BOSS NIYA

KAYO BA YAN, MGA BOSS KO?

YAIKS, AKO LANG PO SER.

SAN MIGUEL CORPORATION, AKING KAMAG-ANAK

Govt to guarantee MRT 7 rail

By Alena Mae S. Flores | Aug. 25, 2014 at 12:01am

The government has agreed to provide a financial guarantee to Metro Rail Transit Line 7, allowing proponent San Miguel Corp. to start the construction of the P62.7-billion rail project within the year, Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya said over the weekend.

Abaya said the Finance Department issued the performance undertaking for the 22.8-kilometer rail project. 

A performance undertaking, or a financial guarantee given by the government to the contractor, is a requirement for the financial closure of a project that would be partially funded by official development assistance from multilateral banks or foreign lenders.

“The performance undertaking has been signed by [Finance] Secretary [Cesar] Purisima. We have signed our implementing guidelines, so it is a matter of calling them [proponent] and giving it to them, so that’s already a go,” Abaya told reporters.

“The next step, once the performance undertaking is given to them, they should commence financial close. What I’m requesting them to do is to do it sooner than 18 months, but they’re saying they could do advanced works once they get the green light. I hope they can do it before next year,” Abaya said.

The National Economic and Development Authority board, chaired by President Benigno Aquino III, approved the MRT 7 project, an unsolicited offer from conglomerate San Miguel Corp. in November 2013.

MRT 7 involves the construction of a 22.8-kilometer rail system from North Avenue station in Quezon City, passing through Commonwealth Avenue, Regalado Avenue and Quirino Highway, to the proposed intermodal transportation terminal in San Jose del Monte City, Bulacan.

The project, first proposed by Universal LRT Corp. Ltd. nearly a decade ago, was delayed because of the company’s failure to secure a performance undertaking from the Finance Department.

San Miguel, through unit San Miguel Holdings Corp., acquired a 51-percent interest in Universal LRT in 2010.

San Miguel awarded the engineering, procurement, construction contract to the Marubeni-DMCI consortium.

San Miguel earlier said once the performance undertaking was given by the Finance Department, the processing for the financial closure could be received within the year.

The company said construction of the project was estimated to take 42 months.  Once completed, MRT 7 is expected to serve 850,000 passengers daily.

MAR ROXAS IS ALSO CORRUPT

Fire trucks overpriced

By Christine F. Herrera | Mar. 25, 2014 at 12:01am

Solons question PNoy, Mar on P1.3-b Austrian deal

OPPOSITION lawmakers on Monday accused President Benigno Aquino III and Local Governments Secretary Manuel Roxas II of authorizing the importation of 76 overpriced fire trucks for P20.14 million each, rather than the P7 million that the administration publicized in 2012, or P6 million each for locally manufactured units.

Abakada Rep. Jonathan dela Cruz, Bayan Muna Rep. Antonio Carlos Zarate and former Agham congressman Angelo Palmones also warned the President and Roxas against importing 300 more firetrucks from the same source, Rosenbauer of Austria.

Dela Cruz vowed to summon Roxas to a Question Hour in Congress to shed light on charges that the Rosenbauer fire trucks were priced even higher than those contracted by the previous Arroyo administration.

After President Aquino came to power in 2010, the Liberal Party led by Roxas questioned the loan concession that the Arroyo administration had signed with Rosenbauer in 2008 or 2009, saying that the contract price of each unit, at P16 million, was too high.

Local Governments Secretary Jesse Robredo, also a Liberal, had branded the loan contract “onerous,” prompting the Aquino administration to renegotiate the deal, government to government.

Robredo had publicly announced that the renegotiation was successful and that the Philippine government had managed to obtain a 40 percent grant from the Austrian government that supposedly lowered the price of each truck from P16 million to only P7 million.

Shortly before he died in a plane crash in August 2012, Robredo told the Manila Standard that the Philippine government had already signed the supply contract and boasted that a “lot of savings” had been generated because the units were priced at P7 million each.

