CPT POGOY FOR SENATOR

MANIFESTO

I, CPT JOENEL S. POGOY of the Philippine Air Force (PAF), married, of legal age and a member of PMA CL-99 officially declare my candidacy for SENATOR under BUKLOD POLITICAL PARTY. I rise to the occasion in response to the unwavering sympathy and silent support of voiceless and abused soldiers, gallant and principled compassion of cause-oriented groups in my lonesome battle for good governance and the deafening cry of frustrations and exasperations of the exploited poor majority. Parallel to the SENATOR’s primary function of legislation to which I’ll try to do and give my best, I also would like to emphasize putting premium on pro-people programs that don’t need legislation. In this regard, please take a look on the envisioned program of government.

1.HONEST AND TRANSPARENT GOVERNMENT SERVICE

I am now officially waiving my Right to Bank Secrecy Law to give the public blanket authority to scrutinize my finances. This waiver remains in effect even beyond the term (if elected SENATOR) ends. This is my own way of conforming to the anti-corruption crusade we are ardently waging.

2.LASTING PEACE AND RECONCILIATION

As a senator, we will spearhead in implementing programs that will help the government eradicate stereotyping among Filipino subraces. Foremost to this is the creation of REGIONAL REPRESENTATION OF PROFESSIONAL SPORTS LEAGUE under SPORTS NATIONALISM PROGRAM. Instead of referring Ilocano as kuripot, Sulu as Abusayyaf or Samar as pub dancers providers, each of the unique localities will now be known for the monicker each respective province chose to describe their racial identity. The expected impact of this SPORTS NATIONALISM PROGRAM is to let the people at the countryside in particular feel that they are part of Philippines. So in order for each province to become competitive, they have to engage in social development that promotes historical values, architectural designs, economic development, political harmonies and other facets of social development which will be highlighted during breaktimes of every televised games.

This program on the other hand will become the vehicle in fostering Ideological reconciliation among the warring protagonists – the state and the rebel groups in the name of LOVE OF COUNTRY. As a senator, we should play an active role towards the forging of peace accord in its truest sense of peace!

Another important role SPORTS NATIONALISM PROGRAM must achieve is to produce dozens of Manny Pacquiao’s, Paeng Nepomucino’s, Bata Reyes’, Tac Padilla’s, Pinoy Tiger Wood’s, etc. Developing more of these world-class talents is paramount because they always represent National Pride and Honor. Furthermore, this program must pave the way for the eradication of the destructive sports politicking among sports heads. What is at stake in sports is National Pride not the illustrious name of sports officials.

3.FEARLESS ANTI-CORRUPTION ADVOCACY

All candidates particularly “Recycled Politicians” become instant anti-corruption crusader during election season. Then we, the politically immature electorate still, automatically gravitated to these motherhood statements because of the social sufferings we are into through all these years. We refuse to understand that these Recycled Politicians prevailed in their warlordism antics because we as a people patronize then in exchange of few hundred pesos despite and inspite of their brazenness to commit corruption while in the position. This system must be stopped and I urge everybody to wake up and be counted in transformational politics.

a.Several PAF Pilots are selling aircraft fuel to defray their “for the boys gimmick” in deployment areas. In fact, Nomad 53 crashed in Zamboanga shoreline 3 or 4 years ago due to this fuel pilferage practice. Million-peso peoples money aircraft is now destroyed.

b.C130 aircraft crashed in Davao Gulf last 26 August 2008 due to maintenance malpractice and profiteering deals among Senior Military Officers and Generals. But PAF covered up the result of accident to protect the people at higher ups involved in this scandal.

POLITICAL SOLUTION:

All future air accidents involving PAF planes will be investigated in the Senate floor in aid of legislation and public safety. This is the best political deterrent against corrupt Airforce Pilot and Generals for them to stop their money-making deals.

c.Loan sharks are exploiting the soldiers. Secondly, military officers in the active service are moonlighting by employing themselves as Board of Directors in loan sharks due to 5 to 6-digit salaries and benefits as Board of Director.

POLITICAL SOLUTIONS:

c1.Abolish automatic loan deduction scheme to stop corporate abuse and exploitation. CPT POGOY is one of the victims of this corporate abuse. All transactions between the soldier borrowers-loan sharks shall now be treated as ordinary commercial bank transactions.

c2.No military officers shall be allowed to sit as member of the Board of directions in loan sharks while in active service. They must resign or retire first before applying for a board of director seat. Corruption usually happens here especially for those who are holding juicy positions in the military.

d.Hundreds of multi-million peso construction projects inside military camps are abandoned.

POLITICAL SOLUTION:

No approved and funded construction project will be left incomplete or unfinished otherwise public investigations will be conducted in the senate floor.

e.All corrupt practices in other government agencies will also be investigated and examined to find out how corruption is being done. All concerned citizen must be encourage to report any corrupt practices so that we as a people can immediately correct it.

4.CALAMITIES AND DISASTERS

Under our leadership, we will require concerned government agencies in rescue and relief operations to provide systematic response to each particular disaster or calamity. Relief goods and rescue equipment must be itemized according to its priority based on the needs of the victim so that government assets will be used at the optimum.

Example 1:The recent Ondoy flood

a.Priority relief response based on the needs of the people on the ground is the immediate delivery of rubber boats and foods. C130 aircraft can airdrop hundreds of rubber boats with survival food supplies and medicines in it in just a couple of hours.

b.Relief donations: if for example a particular calamity requires rice and canned goods, the government may asked for donations to all kind hearted individuals throughout the country of at least 1 cup of rice and canned goods to all families who can afford to donate so that the victims will be assured of longer days of survival. This set up can optimize the airlift capacity of C130 in transporting donated goods. One plane load of rice and canned goods are better than a plane load of noodles. Noodles and ready to eat meal can be provided by private rescue and relief agencies where the affected community. Government relief effort should be centered on longer survivability of the victims.

Example 2:SEA VESSEL DISASTERS

Again C130 aircraft can airdrop life-saving equipment to distressed vessels in just an hour. Therefore rescue response must be calibrated according to the needs of the distressed vessels.

5.KILLINGS OF JOURNALIST AND GOVERNMENT CRITICS

State approved (by omission) killings of the alleged leftist individuals and government critic journalists is a statement of government weakness and state security ineptness. Such barbaric act and systematic killing with impunity is no different from the well-publicized Maguindanao massacre. This must be stopped by arming the people with knowledge of what really is going on in our country. Their complacency and cowardice to confront the abusive few is very much contributory to this social malaise.

Political prisoners inside military camps in particular must be accorded with the full benefit of his basic rights as a detainee. These basic humanitarian rights as provided for by the constitution and other decrees in international treaties are non-negotiable. The government being a signatory to these humanitarian rights protection must observe it by heart. As a Senator together with the Commission on Human Rights, we will conduct spot inspection to all detention facilities inside military and police camps.

6.COORDINATED FARMING, HOG AND POULTRY RAISING

Coordinated farming is a matter of organizing and coordinating. But during our Incumbency as senator, we will file necessary bill that will improve the flow of the program such as agricultural products shipment incentives, privileges, etc. The concept is that farm communities will be organized to uniformly plan crops based on the soil fertility content of each particular farm areas. Then the government will make some arrangements in delivering farm products to the consumer community. Its purpose is to protect the farmers from being victimized by the exploitative methodology of local traders and business cartels. Currently, farmers abandoned farming because their 3-4 months of hard work is not well-compensated during harvest time.

7.EDUCATION

The bad state of education in our country today is a bi-product of the society’s lack of nationalism, too much materialism, feudalistic governance and power greediness. As explained in ITEM NR 6 (Coordinated farming), people migrated to the Metropolis as squatters for economic survival. As a result, the true meaning of education suffered people are now taking technical education training on how to operate push button equipment just to get a diploma for them to earn a living. And this cycle of mediocrity goes on and on while astute businessmen are cashing in on this education failure.

POLITICAL SOLUTION:

Pumped up rural economy thru government intervention and LGU coordination. Then as a senator, we will focus in addressing classroom shortages. We would likewise file deals that will give premiums to socially relevant curriculums such as teaching, engineering, architecture, medicine, agriculture, fishery, nursing, arts and culture and many more.

8.HEALTH

The health sector is interrelated to education and economic development as explained in coordinated farming. So in relation our legislative agenda will instead focus on the aspect of improving health services. Bills will be filed to strengthen the research works of health experts and medical scientists. Second is to curd drug cartelization and profiteering. Third is to work on environmental protection through community health equity measures. Example of this equity measure is proper segregation of waste materials in exchange of free medical checkup or hospitalization in accredited hospitals. Of course this program must be implemented in collaboration with the entire community itself. Other health concerns will be studied thoroughly through peoples support.

POPULATION MANAGEMENT:

Blaming us (the poor) for the current poverty situation in the country is adding insult to injury. We are not that irresponsible as what some sectors depicted us to be. Give us good jobs or better opportunities and we the poor will assure that we can be the best assets to our country in terms of manpower, sports excellence, food production etc. It is therefore my stand to go against subsidizing the community with birth control drugs and other medical implements just to control population growth. The funding intended for such subsidization drive will instead be used to increase farm production and agricultural research so that we poor Filipinos can have a chance to economically improve and we will be the one to responsibly manage the number of children we want.

9.FILM, MUSIC, BROADCAST AND PRINT MEDIA

While print and broadcast media serve as checks and balances of the abuses in the society, the film and music sector will also act as the heart and soul of the society thus necessitates us to give them proper attention. In this connection, bills will be filed to encourage corporate and indie film producers to produce soul-awakener and socially relevant movies and recordings. Foremost to these untapped stories are about how and why corruption is being done, the rationality of war, the impact of war to children and women, the root causes of poverty, the ordeals of exploited boxers or athletes, etc. We will also incorporate measures that will uplift the lives of the unsung heroes of movie production-stuntmen, crew, utilities, etc. In other words, we will enhance the existing program of MOWEL FUND.

CALLING COL ROLANDO HAUTEA JR PAF

This video is a personal message addressed to COL ROLANDO HAUTEA JR PAF.

ABUSE OF AUTHORITY!

This video is intentionally posted to remind military Officers the importance of person's rights. We are claiming to be Human rights compliant but in reality we are too abusive. We are terribly afflicted with "Senior Officers are always right" sickness. Its time for reality check sirs. Let's go back to basics and that is to truly SERVE THE PEOPLE not the fake ruler.

C-130 AIRCRAFT OF THE PAF

In the context of AIR POWER, heavy airlift capability is non-negotiable! With this indisputable assertion, heavy air lift capability automatically assumes the responsibility of being the backbone of air power superiority nonetheless. The essence of air power superiority of course is not all about sophistication of equipment, armaments, air assets and human resources technical expertise. It matters more on prompt delivery of valuable items/goods badly needed in one particular place at any given situation both in wartime and peacetime scenarios because all the above-mentioned stuffs are all considered given facts. These valuable items/goods include but not limited to bombs/munitions, armaments, troop movement, surveillance & reconnaissance flights, training flights, rescue operations, relief goods deliveries and R&R flights.

In the Philippine setting where armed confrontations are primarily localized or commonly known as internal conflicts, heavy air lift capability can easily be defined according to the known mandate of utilization and calculated function through out the year. In other words, the number of aircraft to be possessed must be encompassing to its mission, functions and pre-established objectives through out the year. So if the entire 10-year projection of heavy airlift functions - both scheduled and unscheduled - can be accomplished with three (3) Aircraft (C130 in this case), then the PAF must in all honesty focus all its efforts on heavy airlift related missions with three C130’s ONLY. Possessing more than 3 C130’s is definitely unreasonable because every extra C130 becomes a liability due to its inherently high upkeep cost. Remember that a pre-computed operational budget of three C130s is already part of the Congress approved budget for the entire AFP organization including funds for C130 upkeep. Pre-computed operational budget means an allocation of funds mostly on spares & fuel requirement with minimum funding intended for aircrew meal allowances. So logically speaking, the only way erring military Officers (the Generals in particular being the approving authority) to extract millions of pesos from government coffers for personal gain is to accomplish official documents justifying true deliveries of spares but the actual spares being utilized are simply extracted from the so-called “extra C130” being moored at the flight line. Incessant cannibalization is very much uncalled for simply because stocks of aircraft spares are expected to be adequate enough to sustain a year long flight operation of all three C130s anytime of the day. But if cannibalizations are being undertaken (though unwise) to finance the construction of soldiers quarters then the said “hot money” can be justifiable perhaps because soldiers’ barracks is one of the basic edifices in a military organization particularly in every major bases or camps. Major camps or bases are those military installations where soldiers are permanently billeted such as the Mactan Air Base, Palawan Air Base or Fort Bonifacio, etc. Detachments cannot be considered major camps. The point of contention being emphasized is the organizational set up or structural concept being implemented by the American Forces inside the country wherein each identified US Camp or Base always had living quarters which symbolizes dignity & high fighting esteem regardless on the ranks of its occupant. It is only in the AFP where comfort and living welfare are privileges of Generals, few "chosen/loyal" Officers and never been a privilege of ordinary soldiers as if Enlisted Personnel are not human. This blatant and systemic exploitation of our soldiers will continue ‘til kingdom come unless a wholehearted overhaul in the system is undertaken. There is no truth to the claims of Corrupt Generals that lack of funds is the main reason for the inadequacy of barracks. MGEN GARCIA & LTGEN IGOT proved that money is abundant in the Armed Forces of the Philippines!

Now going back to the topic, extra C130 can only hasten fund insufficiency if not organizational bankruptcy because these aircraft will be just a liability due to its innate heavy expenditures even if it is just parked at the flight line for the next 10 years.

It will definitely become source of corruption because engine parts, flight instruments and other aircraft parts will be removed or cannibalized to replace defective items from the 3 supported C130s encountering discrepancies. This generalization is not a pigment of imagination because cannibalization in exchange for the so called “for the boys savings” is being carried out despite having directives against cannibalization. As shown on the pictures below, almost a dozen C130s are now placed at the junkyards of Mactan Air Base due to unhampered corruption or massive cannibalization of spare parts on top of the well-entrenched ghost transaction schemes being implemented by the approving authorities. Worst, such scheme has proper coordination from HPAF. Just take a look at the pictures below and try to decipher its usefulness just a decade ago and the eventual worthlessness today!

CORRUPTION THRU CANNIBALIZATION DAMAGES C130 AIRCRAFT AS SHOWN ABOVE

Pictures on both sides above are the C130s with Wings recently removed and sold to close business associates of corrupt PAF leaders. Middle picture is one of the pictures of C130s eventually junk nowadays which shows the actual view of C130 Cockpit after being corrupted thru incessant removal of instruments. So as explained above, extra C130 becomes a milking cow for shameless & corrupt Generals. What’s the use of having ten (10) available C130’s when heavy airlift operations including deliveries of relief goods to the calamity stricken regions can actually be accomplished by just 3 C130’s? Frankly speaking, the Philippine Air Force only needs only 4 C130 based on the current mandate of utilization in performing heavy airlift missions such as transporting relief goods to calamity stricken regions, rescuing or evacuating people, relieving of troops, fuel runs, extricating flights for OFW’s, persistent training of pilots & crew, ferrying VIP’S or vacationing soldiers and many more. The significance of Heavy Airlift operations are not the number of aircraft in possession but the simultaneous support of aircraft parts to keep them flying because all the needed parts of C130 time-programmed items in relation to its wear & tear importance and accordance to the aircraft’s flight safety measures. So if for instance one of the C130 propellers has to be replaced after accumulating 150 hours of flying time, then stocks of propeller spares must be adequate to support the whole year flight operations as prescribed on the programmed flying time of that particular fiscal year.

So if this abhorring practice of corruption is to be ignored willfully, time will come that the very foundation of the AFP will be shaken beyond repair. Time will really come.....

Now let us focus our discussions on the actual operational set up of C130’s at 220AW at MBEAB, Lapulapu City. For fiscal year 2007, the earmarked flight operation support is practically limited to 1800 flying hours for the whole year flight operation of three C130s or 600 hours each. This computation means that each aircraft is authorized to fly (to and fro) 1.6 hours per day. Since most flight legs (Manila - Mindanao) averages 2.0 hours or 4 hours back and forth, then flight schedules have to be tailored in to fit for the authorized flight operations fund support. With this tailor-fit flight strategy, soldiers’ entitlement for free plane ride travel is consequentially sacrificed because the usual single destination per aircraft flight schedule (Manila – Davao for example) becomes multi-leg flight (Manila – Cagayan de Oro - Cotabato – Davao – Manila) in one C130. Sarcastically speaking, the two other C130’s have to be down and park at the flight line thereby sacrificing the soldiers entitlement of free air travel in going back home after spending 6-12 months at the war zones because 1 average planeload of personnel is between 120-135 individuals at standing positions against the 200 or more hopefuls in all pick up stations.

Being one of the Officers assigned at 220 Airlift Wing, CPT POGOY can truthfully speak the ins and outs of C130 aircraft and how it affects the morale and welfare of the entire Armed Forces of the Philippines or the foot soldiers in particular. And to give you some sort of overview, the C130 aircraft is supposedly the life link of all AFP Personnel who are much away from their loved ones in service to this beloved nation. Transporting uniformed personnel either on R&R function or for troop replacement must not be hindered by flight unavailability. Being a soldier alone is an authority in itself to be accommodated in any admin flights of C130 and no soldier shall be left behind by virtue of technicality. If one soldier has to be left out due to the aircraft’s flight safety limitation then the AFP thru the PAF must be obliged to send another C130 aircraft in order to accommodate the remaining soldier. Additionally, any personnel availing C130 flights need not go through a series but ceremonial deliberation passengers. Monthly flight schedules have to be posted in all military camps and all the soldiers have to do is just wear their snappiest uniform and proceed to the designated passengers’ area ahead of time. Processing of passengers must be on Rank

Privilege Concept or commonly known as RHIP but on first come first serve basis. So those who will be left behind due to flight safety limitations are duty bound to wait for the back up aircraft to arrive. C130 flights should not just be a privilege for every hardworking soldier, it must be a soldier’s right to be accommodated by virtue of being a member of the AFP. Isn’t it disturbing to note that since soldiers are usually given 1 week family time, they are forced to avail of an expensive commercial flights or longer sea trip just to visit their loved ones hundred miles away? If his purpose is on emergency or urgent situation, he will now be forced to buy plane tickets. So all of his savings if there are any will just evaporate (against his will) in thin air. In other words, heavy airlift shall function so as to boost the morale of tired & weary foot soldiers because being left out from the scheduled flight by mere flight safety limits is absolutely bothersome and too taxing for impoverished military men. Besides, military personnel do not just go to other places without valid purpose thus every minute of their break is as precious as water in desert lands.

