacter cloacae, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and Shigella dysenteriae. Fewer than one hundred organisms of shigella are needed to cause very sever dysentery-profuese diarrhoea, bloody mucoid stools, and cramping-and death in as many as 10 to 20 percent of all cases, even in previously healthy persons.
 
The ATCC invoice was dated September 25, 1984, indicating that the agents had been delivered between the two waves of the salmonella outbreak. 
No pathogens ordered from the germ bank were ever found at the ranch, and the order's implications got little attention. The investigation had begun more than a year after the poisonings, giving the cult time to destroy evidence before the authorities obtained search warrants. When the invoices were seized in the search, they were not shown to health officials who would have understood their significance. But those officials, who learned of the orders only years later, considered both the agents and the timing of their arrival at the ranch ominous. Skeels said that Francisella tualarensis, Salmonella typhi, Salmonella paratyphi, and Shigella dysenteriae were all unnecessary in a clinical lab the size of Puja's. And all these bacteria, he said, could have been used for bioterrorism. 
Puja was also particularly fascinated by the AIDS virus, about which relatively little was known at the time. The Bhagwan had predicted that the virus would destroy two-thirds of the world's population. For Puja, it was a means of control and intimidation. She repeatedly tried to culture it for use as a germ weapon against the cult's ever-growing enemies. Her apparent failure was not for lack of effort. After she was told by a technician at the ranch, for instance, that her lab lacked the necessary equipment to stabilise and dry the virus, the corporation promptly bought a "quick-freeze dryer" in September 1984. 
Experts doubted that Puja had the skills, expertise, or supplies needed to culture the AIDS virus or the other dangerous pathogens she had ordered, But several sannyasins told the police that in at least one instance she had injected blood drawn from a homeless man who had tested positive for the AIDS antibody into the veins of a cult rival. The fate of the man is unknown.
State and federal investigators eventually concluded that the plot to poison people in The Dalles with a biological agent, which involved about a dozen people, had grown out of the cult's legal war with the county and its determination to win control of the country government in the November elections. 
Sometime during the spring of 1984, according to sworn affidavits and court testimony in 1985 and 1986, the commune's inner circle began brainstorming about how the commune's four thousand or so members could defeat the roughly twenty thousand residents of Wasco County. At one meeting, Sheel fastened on the idea of making non-Rajneeshees too sick to vote. Together, she and Puja began reading books like How to Kill:Volumes 1-4, and The Handbook of Poisons, trying to locate various bacteria that would sicken people without killing them. They also asked a urologist at Puja's clinic about poisons and bacteria that would be difficult to trace. The urologist, apparently unalarmed since he was told the women were trying to defend the commune against germ attacks by the Rajneeshees' numerous enemies, mentioned salmonella as a possibility.

Rajneeshpuram's mayor, K.D., told another cult member that Puja did some experiments with a hepatitis virus and had initially considered using it to sicken local residents. Puja also proposed using Salmonella typhi, the bacteria that causes typhoid fever, which she wound up purchasing for the lab. But a Rajneesh Medical Corporation lab technician warned her that orders of typhoid cultures would be easy to trace if an outbreak occurred. As far as K.D. knew, the plan was never implemented. 
K.D. also testified that Puja had considered sickening people by putting dead rodents-rats and mice-into the water system. Puja believed that daed beavers would be especially effective because they harboured a natural pathogen-Giardia lambda, which causes diarrhoea. When other plotters complained that the county's water reservoirs were covered by screens, K.D. recalled, someone "jokingly" suggested that the beavers be put in a blundered and liquified.

Sheela and Puja finally settled on Salmonella typhimurium as their germ weapon of choice, known by the American Type Culture Collection's designation 14028. Before they began plotting in the spring of 10984, the cult ordered bactrol disks from VWR Scientific, the Seattle-based company. Puja then used the bacteria in the disks to culture and produce large amounts of the bacteria in a part of her lab known as the "Chinese Laundry." Ava Kay Avalos, known as Ma Ava, another star prosecution witness who was granted partial immunity, said that the lab was later moved, at another technician's insistence, to a complex closer to where people with AIDS and other infectious diseases were kept-a more isolated part of the ranch. 
Two rooms in the A-frame housed the production unit, with its gloves, masks, white robes, pills, syringes, containers, a large freeze dryer, and what Ava described as a small, green "apartment-type refrigerator" in which Puja kept the petri dishes filled with colonies of salmonella.
Known as Nurse Mengele this lady was obsessed with germs and disease. Her status as director of the health centre enabled her to purchase bacteria and germ cultures in large quantities.  She was also able to purchase large doses of Haldol. She attempted to culture the AIDS virus and even injected a rival with AIDS infected blood. And it was all in an effort to control and intimidate people both cult members and Oregonians.

More can be read about her doings at the cult in eyewitness testimony given by Ava Kay Avalos. Watching the documentary one gets the sense that Ma Anand Sheela was the brains and brawn behind the activities of the cult but the testimony points to Puja being the real wielder of that power.

Puja subsequently plead guilty and was sentenced to almost 20 years in prison.
Another commune leader, Ma Anand Puja, was sentenced to 4 1/2 years for conspiracy in the salmonella poisonings, to be followed by 3 years probation for wiretapping. Puja, a 38-year-old Filipino who led the commune’s Rajneesh Medical Corp., is not required to leave the country. 
On the state charges, Wasco County Circuit Judge John Jelderks sentenced Sheela to 20 years in prison and Puja to 15 years for attempting to murder the doctor and assaulting the county officials. Sheela also was sentenced to 20 years for arson. Prosecutors said, however, that Sheela would be in prison only about 4 1/2 years.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-07-23-mn-21578-story.html
Remarkably she only served 39 months in prison before she was released.
Ma Anand Puja, 40, also known as Diane Yvonne Onang, was released from the federal prison at Pleasanton, Calif., Thursday after nearly 39 months behind bars, including time spent in a German jail before she was extradited to the United States in late 1985. 
Puja's plea bargain called for her to serve three years' probation following her release from prison for her role in the electronic eavesdropping network, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Baron Sheldahl of Portland.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/12/31/Gurus-ex-aide-back-in-Oregon-after-prison/1337599547600/
What happened to her subsequently is not very clear. She is not interviewed in the documentary and the filmmakers do not focus on her but rather on Ma Anand Sheela. It is rather strange that this lady who poisoned an entire town only served 39 months of a 20 year sentence. Very strange indeed. Unless, that is, this cult was infiltrated by the CIA and run like their MKULTRA operations and Puja worked for them as some have opined. Stranger things have happened.