But a 44-page supply contract signed Dec. 14, 2011 by Robredo and Ralpf Schmid, vice president for international sales at Rosenbauer, a copy of which was obtained by the Manila Standard, showed the total contract price was EU20.49 million or about P1.33 billion—which worked out to P17.52 million per truck.

The signing of the P1.33-billion loan agreement was held on the same day that President Aquino issued a “special authority” to proceed, Palace documents show.

“All prices mentioned in this contract (EU20.49 million or P1.33 billion) and payments to the benefit of the supplier (Rosenbauer) shall be made in euro,” the supply contract said.

But import duties and taxes and local transport were not part of the contract price, and these were to be paid by the buyer, in this case, the Philippine government.

Dela Cruz said this clause raised the grand total of the purchase to P1.53 billion or P20.14 million per truck.

The supply contract signing was witnessed by Bureau of Fire Protection Chief Supt. Samuel Perez and Austrian Embassy Commercial Attache Isabel Schmiedbauer.

“We demand that Congress summon Roxas to a Question Hour to explain why, despite the overpricing, the DILG plans to acquire 300 more fire trucks from the same source of the overpriced units,” Dela Cruz said.

“The Aquino administration should conduct a thorough due diligence check and postpone the purchase of 300 fire trucks until the overpricing issue of the 76 units delivered had been resolved,” Zarate added, noting that former Bayan Muna congressman Teddy Casino had already exposed this during the 15th Congress.

“The DILG, the BFP and the contractor should be made to explain first before proceeding with the purchase of 300 additional fire trucks. If there explanations are not satisfactory, if need be, these people should be penalized instead of proceeding with the total purchase,” Zarate said.

Palmones was among the first to question the government’s decision to prefer to import fire trucks in the 15th Congress when the country has a local manufacturer that sold a “tropicalized fire truck” invented by a Filipino entrepreneur at only P6 million to P9 million per unit.

“At the time of the contract signing, Robredo announced that the present value per unit of fire truck was at P7,077,494.34 or P537,889,57 million for the 76 units or 40.37 percent of the total loan amount valued at P1,332,093,100. How come the formula they used made the fire truck appreciate the value to P20.14 million? This is the first time I hear that the value of a fire truck can appreciate instead of depreciate its value over 17-and-a-half years,” Palmones said.

Palmones had filed a House resolution to give priority to local manufacturers but House leaders at the time, mostly members of the Liberal Party, archived the measure.

The Palace documents, particularly those presented and submitted to the President, showed that the Aquino government renegotiated the total contract price at an exchange rate of P65 to a euro.

But when the loan contract was signed on Jan. 12, 2012, or on the same day that the President gave it a go, the prevailing euro to peso exchange rate was pegged at P56.50.

“The President was well aware of the scandalous and anomalous overpricing and onerous loan agreement yet he still gave the go to proceed with the procurement at the expense of the taxpayers as the loan deal and the supply contracts were onerous and caused undue disadvantage to the government,” Dela Cruz said.

In 2012, the highest rate was at P57.68 to a euro on Feb. 24 and the average for the year was P54.28.

The peso weakened to P65 to a euro during the time of the Arroyo administration in 2009 then reached a maximum of P70.89 on Oct. 22, 2009.

In 2011, the highest per euro was at P63.82 in May and the average for the year was at P60.28.

In 2013, the highest was P61.34 on Dec. 30 and the average was P56.38.

“Is it possible that the Palace men may have made a mistake like a typographical error so instead of P56, it became P65 to a euro?” Dela Cruz asked.

“Last time we checked, the euro-peso exchange rate never reached P65 during the Aquino government since 2010 up until now. So where did President Aquino and the DILG get the exchange rate of P65? Because that mistake had cost the taxpayers several millions,” said Dela Cruz, a member of the independent minority bloc in the House, said.

The loan agreement became effective on April 16, 2012 when the prevailing exchange rate was at P56.16 to a euro, Palace documents showed.