Having laid down the principle of fair objectivity in connection to the utilization of C130s, let us now look at how PAF C130’s are being kept, maintained and utilized to advance the general welfare of AFP Personnel, the organization and the nation as well. Presently, the Philippine Air Force in its inventory is maintaining almost a dozen C130’s of which 3 are Flight Mission Capable (FMC), 4 are flyable aircraft and around 4 C130’s are supportable nonetheless. In short, there are only three C130’s readily available anytime of the day when badly needed.

As partly mentioned above, these three FMC C130s are actually not usable simultaneously. Only one (1) C130 is available anytime of the day. Since the fake President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is now utilizing C130 aircraft to ferry her security battalions in all of her island hopping trips, the allocated 600 hours flying time is mostly consumed at the expense of the soldiers’ travel opportunity in going back home. Flight records show that from year 2003 up to the present, flight schedules are mostly taken by GMA’s security battalion. Even flights for relief goods, rescue and medical evacuations of typhoon victims are not spared from GMA’s photo ops exploitation! Why GMA’s security detail has to use C130 aircraft at the expense of soldiers travel opportunity when her PSG unit has its own budget to defray all transportation expenses anywhere she goes? It is really disgusting that majority of Filipino soldiers cannot avail of C130 flights because the already minute flight schedules allocated for going home soldiers are now gobbled up by GMA Security aides in her desire to win back the support of the masses! Is it worth spending precious time in far flung detachments and sometimes offer God-given life in service to the nation when the very simple morale booster like free air travel via PAF C130 cannot be provided by the very government we dearly protect?

MAINTAINING MULTI-MODEL C130

picture 1: C130 3545 was still flying last 2003 but was eventually junked in a clearly sinking soil. C130's should be moored at a distance of 1 C130 apart!

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^{_{PICTURE 2: C130 Wings for sale! Representative of one of the companies interested to buy the C130 Wings pose for picture. PAF Officer in uniform is the tour guide.}}

Another hindrance (moneymaking tactic actually) in optimizing the Operational Readiness (OR) Rate of C130s is the ill-motivated acquisition of multi-model C130s. Let it be known to all Filipinos that C130 aircraft are not actually donated by the US government. It was really procured by the Philippine government! To continue, since every C130 model has its own unique designs of parts, the total spares requirement for three different prototypes will be higher compared to the spares requirement of maintaining only one model C130 like what Cebu Pacific Air is doing . Single model concept reduces spares requirement because all spare parts are interchangeable (remove & replace maintenance) thus maximizing its Operational Readiness Rate. Let’s get to the bottom of this multi-model money making scheme of PAF. Presently, the PAF is maintaining 3 different models of C130 namely, L-100, H-model and the almost obsolete B- model C130.

The best way to keep these aircraft flying is in advance acquire reasonable number of aircraft spares (say 6 months) because deliveries of aircraft spares take 3-6months or even 1 year upon payment of the mandatory deposits. Since the ideal stock level (minimum requirement) in every line item spares is three surpluses, the three different model C130’s therefore requires 9 surpluses for a particular aircraft spares of the same function and category but of different fittings. Now if the PAF is using one model C130, the 9 surplus requirements can actually be reduced to 6 surpluses without compromising the number of flying time allocated in 6 months of flying operations. To make the long story short, one of the three FMC C130s cannot fly due to the late arrival of spares because stocks were not procured according to its minimum requirement or stocks were intentionally not procured due to the availability of some aircraft parts from a moored C130 of the same model. As a result, soldiers’ interests are sacrificed per flight accommodation and the supportable aircraft parked at the flight line eventually becomes junk C130 (also shown above) when all spares are removed.

MANDATORY PERIODIC DEPOT MAINTENANCE OF C130

Pictures below are the cockpit's view of two different C130s;

left picture is the cannibalized one then junked & right picture is the cockpit of C130 4593 which sad to say crashed at Davao Gulf last August 24, 2008!

Every aircraft has a unique and successive timetabled maintenance program. Common to which is the Structural & System Repair or known as Periodic Depot Maintenance (PDM) program. This program can be likened to an automobile subjected for overhaul. In the case of the million dollar contract of C130 4593 and 4726 whose PDM works are now in limbo due to the profit manipulation and technical skirmishes of several astute business associates of greedy Generals, millions of pesos are siphoned off at the expense of the taxpayers’ money! Naturally if your car is subjected for structural and engine overhaul at one of the leading auto repair shops, all you have to do is sign the agreed contract price, pay the required minimum installment and wait for the completion of the restoration jobs.

The original agreement for the PDM of C130 4593 for instance was 100 Million Pesos as relayed by MGen Deypalubos during one of the Wing Conferences attended by CPT POGOY when he was still assigned at the Office of the Wing Inspector General. When the PDM works were completed, the actual payment rocketed to more than 300 Million Pesos due to the so called “over and above” repair works. Where in heaven’s name can you find a transaction that the “over and above” repair is much costlier than the main repair works? Okay let’s give the corrupt Generals involve in the PDM contract of C130 4593 the benefit of the doubt and let us focus on the minor but embarrassing facts about this PDM arrangement.

Realistically, this nation has no capability of repairing C130 aircraft at Depot Level Maintenance but the PAF insisted (or simply hostage by circumstance) of sending C130 4593 & 4726 at Asian Aerospace Facility in Clark Field, Pampanga for PDM purposes. It was later disclosed by MGEN DEYPALUBOS to the Officers at 220AW that the reason why PDM of both aircraft was awarded to Asian Aerospace despite having no human resource technical expertise to begin with is the fact that the owner of Asian Aerospace was actually the biggest financial contributor to the election campaign of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo last 2004 Presidential election. In other words, C130 4593 & 4726 were the bargaining chips for repaying her debt of gratitude.

Now if this accusation is bereft of truth, how come dozens of C130 Maintenance Specialists from 220AW were the ones working on the said C130s & were just assisted by the organic maintenance worker of Asian Aerospace. This is definitely not an accusation because Enlisted Personnel from 220AW were paid as regular employee of that repair facility with the pre-arranged concession that portions of the so-called salaries will be given to 471^st FDMS to augment the unit’s financial needs particularly the upcoming special occasions like Christmas or Anniversary Celebration of 471^st FDMS. If Asian Aerospace' company indeed has the capability to repair C130 aircraft for Depot Level Maintenance, then why soldiers are being paid for such jobs? Prior to this scandalous arrangement, PDM repairs were handled by either Singaporean or Indonesian firms specializing PDM works and never had a Filipino soldier been working there until the repairs were completed. The only participation for Filipino soldiers and crews were the “acceptance flight” to formally terminate the contract when there are no discrepancies noted after conducting a series of flights under the agreed scope of works. Now if this is an act that needs no outrage from the people then commonsense dictates that what the Generals are doing now will continue for the next centuries at the expense of the Filipino people! Can the AFP as a whole claim to be the bedrock of the Filipino society that produces martyrs and patriots but cannot prosecute Corrupt Generals in particular?

On the case of C130 4726, PDM works were now stopped due to the “usual” alibi of fund scarcity but in reality PDM works for C130 4726 is just another moneymaking arrangement for brazenly corrupt Generals because it was again awarded to MR RODRIGUEZ’ firm. In fact, four engines of C130 4726 were removed/cannibalized and subsequently mounted to the Flight Mission Capable (FMC) aircraft at Mactan Air Base encountering engine discrepancy after accumulating hundreds of flying time. Cannibalizing these engines is unacceptable for reason that the current FMC C130s is supposed to have enough engine spares to be used individually if engine replacement is warranted per recommendation of aircraft maintenance experts. The reason why C130 4726 was sent to PDM facility is to restore its air worthiness! Then how come the engines were removed to replace a discrepant engine currently attached to the FMC C130S’? Now that this is being done, where did the back up engine for 3 FMC C130s’ go?

FLYING TRAINING/PILOT UPGRADING

Being one of the major flying units of the PAF, C130 pilot training and timely upgrading are always part of the yearly operational budget because C130 flying is not just about flying the aircraft itself. C130 flying is about the AFP in itself. Whether you like it or not, half of AFP missions cannot be accomplished without these flying machines. And in fact, the AFP cannot afford to wage war against the ever increasing and modernizing enemies of the state at any given time if C130 pilots are depleting in numbers courtesy to huge pilot demands at airline industries and the United Nations' C130 charter flights. In other words, C130 flying training or C130 pilot upgrading must be conducted round the clock based on the projected manning program in connection to the number of Flight Mission Capable (FMC) C130s per three-year man-machine capability outlook. A 3-Year man-machine force capability projection must be observed because pilot upgrading takes months and even years before each pilot becomes a well rounded one. If piloting is put to a triangular skill level, C130 Piloting will always be at the top most portion of the triangle because these pilots are not only manning the aircarft but they are actually holding the lives of hundred other individuals on board the aircraft such as during troop movement in short field airstrips, airborne training, R&R flights and many more.

It is just frustrating to note that for the last five years of CPT POGOY's stay at 220AW, C130 pilot training was always under the discretion of the current PAF Commanding General per recommendation of the current Wing Commander instead of being systematic in itself. This discretionary element of program implementation is the main stumbling block in attaining the minimum requirement of the Air Force' Human Resource Skills Capability before it can be considered as "Force Capable Organization" of the Armed Forces of the Phillipines. Of Course, you cannot just deploy inexperienced C130 pilots to perform troop reinforcement in short and unestablished airstrip such as Basilan Air Strip. The keypoint here is "Professional Experience & Terrain Mastery" because personal safety of hundreds of trained but helpless passengers on board are always at staked in all flights be it admin or combat flights. One good example of Pilot skill maturity is the safe crash landing of C130 aircraft ferrying military personnel from the Fake President's Security Guards piloted by Snappy Major Emmanuel Zambrano experiencing two engine failures (same wing side engines) upon take off at Ninoy Aquino International Airport last 2005. If not because of this sad experience, extensive emergency flight trainings (simulator training) couldn't have been conducted. Going back to the pilot training/upgrading, the 220AW has reached a point of having only two C130 Pilot-in-Command between the years of 2005 & 2006 due to the massive resignation of disgruntled or shall we say financially cash-strapped pilots to heed the high-salary market demands of airline operators worldwide. Now the question is, where did the funds go when pilot training/upgrading is inherently part of the constitutionally approved budget of the Philippine Air Force? Why in heavens name pilots have to spend money from their own pocket to defray badly needed flight equipment such as flight suits, flights computers, flight manuals and the like to ensure flight safety wherein the Air Force in itself has abundant logistical support from the peoples' money? Please read AFP FINANCE CENTERS, AFP LOAN INSTITUTIONS & AFP HOUSING to understand how much money are being siphoned down by military leaders.

Ladies and gentlemen listen, when members of the Patriotic Magdalo soldiers and Officers enunciated their honest disgust and embarrassment on the actions of some military leaders at Oakwood Hotel, the entire AFP rank and file concluded that honest reforms will finally be undertaken without let up. But four years after their courageous outbursts, corruption lingers on and has grown to the worst magnitude ever.

I, CPT JOENEL S POGOY, BILANG ORDINARYONG TAXPAYER, DEMAND FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE RESULT OF INVESTIGATION OF C130 4593 THAT MYSTERIOUSLY CRASHED AT DAVAO GULF AND DEMAND PUBLIC INVESTIGATION (REVIEW OF CONTRACT) TO THE BUSINESS ARRANGEMENT OF C130 AIRCRAFT AT ASIAN AEROSPACE.

220th Airlift Wing Standard Christmas Party

Again another year has passed and as usual millions of pesos have been allocated to make the 220 Airlift Wing Christmas party worth remembering. As stated in other pages of this website, the extravagant Christmas Party at 220AW alone would ultimately prove to the Filipino people that money is aplenty in the PAF and the AFP in general and yet soldiers' barracks until this very moment haven't been attended yet due to "Lack of Fund" alibi. Hundreds of soldiers are still renting houses outside Air Force bases or military installations through out the country. Remember that barracks is one of the basic infrastructures in the military organization thus it is a big NO NO for the active soldiers to rent apartment while in the active military service. The 2007 Christmas Party of 220AW has a budget estimation of 1.5 Million Pesos!

Of course the author is not saying that the present Wing Commander is a corrupt military General. What is being portrayed here is the abundance of money that has not been used to the most needed priorities of the organization like soldiers barracks. Twenty pictures are enough to prove how good it is to be a military man.

This is the 220AW Christmas Party standard!

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• Picture #1. Cash gift worth P4000. This money is part of CPT POGOY's collectors item.
• Picture #2. CPT CAMPOS got his cash gift from the Wing Commander

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• Picture #3. "O Mantoy dito ka, Ano wala kang klase?" was BGEN LARGO's joke to CPT REMANTE a.k.a. Mantoy that illicits loud laughter inside the conference room because CPT REMANTE is having Airbus Academic Classes in Cebu Pacific Air for his eventual employment in that airliner. CPT MIGUEL in red shows off his heartfelt laughter to his classmate.
• Picture #4: Group of young Officers waiting for their turn to be called. CPT SANTIAGO has just received his cash gift.

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• Pictures #5 & #6 are still the group of young Officers traditionally brainwashed to received Cash gifts from the Wing Commander.

The above-shown pictures are testaments of how plentiful money is in one unit of PAF alone; so if this particular unit (220Airlift Wing) can afford to defray millions of pesos in one of dozen yearly ativities within the Wing, then there is no reason why other units can't afford to do the same. Again let's take a simple elementary computation based on the number of PAF Officers assigned in 220th AW. There are 70 Officers assigned with this unit and each of the Officers who are not holding positions were each given Four Thousand pesos cash gift from the Wing Commander. The author is not aware how much each Squadron Commander and Wing Staff received but one thing for sure it is not less than Four Thousand Pesos. Another token being distributed to all Squadron Commanders and Wing Staffs is the original brand "TIMEX" watches.

70 number of Officers X P4,000 = P280,000 + P57,600 (for TIMEX watches) = P337,600.00

For the original TIMEX watches; 9 Squadron Commaders & 9 Wing Staffs or 18 total TIMEX watches pricing at 3200 each for the cheapest timex watches or a total assumed value of P3200 x 18 = P57,600. Add this figure to P280,000 allocation for cash dole outs then we are now sure of having P337,600 disbursement for this gifts alone.

So people of the Philippines, cash dole outs and 'timex' tokens alone already coughed up an almost half-a-million pesos from the Wings budget department. How much more on the following pictures that shows a not so cheap activities such as cash gifts (P20.00 each child) to all 220AW children & SHINDIG PARTY?

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• Picture #7 & #8 showed CPT AGATEP (hands on his pocket) had witnessed the cash dole outs to all 220AW soldiers' children. Right picture showed the actual Cash dole outs to one of the kids of Mactan in the presence of BGEN JAIME LARGO.

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• Picture #9 is one of the hundreds "made-to-order" "PROUD AIRLIFTERS SHIRT" given to all 220AW Personnel & Officers.
• Picture #10 is a group of "Bundles of Joy" as one of the Wings Christmas gifts to all military wives of 220AW Personnel & Officers.

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• Pictures #11 & #12 are the raffle prizes with MAJOR MENARDO TEOPE posed for remembrance picture with the Grand Prize "Multicab". The Grand prize was won by Sgt Norial the duty driver of Advance Command Post (ACP), 220AW based at Villamor Air Base, Pasay City.

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• Picture #13 is the Minor Raffle Prizes. All organic personnel of 220AW won a minor prize.
• Picture #14 is the Major raffle Prizes. There are more or less 40 Organic Personnel of 220AW won the Major Prizes such as Akira & Philips Flat TVs, complete set Canon Video Cameras, etc.

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• Pictures #15 & #16 are again the Minor Raflfle Prizes. LT POGOY won one of the dozen mountain bikes.

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• Picture #17 is the SHINDIG PARTY last Dec 19, 2007 whom Officers wives are having fun following dance steps with paid Dance Instructors.
• Picture #18 is the SUBURBIA BAND showing off their talents during the SHINDIG PARTY.

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• Picture #19 is another performing Band called the CROWN ROYALE of Cebu during the SHINDIG PARTY @ 220AW. The third band named GABRIELA canceled their appearance for valid but unknown reasons.
• Picture #20 is another Officer just received the P4,000 Cah Gift from the Wing Commander. He is no other than the Snappy MAJOR DONALD MADARANG. He is the brother of the Marag Valley hero whose life was depicted by actor Edu Manzano in the movie titled Dugo ni Madarang. LT MADARANG heroically died fighting the insurgents at Marag Valley.

Again ladies and gentlemen, the above-shown pictures are accurate testaments that money is aplenty in 220AW alone. As usual, let us use elementary computation on the number of children (say 500 total children) receiving 20 pesos each or a total amount of P10,000.00!

RAFFLE BONANZAS

Now lets proceed to the extravagant Christmas Raffle Bonanza. Raffle Prizes were subdivided into three groups namely minor Prizes, Major Prizes and the Grand Prize. Minor Prizes consists of items whose value is ranging from as low as 'load card' amount to as high as the prevailing market price for mountain bikes. Interestingly, all organic personnel in 220AW each received a minor prize. Major prizes consist of 31 high value items such as Canon video cameras, Philips brand 29 inch Flat tv's, hot/cold Water Dispensers, Refrigerators and many more. And last but not the least is the Grand Prize local automobile called "Multicab" which was won by Sgt Norial the duty driver at the ACP, 220th Airlift Wing based in CJVAB, Pasay City. To cut the long story short, the 2007 Raffle Bonanza is believed to be costing between P250,000 to P350,000.

