Saturday, November 26, 2022

Senator Robin Padilla is Stupid but at Least He Keeps His Promises

Senator Robin Padilla is without doubt the dumbest member of the Philippine Senate. He is even dumber than Bato who proves to the nation that he is above his pay grade every time he opens his mouth. But at least Robin has kept the one promise that was important to him as a Filipino. Try to guess what it is without reading ahead. 

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1696472/robin-padilla-insists-ph-try-legalizing-drug-use-and-just-amend-law-if-ineffective

Senator Robin Padilla is still gung-ho about legalizing drug use in the country, even after hearing all the opposing arguments.

He said the law is always open to change if it doesn’t work.

The Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs heard about drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation centers, and Senator Ronald Dela Rosa wondered if the country could “afford an experiment” to determine if decriminalizing drug use would be beneficial or not.

Padilla responded: “We can always amend the law. English iyon ah. Kailangan lang natin sumubok. Kailangan natin pakinggan rin iyong medical point of view kasi nagawa na natin iyong law enforcement point of view. Wala naman masama. Kung hindi naging epektibo, eh ‘di next year, palitan natin. Tanggalin natin iyong batas.”

(We can always amend the law. Wow, that’s English. We need to try. We also need to hear the medical point of view because we’ve already acted from the law enforcement point of view. There’s nothing wrong with that. If it’s not effective, then let’s change it next year. Let’s remove that law.)

Did you catch it? Understandably the whole notion of trial and error law, (that's not how legislation works!), might obscure the promise he kept so here it is in black and white:

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1610647/senator-elect-robin-padilla-to-debate-in-filipino-im-not-facing-americans

Neophyte Senator-elect Robin Padilla said Tuesday he is “100 percent” ready to join the Senate, but will opt to debate in Filipino, saying he would be facing Filipino legislators, “not Americans.”

Padilla, who topped the 2022 senatorial elections, attended a legislative briefing  in the Senate ahead of the opening of the 19th Congress in July.

“One-hundred percent,” said Padilla when asked about his readiness to join the Senate.

Padilla said he is also ready to debate with his fellow legislators, but will do so using the vernacular, and not the English language.

“Tagalog… una, hindi naman Amerikano mga kaharap ko para mag-English ako. Siguro kung Amerikano, well I’m willing to debate. Pero mga Tagalog sila eh, eh ‘di Tagalog tayo,” Padilla said.

(Tagalog… for one, I will not be facing Americans for me to speak in English. If I am facing Americans, well I’m willing to debate. But they are Filipinos, so let’s use Tagalog.)

Robin Padilla promised he would not be speaking in English in the Senate. He started out in English but then caught himself and switched to Tagalog. 

But who does this promise help? No one. It's posturing plain and simple and it makes him look like a complete idiot. 

Robin Padilla's refusal to speak in English because he "will not be facing Americans" is full of hypocrisy and stupidity. What does he have against Americans when he claims to be more American than English speaking Americans because he has Native American blood? His two children and wife are American citizens!

https://entertainment.inquirer.net/346969/robin-padilla-defends-mariel-rodriguez-having-baby-in-us

Robin Padilla justified his and Mariel Rodriguez’s decision to have the TV host give birth to their second child, Gabriela, in the United States. 

Rodriguez gave an update about her pregnancy last Saturday, Sept. 28, days after she flew to the US to prepare for the delivery of their second child. 

“Another update is her head is now down getting ready for delivery,” she said in her Instagram post on Saturday. “[Please] pray with me I really want to push for another vaginal birth.”

“Enjoying the last stretch of my pregnancy,” Rodriguez added. 

Many of her fans wished her well, but one Instagram user, a certain @georg_supreme, did not seem to be in favor of Rodriguez’s giving birth in the US.

The netizen, addressing US President Donald Trump’s Instagram account (@realdonaldtrump), pointed out that Rodriguez only goes to the US to give birth. He/she added that it made Rodriguez a “birther,” and that it was not allowed.

After being asked by another Instagram user about what was wrong in giving birth in the US, the netizen chose to “research” about the celebrity couple. He/she then asked why would Rodriguez leave the Philippines to give birth if Padilla prided himself on being nationalistic. The said comments have since been deleted. 

In response, Padilla said, “Ang pagiging [Filipino-American] ay hindi pagtataksil sa Inangbayan (Being Filipino-American is not betraying the motherland).

He then claimed that he and his wife are more American than those who speak English and live in the US, after pointing out that Rodriguez is an American citizen, and stating that he bears some Native American blood.

It's simply amazing that this man was elected to the Senate. It's amazing that Filipinos consistently vote for people who are incompetent and who brazenly show they do not care about this nation. Make no mistake, Robin Padilla does not care about the Philippines.