The first four shipments were made from October 2012 to March 2013 and arrived in the country starting January 2013 up to May 2013 or before and during the election campaign period with 50 units worth P1 billion distributed to various provinces and fire stations all over the country, Palace documents showed.

The last two shipments, involving 26 units worth P523.64 million, were made starting June 2013 and ended in November 2013, with all six deliveries received and distributed nationwide by Roxas.

Dela Cruz said he could not help but notice that the purchase and distribution nationwide of 76 imported units had been made before, during and after the 2013 midterm senatorial elections under Roxas’ leadership while the next planned 300 units would be made at the onset of the 2016 presidential elections, when Roxas is expected to be the Liberal Party standard bearer.

After President Aquino gave the green light by issuing a special authority to proceed with the signing of the loan agreement, the country’s economic team all endorsed the deal. The Monetary Board approved the project on Feb. 16, 2012 that was affirmed by the Justice Department on March 1, 2012.

The Finance Department, led by Secretary Ceasar Purisima, was authorized to act as the “borrower” on behalf of the Philippine government and the Department of Budget and Management, headed by Secretary Florencio Abad, who was the President’s campaign manager in the 2010 presidential polls, approved the project’s Forward Obligation Authority.

Purisima and Abad were members of the LP and part of the Balay Group headed by Roxas against another faction in the Palace, the Samar Group, led by Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr.

Taxpayers will be paying the loan for 17.5 years, including the 3.5-year grace period at an interest rate of 1 percent per annum, but with a grant of supposedly 40 percent as a concession from the Austrian government.

The payment period for the principal payments comes in 28 equal semi-annual payments at P47.57 million while interest charges range from a low of P999,069 to a high of P66.66 million.

The Philippine government paid a total of P185.46 million in taxes and duties and P13.32 million in “project administration.” A total of P198.78 million was thus added to the total loan amount of P1.33 billion, bringing the grand total to P1.53 billion.

House to ask Roxas: Justify fire truck deal

By Christine F. Herrera | Mar. 27, 2014 at 12:01am

THE House will compel Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas to explain the “P200-million hidden charges” in the overpriced and anomalous purchase of 76 imported fire trucks priced at P21 million each, a lawmaker said Wednesday.

Abakada Rep. Jonathan dela Cruz, who filed House Resolution 990 that seeks to probe the “onerous” concessional loan deal with Austria, identified the hidden charges as project management costing taxpayers some P56.24 million, project administration amounting to P13.32 million, training and manuals worth P24.67 million, engineering and specification design costing P16.25 million, other accessories costing P24.7 million, and the undelivered spare parts amounting to P61.98 million or a total of P197.18 million.

“President Aquino will be stepping down in June 2016, yet the taxpayers will continue to bear the brunt of paying for these overpriced fire trucks for 17.5 years or even after he is long gone,” Dela Cruz said.

“Roxas owes it to the Filipino people to explain these overpricing and hidden-charges issues.”

Former Agham Rep. Angelo Palmones, the most vocal critic of the loan deal with Rosenbauer-Austria, demanded that Roxas account for the project’s status.

“We want to know what is this project management worth P56.24 million?” Palmones said.

“What is being managed here when the Philippines supposedly just bought the fire trucks that were also delivered? What is this project administration cost pegged at P13.32 million?”

The Manila Standard had tried to reach Roxas for comment since Sunday, to no avail. The Palace said Roxas would soon explain the P1.33-billion concession loan from Austria in a government-to-government contract.

The Palace spokesmen could not even explain why the exchange rate used in acquiring the  P1.33-billion concession loan was P65 to a euro.

The Palace documents, particularly those presented and submitted to the President, showed that the Aquino administration renegotiated the total contract price at an exchange rate of P65 to a euro.

But when the loan agreement was signed on Jan. 12, 2012, or on the same day that the President gave “special authority” to proceed with the signing, the prevailing exchange rate was P56.50 to one euro.

The price of the Rosenbauer fire trucks ballooned to P1.53 billion after the government shouldered taxes and duties costing P185.45 million and project administration at P13.32 million.