SHINDIG PARTY

Not to be outdone with the 2006 Wing Christmas celebration, the new leadership of 220AW likewise held a pre-christmas affair called the SHINDIG PARTY. Highlights of this pre-Christmas celebration is the double treat of known local bands named SUBURBIA & CROWN ROYALE alternately performing for music and entertainment. Actually there are three local bands being hired but the third ban named Gabriela canceled their participation at the last minute for some valid reasons. Below are the budget proposals for this SHINDIG AFFAIR. Take note, the Wing was to hire a Professional Band named CUESHE but sad to say it doesn't materialize afterall.

BUNDLES OF JOY

All organic personnel also have "Bundles of Joy" worth P500 each. So computing 500 personnel by 500-peso costing of goods, the total estimated expenditures for bundles of joy is P250,000.

BELOW IS THE PROPOSED BUDGET FOR THE SHINDIG PARTY (DEC 19,2007)

Option "B"
- Wing X'mas Nite Special with Cueshe band
- food & drinks (est attendees: 600 pers)	103,100.00	147,300.00
- entertainment
- CUESHE Band (12 pax to include hotel accomodations)	68,000.00	68,000.00
- Dance Instructors (4 pax)	4,000.00	4,000.00
- Local band	15,000.00	15,000.00
- program/invitation (paper & ink)	3,000.00	3,000.00
- PA system/mobile system/videoke & other requirements	10,500.00	10,500.00
- stage preparations/decorations	3,000.00	3,000.00
- raffles, gifts & other expenses	ODM ?	ODM ?
TOTAL	206,600.00	250,800.00
- Traditional xmas party by squadron
- eleven (11) lechons to be distributed to squadrons	33,500.00	33,500.00
- other expenses	ODM ?	ODM ?
TOTAL	33,500.00	33,500.00
GRAND TOTAL:	240,100.00	284,300.00

AGAIN, FIGURES BELOW ARE ANOTHER PROPOSED BUDGET FOR THE SHINDIG CHRISTMAS PARTY ON DEC 19, 2007

ESTIMATE FOR 1000 PERS:

• 6 PCS QUARTER HIND Php 27,000.00
• 4 PCS LECHON 14,000.00
• CATER, HEAVY COCKTAILS (1000 pers @ Php 150 / head) 150,000.00
• ADD’L VIP REQMNTS 10,000.00
• SAN MIG LIGHT (15 CASES) 7,000.00
• RED HORSE (90 CASES) 25,500.00
• EMPERADOR (3 BOXES) 2,100.00
• SOFTDRINKS, 8 OZ (20 CASES) 3,600.00
• ICE 2,000.00
• MISC 3,000.00

TOTAL: Php 244,200.00

Summing up all the expenses incurred for the 2007 Christmas Party at 220AW:

CASH GIFT - P 280,000.00

TIMEX WATCHES - P 57,600.00

RAFFLE PRIZES - P 350,000.00

SHINDIG PARTY - P 240,100.00

HIRED BAND - P 50,000.00

BUNDLES OF JOY - P 250,000.00

MISCELLANEOUS - P 200,000.00

TOTAL----------------------------------- P1,427,700.00

THE LOGO

EXCLAMATION POINT - represents the silent and frustrated majority of our people!

PAGBABAGO (inside exclamation pt) - represents the deafening clamor of our people for CHANGE!

CORRUPT ion destroyed this NATION - represents the present stature of our beloved nation. We are now at the bottom pit of political stupidity. We ceased to become a nation after all!

3 STARS (inside exclamation pt) - represent widespread frustration and hopelessness across the country.


BNB - means BASKETBOL NG BAYAN. It emphasizes that basketball is the number 1 sports in the country that if it will be utilized accordingly, it can unite the entire nation. (Read justifications attached). Sports is the sleeping giant of prosperity the government has ignored thru out the century.

BALL on fire - emphasizes immediate action from the government that not only basketball can bring prosperity to this country. All Sports particularly those of Olympic importance must be nurtured and given immediate & equal importance thru regional representation competition.

FLAG COLORS - a symbolism of oneness. We are all Filipinos under one flag united in sports the foremost!

MAP OF THE PHILIPPINES - emphasizes equal representation of economically-logical regional teams from northern- most luzon to southern-most province in Mindanao to immediately erase stereotyping among the subraces.

Be Proud of our Philippine Air Force!

1. This video will tell you the real situation of your C130. Dahil parati kinakahuyan ang naka park na eroplano kaya humantong sa tuluyang pagka junk. Kaya hindi nakapagtaka ang mga Heneral tuwing magreretiro ay kanya kanyang pagpapagawa ng mansion. May retirement "pabaon package" pa! Sarap talaga maging opisyal sa PAF.

First Video

2. This video is about the abundance of money in one PAF unit alone and yet basic needs of soldiers (i.e. housing) were ignored. This almost Two Million Pesos expenditures cover only one activity and that is Christmas party. Other activities that runs hundreds of thousands expenditures include Beach party (wing anniversary), bi-weekly golf sessions, monthly beer bustings, Commander's retirement wing outings and many more! When C130 4593 crashed last August 25, 20008, a typical poor house of one of the fatalities was repaired. TSAKA LANG NAKITA NG ATING MAGITING NA PAF OFFICERS ANG TUNAY NA KALAGAYAN NG KANILANG TAUHAN NUNG NAMATAY NA.

Second Video

3. ACCC's CORPORATE ABUSE - This video will somehow explain how Savings and Loan Associations/Cooperatives abuse its borrowers courtesy of people directly handling the salaries of the soldiers.- AFP Finance Centers. Deduct lang ng deduct. Kaya dapat lang i-abolish na ang automatic deduction ng loan payment. Let each responsible borrower pay their obligation to the loan institutions personally lalo pa ngayon atm mode na ang sahod ng mga sundalo.

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4. PAF PROVOST MARSHALL - This video is likewise intentionally uploaded to remind PAF Officers the sacredness of the "accused basic humanitarian rights" which the PAF PROVOST MARSHALL in particular and PAF in general willfully ignored it. Always remember that the accused is always presumed innocent until proven otherwise by the legal court. I am not complaining about my imprisonment, I'm only demanding for my basic rights to be respected. WE ARE NOT CONVICTED CRIMINALS here in PAF DETENTION FACILITY!

Fourth Video

5. This video explains the cause of C130's mysterious crash accident. This is the result of PAF corruption and Maintenance Malpractice

Fifth Video

6. This is one of the original videos that caused my imprisonment

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PAF PRESS RELEASE AGAINST CPT POGOY

Dear Countrymen,

Greetings in the name of God!


I am CPT JOENEL S POGOY PAF and a member of PMA '99. I wrote this letter with the hope of being heard in response to the Press Release of Phil Air Force picked up by Sir James Mananghaya of Philippine Star where i got a copy of it.

Please read my letter reply to the Philippine Star Editor.


This is my only contribution to the people's deafening clamor for change in our bureaucracy.

Thank you very much sir and more power.



Respectfully yours,

CPT JOENEL S POGOY PAF PMA '99


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Air force captain faces court-martial for posting anti-corruption videos

By James Mananghaya Updated March 19, 2009 12:00 AM


MANILA, Philippines - An Air Force captain is facing court-martial charges for posting videos of his views on corruption in the popular video-sharing website YouTube, a military spokesman reported yesterday.

Maj. Gerry Zamudio, Air Force spokesman, said Capt. Joenel Pogoy was recommended to be charged before the military tribunal for violations of Articles of War 96 and 97 (conduct unbecoming of an officer and gentleman and conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline, respectively) for posting the video, which also includes his call for the public to join the struggle to oust President Arroyo.

The two offenses are punishable with dismissal from military service.

Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro Jr. told The STAR that he ordered the military leadership to expedite the resolution of Pogoy’s case.

Teodoro said Pogoy’s parents had sought his intercession into the case.

“They (military) should charge him if they have a tight case against him. If they don’t have any, he should be cleared and released immediately,” Teodoro said.

He downplayed any new destabilization plot against the Arroyo Administration, despite the arrest of Pogoy.

Zamudio said the pre-trial investigation found prima facie evidence to charge Pogoy, a member of Philippine Military Academy Class of 1999, before the court-martial for disgracing the organization.

He said the junior officer could face the efficiency and separation board over charges of immorality, as he was living with his girlfriend Marichu Claro even though his marriage to his wife had not yet been annulled.

Zamudio said Pogoy posted on YouTube videos of his views on the alleged corruption in the military in September 2008. A second video showed Pogoy calling on the people to support moves to oust Mrs. Arroyo from power.

Pogoy admitted to having authored the videos during the investigation, but claimed that it was Claro who posted it on the Internet, Zamudio said.

He said Pogoy also claimed that the videos were supposed to be used for his thesis as a student of the squadron officer’s course and is only for class discussion and not for public consumption.

In December of the same year and last January, there were videos that were again allegedly posted by Claro, a charge she denied.

Pogoy is now detained at the Air Force headquarters in Pasay City and is also facing charges of 12 counts of violation of the Bouncing Check Law by the Air Cavaliers’ Cooperative.

Zamudio said Pogoy allegedly has links with military officers who were earlier implicated in past destabilization attempts against the Arroyo administration.

Pogoy also allegedly met with some personalities, including a lawyer, with whom he discussed his plans to overthrow the government.

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MY REPLY:


Dear Philstar Editor,

Im writing you this letter in response to the news report of Sir James Mananghaya that was published in your widely circulated paper last March 19, 2009 Titled: AIR FORCE CAPTAIN FACES COURT MARTIAL FOR POSTING ANTI-CORRUPTION VIDEOS.

Being the subject of that news report, let me express my own truth of the situation in order to clarify things to the reading public. I'm pretty sure that the motive or intent of that Press Release of PAF is to discredit my being to cover up the corruption issues i raised. I thank Sir James for the favor he gave me because i am now obliged to answer all the issues hurled against this humble representation. Please browse http://www.blogger.com/www.solitaryjourney.bravehost.com/xmas.htm or
http://www.blogger.com/www.solitaryjourney.bravehost.com/c130.htm)


ITEM #1. ANTI-CORRUPTION VIDEOS

YES, I authored those videos that were illegally posted at youtube. But whatever crimes i am liable resultant to those videos are
now up to the legal court (Court-martial on this case) to determine it.

PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE?

This claim is totally absurd and misleading. Such claim is just a diversionary tactics employed by inept AIR FORCE Officers to cover up their failure or shall i say willful abuses committed against me as an accused. The Prima Facie Evidence is already immaterial because I have confessed all the information relevant to my case to PAF investigators RIGHT AT THE START of the investigations prior to my imprisonment. Sad to say, I am detained for over five months without charges filed against me. It was only last March 18, 2009 that the Pre-Trial Investigation was conducted when Filipino mediamen are already inquiring about my case. The act of PAF simply shows that once nobody is seeing them, they can abuse anybody as if they are kings of the universe!

In my five months and counting of imprisonment without charges, i was and still deprived of my basic rights as an accused particularly;

1. on my right to know the status of my case because the PAF Provost Marshall (before my case was referred to the Office of Judge Advocate Generals) supposedly administering justice directed the custodian unit not to let me visit this public office if not being summoned for personal reason of COL CARANDANG & LT TANGGAWOHN. These two Officers want me to beg for mercy to them!

2. on my right to legal assistance because the PAF Provost Marshall wanted me to sign a piece of paper stating therein my voluntary waiver of my right to legal assistance (the second one) administered by the guard on duty in the presence of dogs & birds.This waiver signing must always be in the presence of lawyers not anybody else. This is simple abuse of authority!

3. on my right to case confidentiality because PAF Provost Marshall wanted me to sign a prepared sworn statement which was sent to me unsealed, bare and hand carried by several individuals thus putting the individuals mentioned in that sworn statement in an embarrassing situation. This is willful and personal abuse!

4. on my right to conjugal visit because even my parents were not allowed to stay overnight though the Wing provided them with transient room. Conjugal Visit is a BASIC RIGHT of the accused. It is very obvious why similar right of conjugal visits are respected and implemented to the detainees in Tanay but not in PAF because of the watchful eyes of media covering their case for fairness and Justice. To those of us detained here that no media interest are constantly deprived and abused by these so-called PAF Officer & Gentlemen.

Secondly, custodians want us to beg for mercy before our basic right is given.If this mentality continues and has been done to military personnel accused of crime then no wonder ordinary citizens in the hinterlands can be subjected to military injustice and abuse. TIGILAN NA NATIN ANG ABUSO MILITAR PARA MAKAMTAN ANG MINIMITHING KAUNLARAN.


Item #2. Charges of 12 counts of violation to bouncing check law by AIR Cavaliers Credit Cooperative.

1. Yes it is true that i have a pending case of BP 22 violation at Pasay Court. This case is my desire to have it elevated at a legal court because i cannot see justice with the action of ACCC even even if i dont have a lawyer of my choice because i am financially broke ( the court provided me with one from PAO anyway). I am the ones being victimized here by the corporate abuse of ACCC rather than a felon. It is the ACCC who willfully made the mistake that lead to the draining of my checking account thereby hostaging my finances til now. For the information of everybody, if ACCC has a tight case against me then they should have ceased from withholding my salary (automatic loan deduction) and just wait for the court to decide how much I'm going to pay to them if it finds me guilty as charged. The mere fact that they are automatically deducting amount from my salary then it speaks otherwise on the charges they lodged at me. Though there was a portion of the loan voucher that i signed allowing ACCC to collect my payment thru automatic deduction at the finance center, this arrangement is only good for ordinary collection of payment but not applicable to payment under contest at the legal court. Is there justice in the act of ACCC that any increase of my pay and allowances they will automatically take it while erroneously increasing my 'supposed financial obligation' to them by adding on the expenditures of ACCC's legal services costing to not less than a hundred thousand pesos? Though this legal costing of ACCC can be charged to me but only when i am already convicted in court. MAHIYA NAMAN TAYO ACCC MEMBERS OF THE BOARD! YOUR ACTION IS NOT A SIGNATURE OF TRUE PMAERS!

2. Second thing is that I issued check worth close to 36,000 pesos in the name of ACCC and ACCC had credited it in its corporate account. Ironies of irony, ACCC denied it to cover their ass that they transferred that money from my account to somebody's account. What banking law is it that authorizes any cooperative to get money from Juan's account so Pedro can pay his obligation? This issue is the one being contested that lead to ACCC's filing of cases. The intent of ACCC is nonetheless to deprive me of my opportunity for schooling or deployment abroad, promotions or any career privileges due to this pending case. TIGILAN NA NATIN ANG ABUSO MILITAR FELLOW PMAERS!

3. Third thing is that ACCC fooled the PAF Finance Center that I made an agreement with ACCC for them to make another or additional deduction from my salary in the guise of "Savings Deposit Scheme". I never allowed ACCC to do it and why in heaven's name ACCC has to do this when they are very much aware that the court will be the one to determine the amount i am going to pay including lawyers fee upon conviction? What law is it allowing ACCC to deprive me of my income? In fact, i can already pay three-fourths of my previous loan obligation if only ACCC did not abusively deny me of my opportunity to avail of loan to another institution with that deduction!


4. Fourth thing is that this legal battle i am into now against ACCC is a manifestation of "Senior Officers are always right mentality". If ACCC board as PMAERS have done this to their fellow but Junior Rank PMAER like me then i will not be surprise that low ranking enlisted personnel can also be abused cleanly and neatly! How much more to the perceived sympathizers of the so-called enemies of the state like Ms Rebelyn Pitao?

5. Fifth is that these members of the board of cooperatives are military Officers still in the active service therefore there sitting as board member is simply a form of MOONLIGHTING. They are receiving much even higher than their pay as Officer i believe.They are even enjoying several perks and privileges like an interest-free loan transaction while sitting as members of the board. This is the main reason why military Officers are salivating to be elected board member. In fact,there is one loan institution who have two sets of Officers that prompted the judiciary to resolve the conflict. Money indeed ............ NAKAKAHIYA!

Because of the action of ACCC, I therefore suggest that AUTOMATIC DEDUCTION arrangement of loan Institutions & cooperatives be stopped. Let the responsible borrower fulfill his financial obligation individually. Whether we like it or not, something wrong is being done along this transaction at the expense of the borrowers. (read www.solitaryjourney.bravehost.com/finance.htm). I hate to say this but these loan institutions have become loan sharks indeed.



Item #3. Meeting with personalities


PAF SHOULD HAVE FILED A CASE AGAINST ME FOR REBELLION OR ATTEMPTED REBELLION DAYS AFTER MY ARREST . The Pre-Trial Investigation was only conducted last March 18, 2009 because the media is already inquiring about my case. So frustrating Generals!



Item #4: IMMORALITY


From a technical point of view, it is true that i am committing an immoral act by living with a lady not mylegal wife. But in a rational point of view, I and my legal wife's decision of separation due to unreconcilable differences is our right that must be respected. My legal wife is already free several years already to live with other man she feels happy to be with and this issue has nothing to do with my imprisonment.


In closing, let me emphasize to the reading public that the reason of my encarceration is the video of corruption in the Philippine Air Force that i made and not on the charges of bouncing check & immorality issues. Those videos are proofs to debunk government's line of reasoning that the cause of Magdalo Incident and other destabilization kuno is purely power grab. Rebellion or any military uprising is the result of rampant and systemic corruption seen, known, felt and experienced by all military personnel that cannot be stomached by idealistic officers in every generation.

It is always my belief that "the strength of rebellion is not measured on the number of territorial encampments nor the volumes of arms in possession; it is rather measured on the number of afflicted hearts, abused minds and exploited souls who will fight for what is right"


here are some of the following questionable concerns of corruption in the PAF.