Friday, November 25, 2022

Retards in the Government 285

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

  


 

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1694928/quezon-town-councilor-gunned-down-2

A municipal councilor of Dolores town in Quezon province was gunned down early Friday (November 18), police said.

A spot report from Dolores police said Orlando Barsomo, 47, was shot by a still unidentified assailant using an unknown gun caliber at 3:15 a.m. while doing his walking exercise in Barangay Dagatan.

Investigators said the gunman fled and left his target dead.

The victim, a bachelor who was on his third term as a town councilor, was also a former village chieftain of Dagatan, located five kilometers away from the town proper.

An investigation was underway to establish the motive behind the incident.

Police also launched a manhunt operation to arrest the killer.

A town councilor has been assassinated by an unknown man for unknown reasons.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1695021/2-village-execs-7-others-in-bicol-held-for-illegal-drugs-guns

Two village officials and seven others were arrested for illegal drugs and guns in separate buy-bust and search operations on Thursday, Nov. 17, in the Bicol region.

In a report, Lieutenant Colonel Maria Luisa Calubaquib, Bicol police spokesperson, said Jose Conje, 46, a councilor at Barangay Putingbato in Esperanza town, Masbate province, was arrested around 6:30 p.m. in the area.

During the search, police confiscated a .45 pistol, a steel magazine for the same gun, a .22 revolver with four rounds of live bullets and an improvised airgun.

Calubaquib said Charlie Manlangit, 45, a village councilor in Barangay Tominawog in San Andres town in Catanduanes province, was also arrested at 5:05 a.m.

Authorities recovered six grams of shabu worth P40,800 from his residence.

Two village councilors in Bicol have been arrested. One on drug charges and the other on gun charges.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1695532/ex-town-councilor-slain-in-camarines-sur-shooting

A former councilor of Pili town in Camarines province was shot and killed on Saturday night (Nov. 19), a report said Sunday (Nov. 20).

Lieutenant Colonel Maria Luisa Calubaquib, the Bicol police spokesperson, said when Raul Delfin Divinagracia arrived at his apartment, he was shot several times by an unidentified gunman in Barangay (village) Cadlan at around 9 p.m.

The victim died while being taken to the hospital.

An investigation is ongoing.

A former barangay councilor has been assassinated. 

https://mb.com.ph/2022/11/19/ex-mayor-tagged-in-murder-of-isabela-prosecutor-in-2021-surrenders/

A former mayor tagged in the killing of the deputy prosecutor of Isabela in Conner, Apayao in 2021 surrendered to the police in Apayao on Wednesday, Nov. 16.

Capt. Marnie Abellanida, information officer of the Police Regional Office-Cordillera, said Leonardo Daodaoen Dangoy, 65, former mayor of Conner, surrendered at Camp Gov. Elias Bulut Sr. and Training Center in Luna after learning that he had an arrest warrant for murder.

Abellanida said the warrant was issued by Judge Neljoe Cortes of Branch 26, Regional Trial Court in Luna with no bail recommended.

Dangoy was listed as the No.1 Most Wanted Person in Apayao in the fourth quarter of this year.

On June 23, 2021, two men allegedly barged and shot to death Atty. Victor Domingo Begtang Jr., 49, inside his house in Barangay Malama.

The suspects fled while Begtang was taken to the Conner District Hospital where he was declared dead.

A former mayor accused of killing a deputy prosecutor has turned himself in. 

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2022/11/23/2225898/caloocan-cop-convicted-torture-planting-evidence-carl-kulot-drug-war-cases

A Caloocan court convicted police officer Jeffrey Perez of torture and planting of evidence in the killings of teenagers Carl Arnaiz and Reynaldo “Kulot” de Guzman, whose cases were believed to be carried under the Duterte government’s bloody “war on drugs.”

In a decision released by the Public Attorney’s Office on Wednesday, the Caloocan City Regional Trial Court Branch 122 said it found Patrolman Perez “guilty of beyond reasonable doubt for all the crimes charged against him.”

The court convicted him of violation of Section 4 and 14 of Republic Act 9745 or the Anti-Torture Act of 2009 against Arnaiz and De Guzman. He was also found guilty of Planting of Evidence under RA 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 and RA 10591 or Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition Regulation Act in the case of Arnaiz.

Presiding Judge Rodrigo Pascua Jr. sentenced to reclusion perpetua or up to 40 years of imprisonment for the torture conviction on De Guzman and planting of evidence in the case of Arnaiz.

The court also ordered Perez to pay the heirs of Arnaiz and De Guzman moral damages amounting to P1 million and exemplary damages amounting to P1 million, or a total of P2 million for each of the victim’s heirs.