Palmones, president of the Agham party-list group, questioned the payment of engineering and specification design worth P16.25 million.

“The Rosenbauer fire trucks arrived without changes,” Palmones said.

“They were not even turned into tropicalized fire trucks that could fit in narrow alleys where most fires occur, particularly in congested Metro Manila.”

Palmones said the “trainings” that cost the taxpayers some P24.67 million only involved the training of the drivers of the fire trucks—not the entire fire-fighting team that could have learned how to operate the fire trucks.

“So the taxpayers spent P324,717 to train a driver,” Palmones said.

“Let’s cut that into half so we include the relievers, and that would still come to a hefty P162,358 per person.”

As to the P61.98 million worth of spare parts, Palmones said those that arrived with the units were the most basic ones, including screws that had no use once a fire truck sustained a major as what happened to a fire truck assigned to Las Piñas.

KIM HENARES; FORMER IMF EMPLOYEE, CORRUPT AND SERVING FOREIGN ELITE INTERESTS

Shotgun mentality

• Written by  Tribune Editorial
• Wednesday, 26 March 2014 00:00

Acontentious issue in the impeachment hearing of former Chief Justice Renato Corona was the House prosecutors’ demand that his dollar accounts be pried open for scrutiny since one of the allegations against the Supreme Court head was that he had withheld information on his wealth in his statement of assets, liabilities and networth (SALn).

Brought into the spotlight was the Foreign Currency Deposits Act (FCDA), which guarantees the confidentiality of dollar accounts signed during the term of former President Ferdinand Marcos.
It was a measure supposedly meant as an incentive to foreign investors.

The amended Anti-Money Laundering Act already provided a procedure for the government to compel banks to open deposits in local currency through a court order.
Now, Internal Revenue Commissioner Kim Henares the other day said the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) will seek the removal of the secrecy of bank deposits on suspected tax cheats which in effect would be the accounts of anybody whom the government fancies.
For somebody who frequents the shooting range similar to Noynoy, Henares may have developed a shotgun mentality of spraying a crowd with bullets to kill a criminal.
The allegation on Corona in being remiss on his SALn declarations was a good example of how selective political persecution can be introduced by giving the government excessive police powers.
Since the FCDA is a law, for instance, it was not the fault of Corona, nor probably most of the Cabinet members of Noynoy as well as Noynoy himself, to make use of it in securing their assets, legally acquired or otherwise.
The argument raised during the impeachment trial was that the FCDA and the bank secrecy law in general render the SALn law and the constitutional provisions on full disclosure of assets, liabilities and net worth useless since “corrupt public officials can open dollar accounts and co-mingle peso accounts with their relatives to justify the filing of SALn that are completely and totally inaccurate.”
The BIR wants to shortcut the process of removing the anomaly created by the FCDA by totally expunging the bank secrecy law and thus allow government to have access on bank accounts at its whim.
The bank secrecy law and even the FCDA, as they are, do not provide absolute confidentiality. The bank secrecy law is now subject to varied exemptions provided under the AMLA and the FCDA only bars the banks, not the depositors from disclosing information on dollar accounts.
Indeed the FCDA can be considered a major hurdle in efforts to fight corruption in government but a total repeal would create a backlash on businesses and even individuals that rely on the law to safeguard their assets in the country.
It was also proven during the impeachment trial that the powers the government currently has are already potent in extracting information about the assets of suspected corrupt officials.
Up to now, however, no proof has been established on the alleged hidden or undeclared wealth of Corona despite the continued persecution undertaken against him and his family.
The suggestion of Henares to totally remove the secrecy on bank deposits is not even necessary to comply with international norms as proven by the Financial Action Task Force on money laundering removing the country from its watch list after Congress passed reform measures to the AMLA.
Henares said the removal of the bank secrecy law is a step toward enhancing transparency which is a subject she should take up with Noynoy first since he is determined in his opaqueness by not endorsing the Freedom of Information bill.
The Henares proposal is even dangerous in its encompassing scope since it covers anybody whom she believes is not paying the right tax.
Using the current selective government campaign against targeted opposition members through the scripted Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, it will not be hard to imagine who Henares will go after once she gets her wish.
Dismantling the right to privacy comes to mind in the folly of Henares

The path to evil is coming . . .