1. C130 #4593 that mysteriously crashed at Davao Gulf was the first product of wheeling and dealing because the project was awarded to the biggest financial contributor of Fake President GMA last 2004 Presidential election. Accordingly, the contract price of 100Million Pesos ballooned to 300Million pesos upon completion of the project due to an innate procedure of replacing aircraft parts that were not listed in the contract. Additionally, Air Force soldiers are the ones doing the odd job with pay and half of the soldiers salaries from that repair facility is given to its respective units.This can be verified!

2. Nomad aircraft that ditched/crashed at Zamboanga shoreline years ago was caused by fuel pilferage because the pilots intentionally sold its fuel instead of putting it up to the aircraft fuel tanks. This can be verified! Worst fact is that this practice of fuel pilferage remain rampant and widespread til this time.

3. Nomad 87's landing gear collapsed while taxiing last july 2008 due to material failure. interestingly, this aircraft has just been blessed by no less than the Commanding General 3 days before that landing-gear-collapse incident. Now,when we talk of material failure, it speaks about corruption because instead of buying brand new aircraft parts to replace the already 'unsafe for flying' aircraft parts, our Generals simply cannibalize items from junked aircraft to replace the discrepant parts thereby earning millions of pesos because in paper, procurement transactions are all well-documented. This is the main reason why PAF planes crash anytime because the material strength of a cannibalized aircraft parts is logically weaker than the brandnew one.

4. Construction of several buildings at Lipa City (AIR POWER INSTITUTE building included) were abandoned thereby wasting millions of pesos of taxpayers money. Worst of it is the fact that Candidate Soldiers or Trainees are the ones working as construction laborers. This can be verified!


and a lot more corrupt practices which i can divulge to anyone who wants to interview me.


I am hoping that with this letter of mine, everything is clarified with personal prayer that this may land in the
pages of your widely circulated paper.



Thank you very much and more power!



Respectfully Yours,



CPT JOENEL S POGOY PAF PMA '99

ill-fated C130 4593 (The painful truth)

Note: The words written on this article are purely analytical or theoretical assessment of the author base on his personal knowledge and understanding on the aircraft operation, maintenance, flying experience and organizational conduct of operation. This is not written to undermine the result of the investigation but to give the reading public a worm’s eye view on the cause or causes of accident that led to its fatal but mysterious accident that cost the lives of two (2) Very Good PAF Pilots, 7 PAF soldiers and two (2) battle scarred Army Rangers who were detailed as troop escorts of the ferried combat troops. This is likewise written to give justice to the hardworking crew and army escorts who perished in that ill-fated C130 #4593….mysteriously!

Investigation Reports will be published here sooner than you expected!

This picture is taken from PAF Website in honor of the Pilots and Crew of the ill-fated C130 4593. Pictures of two Army Rangers were not included because they were not considered heroes by the PAF due to its being army men.

C130 “HERCULES” is basically an “all weather” cargo aircraft utilized by several civilian corporations and military organizations due to its reliability. All weather means that the aircraft is designed to withstand weather turbulences while on flight except of course for extreme weather disturbances such as super-typhoons and the like. This prototype of aircraft has proven its worth to be the safest cargo aircraft in the world since its birth four or five decades ago. It has four powerful engines independently working together base on the power requirement needed for a safe and comfortable flight. It also has individual engine warning system routinely being monitored by the pilot, the co-pilot and the flight engineer every now and then. To make a long story short, C130 Aircraft is precisely dependable if it is not being abused. In fact, 3-engine takeoff or flying 3 engines is just an ordinary flying routine for veteran pilots and crew. The term “abused” is descriptively used because the succeeding pages will thoroughly explain on the possible factors that led to its tragic but mysterious accident. According to a C130 Pilot, there are only three factors that can cost the lives of C130 Pilots and Crew during flight operations and they are: a. bleed air b. propeller failure c. foolishness Since the aircraft is submerged in the Gulf of Davao with no firm hint that the PAF will resurface it to unearth the “real cause of accident”, the author will instead focus his assessment on the “foolishness” aspect because this factor constitute the entire picture on how the organizational system works to the aircraft after all. Foolishness can be attributed to the corruption practices of the PAF and operational mediocrity of PAF Flight Operations which if we put in one sweeping generalization, Flight Safety is actually being sacrificed!

Let us now dissect foolishness into three “intriguing” aspects of contention.

1. LIGHTNING STRIKE
2. SABOTAGE/ENEMY FIRE
3. MAINTENANCE MALPRACTICE

But before we plunge on the lengthy justification on each of the three intriguing aspects of foolishness, let us first establish the expected position of C130 4593 along the flight route base on the last transmission of C130 4593 to Davao Control Tower. Here are the excerpts of communication between Davao Tower and Air Force 4593. SORRY SIRS, NO TIME TO GET THE EXCHANGE OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE PILOTS AND THE TOWER. This is the established departure procedure of RUNWAY 23 of Davao International Airport.

As shown in the cropped picture above, AF 4593 is required to make a Left Turn within 5 Nautical Miles upon airborne to intercept Radial 180. If Radial 180 has been intercepted, AF 4593 is again required to maintain at that radial while climbing until 4000 feet indicated altitude. Upon reaching 4000 ft Indicated Altitude along Radial 180, AF 4593 is again required to make another left but this time Left Procedure Turn within 10 Nautical Miles (see fish hook illustration below) to cross Davao VOR/DME Fix at 8000 feet or above. Or in lay man’s term, AF 4593 is required to go back over Davao VOR/DME Fix at 8000ft or above but must turn left first before turning clockwise direction in going back above the station. Upon reaching back over Davao Station (Fix), that is now the time AF 4593 can start flying the approved airway (B473) in going to Iloilo Station as shown in the green encircled diagram below.

Flight Route Left Procedure Turn

Since AF 4593 has just initiated the first Left Turn in its flight route, it can be established that the aircraft was on its way of intercepting Radial 180 and has not reach the Altitude limit of 4000’ yet before performing the so called “Left Procedure Turn”. Of course, the aircraft can be inside or has just passed the 5NM marker when it initiated its first left maneuvering turn but still in the process of intercepting Radial 180 while climbing towards 4000’ altitude limit. So if we put its aerial displacement over the terrain map, we can now at least confirm its estimated location in relation to the time of its last radio transmission. This is how the flight route looks like and compares it to the actual crash site of the aircraft.


SORRY SIRS, NO TIME TO GET PICTURES THIS TIME


LIGHTNING STRIKE

This environmental hazard (lightning strike) do exists in flying profession. In fact there is a recorded incident that C130 aircraft crashed due to this lightning strike. Interestingly, that recorded incident happened several decades ago when C130 or all aircraft for that matter still were not equipped yet with lightning arresters. That incident gave birth to safety enhancement of all air assets to prevent similar accidents to happen by installing number of Lightning Arresters to the aircraft so that the electrical deposits brought about by lightning will be discharged right away. These Lightning Arresters are now proven as the sole protective devices against lightning onslaught while on flight. It is for this reason that all aircraft can withstand ordinary weather disturbances while on flight. How much more for the C130 aircraft whose prototype is designed to be an all weather aircraft? Will it be believable if C130 4593 met its tragic accident due to Lightning Strike? Personally speaking, Lightning strike is very remote to be considered otherwise all pilots should now be wary if that’s the case. Therefore environmental factor especially lightning strike can be ruled out logically. Unless physical evidences thru resurfacing the aircraft is examined, lightning strike will remain not party to its fatal accident.

SABOTAGE/ENEMY FIRE

This angle cannot also be just ruled out without resurfacing the aircraft. But for argumentation purposes, we will try to make further investigations why sabotage/enemy fire angle should be integrated. The term sabotage or enemy fire will always associate on how efficient security measures are inside the military installations where PAF aircraft are parked. In short, the subject matter on this sabotage aspect will focus on the practices done by PAF Crews, Ground personnel and security detailing. Having part of the C130 Crew many times before, aircraft security is no longer the concern of the pilots and crew because this task is already a mandate of the respective Tactical Operation’s Group (TOG) of the Philippine Air Force. Based on my experience, pilot and some crew automatically deplane after engine shutdown and immediately proceed to the base operations for heavy meals or light refreshment prepared by the TOG Unit or some other sort of stuffs like flight instructions and coordination. Processing of passengers is outside pilots’ task for as long as cargo loading and weight limit is in order. But if the volume of passengers and cargoes are now beyond the calculated flight safety minima, the pilots will now intervene and calls for the shot. Essentially, there is no problem with this set up. The security problem arises in between along the processing of cargoes and passengers because more often than not, “Care Of” baggage especially those of the Generals are being loaded without strict security scrutiny. This age-old “Care Of” practice of sending goods and “pasalubong” to ranking military Officers without physical security check made the aircraft vulnerable to sabotage. How can we correlate 4593 fatal accident to sabotage? The answer is thru the “sonar images” provided by USS Lincoln, the human body parts recovered and some aircraft parts. Firstly, sonar images showed that C130 4593 lay “intact” underneath in Davao Gulf except for the huge hole-type bust of the fuselage. This bust implies that explosion happened on flight. The only problem is on what type of explosion was there. If it was caused by lightning, it is very improbable because according to seasoned C130 pilots lightning can only damage a fist-size hole at the most. Even if the lightning struck in one of the aircraft’s fuel tanks located at the Wings, the damage could have been severe because fuel-triggered explosion can somehow destroy the entire aircraft causing it to detach into pieces. But as the “Sonar Images” has shown, there was no manifestation of fuel triggered explosion from the C130 Wings. Therefore, lightning strike is absolutely out of the issue.

Secondly, if C130 4593 was experiencing mechanical malfunction that caused it to crash in water, the impact of crash landing (flat–wise) will logically wrecked the entire aircraft; thereby separating all major aircraft parts instead of a huge bust of the fuselage. Thirdly, the human body parts especially the boots with feet and the detached face mask with hair showed signs of “burn”. Meaning these body parts are telling signs to the investigators that bomb explosion was most likely the cause of accident. According to a high ranking ‘Bomb Expert’ military Officer, the face mask going to the hair of any person who is directly hit by bomb will be detached due to the impact of explosion. The human trunk including legs and feet will be cut into pieces. With this scientifically proven revelation of noted ‘bomb expert’, there is a big probability that the said C130 aircraft was sabotaged. But since there is no physical evidence to corroborate this theory, sabotage angle can always be ruled out inconclusively. So to make a long story short, there is only one possible crash angle that can provide a more realistic conclusion on the cause of that fatal accident – MAINTENANCE RECORDS & PRACTICES!

MAINTENANCE RECORDINGS AND PRACTICES

C130 4593 is the first product of business wheeling & dealing at a questionable PDM Facility at Clarkfield, Pampanga. As explained in the “C130 Article”, this facility is “not completely” capable of performing PDM undertaking because it does not have the labor expertise to perform maintenance work that is why seasoned Maintenance Personnel of 220th Airlift Wing are being called to do the odd jobs with pay. Aircraft records will show that there are parts especially the “flight control cables” are supposedly due for replacement but were not removed for reason that it passes to the “NDI Testing” or an Xray examination. This NDI examination is being done only to detect cracks but it doesn’t guarantee sturdiness of material. For the information of everybody, all aircraft parts have a calculated lifespan relative to its material safety strength. For example, if maintenance bulletin says that an aircraft flight control cables have to be replaced upon logging in an accumulated flying time of 3600 hours or has reached 6 years of intermittent flying even if it logs less than 3600 hours flying time, that particular “Flight Control Cable” must be removed and replaced because its stress factor is no longer safe for flying. NDI Testing even if it shows no cracks on the cables is simply immaterial because material lifespan is already due for removal. Why did this happen? The answer is absolutely organizational hypocrisy that approved the contract and the political foolishness of paying back a favor to certain individual even if it was very clear right from the start that the safety standard of maintenance work is already questionable. Now that C130 4593 has crashed mysteriously in the bodies of water, resurfacing it will obviously boomerang to the organization’s unethical if not corrupt undertaking then why resurface it after all? Anyway, the Pilots and crew who were actually victims of corrupt practices were already given heroes burial with handsome financial benefits. The issue here is not about the pilots and crew if they deserve to be called heroes because they are actually heroes. The issue is about knowing the true cause of the accident so that a repeat of that accident will be prevented. It is really worrisome for the hardworking and honest pilots like MAJOR NOEL M DAGOHOY to fly again the remaining aircraft if he doesn’t know what system he has to pay more attention so he can safely bring the aircraft back to the landing field if similar trouble will happen. Months have passed since C130 4593 crashed last August 25 2008, why there are no concrete investigation reports yet on the cause of that accident? Is the delay implies that the leadership is already aware of the true cause of that fatal accident and is just buying time so that the public can forget the event? Is the delay likewise imply that a cover up is being cooked so that the true reason of accident will not be published in public for fear of institutional backlash from the Filipino people and nation loving senators?

VISION FOR THY BELOVED PHILIPPINES

It is sarcastically circulated in the international community that Philippines is a nation of no identity for it has no culture that symbolizes of being Asian unlike the Chinese, Koreans or Japanese do. It has no architectural works that describes the soul of the nation. It has no self-designed weaponry that reflects peoples’ gallantry & nationalism against tyrants and invaders. It has no invention that represents Filipino civilization & progression. It has no inspiring artistry or tradition that motivates the citizenry to collectively work as a nation towards national greatness and fame! In other words, people around the globe believed that Filipinos are just a group of people squatting on the face of this earth and nothing more. This acerbic remark has captured the nationalistic heart of CPT POGOY to dream of things not beyond what is plausible by the naked eye but on things that is attainable thru the collective thrust of weary hands and exhausted souls of Filipino people for the sake of country’s pride, dignity & honor. If the more-than-a-century struggle of nationhood has whittled down to just a leech-like political exercise of greedy rulers and elites for the end purpose of sapping all the resources of the nation for personal gains instead of protecting it to ensure fair wealth distribution among the people, then time is ripe for radical change to happen so we as a nation can carry out reforms in the truest form of democracy - by the people, for the people & of the people. A well-charted vision for this nation will never happen if injustice & tyranny prevail. In this relation, CPT POGOY jotted down his visionary outlook “wish-lists” for the country, which he believes if materialized will further motivate all Filipinos to become country-loving again. He is committed to present his “uncommon way of thinking” to the dying nation even if his wish-lists appears improbable to happen under the present methodology of national-level governance because for him “Failing to see the birth of your dream is the least to worry about”. What matters most is the sowing of nationalistic & patriotic seed to the consciousness of the nation so that at the time of its fruition, Filipinos can savor the sweetness of living in a true paradise nation called the Philippines!

1. PINOY TWIN CANALS

Historical accounts of the world renowned “Great Wall of China” and the “Suez Canal” always have something to do with civilization. It demonstrates power and strength of the people represented by the ruling regime. Great Wall of China exemplifies force against invaders who dare to fight a mighty dynasty reigning over the country. Suez Canal on the other hand illustrates economic necessity to unburden the European stakeholders from a long voyage route towards their colony states and to relieve the Egyptian ruler from economic impediments that besets the region during that period of time thru maritime trading. In fact Suez Canal now accounts 18% of the worlds voyaging activities.

Pinoy Twin Canals

CANAL LOCATIONS

In the recent Philippine setting, demonstration of both “power & strength” thru nationalism and economic revitalization are badly needed because the country is already at the pit of disillusionment. Failure to cushion the downward trend of social disenchantment as a result of a pestering misgovernance will ultimately put this nation into the actual scene of civil war. History always speaks that national depression always complemented from virtual famine or economic migration. Since majority of Filipinos are already suffering from financial bankruptcy while political rulers & few but greedy economic riders called elite businessmen are living in luxury at the expense of the peoples wealth they exploit if not manipulate, PINOY TWIN CANALS is hereby hatched in order to rouse our very brethren from their state of unconsciousness because we as people have much stake in the making of this nation. We are the true masters of this beloved but benighted nation and not as indispensable pawns of the few politicians!

PINOY TWIN CANALS is actually conceptualized after the Suez Canal of Egypt linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas. However, the concept of implementation of the entire “Dream Project” starting from its artistry or architectural designs, engineering works to its National Symbolism must be an all Filipino inspired undertaking. The objectives of this mega project are to first, create parallel north to south nautical passage way (as illustrated on the map) in order to infuse vibrant trading activities and balance distribution of goods through out the country. Second, lessen the internal voyage route of sea vessels crisscrossing the country from the northern part to the southern most tip of the archipelago. Third, enhance the exchange of produced goods from different provinces in order to evenly distribute food supplies through out the country. Fourth, maximize crop suitability per soil fertility content such as mangoes for Guimaras and Lanzones for Camiguin (both farmland regions are rich in potassium content soil thus sweetened the fruits of mango and lanzones trees). This concept is intended to obliterate redundancy production of crops with proven unmarketable quality due to poor soil-crop compatibility. If Camiguin Island is the only region that can produce world-class quality Lanzones then every cultivable piece of land favorable for lanzones bearing trees of that province must be tilled vigorously rather than allowing localities to plant camote or highland kangkong. Government intervention in the form of technology advancement in ensuring bountiful harvest and pest control should be pursued aggressively to complement the concept of balance food distribution. Such concept can definitely assure good monetary return for the tilling farmers because of sure nationwide market before it decays and likewise ensures lower consumer price due to the shorter sailing time of goods. (Ibatans in Batanes Province deserve to have their share of sweet Lanzones produce of Camiguin at the cheapest possible price just like Filipinos deserved to eat grape and apple produce of other countries). Read the following web pages for related explanations RORO FOOD HIGHWAY, FARM REVOLUTION, AQUACULTURE PROPAGATION & FOOD SUFFICIENCY. Fifth, oblige shipping investors to sail off fast, safe and environment friendly cargo and passenger sea vessels.

Nationalism factor!

