Fmr Sen. Trillanes lashes out vs Presiding Judge Escudero and tells of impending case vs the latter

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Former Senator Antonio Trillanes, apparently piqued for not being allowed to present evidence at the impeachement trial lashed out at Presiding Judge and talked about impending plunder case vs the latter.

Some saw this as a threat and AT having strong ties with the administration and being one of the power broker of the current administration.  

A Damocles sword over the head fo Senator Judges

Can mistrial be called?   Can they be fair under the situation?  Judging out of fear to convict the respondent

YT post on AT lashing out at Presiding Judge Antonio Escudero

China bans export of Petrol products to PHL, further price increases seen

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China bans export of fuel to Asian markets

They and their big mouths.  The politicians and the war hawks who could not keept their mouth shut.  China has banned exports of Petroleum products further excaberting our all ready fragile energy situation.  Expect more price increases and digging into your income, lesser travel, more expensive  energy:   electricity, fuel, etc.  

Strict interpretation of what is written or being lax (BENDALOS) by amicus curiae

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Such is the first principle being debated in the Sarah impeachment:    debate on the denominator, for the all the senators:   24 or those just in attendance.     One magistrate, Azcuna, says its 24 since he was the orginal author, I agree.   The other three are of an announcer or common man mentality:   it depends, or maybe it does not matter. -  WHAT IS POPULAR OR WHAT IS .... (whom you had dinner with ....) matters.

Strictly to the letter,or to the spirit?

The religious are split between the fundamentalists and those who live according to the spirit of the scriptures or what is written.  Thus among Franciscans there is a schism.   Among the Muslimes, there are fundamentalists -  strict interpretation of the law and the liberals.

In my college education, I was taught and I kept in mind that there are certain subjects that are fundamental and immutable:   math and science for intance.   1+1 =2 cant be changed.  

In literature, when somebody says his interpretation of the poems is in between the lines, the Prof says curtly "Where is it?  I coud not see any"  And the prof became a National Artist.

In drama, a meztizo professor surnamed Romualdez (he reports in MB SLC) says answers to his exams are the very same he mentions in pop sheet, attempted to reduce drama critique into something that is constant.

So whom do we agree, or spend money with (P60 m  a day expense on impeachment?)     Azcuna or the 3 others/   I go for Azcuna...

What if the Senators decide to amend the constitution and use another denominator?   One legal mind said it could be unconstitutional.  Do you agree.   ?

Another important issue:   the question by Sen. Robinhood Padilla -  since impeachment court is a superior court, can any other courts touch or investigate its members while in session (or arrest its subject as with RTC)?   Can other courts pressure its members (as what is happening)   This is worth seriously looked into  

Banning EV vehicles from RORO - being safe or being backward?

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An interisland shipping company recently banned EVs from being transported in its route in its RORO  vessels.   This came after the recent Arete fire in Coron which killed scores.   This move is seen by this post as a proper safety response to the said accident.  Because its vessels are very old and not equipped with fire suppressants for electric fires.  it opted to do it the safe way.

Others are saying its backward.

Remember the airplanes prohibited putting laptops  and cellphones for precisely the same safety reasons.  Its easy to spot and control fires when they are with you and you can see this.  (However a fire broke out in the overhead bin in one of the carry on baggage.  The fire started from an overheated cp)  Lithium in cp as in EVs are deadly and can break out into spontaneous fire.  

A number of fires erupted worldwide in ships carrying evs, with burned lost vehicles numbering thousands.   This is a real fear being anticipated by the said good shipping managers.

Lets be safe...

Coseteng - circus came to town (on impeachment)

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Very well said...

1  The cast:    three actors (Lapid, Robinhood and Soto) one newshen (Loren Legarda, three  brothers and sisters team  (Alan and Pia Mark and Camille, Raffy and Erwin) 

2.  Behavior at the Senate and Impeachment -  Clearly some do not understand the laws which they are supposed to manage...

3.  From these, we can now understand why our country status is like this?

We elected them (on the basis of popularity and not because of their qualifications...  We deserve this Senate, not blame anyone nor rant about this... We are responsible...

Civic minded countrymen clearing highway of debris and vegetative growth open a new can of worms

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This post admires and salutes various individuals clearing roads of debris that clog the drainage, of cogon and other brush undergrowth that blocks the visibility of oncoming traffic.  I to became addicted to this type of civic works when I was in my twenties.  My cleaning of the gutter in front of our house led me 500 even to 1000 meters away clearing the gutter of dirt -  up to a provincial hospital near us.  I was warned that I could be infected by effluents from the hospital

Road maintenance budget - utilization

However, I knew that a certain amount is budgetted for road maintenance annually.  When I googled it is in the order of billions.      Where does this go if drainages are clogged leading to instant flooding, or civic minded citizens brush cut on their own wild undergrowth blocking the street?

Can CoA investigative journos look into this.