KWANGGOL

ETO TYPE NINA LACIERDA, OCHOA AT QUEZON

GREEDY VULTURE

GINA, YOU ARE LIKE THE REST OF THEM. SWAPANG AT HIPOKRITA KA RIN PALA!

SANA TADTARIN KA NG MGA TRIBAL PEOPLE NG PALAWAN.

LANDGRABBER!

NOYNOY IS AGAIN BLAMING OTHERS FOR THE CHINESE BOAT-GROUNDING IN PALAWAN

Negligence at the Reef

By Manila Standard Today | Posted on Apr. 12, 2013 at 12:01am | 278 views

The guardians of the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park offered a lame excuse on the latest incursion by a Chinese vessel on the protected marine park. Even President Benigno Aquino III could not hide his pique over the incident, almost two months after a US minesweeper ran aground the protected marine sanctuary.
We are not totally blaming the Tubbataha Protected Area Management Board, the policy-making body for the Tubbataha Reefs, and the Tubbataha Management Office for the latest poaching incident that surely damaged the marine park. Budget constraints clearly prevent authorities and the agency from effectively scouring the vast atoll coral reef that covers an area of over 100,000 hectares.
The Tubbataha management board, however, is well represented by the national government, the Philippine Navy and the Philippine Coast Guard, lawmakers from Palawan province and over a dozen institutions that could plead their case for increased funding from Malacañang or Congress, if they seek so. For a body that is represented by 20 institutions, the board was amiss in its duty.
President Aquino has already promised to look into the possible liability of those tasked to watch over the reef. Tubbataha Management Office chief Angelique Songco, meanwhile, spoke of the inadequate facilities of her monitoring team. She said her team switch the radars only every three hours and that it had no resources to keep the radar equipment on for 24 hours daily. “Sometimes it’s between those three hours that our rangers are blind,” Songco said.
Malacañang, perhaps, should widen the exclusivity zone of the Tubbataha Reef, similar to what applies on the Malampaya natural gas production facility of Shell Philippines Exploration, also off Palawan island. The protected area bans vessels from going near the sensitive Malampaya gas field and enforces a no-fly zone over the production platform.
The boat that ran aground the reefs of Tubbataha was the seventh caught by Philippine authorities since 2002, as the rich ecosystem in the marine park lures Chinese poachers and other illegal fishers. The Philippines should now enforce its will over the marine park and deal with violators with an iron hand.

PERO YUNG AMERICAN WARSHIP NA GROUNDED SA TUBATTAHA, DI MAN LANG NIYA PINAG-INITAN!

DOBLE-KARA TALAGA ITONG SI PNOY.

traitor

MARUMI

MALACANANG'S DIRTY TRICKS STARTING NEXT WEEK

A Malacanang insider has just revealed this to me:

Starting next week, we will be flooded, as in drowned, in non-stop ‘pa-pogi’ press releases by PNoy’s government on the following subjects:

Billions and billions of supposed fund releases for various infrastructure projects

Left and right approval of purportedly pro-poor programs like food generation and job creation through left and right approval of projects pending since PNoy took over as president

Supposed accomplishments, big and negligible, of all government agencies which will be played up to the hilt in both print and broadcast media

Multi-billion projects and plans for the future by Pnoy, and his senatorial bets if they get elected

Revival of old or long-decided cases against perceived enemies of Pnoy, especially former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (GMA) and former Chief Justice Renato Corona

New cases or accusations, no matter how VULGARLY ILLOGICAL or senseless, against the perceived political foes

The Malacanang insider told me that the media barrage will be so INTENSE  that PNoy and his tribe WILL NOT TOUCH on issues damaging to their administration like the Sabah crisis and the veto of the magna Carta for the Por.