Speaking of rousing people’s attachment with the TWIN PINOY CANAL project, massive nationwide campaign for artwork or architectural design competition will be undertaken. The theme of this competition shall be in line with Filipino unique treat. It must depict the soul of the nation, gallantry of its people, tribal ingenuity of its inhabitants and of course the projection of universal peace and harmony among the sub races of the archipelago. The targeted crowd for this competition (though free for all) are the idealist youths in all universities, colleges, military academies and even high school campuses for the end purpose of injecting youth awareness on the relevance of loving this country. The peoples’ feeling of attachment in itself is already a manifestation of “power & strength”. It’s a power of unity in adhering oneness of the nation and strength for the people to emancipate themselves from the stupor of racial idiocy. Architectural designs are not limited to the creation of man made canal but includes tourist come on bridges that will connect the detached landmass, international hospital to cater medical tourism while promoting peace of zone in the region and international barter trading center to entice foreign trading. Additionally, environmental protection must be observed like the preservation of “Butanding Sanctuary” in the vicinity of Lamon Bay which will be affected by the proposed Twin Canal. On the part of labor force upon implementation of this dream project, all unemployed but able-bodied Filipinos, men and women alike, are enjoined to be employed in a voluntary and patriotic sense of employment because compensation is not too high but adequate enough to feed a family of seven on the entire construction duration on top of the guaranteed free hospitalization incentives and other standard government privileges. Read BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION webpage for related justifications. Accordingly, Suez Canal spent $300 Million or close to 15 Billion Pesos on the current exchange rate of 45. This figure is literally insignificant for a charismatic leader because a simple chipping in scheme of P100 each from among the 50 Million Filipinos can already generate billions of pesos if and only if the government is worth supporting for. Since chipping in scheme is seemingly an uphill battle plan, funding of the said project will initially be taken from portions of the Senators, Congressmen and President’s pork barrel allocation. In this case however, it is prayed that the country is already being run by new set of leaders thru SNAP ELECTION which simply means that all pork barrel allocations from the removed corrupt politicians will automatically go to the TWIN PINOY CANAL TRUST FUND. Another source of funding will be the portion of PAGCOR proceeds. Interestingly, Filipinos abroad can likewise contribute PATRIOTIC FUND thru their solicitation initiative of say 1 dollar to their foreign friends or local businessmen’s patriotic dole outs or better yet a patriotic fund support of say a percent of Pacquiao pot if the Boxing icon is willing to help make Philippines a united nation not just during his fight. The point here is not the value of money being contributed but the majestic value of having one proud name that connotes Filipinos just like “Great Wall”, “Egyptian Pyramid”, “Petronas Tower” and the like. Peoples’ support is essential.





Based on CPT POGOY’s years of flying experience within the country, the two landmasses to be manly separated and subsequently connected with superbly designed & Filipino inspired bridges are:

the Pangil Bay-Cotabato Pagadian Gulf in Mindanao

and the Ragay Gulf-Lopes Bay in Calauag, Quezon Province.

Coincidentally, the proposed PINOY TWIN CANALS are both located in depressed areas where Muslim Separatists and Communist Insurgents are concentrated. It is therefore sensible to aggressively push through with this Dream Project with emphasis on the active participation of separatist rebels, insurgents, localities, churches, press organizations and other Filipino stakeholders under a “Peace Sanctuary” banner. Decades of government neglect and stereotyping further complicates the situation which up to this point in time made the area a laidback region. Make further readings on the CHARTER CHANGE webpage for related stories. Unknown to everyone, the province of Maguindanao where MILF Central Command is posted is situated in an area of narrow economic access for land and maritime trading. Air travel of goods is definitely not feasible due to its inherent cost of transportation. Even if the entire province can produce million metric tons each of rice and other farm goods, farmers cannot expect of better income because farm products will always be procured by local traders at the lowest possible price to cover the cost of transportation (Read FARM REVOLUTION & RORO FOOD HIGHWAY). This is the main reason why farmers opt to abandon farming and push their luck in Metro Manila as laborers or even join rebellion because of this economic injustice. As expected, food shortages will ultimately sets in because population is growing and farm tillers are decreasing. The failure is in the governance itself. It is plainly normal that no matter how rebellion is being demonized by the AFP and the illegitimate national leadership, insurrection will always grow stronger as years go by because of this simple institutional disregard of the people’s economic plight. The more bombs and mortars shelled against radical dissenters without pouring in of socio-economic infrastructures from the government, the more it attracts armed rebellion among the rebels’ kin. As a result, simple food & comfort problem becomes a complicated ordeal because separatists is now invoking self rule & religion to justify their quest for independence as shown by the unending bloodshed in Mindanao. 2. TRIBAL SYMBOLISM (Statue of Liberty) Again stereotyping is still very much prevalent in the country like Ilocano-Kuripot, Cebuano-mayabang, Muslim-terrorist, Siquijor-aswang, Ilonggo-tikalon, etc. Although this racial slur is being welcomed in a funny manner, the fact remains the same that an age old name splotching thrived in bad coloration. So as demonstrated in the famous “Statue of Liberty” in the United States of America, tribal portrayal will now be changed thru the collective classification each of the province wants to be known. Just like in NBA, each of the US States is being promoted in team name i.e Los Angeles Lakers, Chicago Bulls. In our case, name calling representing a province or tribe will be replaced with a moniker relevant to the province’s historical importance, environmental significance, societal worth or simply economic standing like Davao Eagles, Laguna Lakers, Olongapo Volunteers, Nueva Ecija Patriots, Maguindanao Brave Hearts, Makati Elites, Bataan Defenders, Bohol Tarsiers, Cebu Gems, Zamboanga Whites, Dapitan Shrine, Agusan Heroes, Bicol Volcanoes, etc. This friendly name calling associated in the proposed Regionalization of all Professional Sports in the Philippines is just a tip of the iceberg in order to immediately subjugate unpleasant coloration of sub races towards national unification. The meat of eradicating tribal stereotyping is thru fair economic development as elaborated in most pages of this book.

RUSSIAN INSPIRED AGUSAN COLISEUM

To further generate unique symbolism that will be known to the international audiences, huge coliseums will be constructed simultaneously upon implementation of Regional Sports League (BNB, initially) using Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Scheme. One classic example of an inspiring infrastructure will be a BANGSAMORO COLISEUM (see right picture)

BANGSAMORO COLISEUM ARABIAN INSPIRED

right at the heart of Camp Abu Bakar in Maguindanao. This stadium will be a historic marker that suggests Maguindanaoans’ martyrdom in their unending quest for self rule. The design of this Bangsamoro Coliseum must be Muslim or Arabian inspired so that the Muslim or Arabian community will be enticed to show off their artistry and pours in badly needed investment in the construction of huge and modern stadium. The same with the City of Zamboanga wherein their Coliseum will be Spanish inspired due to its unique Spanish speaking influence. Perhaps Spanish government will be proud to finance Spanish design Coliseum because it promotes good image for Spain instead of being known as ruthless and greedy conquistadores. Who knows people of Zamboanga may become Spanish pet team in the Regional League. The Ilocano people may somehow align themselves with American design of coliseum due to its Hawaiian connection. China may root for the construction of modern coliseum in Manila due to the numerous settlements of Chinese people in that area. Trivially speaking, Russian government may compete in the investment foray and may pick Agusan Province if this province can provide investment opportunities for the Russian government in the fields of tourism (Marshland), mining (Gold and nickel in particular) & agricultural importation. As explained in other pages particularly on Why Should Professional Sports be Regionalized segment of this book, coliseum investment will now be feasible because investors are already assured of weekly nationwide game events plus concerts and other invitational tournaments and try outs.

3. OLYMPIC VILLAGE

Before misconception sets in on this topic, let it be known to everyone that the term “Olympic Village” does not necessarily mean massive construction of modern sports facilities and infrastructures for the end purpose of hosting an Olympic event in the near future. It simply refers to an especially created suburb for the training of future Olympic performers. The concept is similar to that of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) where cadets are being molded as future military Officers of the land in a secluded area that is free from financial burdens and hassles. Again as explained in OLYMPIC PROGRAM web page, a potential Olympic talent discovered at the Regional League grassroots program will automatically be trained with full government funding as government scholars under a rigid supervision of world class coaches and trainers. Since it is medically and theoretically proven that athletes must be trained in high grounds, the new government will dedicate one uniquely located mountain and construct the so called Olympic Village to house all potential Olympic stars. It can be constructed in the highlands of Kitanglad Mountain in Bukidnon or in the breezy mountains of Kalinga and Cordilleras.

Another purpose of constructing Olympic Village is tourist attraction. It therefore follows that the newly constructed Olympic Village will become one of tourist landmarks in a particular province just like the PMA in Baguio City. Additionally, infrastructure design must be Filipino-inspired so that foreign visitors can see a glimpse on what Filipinos are really all about. We don’t need international designs on this case because this village will not be funded by foreign entities and never will it be run in a commercialized nature as proposed on the provincial coliseums construction. If Chinese and North Korean government were able to trained athletes as early as elementary levels, then there is no reason why can’t we do the same. Discovering talents is not on the competition itself. It is always discovered on the parents and neighborhoods eyes as early as toddler age which they in return will voluntarily inform the government of the child’s potential. Hence, all parents of potential Olympic talents must be financially unburdened in developing them. It is now the government who shall take charge in skills development. Whether you like it or not, athletes will always excel in their field of expertise if they are really in lined with the event they are playing. But if individuals were economically forced to become boxers even if their talent is marathon, we will never produce Olympic medalist in the next century.

The 2008 Beijing Olympic is a classic example of government’s poor regard in sports. It is very much disappointing to hear Olympic bound athletes to say that REACHING THE OLYMPIC ITSELF IS ALREADY AN ACHIEVEMENT. What kind of mind setting is it to just settle for dust instead of “Gold or Nothing” attitude? We are simply wasting money for these people if their hearts are not warriors’ heart. What’s the sense of fielding immature athletes? With due respect to Harry Tanamor, he was groomed to be the best Filipino athlete to compete in Beijing ‘08 Summer Olympics according to several propagandists, politicking coaches and sports commissioners but look at what at happened? All the brouhaha we’re just a flop. Background check says that Mr Tanamor join the boxing world so as to feed his family. Logically speaking, he is not a natural born boxer. The closest justification that he is not a natural born boxer is his decision to stick with the amateur ranks because of the government funding. Joining the Pro-ranks entails overpowering display of skills which presumably not at par with the likes of Manny Pacquiao. (My apology to Mr. Harry Tanamor for this underestimation). So in the course of his training, it is but normal that he might be bothered with the economic situation of his loved ones he temporarily left home. Secondly, his age is already bordering away from his prime thus made him more of a liability than a gem. Of course Mr. Manny Pacquiao is an exemption because he is a natural born boxer. In fact his brother Mr Bobby Pacquiao’s case demonstrates that no matter how huge funding is in developing player’s skills if the player himself/herself is not possessing natural talent will end up as mediocre player. How many Paeng Nepomuceno, Efren “Bata” Reyes, Manny Pacquiao, Flash Elorde that the government in its sports program has discovered and nurtured? Sad to say, no single Filipino has been discovered yet thru the government’s aggressive sports program. The mentioned sports superstars got their status on their own sacrifices and perseverance. Where was the government when Efren “Bata” Reyes was in his early twenties? Can’t we see the wastage of time for Filipinos who should become stars at a young and stronger age because of government’s lack of common sense? MAHIYA NAMAN KAYO MGA SPORTS COMMISSIONERS WHO ARE RECEIVING HEFTY GOVERNMENT SALARIES!

In the context of quantity, what medal does the country expect if the government thru the corrupt sports leaders is just fielding 4-5 questionable talents? What if along the course half were injured in international match ups? So basically, the sports program this country has is purely for compliance. All sports leaders are just after of the government’s incentives as shown on the unending leadership squabbles among themselves. So the solution is to also remove the politicians and politicking sports leaders in this agency. The country needs true sports leaders who can inspire athletes to become national beacons so that the spirit of the entire Filipino community will be lifted up with pride and honor. Sports are not just for entertainment purposes. Sports creates a nation!

4. TEACHERS ACADEMY

What is so special in the teaching profession that needs further elaboration and discussion? Dear friends, if soldiery represents the shield of the society and if medical profession is physical savior of the society then CPT POGOY believes that Teaching Profession is the very soul of the society. It is they who will nurture the new generations to become good and responsible citizens. It is they who teach children not to become cheaters, liars and thieves. It is they who teach toddlers to become patriots of the land in their own little way. In other words, the “true essence of education” must be taught to the youth because they are the future of the nation. True essence of education is not about producing teachers, engineers, doctors, scientists, pilots, mechanics and many more. True education is about why should the society produce these professionals? For what? Frustratingly, the country’s educational system is being conducted more on the commercial aspect rather than on the essentiality of molding a better Filipino society. It is no wonder that this beloved Philippines after a century of self-governing has no great inventions for other countries to emulate. What this society doing is creating longest barbecue festival to gain world records. Is there extraordinary feat on this activity that other society cannot replicate? Wake up Juan wake up!

Teachers’ academy is nothing but a standardization of governments educational system patterned with the Philippine Military Academy’s framework. If athletes’ village is essential, then Teachers Academy is literally and figuratively central and elemental. As also explained in the EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM REFORMS page of this book, intellectually gifted individuals who want to become state teachers will compete among themselves to become full government scholars similar to military cadets. These teachers will be of course housed in an exclusive compound where standard educational facilities are provided for. They themselves will likewise be free from financial and health worries inside the academy. Upon completion of the mandatory years of schooling, they will automatically be employed as regular teachers in a ladderized mode of geographical assignment and positioning. They will be scattered in the remote villages of the country so that each graduate will become a government envoy for peace and culture edification. Ladderized mode means that Teacher Academy graduates can only teach in city schools after completing the minimum teaching years in remote barangays. On the other hand, teaching profession must have autonomy in the performance of their job and never should they be dictated with the mood of local government leaders. Teaching profession should have blanket authority in hiring teachers (except for Academy graduates of course) based on qualifications instead of “political pleasure” concept. One factor that is contributory to the country’s declining quality of education is the persistent utilization of poorly trained teachers by virtue of political accommodation. The long term effect of employing substandard teachers is societal degeneration. It will be considerable if the government will employ under board nurses because the effect of having under board nurses manning hospitals is purely individual repercussions. In teaching, it is the entire society if not the nation will be the ones to suffer if you have mediocre teachers taking charge the soul of the nation.

The question now is what fields of education or courses that the country must give emphasis? The answer will be on the aspect of national importance and development. Which is more important for this instance, a course that produces bank tellers or engineers? In CPT POGOY’s opinion, engineer is somehow more important because engineers are responsible for the infrastructural aspect of the society. Meaning, if a country has good engineers people around the globe can see how the country looks like thru the engineering designs and sturdiness of its buildings and other infrastructures. In fairness to bank teller course or even bank managing course, this profession can be supplemented thru the private sector or even professional cross trainings. In other words, the academy will focus in graduating good educators for elementary, for high school and occupational courses that is reflective to the country’s development.

Other problem that can be eradicated in having an academy set up of education is the teachers’ practice of “in house” commodity trading. Teachers should not directly engage in commercial trading inside schools because it is very much degrading to the teachers’ worth. Isn’t it degrading to see a University of the Philippines alumna selling pancakes and buko juice inside her classroom or operating canteen inside school campuses? Livelihood activities for the purpose of generating extra incomes to meet the increasing family demands must be conducted outside school compound and must be managed by a third party.

CONCLUSION:

Dear Filipino brethren, CPT POGOY is not projecting to be an all knowing person. His mind is just exploring things according to the dictates of his heart. Sad to say, his heart always persuades him not to abandon the call of times in truly loving this beloved nation. Never mind his credentials. He is definitely an ordinary person who also make mistakes and certainly not that bad person for you not to take a second look on the visions and his other writings.

CHRISTMAS 2007 AT 220AW

Again another year has passed and as usual millions of pesos have been allocated to make the Christmas party worth remembering. As i have said in my other blogs, it is not true that the PAF has no available funds for the construction of basic military infrastructure called soldiers barracks because expenditures every christmas season in 220AW alone is no less than 1.5 Million Pesos.

Of course im not saying the present Wing Commander is corrupt but is being shown to you dear readers is the fact that money in 220AW is aplenty. Let's just take a look at the pictures on this particular season. The 220AW standard Christmas Party!

NPA TERRORIST TAGGING

In the art of war & manipulation, political bargaining is one of the focal points to survive in a prolonged war of attrition. And in a country besieged with multiple and ideologically-charged armed groups like the Philippines, day to day national survival is paramount. Talks of nationalism from the politicians point of view is inevitably set aside in order for them (corrupt politicians) to stay in power while announcing rhetoric promises to the very people afflicted with social injustices and apathy. As such NPA TERRORIST TAGGING has been hatched because the government cannot afford to engage a multi-pronged war against the insurgents, the two separatists group namely MILF & MNLF and even the Abu Sayyaf group. Before we proceed to the concept and justifications of that tagging, let us reflect on the recorded casualty statistics of the government.

Despite being maligned by the civil society, the military organizations remained efficient, steadfast, committed and still the most reliable protector of the Filipino people and the sovereignty. But how long could the AFP stand proud to themselves in winning thousands of battles against the so-called enemies of the state if statistics show that the Armed Forces is actually losing the war? According to Major Elmer Quiros, Cmdr of the Armed Forces 1st Civil Relations Group in Northern Luzon, the government suffered 9867 casualties & 10,000 civilians out of the 43,338 death tolls from 1969 to 2002 against the CPP/NPA ALONE (Philippine Daily Inquirer 01/29/03). Meaning to say, the government is indeed losing the war using the 1:4 firepower superiority ratios. This ratio is the most realistic proportion of superiority because government forces are fully equipped with rockets, bombs, munitions, war tanks, attack helicopters, transport planes, medicines & food supplies and many more. Having 9867 government casualties and using that 1:4 ratio fire power superiority, the rebels should have suffered 39,468 recorded casualties instead of just 23,471 killed rebel personnel. So it goes to show that in the war of attrition, the government is actually losing against the communist rebels alone! What about the government casualties against the MILF? The MNLF? The Abu Sayyaf and other armed groups in other parts of the country?

Isn’t it mind-boggling that one of these days the Philippines will be governed by the present enemies of the state kuno and the current government forces will become the rebels? So the cycle of atrocities will just continue for the next centuries because several of the current military officers have their own belief against the rebels-turned-country-administrator plus the fact they have pretty much logistical support from the ever manipulative United States thereby pushing this nation to severe apathies instead of achieving prosperity and unity.