A PNP officer has been convicted of torture and planting evidence. 

https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/11/23/22/sandiganbayan-upholds-pdaf-conviction-of-ex-n-cotabato-lawmaker

The Sandiganbayan denied the motion for reconsideration of former North Cotabato Second District representative Gregorio Ipong, who was found guilty of graft and malversation in connection with his Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) in 2007.

The court's Sixth Division also denied the appeal of Ipong’s co-accused, Marivic Jover, former chief accountant of the defunct Technology Livelihood and Resource Center.

"The court maintains its ruling holding that the prosecution was able to prove the criminal culpability of both accused beyond reasonable doubt," the court said in a resolution penned by Associate Justice Kevin Narce Vivero, with the concurrence of Division Chairperson Sarah Jane Fernandez and Associate Justice Bayani Jacinto.

In the Sept. 13, 2022 decision of the court, Ipong, Jover, and former TLRC deputy director general Dennis Cunanan were sentenced to 6 to 10 years imprisonment for graft and 10 to 17 years plus a fine of P4.9 million each for malversation. 

The conviction of a former member of the House of Representative over the PDAF scandal has been upheld by the Sandiganbayan.


https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1189281

Two former police officers were arrested in an anti-drug operation here, a top police official said Wednesday.

Col. Alexander Lorenzo, Zamboanga City Police Office (ZCPO) director, said Abdulgafar Turadji Jr., 41; and Lejer Abbilani, 42, were arrested by ZCPO’s Station 6 operatives in an anti-drug operation around 11:23 p.m. Tuesday in Sitio Talon-Talon Loop, Barangay Talon-Talon.

Police said Turadji is a high-value suspect being a member of the local Adas drug syndicate, while Abbilani is a newly-identified drug personality.

Both were discharged from police service for drug-related charges.

Lorenzo said the anti-drug operation was launched against the two after they agreed to transact with an undercover cop.

The operation resulted in the seizure of two grams of suspected shabu packed in five plastic sachets worth PHP13,600 and other pieces of evidence.

The suspects, who will be charged with violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act, were placed under the custody of the ZCPO.

Two ex-cops who were received on drug charges have been busted for drugs. 

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1189270

Ten members of the Drug Enforcement Group of the Philippine National Police (PDEG) have been relieved amid an ongoing investigation into an anti-drug operation in Manila that yielded nearly 1 ton of shabu and led to the arrest of a police officer last Oct. 8.

PNP spokesperson Col. Jean Fajardo said Wednesday that among the relieved officers were some PDEG team leaders and the immediate supervisor of the suspect Master Sgt. Rodolfo Mayo Jr., a PDEG intelligence officer and the owner of Wealth and Personal Development Lending Inc. in Sta. Cruz, Manila which was raided by authorities.

They were temporarily transferred to the Personnel Holding and Accounting unit (PHAU) at Camp Crame.

“No less than the Chief PNP (Gen. Rodolfo Azurin Jr.) ordered to really investigate this and right now some vital information has been shared that this policeman was caught and his immediate supervisors, immediate team leaders, and other drug enforcement personnel were temporarily relieved and transferred at the PHAU of the PNP Camp Crame while the investigation is being conducted and hopefully before the end of November we will get a definite result on the investigation done by SITG,” Fajardo told reporters in an interview in Camp Crame.

Fajardo said the measure was implemented under the doctrine of command responsibility.

“We are not saying they are directly involved with Mayo, who was caught in possession of large amounts of shabu, but for transparency and accountability and command responsibility, they are being temporarily relieved from the DEG to give way to the SITG's investigation,” she stressed.

Earlier, two police sergeants assigned with the PDEG allegedly sneaked out some 42 kilos of shabu from the 990 kilos of shabu seized during the Oct. 8 operation.

PDEG chief Brig. Gen. Narciso Domingo himself discovered the incident after a review of the closed circuit television camera (CCTV) footage before and after the raid at the Wealth and Personal Development Lending Inc. in Sta. Cruz, Manila which was owned by Mayo.

In the footage, a man was seen going out of the lending agency office and was later seen loading two bags inside a car.

When one of the police sergeants was asked to shed light on the incident, the cop admitted that there were 30 kilos of shabu still in their possession and that the car is owned by another PDEG operative.

When the other PDEG operative was asked to appear before the PDEG headquarters, he informed his superior instead that he would just leave the illegal drugs near Camp Crame in Quezon City.

During the inspection, it was found that there were 42 kilos left by the PDEG operative which has an estimated street value of PHP285.6 million.

10 anti-drug cops have been relived as the PDEG investigates missing shabu from a bust in October.

https://mb.com.ph/2022/11/24/abc-president-in-lemery-batangas-ambushed/

A 59-year-old barangay captain and an ex-officio member of Sangguniang Bayan was ambushed while on board his Sports Utility Vehicle by unidentified riding-in tandem assailants on Tuesday afternoon, Nov.22 in this town.