The idea, the insider said, is for the people to hear or read nothing but the ‘pa-pogi’ of Pnoy  until they get deaf to it and, even subconsciously, accept it as the truth.

“Like what you had written before, PNoy knows the truth that surveys claiming his senatorial bets are leading are nothing but lies. Unless they control or divert the public ire, PNoy knows they’re headed for a humiliating defeat in the elctions,” the insider told me.

Once this happenesa, boys and girls, I only have one question:

KAYO BA, MAGPAPALOKO SA MALACANANG? AKO HINDI. Tulad na rin ng nasabi ko na, ang magpapabola, walang karapatang magreklamo pag lalong hihirap ang buhay. 30

BANGSAMORO IS A SELLOUT BY ABNOY - TREASON

Binenta na ni PNOY ang BangsaMoro sa mga FOREIGNERS !Nur Misuari kumilos ka NA!

According to the United States economic intelligence estimates,   Mindanao has around 200-300 Billion dollars worth of area gold reserves. This is just a preliminary assessment since many of these “mining areas” are still beyond the reach of private corporations and of the National government. Most of these mineral-rich areas remain largely unexploited since they are within ancestral domain areas.

The Liguasan marsh, found in the Maguindanao area, is also very rich in natural gas and can potentially create billionaires among the peoples of Mindanao. Natural gas found in the Liguasan can virtually power up factories, homes, industrial and commercial areas of Mindanao, boosting Mindanao’s trade, employment and revenue.

We have not even mentioned Compostela Valley in Davao del Norte where there are trillions of pesos worth of gold veins, reaching up to Agusan area.

Now here comes Malacanang…..headed by IDIOT Benigno Aquino Jr.

Because of urgent prompting by the Lopezes, Cojuangcos, Ayalas, and his other Makati friends, he fast-tracked the Bangsa Moro (considered illegal) peace and independence agreement to suit the business interests of his friends. Instead of choosing an old leader of the Moro nation who chose to lay down his arms (during the Ramos Presidency) as sign of respect to the national government, ABNORMAL AND IMBECILE NOYNOY AQUINO chose instead to baby MURAD over Nur Misuari.

Now, between Misuari and Murad, Misuari should have been preferred since he was and still respected in Mindanao as the original founder of the Muslim Independence Movement and became successful at that. Furthermore, he laid down his arms and supported the aspirations of the nation though, admittedly, he did not have the acumen of a corporate manager. But heck, he was never one in the first place as Mindanao had always been the “frontier-unexplored-deeply- cultural continent of the Philippines. You can’t expect “corporate” governance from people who still practice an old culture, founded and lived by our forefathers like lapu-lapu, soliman, sikatuna, lakandula, humabon etc.

Murad? He didn’t do anything to promote the united interest of Mindanao. He just kept on killing and killing. Bombing and bombing. And Noy Aquino had chosen him over Nur Misuari. 

In other words, mas gusto ni Pnoy ang ASO kaysa tao para mahawakan niya. Upang mahawakan niya sa pagdating ng araw na IBEBENTA NA NIYA ANG MINDANAO SA MGA FOREIGN INVESTORS. 

Nur Misuari had been a UP professor in Diliman, founded the MNLF and surrendered to the government. Murad had been only soldier not a scholar. And he had not contributed any single ideology in the Muslim movement. Misuari, Matalam, Alonto and Pendatun remains the original innovators and leaders of famous freedom fighters of the Mindanao Muslim nation, leaving a legacy of culture and independence from oppression.

Murad? He is nothing, copycat lang iyan.

And he was “forgiven” by the Aquino Administration.

And what does that say about PNOY?

Remember Tingting Cojuangco signified her intention to run for Governor of the ARMM two years back and was rebuked by the “Traditional Sultans” of Mindanao?

The reason ?

Because they wanted the GOLD in Mindanao. Not political power but GOLD.

They want to mine and build plantations around Mindanao. They want to own Mindanao. They want the Liguasan Marsh in Maguindanao.