Purported medical conditions as a shield vs being jailed

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                                             No IV line, vitals according to monitor are fine

Last Monday, a ranking govt elected official, the (4th) was issued a warrant of arrest by a Prosecutor Office.  Immediately, he was admitted to a hospital without passing through the ER.   However his pictures showed him together with monitor shouting out he was healthy (they should have turned off the monitor)

All ready medical circles are calling out MDs who are being used as excuse slips not to be jailed same as wheel chairs (GMA, Bonuan, Marcoleta)

He was brought to PGH for a third party assessment   Commitment order has been transferred from PNP to BJMP and may soon be transferred to BJMP detention center at Payatas.

Courage for those who want to violate the laws they are supposed to enforce or which they crafted.  

Justice for all.

Are search engine (AI generated) response accurate?

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This post tried having answers from search engine on these items:  (being the subject of debates and contentions

1.   Can  an impeachable officer be subject to prosecution at lower courts (as with Sarah Duterte)

      Ans:   Yes   Only the President is immune from prosecution.   The idea that impeachable officer is               immune from criminal prosecution is a constitutional superstition.  

2.  What is the required number of votes to impeach the VP.  Ans:   16

3.  Can the Senate overturn the 16 required votes and lowe the same:    Ans:   Yes

2 and 3 answers are contradictory.    The 16 it says is from the Constitution.     Do we say 1 and 2 are

     correct, and Number 3 answer is doubtful?

Whom do we believe?

Explanation for the flooding, cause not linear (no single cause) but systemic

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Causes of flooding in the Philippines

The cause of the flooding has been politicalized and many netizens/ citizens are not thinking properly.  Gone should be the mindset that events are caused in a single direction by single element.  The mindset being advanced (in critical thinking) is that causes are systemic. There are many interrelated elements contributing to result.  Just like the numerous wheels in a clock -  when one or several stop or are damaged the watch stop working.

So with the floods.

Because of the flood control narrative being spread, now it is common for many to say that the graft, the propensity of govt agencies concerned caused the floods.

But an expert pointed out that the solution to the flood control will mean many factors to work on:

     1.  lessening the flow:   reforestation, impounding pounds upstream

     2.  downstream :   dikes, storm drain, flood plains, deltas, pumps, solid waste disposal

     3.   sea:       retaining walls pumping station, 

     4.  safety  and risk mitigation -  remove the residents from flood prone plains and river banks, coastal areas.  

In Pampanga for instance, the almost permanent flood at Hagonoy, Masantol and Macabebe are caused by cofluence of flooding of Pampanga river, blocking of the drain by the NMIA construction, and the high tides all contribute to the flooding.    Raising the street level was band aid solution.     Having floodgates and massive pumps for the Pampanga river, looking at the NMIA blocking the rivers are worth looking into.  However a friend who visited me last week told me as he is from Bo. Taliptip has been flooded ever since.  He said some groups are out to wreck havoc on RSA?   Anti progress progressives?

Pampanga is a basin coupled that with the lahar lessening the water carrying capacity of rivers.  And the contribution of the Pampanga river being backfilled by Manila bay tides.   

We have forwarded this knowledge to a developer who wants to develop in an area which is near the rirver and a gulf.  Its elevation seen in Google Earth is at -0.1 meter    Pag naghightide ng 4 meters, lulubog na ang site.  And then blame the govt...... and the politician.  We cant deny also that substandard dike construction lack of master plan for flood control, having projects that really matter, misappropiation (theft) of public funds are also to be blamed.   It is a justified  indignation that people decry trillions did not go into flood alleviation projects. Trillions purportedly for lessening the suffering of peole gone to waste (and we taxpayers are going to foot the loan repayment

For the past two weeks and even yesterday, the volume of rainfall was unusually very high.    Japan, Vietnam, China suffered the same fate like ours.    Wrath of heaven.  (to punish the plunderers?)

Coastal areas will be especially be vulnerable.   Decades ago, sea levels were predicted to be going up due to melting of the poles and the Himalayas peak.     May be we did not listen.  Many  resorts are being built, communities along typhoon prone and flood prone beach fronts.    And now we blame the politicians.   Those who do not follow the CLUP and the building code.  We bribe building officials, we influence the mayor to give relief to no build zones....

Corruption is the omni explanationn for the floods.   Not so

San Fernando Pampanga flooded; Aquino bridge in Tarlac collapses; so much devastation

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San Fernando Pampanga was flooded yesterday;  parts of MacArthur highway were submerged, even the intersection of MacArthur and Gapan Olongapo road.

Part of Aquino bridge in Tarlac City collapses.     These floods were not wrath of corruption, they were wrath of God vs corruption?

Substitute for STP (which is expensive)

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This post has observed that in some areas of the town, there is a dearth of stp, severely affecting the water qualifty that are emptying into the Laguna lake.

About two decades ago, this post learned some cheap diy stp solution:

    1.  Water lily absorbs plenty of waste and spoiled matter from the water.  That is why drying water lily plants smell bad

    2.   DIY filtration sedimentation tank filtration:

          1.  A waterfallls for oxygenation of the water;

          2.  A sedimentation tank

          3.  Filter chamber:      rocks, gravel, fine sand, even charcoal

          UV treats waer

   3.  This post used this in a project where the effluent of a neighboring subdivision fell, and we got fish at the end of the channel from the chambers.  