The victim, Enrico Renwick Razon, Barangay Chairman of District 3 and president of the Association of Barangay Captains (ABC) in this town, was declared dead on arrival at the hospital.

Investigation said that around 5:30 p.m., the victim, who was with three others inside his SUV car, was traversing the barangay road of Barangay Ayao-Iyao, Lemery when the suspects shot him several times. 

Investigation added that the suspects tailed the victim’s vehicle and were able to shoot Razon as they got closer on the right portion of the SUV.

The victim sustained gunshot wounds at his back and died at Metro-Lemery Medical Center, while his passengers who were all women were unhurt.

Suspects fled as police conducted a manhunt operation. The police have yet to determine the motives in the killing.

A barangay captain who was president of the Association of Barangay Captains has been assassinated.

Thursday, November 24, 2022

Coronavirus Lockdown: 31.3 Million Doses Wasted, Car Accidents in Bohol Increase, and More!

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

The hard work of Filipino nurses and doctors during the pandemic has finally been given international recogntion.

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2022/11/17/2224314/villar-hailed-2022-government-hero-international-body

Deputy Speaker and Las Piñas Rep. Camille Villar has been named as the Government Hero of the Year by the prestigious Stevie Awards for Women in Business, in ceremonies held at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas last Nov. 11.  

Villar was honored under the COVID-19 response category for her remarkable work during the COVID-19 pandemic and, as such, the Stevie Award judges have determined that the Gold Stevie Award be awarded to her.

“It is truly an honor to be recognized by Stevie Awards for our work, particularly in our fight against COVID-19. I am grateful to the board of judges for acknowledging the vaccine incentives program that we established, called May Bahay sa Bakuna, to boost the vaccine uptake of our constituents in Las Piñas,” she said after receiving news of the award.

Villar launched May Bahay sa Bakuna in mid-2021 to encourage the once hesitant residents of Las Piñas to get vaccinated against COVID, in exchange for entries to raffle bonanza that rewards lucky winners with non-monetary benefits, which included grocery items, motorcycles and a brand-new house and lot package.  

The Government Hero of the Year category is given to “female government employees who have gone above and beyond the call of duty in 2020-2022 to keep us safe and informed” amid the pandemic.

“I share this award with our local government officials, city health officers as well as our constituents who continue to serve with passion despite the difficulties during the pandemic,” the House leader said.

Just kidding!  This lady, a member of the oligarchy, is being awarded for holding raffles to encourage otherwise hesitant people to get injected with the experimental COVID vaccine. What a joke. Meanwhile nurses and the health workers are HOPING their pay will arrive. 

A group of healthcare workers is hoping that the government will release their delayed COVID-19 benefits before Christmas.

According to Alliance of Health Workers president Robert Mendoza, many hospitals in the regions have yet to receive their benefits.

"Umaasa kami na mababayaran bago mag-Pasko 'yung ating mga healthcare workers," he told ANC's "Headstart" on Friday.

(We hope that our healthcare workers will be paid before Christmas.)

Mendoza said healthcare workers were still waiting for their allowance for July to December 2021 and July 2022 to present.

That is like a year of not being paid!

As the pandemic wanes what are municipalities to do with the apps they made?  Perhaps one city has the answer!

San Carlos City in Negros Occidental has turned its coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) mobile application into an all-around e-services app that allows users to get news updates and track the status of requested documents and business-related transactions.

The local government unit (LGU)-developed Vamos Cares community mobile app was initially rolled out as a Covid-19 contact tracing tool called Vamos or Viral Assessment and Monitoring System at the height of the pandemic in 2020.

The name reflects the “Vamos, San Carlos!” tagline of the province’s northernmost locality.

Almost a year later, the app has been upgraded to become the Vamos Cares or Community App for reliable e-Services.

“Being a performing city, the LGU of San Carlos must continue to develop, adjust, change and create new capabilities that aligns sustainability with better service. Vamos significantly aided in growing our efforts, particularly (when) the Covid-19 pandemic struck,” Joseph Binghay, officer-in-charge of the Information Technology and Computer Services Office (ITCSO), said in a video message to mark the second year of Vamos Cares.

As of Thursday, the app’s newest update, Vamos Newsfeed, has now been made available and provides daily news articles, updates, and announcements from around the city, and allows users to also like and post a comment on articles.

“We are encouraging other government offices, agencies and organizations to also announce and share news that’s relevant and related to the city. We can provide a link where you can share your announcements and news,” the ITCSO said.

A feature called Document Tracking (DocTrack), a tool which monitors the status and whereabouts of relevant documents, is now also online.