Because of these apprehensions, the government opted to utilize the so-called "political bargaining" by lobbying to the European Union and the United States in tagging the CPP/NPA as terrorist group in order for the logistical support of these communists from foreign countries is frozen indefinitely in exchange for a free access of oil & mineral exploration in the southern part of the country, whole foreign ownership of mining activities anywhere in the country, guaranteed procurement of Euro & US manufactured arsenals, one-sided civilian business cum investment opportunities in favor of the capitalists inside the Philippines and many more. True to its intent indeed, massive explorations and mining activities are underway, short-term investments are poured in and the rebels’ financial support from sympathetic countries were frozen. As a result, the rebel group now resorted to massive revolutionary taxation to pursue their nationalistic struggle. Regardless on how the government demonized the credibility of the CPP/NPA, hundreds of frustrated Filipinos still join their ranks because of government's willful disregard to the welfare of its ordinary citizenry.

So who benefited this CPP/NPA TERRORIST TAGGING and who suffered such strategy after all? The people are extremely hungry in the midst of an exploited agricultural land. The people are impoverished due to the government's impractical spending like cash dole outs to the bishops, fund allocations to pro-impeachment legislators, fund allocation to the AFP for arms and aircraft procurement kuno which will eventually just go to the pockets of the corrupt generals thru kickbacks and many more. How long such gullible dealings persist?

Dear Filipino brothers and sisters, we love this nation dearly, our ancestors have offered their lives to the fullest fulfillment of true freedom and prosperity then why should we be continue acting like fools and ignorant? Is it because we are peace-loving people? To tell you frankly, peace doesn't come in the absence of war. Peace comes in the presence of vigilance, cooperation, unity, nationalism, sacrifice, respect to your very own national dignity and last but not the least respects the life of every person.

PLEASE:

Let's join hands and together let us build this beloved nation according to the senses of unity, nationalism, cooperation and respect to human life regardless of our religious affiliation. We have suffered a lot so let us not allow our grandchildren to suffer the same injustices, sufferings and apathies in their times. WE ONLY HAVE ONE NATION- A RICH AND LOVELY PHILIPPINES - a real nation for Filipino Christians, Muslims and Lumads!

AFP FINANCE CENTERS

Though the AFP FINANCE CENTERS will be pictured out in bad taste with this page, the writer still has high regard and wholehearted respect to the rank and file who are laboriously working at the AFP FINANCE CENTERS. He certainly has no other purpose in writing up this elementary analysis on how one AFP subunit work but to simply reveal minor systematic defect within, which to his mind very much detrimental to the growth of the entire AFP organization. Instead of being the “relief valve” for the hardworking AFP Personnel, the AFP FINANCE CENTERS had become a direct conduit to profiteering organizations, willing henchmen to the moneymaking and corrupt military leaders and last but not the least becomes a heavy burden to the armed but powerless military personnel.

Without further ado, the author will just tackle three (3) common practices perhaps a decade-old if not a century-old practice on how military Pay & Allowances and other benefits are being handled. First and foremost is the automatic salary deduction agreement entered into by the AFP Leadership and Loan Institutions or commonly known as Loan Sharks in exchange for negligible monthly payola. The traditional financial cut or “commissions” for the incumbent military leaders and the “chief of finance” in exchange of the automatic payroll deduction is nonetheless a professional form of financial exploitation. Though automatic salary deduction is lawfully authorize, it is still immoral for the incumbent military leaders to receive payola because “commissions” will always be taken from the pre-computed and pre-deducted surcharges which will eventually shouldered by the borrower himself. In other words, financial cuts, God’s share, per diems or whatever you call it will further strangulate the financially hard up military personnel even before the money is being put to good and noble purpose.

Let us again examine thru basic computations on how huge this money-making scheme is, by taking into consideration that the actual monthly figure to be appropriated to all finance mafia’s is only one hundred pesos (P100) from the total and pre-computed monthly add-on interests. Presuming further that out of the 150 thousand personnel in the AFP, only 100,000 individuals indeed availed of salary loans. It therefore follows that the total collectibles in the entire AFP organization is a monstrous 10 million pesos per month (P100 per month x 100,000 borrowers). By this projection alone, the total yearly “commissions” allocated to the incumbent corrupt military Generals and other finance managers will be totaling to 120 Million pesos (10 M per month x 12 months). It is no wonder military Officers are shoving each other thru the “pasipsip system” just to get juicy positions in the military service. Does this practice reflective of a “hero of the land description” tagged to all military personnel? In fact “hero portrayal” is frequently ab-used during retirement ceremonies of Generals. If it is pure deception, are we not to blame also in propagating these deceptions directly to the heart of a listening crowd who were gathered around during retirement ceremonies? Now considering that there are only a dozen Generals who are indeed corrupt, will other Officers who opted to pretend of knowing nothing, hearing none, seeing nobody or simply blind to the rampant financial immoralities within the organization be liable to the degeneration of the AFP like what the AFP of today shows? Now if they or WE for that matter are not partly to be blamed for this mess, what has to be done as a clean-hearted warrior and country–loving fighter to immediately stop corruption so that the tribes of the few brazenly corrupt military leaders will not thrive in this beloved organization? Granting that the stated “100-peso per borrower” example is not accurate, then it doesn’t follow that the interpretation is wrong because the fact is still the same wherein MILITARY GENERALS ARE RECEIVING THOUSAND-PESO PAYOLA FROM THE SO CALLED AFP LOAN INSTITUTIONS. Definitely, Military and Police Generals can still be good leaders without automatic commissions from LOAN INSTITUTIONS!

Suggested solution is to create one finance unit for every branch of service completely run by competent civilians instead of utilizing military personnel because finance function is purely for the prompt delivery of pay & allowances and all other mandated financial benefits each AFP employees deserves. He (the writer) believes that assigning military personnel for finance matters is extremely insulting because finance functions can be performed by “disabled” but intellectually gifted individuals. Said function is further simplified nowadays due to the advancement of technology e.g. ATM mode of salary withdrawal thus invalidates the need of employing physically hardened and battle-scarred soldiers! Worst if Officers get his star ranks from spending all his military careers at the Finance centers.

What made a civilian managed and independently run finance unit advantageous to the AFP organization is the inherent uneasiness for civilian fund managers to undertake profiteering concessions because it will ultimately put his career and personal safety in bewilderment. Truth of the matter why immoral profiteering scheme in the AFP thrives is a conscientious authorization of the Generals themselves in implementing such modus operandi! In other words, creating an independently managed finance unit for every branch of service automatically prevents immoral wheeling and dealing schemes.

ONE CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF AFP LEADERS’ STUPIDITY IS THE APPROVED DISPOSITION FORM (DF) OF THE FAMOUS MGEN CARLOS GARCIA AS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD ON THE ABOLITION OF CO-MAKERS IN ALL LOAN TRANSACTIONS OF AFP PERSONNEL DATED JULY 2003. BUT UNTIL TODAY, LOAN SHARKS ARE STILL IMPLEMENTING SUCH SCHEME IN VIOLATION TO THE APPROVED AFP MESSAGE. IS THIS A STATEMENT THAT THE AFP IS REALLY INUTILE IN IMPLEMENTING ITS OWN REGULATION TO PROTECT THE INTEREST OF THE LOWLY PAID SOLDIERS?

The second decade old but unnecessary practice is the guaranteed accumulation of interest yields from a mandatory monthly contribution of personnel like the Mutual Relief System (MRS) which were deposited thru a TIME DEPOSIT MODE, the automatic deductions like AFP QUARTERS deduction, PAFSFA (for PAF personnel), deliberate “over deductions” scheme where refunds can only be facilitated when the victim files for a complaint and so many more. In order to have better understanding on this simplification, let us again use common mathematical explanation on each of the stated mandatory deductions.

Mutual Relief System (MRS) – The MRS was designed to give financial assistance to the surviving spouse of every dead AFP personnel or AFP dependents. Recently, every surviving spouse is entitled for a financial endowment worth fifteen thousand pesos (P15,000) with a minimum automatic deduction of twenty pesos (P20). Now for the purpose of discussion, let us concentrate on this smallest automatic contribution (20 pesos) being deducted to each AFP member against the total AFP strength of 150,000 personnel.

150,000 personnel x 20 pesos per month x 12 months per year
150,000 x 20 x 12 = 36Million pesos total yearly contribution.

Based on rough estimation as verbally supplemented by one of the Management & Fiscal Office (MFO, formerly Comptrollership Office) personnel, the yearly disbursal of funds for a deceased AFP member & dependents is approximated to not more than 30% of the yearly contributions (36Million on this case) or a conservative estimate of 10.8 Million pesos. In other words, the AFP organization is experiencing 720 death cases both for soldiers and dependents every fiscal year, which is not the case! So all in all, the AFP is actually maintaining an average of 22.2 Million pesos in its account. Assuming further that only 15 Million pesos are actually time-deposited at a rate of 5% per annum because the remaining 7 Million pesos were set aside for any unforeseen morale and welfare undertakings, it is therefore proper to conclude that the AFP Leadership is actually generating a paltry sum of P750,000 worth of return from the 5% interests of 15 Million pesos alone every year.

Rationally speaking, the initial 15 Million peso surplus being deposited will be doubled then tripled and much higher on the 2nd, the 3rd, the 4th year of deposits respectively. In plain logic, the interest will be compounded every fiscal year thus yielding higher rate of return if the finance managers are not spending it outside of what has been prescribed. So the illustration goes like this:

@ 5% per annum with initial deposit of 15Million pesos.

1st year - still on the process of collection, 0 interests.
2nd year - 15,000,000 x .05 = 750,000
3rd year - 15,000,000 + 15,000,000 (2nd yr collection) + 750,000 (2nd yr, int)
30,750,000 x .05 = 1,537, 500
4th year - 30,570,000 + 15,000,000 (3rd yr collection) + 1,537,500 (3rd yr, int)
47,287,500 x .05 = 2,364,375
5th year - 47,287,500 + 15,000,000 (4th yr collection) + 2,364,375 (4th yr, int)
64,651,875 x .05 = 3,232,593
6th year - 64,651,875 + 15,000,000 (5th yr collection) + 3,232,593.75 (5th yr, int)
82,884,468 x .05 = 4,144,223
7th year - 82,884,468 + 15,000,000 (6th yr collection) + 4,144,223 (6th yr, int)
102,028,691 x .05 = 5,101,434
8th year - 102,028,691 + 15,000,000 (7th yr collection) + 5,101,434 (7th yr, int)
122,130,125 x .05 = 6,106,506
9th year - 122,130,125 + 15,000,000 (8th yr collection) + 6,106,506 (8th yr, int)
143,236,631 x .05 = 7,161,831
10th year - 143,236,631 + 15,000,000 (9th yr collection) + 7,161,831 (9th yr, int)

165,398,462 total surplus on the tenth year of MRS implementation.

If a 20-peso monthly automatic deduction yields 165.4 Million peso surplus in ten years of collection, then how much surplus can the AFP generate in the automatic deduction of AFP QUARTERS amounting to 650 pesos? Please continue reading AFP QUARTERS DEDUCTION!

AFP QUARTERS DEDUCTION:

Before we tackle on the merits of this issue, let it be known to all concern that “billeting” is always part of the infrastructural set up of the military organization and even other government organizations such as the Health organization, etc. You can never call it a “main” military camp if you only have a headquarters building in such a way that you cannot call it a hospital if you don’t have a doctors quarters and the like. Main military camp means major encampment where the center of decision making, limited maintenance facilities, logistical buildings and the workforces are located. Sample of which are Camp Aguinaldo, Villamor Air Base, Camp Evangelista, Mactan Air Base and many more. IT IS A BIG NO NO TO HAVE A MILITARY CAMP (main camp at that) WITHOUT LIVABLE BARRACKS TO OFFER FOR EVERY PHYSICALLY EXHAUSTED & FAMILY DETACHED SOLDIER!

So essentially, the purpose of giving QUARTERS ALLOWANCE to all military personnel is for them to have available cash on hand the moment they are outside of the military camps for official functions (covert operation especially) on top of the “operational fund support” or in plain Rest and Recreation circumstances. The closest rationale that can be driven out of this presumption is the nature of soldiers’ job which is always on mobile when the situation calls for it. Bringing of families inside camp is merely a case to case privilege being tendered to a particular military camp like the Air Force bases because Air Force equipment were always stationed in that particular base thus allowing Air Force personnel to be in one place in his (almost) entire military career. Of course, quarters’ deduction varies depending on the rank profile of concerned personnel. In the writer’s case, he has an automatic deduction of 650 pesos per month plus an OVERDEDUCTION of 500 pesos for the last two years. Said over deduction have been referred to the Office concern of the PAF but was not acted upon because of no written complaint filed. Well that’s another point of discussion in the succeeding part of this exposition. So just follow the illustration below:

Let’s just presume the AFP is uniformly deducting 200 pesos quarters deduction to all AFP personnel regardless of its ranks despite knowing of the actual 650 pesos deduction from the author. Since AFP strength is 150,000 personnel, the total money being generated will just be negligible as shown below:

150,000 personnel x 200 pesos monthly deduction
= 30Million pesos per month or 360Million per year.

Granting that the AFP was not able to construct soldiers housing needs for the last ten years due to unavailability of funds from the national government then by start of fiscal year 2007, the AFP can perhaps construct dignified barracks to all military personnel who are still renting apartments outside of camp because the collection alone without the compounded interests of time deposits is already equivalent to 3.6 Billion pesos (360 Million x 10 years). Is 3.6 billion pesos not enough for the housing needs of AFP personnel? As explained in AFP HOUSING web page, the AFP can actually construct these infrastructures with free or minimal labor costs because of its own and abundant human resource-engineers, architects, masons and pure laborers and most importantly is the huge number of idle heavy equipment in all AFP units!

If we ridiculously submit ourselves to the Generals’ line of reasoning that there are no money available to construct soldiers housing unit, then what really happens to the negligible 3.6 billion pesos quarters deduction, the MRS contributions and the other automatic deductions? Even if the so called surplus is not invested to any “noble” businesses, the amount is still self sustaining so to speak!

The third institutional abuse employed at the finance centers is the “willful” over-deductions or non remittance of contributions against the armed but powerless military personnel except for the Generals of course! Below are the two actual examples occurred in the military life of LT POGOY.

NON-REMITTANCE OF CONTRIBUTION- it was in his cadet days when then Cadet POGOY voluntarily applied for the “capital contribution” savings at AFPSLAI thru PAYSLIP DEDUCTION in the amount of Two thousand (2000) pesos. Considering that PMA is an institution teaching the cadets not to cheat, steal nor tolerate any wrongdoings, willful non-remittance of contribution is very much uncalled for especially when the said contributions are time-deposited to commercial banks whose interests are siphoned off nonetheless! It is very much disgusting to experience such because Officers assigned at Philippine Military Academy (MA6, comptrollership?) are expected to be incorruptible, honorable or simply say a corps of upright gentlemen worthy of emulation for the cadets’ overall transformation.

OVER DEDUCTIONS – the term itself exemplifies unjustifiable confiscation of salaries which resulted to the soldiers’ further bankruptcy. How can a soldier benefit his hard earned salary when finance people automatically hacks an amount from the soldiers salary upon receipt of automatic deduction order for “prescriptive deductions” and wait for the injured party to file a written complaint before formal stoppage of over deduction is effected? Adding insult to injury, finance people automatically assures the victim that the money will not be lost because it will be refunded. The problem is that over deductions will only be refunded after one year of religious follow up because budget for that purpose will be taken from the succeeding budget allocation of the next fiscal year. So in the case of LT POGOY, he has an over deduction of 500 pesos for almost two years up to this date but still the finance office did not act on it due to the absence of written complaint despite his public appeal/pronouncement in two separate forums headed by MGEN DEYPALUBOS AND LTGEN REYES/MGEN CADUNGOG (my apology, sir) respectively to immediately stop all over deductions of all concerned personnel. In fact LT POGOY declared that he is no longer interested of the refund, he is just after of the immediate stoppage of over deductions not on his case alone but to all personnel affected by such intentional and irrational scheme. The bottom line of this generalization is still interest generation on the time-deposited accounts from over deductions. Just multiply a one shot over deduction of the 150,000 personnel at 500 pesos each the lowest deduction ever made.

150,000 AFP personnel x 500 pesos = 75,000,000 pesos

In other words, there is an instant capital of 75 Million pesos to be time deposited at commercial banks whose interest will automatically be subdivided to the incumbent military leaders and yet simple barracks requirement cannot be funded! What a shame Generals!

And to sum up all possible funds accumulated in the mentioned automatic deductions above alone:

FOR ONE MONTH ALONE!

NON REMITTANCE - P2000 (150,000 AFP pers) = 300,000,000 or 300 Million
OVER DEDUCTION - P500 (150,000 AFP pers) = 75,000,000 or 75 Million
AFP QUARTERS - P200 (150,000 AFP pers) = 30,000,000 or 30 Million
MRS - P20 (150,000 AFP pers) = 3,000,000 or 3 Million
LOAN PAYOLA - P100 (150,000 AFP pers) = 15,000,000 or 15 Million

A total of: 423 Million pesos

Can we not see the difference now why military Generals are rich but an ordinary soldier remain impoverished after retirement? It was never heard that one retiring soldier (compulsory retirement) had been given extravagant retirement party like what all retiring Generals do!

RORO FOOD HIGHWAY

This RORO FOOD HIGHWAY business strategy is another example of anti-poor agri-business undertaking. It was simply designed to favor big Compradors/Capitalists instead of protecting the real food producers of the land - THE POOR & SOIL-SOAKED FARMERS!

In order to understand why it is actually anti-poor farmer, let us examine the actual "in & out" of the pro-farmer banana business currently undertaken by LT POGOY. But before anything else, let us closely read the business declaration of Sec Cito Lorenzo on how RORO FOOD HIGHWAY works and to quote:

"The Strong Republic Nautical Highway, apart from enhancing public access to selected tourism areas throughout the country offers an alternate route for the flow of agricultural products.