Impeachment proceedings becoming too technical and boring, only lawyers and wannabees would be interested

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Lately the impeachment proceedings have been too technical and difficult to understand for non lawyers and perhaps its viewership  and readership.    Some say prosecution is leading, some say defense lawyers have been smart in their counterpunch.  

Lately the President Justice has issued a gag order on parties from making comments in their forum soc media account outside of the court.

Whatever the outcome will be we go on with our lives and repair the damages from the typhoon, and help rebuild the economy which languished at 2.3% and peso weakening at Php62: USD1 and unemployment that has risen to more than a million workers. 

Mitigating damages, loss of lives by mitigating risks: stricter building code, ECC regulations, subdivision development, having no build zones observed right

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                                          DILG DHSUD tells LGU enforce no build zones

                                                         No build zones

                                              Developers govt agencies must observe science

One wonders how come we have cyclical experience of flood and other calamities.  We did well with earthquake drills, but not so much in flood conrol and prevention.   We all know the science about that

     1.   Weather forecasting -  it is well done

     2.   Rainfall and flood warning -  well done.

  

But our residents continue to live in flood prone areas, (especially the illegal settlers) there is flooding, there is flood victim relief, temporary shelter, they return to their homes that have been flooded.

   May we suggest:

   1  To relocate those who are in dangerous risky areas:  near creeks, river banks, lakes

   2. Enforce strictly no build zones in the CLUP of LGUs

   3. Enjoin developers to improve their drainage and provide for storm water impounding area.

       Why dont we follow the Ortigas and Ayala way of flood management:   deepen and widen the creek

       What we see with the Cainta Marikina and Antipolo developers is that they even block some of the 

       creek or choke them by making them smaller.

Also the science part shall  the regulators shall not allow development along or near areas:

    1. Where there is low land level or equal to sea level   when there is a high tide

    2.  No build zone in areas where there is cofluence of flood water and tide movements.    As in

         Pampanga, Bulacan:    Balagtas, Hagonoy, Masantol, Macabebe.  Yes there are no build zones by'           LLDA

        DILG Cuy - Enact ordinances as no build zones....

This post remembers the warning of late  Dr.  Raymundo Punongbayan (the Americans left Clark and Subic days ahead of June 12 and 15 eruption because they listened to Punongbayan.  I do)

      1.  Do not build in high altitude area, what is up must come down     (Look at Baguio, Mt Province

           Leyte landslides

      2.  The coastal areas will continue to sink due to global warming:   melting of iceberbs and glaciers.

            How prophetic.

This the company we had avoided building along lakeside, along huge rivers.    Lately flood risk area, with only 2 meters elevation vs the sea  had to be refused and shelved because it will be just like Hagonoy.  

N.B  Recently a local govt agency granted a permit to  set up a 500 KVA high power lines near residential units.   Has the science on EMF low frequency on health been established:   safe or unsafe?

Possible plunder case vs Cayetano? After Marcoleta

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https://www.newswatchplus.ph/2026/07/24/lacson-sees-possible-plunder-raps-vs-cayetano-over-taguig-ghost-projects/

It is very possible that plunder cases will be filed vs Sen. Cayetano.   Little by little the opposition to the majority are being silenced and the obstacles the votes to defeat impeach Sara Duterte are falling by the wayside.   Shall we expect more?   

Effective flood control projects that can be benchmarked in the Philippines

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This could be benchmarked in the Philippines especially that Philippines is flooded very often     

Japanese contractors should build the flood control projects

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The flood control projecs in Marikina which seemed to withstand the strength of the recent flood make many Filipinos conclude that indeed the Japanese should just be prequalified to build our flood control projects.  What is odd is that these contractors used Filipino labor.  Where lies the difference?

Many of the parts of Philippines especially MM and Bulacan flooded; climate change failed flood control projects and corruption blamed

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Floods in the Philippines

Many citizens decried politics while the rest of the nation are suffering in the floods rains and wind

He who is sinless cast the first stone

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He who is sinless cast the first stone

Many allegations have come out regarding the guardians of the law:

    1.  That a former head of a chamber was the purse keeper of a P24 B leadership fund

    2.  That a head of office filing cases right and left had a billion of controversial funds

    3.   That the husband and wife team in another watchdog office was alleged to be engaged in govt

          contracts

Erice says Omb....obtained P1.5 b confidential funds from Co

Bonuan - Fmr SP in charge of leadership fund

Stop the folly. Stop the raket!?

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Going into rocket science is likely to impoverish the nation.

Especially if going via the NASA way.    Spacex has made rocket launch cheaper by as much as 4000%

If it is just a satellite launch, we can just have it launched by  spaceX or other outfit.  

Meron ba tayong ganitong goal man lang say 1 billion trees replanting in 5 years? Kayang kaya ito ng mga students barangay, AICs Tupad, 4ps

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This could be one of the most effective flood control/mitigation -  low cost, and doable?  Paging  and concerned govt agencies    and LGUs No gains here so it is not attractive.  How about NGOs and party list.  Tigilan bawasan ang pamumulitika

Mamuno po tayo ay lutasin ang problema ng bansa, hindi ganansya.   May mga programa mura at palaging sinasabi nating knee jerk solution