Through DocTrack, the user can search, view and access the information related to a certain document.

Government employees can track the status of their documents such as payrolls, letters, travel order and application for leave, while business owners and suppliers can also track the status of their business applications, renewal, purchase orders and payments.

Using the feature, national government offices, non-government organizations and private companies can monitor the status of their letter requests and other pertinent documents, while citizens may also track their documents pertaining to certain government transactions.

“With this new update, users can easily track their documents by entering their document number into the search bar or by simply scanning the supplied QR (quick response) code,” the ITCSO said.

Aside from news and announcements and document tracking, Vamos Cares also has features on emergency response, law enforcement, medical information, utility bills and payments, business permits and taxes, e-tickets, events and reservations, and tourism and marketing.

Millions of doses of COVID vaccines have expired.

About P15.6 billion worth of COVID-19 vaccines or 31.3 million doses were either wasted or not used, Sen. Pia Cayetano revealed during deliberations on the proposed 2023 budget for the Department of Health (DOH) last night.

Cayetano, who sponsored the DOH budget proposal, made the statement in response to queries by Sen. Risa Hontiveros on vaccine wastage, doses received, rate of vaccine wastage and estimate of wastage cost.

“The total wastage is 31.3 million and that is 12 percent of the total, which we will add is within the allowed percentage of wastage. But of course, this does not mean that just because it is in the allowed percentage DOH is not striving to improve that number,” Cayetano said after conferring with DOH officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire.

She noted that the country received a total of 250.38 million doses of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.

Among the reasons cited for the wastage are expiration, short shelf life, damage due to natural disaster as well as damage due to temperature, discoloration and particulate or floating matters.

Even given these, Cayetano stressed that the amount of wasted vaccine is within the allowable wastage set by the World Health Organization, which increased it from 10 percent to 30 percent after many countries experienced some wastage partly due to vaccine hesitancy.

She added that the COVAX Facility had already replaced 300,000 doses of the total wastage.

Hontiveros said she hoped that lessons were learned to improve vaccination in the country and avoid the waste of money.

Senator Bong Go says he welcomes a probe on the vaccine wastage. 

Senator Christopher Lawrence Go on Monday said he is willing to launch an inquiry on the reported wastage of Covid-19 vaccines in the government and private sector.

Go said the public has the right to know what happened.

"It is our right to know why there was excess in supplies. Why were they wasted? We should know what really happened so it will not be repeated and there will be no more wastage," Go said in an interview.

Among the reasons cited for the wastage are expiration, short shelf life, damage due to natural disasters and improper temperature, discoloration, and presence of particulate or floating matters.

Go recalled that the government was in a hurry to purchase Covid-19 vaccines at the time when they were scarce.

"We really made sure that there will be no vaccine shortages. Now, there was an oversupply because others no longer want to be vaccinated," he said.

Go said if there will be a need for the Committee on Health, which he chairs, to look into the non-disclosure agreement between the previous administration and pharmaceutical companies on the purchase of Covid-19 vaccines, he is open to invite former officials who were involved in the signing.

"If we need to summon the previous secretaries involved in the signing of the non-dislcosure agreement, I am for transparency. I'm sure former president [Rodrigo] Duterte is for transparency also," he said.

More importantly, Go wants the vaccination campaign to be strengthened.

How is there supposed to be transparency when the emergency declaration means there is no oversight into procuring vaccines and COVID-related supplies?  He even mentions the NON DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT between the government and pharmaceutical companies. But not to worry as the USA is donating even more money to purchase vaccines.

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2022/11/21/2225381/us-donates-p286m-accelerate-rollout-covid-19-jabs

The United States will donate $5 million (P286.81 million) to accelerate the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in the Philippines, US second gentleman Douglas Emhoff announced Monday. 

The husband of US Vice President Kamala Harris said the aid is seen to “intensify and strengthen this country’s wall of immunity.” The assistance will be provided through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Washington has committed over $51 million (P2.92 billion) in assistance and has donated 33.6 million COVID-19 vaccines to the Philippines since the health crisis began. 

More than 73.6 million individuals have completed COVID-19 vaccination in the Philippines. However, only 20.76 million have gotten booster shots.

Emhoff added that the US government has provided about $130 million (P7.45 billion) to support the country’s efforts to eliminate tuberculosis. 

“Through our combined efforts, the Philippines has made progress in fighting COVID-19 while ensuring continuity of other important health services like tuberculosis testing and treatment,” he said during his visit at the Gregoria De Jesus Elementary School in Caloocan City. 

In a release, the US government said it will invest $8 million (P458.86 million) “subject to the availability of funds” to strengthen our global health security partnership with the Philippine health system, which will help prevent avoidable outbreaks, detect health threats early, and respond rapidly and effectively when outbreaks occur.” 