Otherwise referred to as the RORO Food Highway, this route encourages agricultural producers and fisheries suppliers to break new grounds in areas it traverses. It serves as a more efficient option for transporting goods from Mindanao to Luzon, creating new and bigger markets and building a stronger network for inter-island trade between north and south.

It also stimulates the entry of commodities to erstwhile uncharted and deficient areas, consistent with the Arroyo Administration's efforts of forging ahead a stable supply of food at affordable prices.

Significantly the facility gives our farmers and fisherfolks' and added window to distribute their products faster and better, thus helping energize and enrich the countryside.

COMPONENTS

The RORO Food Highway has three essential components:

• The Main Route uses the main nautical highway from Manila to Dapitan/Dipolog/Iligan;
  
• The Grains Highway from Cagayan de Oro to Batangas involves the use of bulk-handling ships and facilities in transporting grains, principally corn;
  
• The Cagayan de Oro-Dumaguete-Batangas-Manila Long Haul Route connects to the main highway. This new route involves the use of super ferries with roll-on, roll-off cargo facilities that can transport other agricultural and fishery commodities from Mindanao to Luzon.

Travelers from Mindanao can take advantage of a shorter traveling option by land from Davao and General Santos Cities to Cagayan de Oro cutting the usual traveling time by half, from 12 hours to only 6 hours and taking the long haul route all the way to Luzon via Cagayan de Oro-Batangas RoRo.

highlighted below are the excerpts of Sec. Lorenzo' declaration for our examination:

• offers an alternate route for the flow of agricultural products.
• It serves as a more efficient option for transporting goods from Mindanao to Luzon,
• forging ahead a stable supply of food at affordable prices.
• the facility gives our farmers and fisherfolks' and added window to distribute their products faster and better,

Based on the above-quoted declaration of Secretary Cito Lorenzo on the so-called nautical highway, the generally ignorant public on the “in & out” of transporting agricultural products would readily praise the people behind this marketing strategy for they were made to believe of having huge financial relief through “price cut” ads on transportation expenses. But little did they know that the nautical highway being flaunted about by this fake administration of GMA is actually unfavorable to the poor farmers of Mindanao in particular who are mostly located hundreds of miles away from the Cagayan de Oro RORO Port. In terms of product quality preservation, this nautical highway also does not guarantee product safety nets that would preserve its freshness while on transit or a simple quality control measure that would at least delay or prolong the shelf life of shipped products . Product preservation should be a must because most agricultural products are perishable. Good quality and Time Element are two essential factors in product marketability that’s why prompt delivery of goods must be fast and efficient at the lowest possible cost of transportation without compromising quality standards. And to make this assertion clear, let us consider the actual banana deliveries of LT POGOY.

Realistically speaking, a newly picked mature banana fruits (under normal conditions) will naturally ripen itself in 4-5 days of stacking. But if it will be subjected for heat treatment (courtesy of ship hot cargo compartment), the ripening process will be fast tracked to just over or less than 24 hours. It means therefore that any maturely cut bananas will become vulnerable to biological rottenness if its travel time from the pre-designated pick up station to the chosen market destinations is unnecessarily delayed. Unnecessary delays are mostly attributed to manual loading/unloading of cargoes (average of 3hours per 6-ton volume on each session) starting from the farm to cargo tuck, cargo truck to cargo ship, cargo ship to cargo truck again and lastly cargo truck to the disposal site- the flea markets! Having this fact at hand let us now examine how a well-publicized RORO NAUTICAL HIGHWAY works as compared to the time tested Direct Sailing Method or simply DSM. (RORO VS DSM)

Time element (Cagayan de Oro RORO Port for instance)

In DSM, all products loaded from Cagayan de Oro will be in Manila in 32 sailing hours for large passenger ships but takes an average of 48 hours for "antiquated" Cargo Category Ships. The problem with Passenger Category ships is the fact that containerized or loose cargoes are placed near the ship’s engine compartment thus subjecting the cargoes to hot environment. As a result, considerable volumes of goods are usually damaged upon arrival at Manila port. But regardless of its condition, the fact still remains the same that Mindanao products can be brought to Manila in 32-hour sailing time from CDO using the old and tested DSM.

Now on the RORO Method of delivering goods specifically the LONG HAUL ROUTE of Cagayan de Oro- Dumaguete- Batangas – Manila as shown on the pictures above where CDO is designated as the Mindanao epicenter port of RORO System, travel time has become a little longer against DSM.

Example:

Assuming RORO Ship Departure time is every Sunday 10 o’clock in the evening (2200H military time) and the banana supply is coming from Capalong, Davao del Norte (LT POGOY’S buying station).

Since land travel would take between 10-12 hours from Capalong, Davao del Norte to Cagayan de oro City via Butuan City, harvesting should be scheduled two days ahead of the ship’s departure date or exactly on Friday. So the flow of goods will start from Friday harvest time then Saturday collection/consolidation of fruits and at exactly 6 pm of Saturday the cargo truck must be on the wheel for CDO trip to catch up the Sunday sailing trip while giving ample time for unforeseen trip delays like slow driving due to heavy rains, burst tires, etc. In other words, harvesting up to ship loading alone has eaten up 2days of the fruits’ 5-day shelf life.

Now taking into consideration the freshness of the product, the natural exquisiteness of goods will be affected severely if loading/unloading is repeated several times. Loading/unloading session starts from Carabao driven cart (1st loading) going to the pick up station (1st unloading) for weighing. Next at pick up station going to the cargo truck (2nd loading), then from cargo truck (2nd unloading) unloaded for weighing again before it is loaded to the container van (3rd loading) of the cargo ship. Upon arrival at Manila port, goods will be unloaded from cargo ship (3rd unloading) for stripping & another weighing before it is being loaded again (4th loading) to the cargo truck for delivery to the designated flea markets in Metro Manila. And finally at the flea market (4th unloading), these goods will be unloaded for further stacking before being sold to the consuming public. So all in all, the total product movement is 4 loadings & 4 unloading times or a total of 8 movements. In simple terms, multi-loading/unloading activity causes heavy fruit bruising thereby slashing fruit attractiveness. Fruit quality standard must be gleaned from the Japan example of our banana exports wherein a simple or light bruising is already grounds for product rejection.

Another factor that destroys fruit quality is the travel time both by land and sea. In this connection, let us examine the service efficiency of RORO System by specifically studying the LONG HAUL ROUTE of CDO-DUMAGUETE-BATANGAS-MANILA. Normally, docking maneuver and passenger/cargo movement in every stop over require a minimum of 4 hours to complete this activity. This means therefore that additional time of 4 hours per stop over plus 8 hours for route deviation & engine acceleration/deceleration be added to the normal travel time of direct sailing. So with the Long Haul Route marketing strategy of RORO, bananas coming from Capalong, Davao del Norte will arrive in Manila 16 hours late (4hrs dumaguete, 4hrs Batangas, 8hrs ship deviation & engine acceleration/deceleration) compared to the time tested DSM. Adding up the number of hours spent during harvesting and fruit consolidation (48 hours minimum), the total time of delay will be 34 hours (16hrs sailing delay + 18 hours extra time from the 30-hour harvest time at DSM). So if DSM consumes 32 hours (sailing time) plus 30 hours (harvest/consolidation and cargo truck land travel) or 62 hours, the RORO trip will automatically becomes 64hrs + 34 hours or 98 hours total time spent from harvesting up to the estimated date of arrival at Manila Harbor. In simpler terms, RORO System requires the farmer to harvest mature banana fruits on Friday morning for it to arrive on Tuesday evening (10pm) while the Direct Sailing Method starts on Saturday harvest time and arrives Manila on Tuesday morning (6am). Well, time interval of cargo arrivals seemed insignificant but in reality means a whole thing because product marketability is dependent on the actual physical condition of goods. The shorter time it travels the more pleasing it is to the buyers’ sight and the fresher it looks, the faster it is bought. In other words, DSM offers better quality product in terms of freshness because harvest time starts on Saturday & selling date commences on Tuesday (3 days less from its shelf life) while RORO System requires harvesting on Friday and selling date commences on Wednesday or an equivalent of 5 days less from its shelf life.


TRANSPORT EXPENSE ELEMENT

“It also stimulates the entry of commodities to erstwhile uncharted and deficient areas, consistent with the Arroyo Administration's efforts of forging ahead a stable supply of food at affordable prices”. - Sec Lorenzo

Affordable price is what this usurped government been crowing about. So let us find out how RORO System can benefit both the farmers and the consuming public!

In the absence of containerized cargo price quotations at RORO System, let’s just use the P14,000.00 actual “bill of lading” of a 10 footer container van (weighing 6,000 kilos or 6tons fill-in volume) of Solid Shipping Lines servicing CDO direct to Manila as basis of computation but with a reduced rate in consonance to the government’s claim of lower cargo fare matrix. In this regard, let’s just presume further that a 10footer van is worth P10,000 at RORO System. Since the goods are sourced from the town of Capalong, Davao del Norte, LT POGOY has to rent a cargo truck to deliver his procured bananas from Capalong to CDO with an average rental rate of P15,000 per delivery. Knowing also that the average landing price of bananas (cardava in particular) at Manila port is P11.50 per kilo but the actual consumer price at the flea market is already P14/kilo, therefore LT POGOY must base his projected profit margin from that landing price or lower (during oversupply) less transportation & labor to come up with a reasonable farm gate price. Another factual catch in coming up with fair farm gate price is the “resiko factor” (biological shrinkage) of goods. Base on experience, a 6ton loading of bananas from CDO port will be weighing an average of 5500 kilos upon arrival at Manila seaport thus necessitates price adjustments at farm level.

Expected return of investments upon arrival -5500 kilos x 11.5 @ Manila pier = P63,250

RORO SYSTEM

Freight - 10,000
Truck - 15,000
PPA Charges - 1,000
Labor - 3,000
P29,000

63,250 - 29,000 = 38,250 P34,250 / 6000kls = P5.70

P5.70 ceiling buying price @ the farm
so the actual feasible farm gate price is P4.70/kilo maximum

Direct Sailing Method (DSM)

Freight - 14,000
Truck - 7,500
PPA Charges - 1,000
Labor - 3,000
P25,500

63,250 - 25,500 = 38,250 P38,250 / 6000kls = 6.375

P6.375 ceiling buying price @ the farm
so the actual feasible farm gate price is P5.375/kilo maximum


The figures shown above indicate that while it takes longer travel time at RORO, it is even more expensive to transport cargoes thru that System than the old Direct Sailing Method. The main reason why DSM is cheaper compared to RORO is due to a lesser cost of transportation amounting to P7500 only because cargoes will just be loaded at the port of Nasipit (Butuan City) instead of bringing it to CDO port. So if the total cost of transportation is higher than the normal set up, farm gate price (farmers’ income), consumer price (customers’ buying capacity) and food supply stability (production output) will be held back thus making RORO System a flop. Why? It is because of the exploitative structural set up of doing business with agricultural products in general and banana supplies in particular.

The business structural set up!

Since the focus of big Capitalists/Compradors is to maximize profit, farm gate prices will always end up being manipulated because the entire cost of transportation (from truck to ship) is already fix thereby debunking government’s claim of providing affordable prices of basic commodities. Just to be honest, high commodity prices are the results of government’s willful disregard to the farmers’ plight and significant role in nation building. The current trading of agricultural goods is very much disadvantageous both the poor farmers and consuming public due to the number of “unnecessary middlemen” under a profit-driven system.

The existing scenario is like this;

Wealthy shippers (Compradors) are venturing out a financing scheme to several local traders (byahedor) in order for them to get huge volume of supplies during sailing date. The catch for this scheme is to regulate the trading price to optimize profit margin and monopolize cargo loading to prevent local farmers from directly transporting their goods to the metropolis. Now those local traders who will avail of the financing scheme will in turn employ farmer resident to pose as buyer/agent in every barangay for consolidation of goods before it is loaded for bulk delivery. Poor farmers on the other hand will be enticed (forced actually) to sell their goods to the nearest buying agent/station at a much lower price because they need the money badly for their daily sustenance. Additionally, these poor farmers have no choice but to just sell their produce at the nearest buying station because direct disposal of goods to the consuming public in the nearby market at their own effort requires time-consuming particulars that is too taxing for them. On the other hand, the projected income may just differ by just a matter of few hundred pesos due to a higher cost of transportation and other incidental expenses of the days’ work thus making such endeavor impractical. In other words, the structural set up is detrimental to the nation’s progress because the farmers are only earning meager income out of their hard work, the employed buyer agent earning paltry sum of profit from the procured goods, local traders earning just enough sum of profit due to the volume of goods delivered. But to the rich Compradors investment return is expectedly high because of price regulation they are imposing.

To better understand the set up, let’s take a look at the actual flow of buying price index specifically in Nasipit port. Current buying price of bananas (cardava) at Nasipit port is P6/kilo. Since local traders have to defray for the traveling expenses of cargoes from farmers area, their pick up price at their agents is pegged between P4.50-P5 per kilo. These agents will likewise reduce its buying price to P3 – P4 per kilo for them to earn a little profit. So if for instance a farmer family of 4 has 500 kilos of bananas available every month, their income is roughly 2000 pesos per month. This 500-kilo produce is already good harvest for each hardworking farmer. So if a particular agent receives a total of 3000 kilos per week with a pick up price of P4.5/kilo or a profit margin of .50 cents per kilo, then his income will be 1500 pesos gross per week. Subtracting labor charges and meal allowances for the laborers amounting to say P500, agent’s income will now be P1000 per week or roughly 4000 pesos gross per month. On the part of the trader, assuming that the total goods procured averages 6000 kilos per week with the price difference of P1.50 per kilo his income will be P9000 gross per week. This income will be trimmed down because of fuel allocation & maintenance expenses (P4000), meal allowances (P1000) and labor salaries (P2000 for 4 persons) or a net income of P2000 weekly if they can maintain the 6ton delivery..

Here comes the meat of the story, the government’s claim of providing affordable price is a hoax because rich Compradors are not willing to reduce its landing price upon arrival at Manila harbour as a result of a monopolized trading set up. Compradors gross return of investment per 6ton loading is estimated to P30,250 (5500kilos x P5.5 per kilo) derived from the P5.50 difference of 11.50 landing price against 6.0 buying price at the Nasipit port. Then what would be the expenditures to be deducted from that P30,250 gross income? The answers are the following: Nasipit Port labor per 6ton loading P1500, freight P14,100, Nasipit PPA & other charges like forklift operator tip, customs red tape, releaser’s tip, etc P1200, Manila port labor P800, Manila PPA Charges/Cargo release/tips P900 on the average or a total of P18,500. Subtracting it from the estimated gross (P30,250-P18500 = P11750), the estimated net profit per 6ton loading will be P12,750. In concept, rich Compradors are actually earning a minimum of P30,000 a week because each of them has a minimum loading of 3 ten footer vans or 18 tons per shipment which is very much unfair compared to all the people down the line. Well we cannot just blame these rich Compradors for this one-sided arrangement because Compradors are actually shelling out 50% of the total capitalization needed as advance payment to the local traders for them to get enough volume per shipment. So by arithmetical understanding, lowering of consumer price is not feasible by mere introduction of RORO System!

SOLUTION:

Government’s intervention thru Farm Grouping & Specialty Cropping (FGSC) will be the most appropriate course of action to take to drastically cut consumer prices while jacking up farm gate prices because the concept of product movement eliminates “unnecessary middlemen”. The concept will be like this: Shipping lines that will be tasked (bidding winner) to transport agricultural products in identified places of source product will be the one to provide airconditioned container vans directly to the farm. The government on the other hand thru the local leaders will be the one to determine both the actual harvest/collection date of goods and the estimated volume to be picked up by the winning bidder (cargo shipping lines). On the part of the receiving market in the metropolis, leaders of the so-called “receiving market” will be the one to sound out the estimated volume of goods needed in their locality so that the apportioned products will just be delivered right away into their community upon arrival at Manila port. In other words, middlemen, unnecessary port laborers (freelance), kotong cops, custom red tape, trading manipulations/monopolizations are eliminated right away. Talking of product affordability, prices will be reduced automatically because no one within the system shall greedily aim for profit generation at the expense of the consuming public and the poor farmers! Studying back the total estimated transportation expenses incurred which is DSM + Manila labor/trucking (25,500 + 900 labor unloading/loading + 5000 trucking rental within metro manila) or a total of P31,400, the government can actually reduce it to just P20,000 all in all because what is actually spent on this system is fuel for cargo ships & trucking, salaries for shipping personnel plus the profit entitlement of the winning bidder. In other words, the actual add on expenses every 6ton loading will be P2.5/kilo (P15,000/6000kls). So if the farm gate price is bought at the average of P4/kilo, the government can actually raise it to P7/kilo or a total of P9.50/kl and directly sold it the receiving locality at P10.50/kl. The 1-peso price difference must be observed so that the receiving local government can earn substantial income as storage fee even if the products are distributed right away.

So the effect of this concept will be advantageous to both local and national economy because local governments of producing community can impose reasonable taxes to the farmers per loading, receiving local government can earn equitable income as explained above and the national economy is earning business tax from the shipping lines transporting agricultural products. So those freelance laborers at the port area will now go back to the provinces and plant agricultural products because farming per se is already profitable. Another advantage of having this concept is the eventual elimination of sidewalk vendors! Who shall engage in sidewalk vending when products are directly distributed to the local community at a very affordable price? Since most of the side walk vendors in Metro Manila are coming from the provinces, then this concept can compel them to go back farming instead of squatting in the Metropolis with side walk vending as their only source of income. Read related justifications at FARMERS PREDICAMENT, FARM REVOLUTION, FOOD SUFFICIENCY AND AQUA-CULTURE PROPAGATION WEBPAGES.

