China invests in food security to feed its citizens numbering billions

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Japan is investing heavily in food security in its homeland and elsewhere in the world:   Africa, Asia and South America.  It invested in infrastructure:    ports, road ways, ships.     To facilitate the food security.

Large scale projects that will make Philippines a leader in Southeast Asia

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Result of build, build, build.

Expressways, elevated skyways, subways, bridges between islands, worth USD billions.  PPP projects, RE projects (investments)

Making life easier and interconnection transportation easier and faster.

Are you going to be part of this progress.  Are you going to invest, travel to the Philippines?

 

CIA at a infrastructure department

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This post met a multi billionaire, a lady a contractor at our infrastructure dept.  She is so wealthy that together with several others bought an island for a billion, has several billions of contract still outstanding.  The jewelry she was wearing when we met her was probaby in tens of millions.

Her secret?  CIA.  She is the lone contractor in the region who can still afford the CIA scheme of DE (It is risky what if the  contract does not push through?)

So who said that under DU30, there was no corruption and that he hated corruption.   It never stopped   And to think that Build3 is inflationary and is hurting us now

Are calamities - deaths and destruction caused by men's action?

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                                                Bad weather spoiled BBM sorties at Leyte

                                            Death and destruction at Baybay due to Agaton

A netizen made a comment on the sufferings - death and destruction at Baybay brought about by Agaton typhoon.  .  She cruelly commented that this was due to the citizens of the said place joining the activity of BBM.   It is a punishment for supporting criminals"

When there was Ondoy, an acquaintance quickly quipped that Ondoy was punishment of God due to sins 

of people from Luzon

How can we say that.  We can not fathom the wisdom of the Creator regarding events on this earth.  The time of judgement has not come.

They are acts of nature,and has nothing to do with election, events on this earth.   To think that way is illogical, reflects absence of critical thinking.   What caused their death is lack planning, further research by NDRRMC on risk areas for people to settle and put up their houses.  And DPWH  in putting up more effective anti erosion, anti landslide infrastructure.  

City Renewal Projects

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Rizal Philippines  |  February 11, 2014

Happy Feast of the Lourdes!

Now that there are:

1.  Revelation on PDAF scams

2  There are enlightened leadership at LGU levels

3.  Renewed interest to develop cities

It is time to consider urban renewal and redevelopment.  This will:

1.   Generate jobs;

2.  When the cities are beautiful and more liveable, more investments and more trade comes in generating more revenue for the LGU

3.  Banks I think would be more than willing to lend funds (rather than merely take in funds)

4.  Construction companies and suppliers would be happy to help, with the business that would be generated.

Who could initiate:

1.  The business groups could recommend to the city planner who in turn would commission master plan for redevelopment:  by phases.

2.  The council could pass resolution to authorize approve the :  rezoning, redevelopment, new standards, design themes.  etc.  traffic rules, ROW, planting strips,

3.  Revise RET:   tax heavily the  old structures,  tax lightly structures that are less than 10 years old

4.  Relax the rent control law. (Or strictly enforce this so that  the lessors would tear down old structures so that they could collect more rent when the building is rebuilt)

Who would help:

1.  Banks (would want to generate revenues from idle funds)

2.  Local businessmen who want more business

3.  Tourist oriented business.

We cant continue to get tourists with fiestas and street dancing, and with shallow strategy.   We will ultimately need better infrastructures and systems.  We have to remove the broken windows (uncollected garbage, smelly sewers, rats on the streets, street people, ugly stalls, dangling utility wires)

It is your city, our city, Our country. 

OUR COUNTRY OUR CITY IS OUR BUSINESS.

                                    The electric wires, the vendors shacks, the pockmarked streets

                                          Old buildings and ugly electric wires

                                   Graffitti, the broken window symptom

                      Garbage, graffitti  (Read broken windows by George Kelling and Catherine Coles

                                     Burned down building, garbage, plenty of signages

                                  Good for micro entrepreneurs;  cant we have order, repainting

                                   Telcos conspire with big ads to deface the city

                                    Lunar landscape has no place in a beautiful city

                                       Hmmm what is wrong here?

                     Abandoned and dilapidated Queen City Garden Mall <where is the garden?>

                                  What makes the place ugly?

                                    What can be done?

                                   What is ugly here?  What do you suggest?

                                    WTDN?

                                 What is the broken window here?   There are several - tell us

                                       Anything ugly here?

                                    What?

                                          OK ba?

                                       Maganda ba?

                                   A sight to behold?

                                      Nice mall, ugly skyline

                                   Can the poor people help make the city look nice and beautiful?

                                  This sight would have been perfect, except for?

                                 What is ugly here?