But will the USA be offering any help to combat the deadly cholera and diarrhea outbreaks?

Sen. Risa Hontiveros puts the blame for vaccine wastage squarely on Marcos and says he must do more to boost the vaccination rate. 

President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and Cabinet officials must step in to boost the country’s COVID-19 immunization program amid reported vaccine wastage, Senator Risa Hontiveros said on Monday.

However, for Senator Ronald dela Rosa, the government cannot be blamed for the wastage.

Department of Health (DOH) figures earlier showed that some 31 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, amounting to around P15.6 billion, have been wasted.

Although the vaccine wastage rate continues to increase, Hontiveros said that “efforts to curb it have been ineffective so far.”

(We do not have the luxury of throwing more than P15.6 billion amid the crises and demand for funding of equally important government programs.)

“More importantly, the President and entire cabinet should step in to ensure an accelerated vaccination program. After all, their policies create the public perception that the pandemic is over, which is why the public became complacent and did not opt for vaccines and boosters,” she went on.

The DOH, the senator said, knows the vaccine wastage drivers. Therefore, she trusts that the agency can ramp up its efforts to lower wastage.

Meanwhile, dela Rosa raised that the benefits of COVID-19 vaccines must be promoted.

(Maybe, we have to educate the public more on public awareness of the benefits of vaccines. We may have to promote that.)

The government, Dela Rosa stressed, is not to blame for the matter.

(We cannot blame the government for preparing for that because there is challenging to procure vaccines. We cannot say why there is an oversupply or over-procurement.)

(We cannot say that because there is a factor that some Filipinos do not want to get vaccinated.)

At least Bato recognizes some people simply do not want to get vaccinated. Of course he also ignores the fact that there is absolutely no oversight in the procurement process because they are operating under emergency powers. However there is no need to worry. Contrary to Hontiveros the pandemic is over and COVID-19 infections continue to decrease. 

The Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday said it registered 695 new infections of COVID-19, with active cases now down to 17,550.

With this, the country’s COVID-19 caseload is now at 4,027,469 nationwide, with 3,945,419 recoveries and 64,500 deaths.

These new infections are much lower than the average daily infections recorded from Nov. 14 to 20 at 1,296, as well as the recorded cases on Monday at 938.

There never has been much of a pandemic except for the fear mongering of the government and the infection and death rates have both been abysmally low for a country of 110 million people. 

Bohol's tourism industry is almost back to pre-pandemic levels. That means more car wrecks.

THE Bohol Police Provincial Office (BPPO) has ordered all police station chiefs in the province to come up with ideas that will minimize or eliminate the rising number of road accidents in the province.

BPPO Chief Colonel Lorenzo Batuan said he already instructed his men to coordinate with rent-a-car and motorcycle operators in their respective jurisdiction by providing them safety driving tips, which they can share to their customers.

Batuan said they have noticed a rise in vehicular accidents since the lifting of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) restrictions and most of the people involved were visitors who came to Bohol for a tour.

(That’s my directive to our policemen to be pro-active and reach out to rent-a-car operators in order to minimize road accidents.)
Perhaps the blame is that the PNP refuse to enforce traffic laws such as using headlights at night!

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

The God Culture: Origin of the Races

After discussing the course of the sun and moon as described in Enoch and proving himself to be a complete enemy to actual science Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture now goes on to tell us all how the races of men came to be. In sum, Noah was born an albino and his three sons Shem, Japheth, and Ham passed down the races of men through his albino genes combining with theirs. Shem is brown, Japheth is white, and Ham is black. There is a lot of nonsense to skim through here.

The Mysterious Birth of Noah. Why Was He Different? Answers In First Enoch Part 47

The first thing to note is this title card. How were the races preserved? That assumes there were different races of men before the flood. But that would not be possible if mankind has Adam and Eve alone as their parents. Like begets like and there is simply no way the children of Adam and Eve would beget offspring differing from themselves. It's just not going to happen and Tim offers no proof there were various races of men before the flood.

Second of all when Tim talks about race he is talking ONLY about skin color. 

8:23 How did the races such as what we call white, brown, black, or whatever you want to call it. No, the terms aren't even accurate as we're all brown, period. I mean many will say that and and that's truth, that is actually truth. We're just different shades of brown. That's what we all are. There's no such thing as white or black really 

Race is a heck of a lot more deeper than the color of one's skin. There is bone structure (forensic pathologists can identify someones race by thier bones), cranial capacity (look at IQ by nation!), eye formation (epicanthic folds!!), nose structure, and hair texture. 

Skin Color is not the only difference here!