Another advantage of having this concept is resultant reduction of price for commercial goods using agricultural products such as feeds and the like. If farm gate price is increased, volume of supplies will also increase because hundreds of farmers will expectedly go back to farming. So even if the farm gate price is increased by a number of pesos, raw materials/products for feed processing will still remain low due to the lesser cost of transportation. Meaning to say, regardless of how many times crude oil increases in the global market, feed product will remain affordable because everything are systematically controlled. As a result also, prices of poultry & other livestock products can be reduced if not automatically decreases because of the cheaper feed prices. The government doesn't need to invite foreign investors to put up capitalization to convert idle lands into cassava or corn plantations to provide decent jobs for the poor, what the government should do is to entice localities into planting more cassava, corn or any crops for that matter thru a guaranteed high farm gate price upon harvest.

So to make a long story short, RORO FOOD HIGHWAY is nothing but a simple business ploy for greedy businessmen to suck more money at the expense of the hapless consuming public and poor Filipino farmers!

AFP LOAN INSTITUTIONS

The mushrooming of Loan Institutions/Cooperatives in the Police & Military Organization magnifies the Armed Forces’ susceptibility to profiteering racket of “Military Professionals” and high-lightened government’s ineptitude in promoting socially responsive financial ventures. The basic intent of a constitutionally recognized “Cooperatives” of government employees particularly those servicing the Armed Forces of the Philippines, is to improve the financial welfare of every government employee member. But how far does the financial well-being of every soldier been addressed? If survey figures are correct that the armed force sector is the most pampered government organization of the Philippines in terms of salary grade and way above the salary level of degree holder professionals employed at private firms, then why majority of soldiers & policemen are living in dungeons or in practically undignified or uncivilized communities? Well, the answer is simple mathematical analyses or pure elementary mathematics. For academic argument purposes, let’s focus the discussion on the actual monthly amortization schedule of AFPSLAI dated march 2003 and let us put this picture into the overview of the entire cooperative industry within the AFP. As per AFPSLAI amortization schedule of a net P100,000 loan, the monthly amortization is equivalent to 3,100 pesos for sixty (60) months or five (5) years.

P100,000 net received by a borrower = P3,100/month for five years.

Basing on this actual schedule, the total amount a borrower soldier has to pay in five years is exactly equivalent to 186,000 pesos. Meaning to say, AFPSLAI stood to earn 86,000 pesos gross profit in five years. Or in other words, AFPSLAI profited a monthly gross of 1,433.33 pesos (P86,000/60 months). Now taking into consideration that only 1000 pesos will become AFPSLAI’s monthly net profit out of the P1,433.33 because of the mandated service fees, capital stocks distribution, peso devaluation, fat paychecks of each board member, etc then the 1000-peso net profit can be used as basis to picture out how lucrative cooperative business is in relation to the total population of AFP members. Presuming that all AFP Loan Institutions are uniformly earning a 1000-peso monthly profit and assuming further that of the 150,000 total Officers & Men of AFP, only 100,000 individuals availed the 100,000 net loan offering then a conservative income estimate for the entire cooperative industry can be obtained as shown below.

(P1000 monthly profit) x (100,000 borrowers) = P100,000,000 or P100-Million monthly!

Multiply 100M by 12 months; the entire loan industry within the AFP alone is virtually generating a whopping 1.2 Billion pesos of yearly profit.

Is the 1.2 Billion-peso profit not the soldiers' money being pooled in totality by each respective Loan Institution? Now if only this amount are being used to construct barracks and quarters then no soldiers would have been living and renting a house in squatters area. In fact, the said amount can actually provide free basic house for every paid borrower without much cost of labor because the AFP itself has thousands of idle construction equipment in every Engineering Brigade of all branches of service. Adding insult to injury, the presumed 1.2 Billion profits are being invested by the same Loan Institutions in Realty Business which will eventually be loaned to the same poor soldiers who were actually the real owners of the money. As a result, Filipino soldiers are forced to make do with a reduced salaries and stayed in squatter communities because the government is not providing livable or dignified barracks and quarters. So this is one of the reasons why several Officers become corrupt while in the active service then so barefaced after retirement because they want to be employed as member of the board in AFP loan institutions.

SOLUTION: Create only one Loan Institution for each branch of service and for every department of government!

Meaning, there should only be one government controlled Loan Institution/Cooperative for the Teachers, for the Health workers, for the Police, for the Army, for the Air Force, for the Navy and many more. Then the income generated by the said cooperative will be utilized to construct free basic house for every paid borrower. Then the construction will solely be delegated to the Bureau of Construction. The concept of FREE BASIC HOUSE is about allowing every AFP member to avail of financial loans to be used as SEED MONEY for military wives particularly those living as plain housewife in business venture specifically food processing, agriculture, aquaculture, poultry business and other food production busineses so that all military wives will become equally productive to their husbands instead of being a liability-financially. Financial loans should not be allowed just to spend for the birthdays of each family member, spend for fiesta celebration, christening, casino gambling, beer busting, etc. Once a five-year loan contract is fully paid, that particular borrower is entitled to receive one (1) basic house to be constructed at his/her place of choice. The presumption is that the 5-year yield-interest is sufficient enough to construct one basic house for every paid borrower. Such presumption is already proven when LT POGOY constructed his basic house (1 bedroom, tiled kitchen, tiled comfort room, etc) with the amount of 80,000 pesos. Interestingly, 40% of the 80,000 pesos total expenses or 32,000 pesos were accounted for workers' salaries and daily meals. In other words, the actual cost of materials for his basic house is 48,000 pesos only. Conclusively, the AFP can actually construct one basic house for every AFP personnel without congress budget allocation for housing because income from AFP LOAN INSTITUTION is self-sustaining and the AFP itself has plenty of heavy equipment distributed in all branches of service on top of free labor forces so to speak. Free labor force in a sense that soldiers can become construction workers like what happened to the construction works of AIR POWER INSTITUTE BUILDING & other INFRASTRUCTURES in Lipa City where Candidate soldiers where utilized as laborers. Another building constructions done by soldiers are the buildings of 223rd AirLift Squadron, 222nd Airlift Squadron & 221st Airlift Squadron all located in Mactan Benito Ebuen Air Base in Lapulapu City.

Having this concept, the AFP WILL NO LONGER ALLOCATE FUNDS FOR OFF BASE OR IN BASE HOUSING PROJECTS BECAUSE EVERY SOLDIER HAS HIS OWN DECENT DWELLING. As a result, AFP leaders will be obliged to undertake projects beneficial to the armed service instead making projects not essential to the morale and welfare of every military personnel as shown in 220AW & AFP HOUSING webpages. Another deppressing fact is the systematic "SUBJECT TO FUND AVAILABILITY" alibi when soldiers are claiming for benefits due such as hospitalization wherein refunds (if eventually approved) are being processed more than a year after hospitalization. One of the reasons also why majority of foot soldiers cannot avail of C130 flight is the current flight regulation scheme being implemented wherein most C130 flights are of exclusive use of GMA's movements through out the country forcing poor soldiers to avail sea transport to visit his/her beloved wife and children. Such flight regulation scheme is accordingly due to fuel shortages resulting from the inavailability of funds.

The most embarrassing income generation fact perpetrated by Loan Institutions are the financial cut entitlement for military Generals in Command of all branches of service in the AFP on top of the automatic commissions taken from the Service Fees, Insurance Fees, MRS, time deposits of monthly contributions and many more. In short, money is very much abundant in Finance Centers but people running in finance service will simply say no money available when an orphan or a widow of a slain soldier claims her husband’s benefits. Worst, benefits are usually given to orphaned family two years after the soldier's death. Isn’t it immoral? Is it worth for a soldier to die in field and left his family starving for the next two years due to the delayed release of claims?

Another trivializing fact of the current military system is the absence of Regular Officers (mostly are Reserve Officers) being detailed at Finance Centers. The reason behind this discrimination is the fact that Reserve Officers are deliberately considered second-class citizens of the Officer Corps thus depriving them the opportunities in leading major service units of the AFP. As a result, several Reserve Officers tend to become loyal to corrupt Generals for fear of being not promoted or being thrown out to the remotest detachment of the AFP thus making them slaves of a systemic abuse of power or end up as “Financial Mafias” of the organization headed by corrupt Generals. In fact these finance mafias also exist in PMA where cadets’ salaries are being time-deposited and the million-peso interest yield goes directly to the Generals and his bagmen.

Having this customary conduct of simple budget manipulation done by the Generals themselves, who will believe that reforms can be achieved when the ones corrupt Generals are the ones calling for national transformation? The situation will definitely becomes worst if we will just allow corrupt Generals to lead the nation. I firmly believe only those carefree ignoramuses and not the brave hearts like you would think miracles will happen in the hands of the Generals.

Why should Professional Sports be regionalized?

OLYMPIC PROGRAM

Persistent medal drought in all international competitions is an indication of a totally defective Philippine Sports Structure, which resulted to a social bankruptcy. Admittedly, Philippine Sports has become an extension of political tyranny and an instrument for the Elite's exploitive business strategy! What have been heard from this organization are leadership squabble among the educated, inter-agency bickering, factionalism, financial inadequacy and athletes' feeble mindedness. The more disorganized Sports organizations are, the more divisive the nation will become because Sports is a universal language of cooperation that draws people closer to each other regardless of skin colors, beliefs and races. In other words, current structure of Philippine Sports is detrimental to the growth of the nation.

In order to immediately break its backward effect to the country, drastic but relevant course of action must be adopted.

SOLUTION:

1. Abolish Philippine Sports Commission & Philippine Olympic Committee.
2. Replace it with PHILIPPINE OLYMPIC BUREAU (POB).

PHILIPPINE OLYMPIC BUREAU (POB):

• Will be mandated as the governing body to all Sports organizations in the Philippines.
• Will be deputized to ensure sports excellence output in all international competitions.
• Will be authorized to receive fair government funding for purposes of enhancing players' fighting spirit.
• Will be the country's sole representative to the International Sports Communities.

POB as the governing body:

Shall adopt One Agency Recognition (OAR) Method for each Sports organization i.e. one agency for basketball, soccer, volleyball, etc., in order to prevent leadership bickering and political manipulation as currently shown by politicians and opportunistic businessmen. It is likewise mandated as the sole envoy accredited by both International Olympic Committee and other International Sports Organization. It therefore follows that the responsibility in recruiting quality players to become members of the National Team is now under the discretion of each respective sports agency leaders.

Example: PHILIPPINE NATIONAL TEAM AGENCY (PNTA) for BASKETBALL

PNTA exercises blanket authority in selecting best players from the Regional Professional League (BNB) to compose the National Team. The purpose of getting players from the Professional League ONLY is to establish Player Transition System (PTS) wherein all aspiring athletes are required to play at the amateur league first before joining the Professional ranks. With PTS in effect, political manipulation in recruiting players for the national team is eradicated. Additionally, direct recruitment of raw talents from the countryside like what the Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP) is doing can be set aside and the budget intended for that purpose can now be used for the players' training enhancement and facility development. Even Palarong Pambansa program can be discarded and its budget will instead be used for the construction of athletes' quarters, food supplements, training equipment and others because grassroots development is now being undertaken at the amateur league inter-municipality sports tournament.

POB as deputized to ensure sports excellence output in all international competitions:

• - Shall see to it that athletes' welfare is well taken cared of. Common defect that compels our players to become reluctant during training and competition proper is the absence of security of tenure. Logically speaking, professional players will always think of their playing career first before anything else because it is automatically the end of their playing career when they are injured while playing in the national team. This is the main reason PBA Players and the PBA itself are not 100% committed to represent the country in all international competitions. Other reason for PBA's selective stand on what event they shall participate is business. Definitely, game revenue will decline because PBA stars are not present. It's a given fact that PBA's audience turn out is purely entertainment alone and nothing more as compared to a Regional League where games are regarded as racial game where presence of star players is not quite essential. What is at staked with BNB concept is the locality's DIGNITY & PRIDE!

So in order to completely eradicate players feeblemindedness and revolutionize their collective worth in building a progressive Filipino nation is to adopt the following:

1. Create an ELITE RP BASKETBALL TEAM with full government support in order to inspire not just the members of the RP TEAM but the entire younger generation for them to get involve in sports and participate in skill enhancement program. It is a must for the government to give special treatment for the RP Players for them to play hard to take the coveted Gold Medal in all international competition. It is very disgusting to think that the entire nation is praying the best for the RP Players and yet the players themselves are halfheartedly playing because they are afraid to get injured which may affect their playing career for the next five years. Full government support are as follows:

• All members of the RP Team are compensated with monthly cash allowance of not less than 15,000 pesos (or its current equivalent) on top of the salary each player is receiving from his mother team in the Regional League.
• All RP Team members will be provided with complete sets of uniform (practice/actual), modern training paraphernalia, food supplements & medical services, decent athletes' quarters and an exclusive RP TEAM utilization Sports complex anywhere in the country. Read INFRASTRUCTURES for details.
• When any of the members got injured within the competition time-frame (meaning from practice to actual competition of that international event) and warrants him to quit from playing in the Pro-League then that injured player will automatically receives a monthly pension.
• Cash privileges are also granted according to the medals won.
  

1. OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL = P70,000/mo pension equivalent, free yearly round trip tickets for two at the medallist choice of destination and free house & lot in an executive subdivision in the province of his mother team.
   
2. OLYMPIC SILVER MEDAL = P60,000/mo pension, free yearly round trip tickets for two at any destination but within the continent of where the medal was won and free H & L in an executive subdivision of his mother team province.
   
3. OLYMPIC BRONZE MEDAL = P50,000/mo pension, free yearly round trip tickets for two but limited only to the country where the bronze medal had won and free H & L in an executive subdivision of his mother team province.
   
4. ASIAN GOLD MEDAL = P40,000/mo pension, free yearly round trip tickets for two at any destination in Asia, free educational plans for his 1st legitimate child.
   
5. And so on & so forth. Of course, these medal pension benefits are granted only when the player reaches the constitutionally mandated age retirement and not retirement from playing basketball. The rest are immediately given to all members of the medallist team upon arrivals in the country with no less than the President of the Republic who shall give the award. Awarding ceremonies must be of full media coverage to emphasize "Heroes Welcome" and to promote the importance of Sports in unifying the nation.

2. Require all local government units to conduct inter-municipality tournament (commercial concept). Read GRASSROOTS SPORTS DEVELOPMENT for more details.

C130 CORRUPTION

This is your C130 aircraft. Maaasahan!





Pero ito ang C130 Wings ibenenta ng mga kurakot na mga heneral. Napag utusan lang etong mga opisyal para mag escort sa mga buyer representatives.

Isn't it disturbing to see how people's money is being wasted by military generals as exemplified by the incessant cannibalization of C130 aircraft?

Why Should Professional Sports be Regionalized?

NATIONAL UNITY
Racial empowerment is one of the keys that could resolve the cultural conflict among Filipino localities thru a national level Participative Sports Competition. Participative Sports means capturing local interest beyond entertainment in order to uplift the localities’ sense of equality within the society.

For instance: MAGUINDANAO WARRIORS TEAM VS CAVITE ASTIG TEAM NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES

Once MAGUINDANAO WARRIORS TEAM becomes the NATIONAL CHAMPION on this series, all of the Maguindanao folks including MILF rebels will be in high spirit. And giving the credit back to the Maguindanaoan tribes while they are on a festive mood can stimulate province-wide perception that the national government is not bias against the Moro people. Credit recognition must be in the form of constructions for infrastructures relevant to the league’s movement i.e. huge (araneta size) coliseum inside Camp Abu Bakar, 6km runway (read AQUA CULTURE PROPAGATION for the importance of runway) connected by a sturdy highway to the coliseum and farm to market roads. These undertakings must set off at full media coverage so as to promote an honest to goodness service to the Filipino people. Runway and road constructions can be started right away using all idle heavy equipment from the DPWH, AFP Eng’g Brigade, etc, employing local laborers and utilizing construction materials such as cement and iron bars from the government owned or controlled companies. The government should do away with those bidding processes because it will always result to overpricing or substandard completion. Besides, roads and runway blueprint can be designed only once so there is no need of hiring hundreds of engineers from the construction companies. Additionally, millions of pesos are literally wasted for the upkeep of the thousand heavy equipment units in DPWH, AFP ENG’G BRIGADE, CITY & PROVINCIAL ENGINEER’S OFFICE, which are all IDLE.

Complementing such "credit favor strategy" is to feature one of the MILF commanders ordering his men to lay down their arms, have their hairs’ cut, change to civilian attire and watch the championship match in peaceful support of the Maguindanao Team. Footage has to be taken inside the coliseum showing the featured MILF Commander shaking hands or exchanging Muslim hugs with a policeman detailed, as disturbance control officer so as to send a message to all Filipinos around the world that peace is not far-fetched. This kind of media gimmickry is absolutely better than interviewing fully armed rebels taking a break after attacking army detachments in the hinterland because it proves that Mindanao is not a war zone area. Since our government is fun of cosmetic propaganda “pogi points” like posing inside an abandoned rebel camps projected as overran camp, Filipinos up north and even other nations believe that Mindanao is certainly a renegade island. (Read terrorism for reasons of its existence)

• On the part of the Cavite Team representing the people of Cavite, said loss is an eye opener to all Cavitenos in particular and all losers in general about the importance of having a quality team. It will instill local understanding that there is life in basketball and not just pure entertainment! Regional basketball is worth supporting for because what actually at staked are collective pride, dignity and racial honor. Aren’t you proud of your own ethnic group being in the limelight of success? Aren’t you affected when the team represents your racial affiliation finished last in this competition? If so, then basketball or professional sports for that matter will now be part of the lives. It is therefore commonsensical that on the next playing season, each of the teams will be fielding highly competitive players to meet a province-wide clamor for championship outcome.

On a lighter note, isn’t it heartwarming to hear flattering congratulatory messages coming from Filipinos around the globe being extended to the people of Maguindanao and words of encouragement being offered for the people of Cavite? Doesn’t it resemble national unity thru diversity? Isn't it irrational to conclude that regional basketball will result to tribalism? Will the province of Cavite declare war against Maguindanao for losing the championship match?