There is also society or civilization. Not all peoples have created great societies. The Europeans, Indians, Chinese, Japanese, and Mesoamericans have each created great societies with monuments that last to this day testifying to their high level of intelligence. Sub-Saharan Africans and Australian aborigines have produced nothing. Is that due to skin color? Of course not! Culture is an expression of racial character which is much more than merely the color of one's skin. The Muslim historian and traveller Ibn Khaldun knew this principle a long time ago.

Beyond them to the south, there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and caves and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each other. They cannot be considered human beings.

https://delong.typepad.com/files/muquaddimah.pdf

If race were merely skin deep then an African albino would look just like a white European.

Do these people look like Europeans? No! That's because race is far more than the color of one's skin. 

The first video in this series is quite long and foundational. Tim spends a great deal of time defending the account of Noah's birth in Enoch by appealing to the fragmented Genesis Apocryphon which was found amongst the Dead Sea Scrolls. Tim claims that Noah was born an albino or albino-like. The account from Enoch 106 is as follows:

1. And after some days my son Methuselah took a wife for his son Lamech, and she became pregnant by him and bore a son. 

2. And his body was white as snow and red as the blooming of a rose, and the hair of his head and his long locks were white as wool, and his eyes beautiful. And when he opened his eyes, he lighted up the whole house like the sun, and the whole house was very bright. 

3. And thereupon he arose in the hands of the midwife, opened his mouth, and conversed with the Lord of righteousness.

That is NOT albinism! His eyes lit up the room?  He is speaking with God immediately after being born? Leave it to Tim to remove the miraculous as he did with the story of Jonah. Albinism is a genetic defect and yet Tim claims Noah was genetically perfect!

4:30: "Noah was a just man and perfect in his Generations." Now, what does that mean? His DNA. 

A commenter brought up this exact point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQuetvKkd0M&lc=UgwPdzNH9Ll7rM2rnBh4AaABAg

Millennial in ManilaShem as red as blood but of course he is not that red maybe just exageration just to make a point just like Noah being as white as snow but definitely not that white but just the same as white people that we have now. He couldn’t be albino since albinism is a genetic disorder and Noah genes was pure.

The God CultureWhat video did you watch because you certainly do not represent this one. Noah was perfect genetically not possessing a disorder nor do we ever say so. His special genes account for the continuation of diverse races. He is not an albino today which would be illiterate and we never say so. His genes however, are the origin. Albinism is not a disease and it is extremely racist to call it such. Yes, many albinos today have other disorders but that has nothing to do with Noah and impertinent. Noah was perfect and he was white as an albino indeed similar to a an Angel/Nephilim white not like white people. Did you even watch this video? That is what Lamech and Methuselah say of Noah. Why do you reframe their words? Don't do that here. You will be muted. No agitation. No debate in ignorance. Our channel, our rules. Yah Bless.

What a load of nonsense. Noah is not an albino today? What does that even mean? Yeah, Noah is long dead. 

Calling albinism a genetic defect is racist? Clearly Tim has no idea what albinism is. If Noah had albino-like genes then he was defective genetically. End of story. Amazingly enough Tim claims there is no scientific explanation for albinism and the only proper answer is that it comes from Noah. 

1:01:38 First Noah is truly described as being albino like. Now this is our conclusion that we're drawing from this but it does make logical sense. Uh, it's something very unique to his time of course. Uh, it's still rare today but not as unique today as as likely those are genes handed down at least in part from Noah to this day and that's where uh albinism came from really. 

When an albino mates the genes of their pair, uh, who whomever they take as a mate, become the dominant genes. If they take an African-American wife they'll basically generally, again we're not saying in all cases, and not everybody's the same, but generally they'll have an African-American child. If they marry white person their children will be white because whatever trait of the maid of the spouse would dominate theirs assuming they were, you know, it wasn't another albino of course. And then who knows? But this trait has no explanation except for first Enoch in this account. There's really no, uh, true good scientific explanation for the origin of albinism, uh, nor how we got the races.

Yet, Enoch's about to tell you, and this is going to blow you away, you just wait. So, it makes sense though that Noah had the special genes to carry the major races across the flood

The third paragraph is unbelievably stupid. If an albino mates with a negro a negro child will be produced? What if the albino is not a negro albino? Then the child won't be a negro of course. Negroes carry negro genes and will always give birth to negroes even if they happen to be albino. The same goes for every race. Tim's view of race is incredibly simplistic and does not take into account the fact that race is not just about skin color. And where is his proof? Where are his scientific papers to prove this horse hockey about what kind of children albinos produce? He has none because Tim is making it up as he goes. After all, "it makes sense."

Likewise Tim's claim that there is no true good scientific explanation for the origin of albinism" is simply not true. Albinism occurs in plants and animals. We know its cause which is the lack of pigmentation in animals and lack of chlorophyll in plants. Tim is a liar!! This is utterly ridiculous. 

Albinism is a congenital condition characterized in humans by the partial or complete absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes. Albinism is associated with a number of vision defects, such as photophobia, nystagmus, and amblyopia. Lack of skin pigmentation makes for more susceptibility to sunburn and skin cancers. In rare cases such as Chédiak–Higashi syndrome, albinism may be associated with deficiencies in the transportation of melanin granules. This also affects essential granules present in immune cells leading to increased susceptibility to infection.

Albinism results from inheritance of recessive gene alleles and is known to affect all vertebrates, including humans. It is due to absence or defect of tyrosinase, a copper-containing enzyme involved in the production of melanin. Unlike humans, other animals have multiple pigments and for these, albinism is considered to be a hereditary condition characterised by the absence of melanin in particular, in the eyes, skin, hair, scales, feathers or cuticle. While an organism with complete absence of melanin is called an albino, an organism with only a diminished amount of melanin is described as leucistic or albinoid. The term is from the Latin albus, "white".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albinism_in_humans

Though race is 100% real geneticists who have been studying the human genome for decades say there is no genetic basis for race meaning all humans are human and not that there are no differences in the way many humans look and act.

The completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 confirmed humans are 99.9% identical at the DNA level and there is no genetic basis for race

https://academic.oup.com/emph/article/9/1/232/6299389

Tim's thesis falls flat at every single level. From Noah being genetically perfect yet an albino or albino-like to the races being skin deep. This is laughable nonsense. 

Above I referred to Enoch part 47 as the first video in a series but I was wrong. This is the ONLY video about how Noah preserved the races of men through his three sons. Tim does promise he will tell us the mechanics of this process but he never does. The bit about albinos mating and producing certain offspring based upon the race of thier chosen mate is not a coherent explanation. Instead the next video is an interpretation of Enoch's animal dream vision which touches ever so slightly upon the subject.

Enoch's Animal Dream Vision 101 Animation. Answers In First Enoch Part 48

19:49 But that white bull, Noah, which had become a man, now human skin tone in identification, but in this case really white like a Nephilim, similar to an albino to carry the genes across the flood, and we'll see how. No, Noah was not an actual albino. Albinism would have begun with Noah of sort though he had no defects whatsoever. He was perfect. Came out of that vessel and the three bulls with him and one of those three was white like that bull. Whoa! That's Japheth who inherited the lands known in origin as white peoples to the north. And one of them was red is blood. That's Shem as shemite, Semite, same word should be don't know why they dropped the H but very deceptive, generally is a medium brown or red skin in history such as the Native American Indian or the Filipino. He was given Asia essentially. And one black this is Ham who received the Southern Hemisphere and that matches.

And that's it. That one paragraph is all Tim has to say on the subject of the races being preserved through Noah in this video. Perhaps he will have something more to say in the future. 

So, Noah was not an albino but merely similar to an albino because he was white. What does that even mean? Tim does not say. He also promises we will see how the various racial genes were carried across the flood via Noah because of his "albinism" but Tim never gives any mechanics as to how that would work. He simply assumes it. He does give a cute little animation to illustrate his false doctrine.


Let's try to find a conclusion here. 


Tim's argument for the origin of the races is that Noah was white skinned like an albino and that somehow the genes for all the various races were encoded in his DNA which he transferred to his three sons. Rather than his sons progeny looking like weird creatures which is always the result of race mixing Japheth became the white race, Ham the negro race, and Shem all the brown races. How this happened Tim does not say. 

Once again Tim is going way above his pay grade. He is no geneticist. All he has is the book of Enoch as his guide. This dream vision of Enoch has been interpreted in the manner Tim ascribes to it, that each of Noah's sons was the father of the various races. However, Enoch says nothing about Noah having special genes for this purpose. Instead Enoch relates that Noah had a miraculous birth wherein his skin was white, his eyes lit up the room when they opened, and he could immediately talk upon leaving the womb. Tim pulls the fanciful notion about Noah being born that way to carry the genes of each race across the flood right out of his hat and he offers no proof of any kind whatsoever. 

When confronted with the fact that albinism is a genetic defect Tim retreats and says Noah was not an albino but merely albino-like. What that means he does not say. Albinos have no skin pigment which is why they are white. Did Noah have a white skin pigment or was his skin without pigmentation? And how would that entail having the genes of all the races encoded in his DNA? Tim does not say. He assumes it every step of the way without giving any proof whatsoever. That is his method. It is par for the course. 

It's funny that Timothy Jay Schwab wants us to trust our eyes when it comes to the sun but not when it comes to race.


Does these women look like they are merely different shades of brown? That, while still human, the only difference between them is the color of their skin? The notion is absurd.