WIKILeaks - US says Island Mindanao has $1-Trillion Dollar untapped mineral resources

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[Mindanao is known as “The of Promise”. The promise of all the promises. Treasures, Land of God, the Lost Paradise, The lost garden of Eden and the land of the last judgment in earth. Bible scholars even pointed the Mindanao as the land of promise of all promises. One verse of the Bible quoted “The God’s kingdom will rise again in the east of the east seas where the Sun will rises first, in the white sand shores where the only land which people are willing to live and die for praising my name ”.]

Leaked diplomatic documents in Wikileaks showed the United States has a special interest in the natural resources in Mindanao and the ending of the armed conflict in the region, giving credence to a suspicion that the United States is prodding the Aquino administration’s peace efforts with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), including brokering the recent secret meeting between MILF spokesman Al Haj Murad and President Aquino.

Wikileaks obtained documents dated February 2006 or prior to the botched signing of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MoA-AD) on Aug. 5, 2008 showing extensive reference to the untapped rich mineral resources of Mindanao and tensions in the region which hinder the exploitation of these resources.

The leaked cable from the US embassy in Manila made particular reference to the so-called Liguasan Marsh in the Cotabato Basin spanning 288,000 hectares and is among areas controlled by the MILF.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has already identified natural gas and oil deposits in three areas of Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago: the Cotabato Basin, the Davao-Agusan Basin; and an area straddling Tawi-Tawi and Sulu. The Cotabato Basin, notably, includes the 288,000 hectare Liguasan Marsh, straddling the provinces of Maguindanao, North Cotabato, and Sultan Kudurat, according to the cable.

It stated that this “swamp/marsh — which is an officially declared bird sanctuary and game refuge — remains an important MILF stronghold, home to an estimated 280,000 Muslims, and an area where members of the terrorist Jemaah Islamiya (JI) have historically conducted training and sought refuge.”

It detailed the several roadblocks the government faces in exploiting Liguasan Marsh particularly what it called as “competing land ownership claims.”

The cable recounted the clan of former Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Gov. Zacaria Candao staking a claim to 40 percent of the Liguasan Marsh, while other clans, including the Mangudadatus and Pendatuns, have claimed at least 50 per cent ownership.

It also stated that MILF vice-chairman for political affairs Ghazali Jafaar as referring to the Liguasan Marsh as a “legacy from our forefathers” adding that the Bangsamoro people would not part with their lands in the marsh.

“The MILF has created the Bangsamoro Development Agency (BDA) to lead, manage, and determine developmental efforts, including in the Liguasan Marsh,” it added.

It said separately, the Maguindanao tribe, which is the predominant indigenous and largely Muslim ethnic group living in and around the Liguasan Marsh, considers the marsh as part of its own ancestral domain.

The cable added that the Maguindanao-based clan of the deceased Salipada Pendatun, the first Muslim to serve as a general in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), has also claimed ownership over the entire Liguasan Marsh by virtue of an original land title.

“Though Pendatun’s daughter and legal heir, Bai Monera Pendatun, has said the Pendatun clan is open to sharing the marsh with others, she has opposed any amendment to the law that would allow titling of lands within the marsh,” it added.

It stated that the head of the Alamada clan, Rebecca Dilagalan Alamada Buan, has separately claimed 14,000 hectares in North Cotabato Province, near the borders of Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur. “Meanwhile, the Ampatuan clan, led by Maguindanao Gov. Andal Ampatuan and ARMM Gov. Zaldy Ampatuan, politically dominate the region, also including most of the mayors of the 11 municipalities of Maguindanao, eight municipalities of North Cotabato, and one municipality of Sultan Kudurat that encompass the Liguasan Marsh,” it added.

The intercepted cable was transmitted long before the Maguindanao massacre in 2009 where 51 people were slain over an election-related dispute and in which the Ampatuan clan is suspected of having carried out.

The cable said the Philippines National Oil Company (PNOC) began exploring for oil and natural gas in the Liguasan Marsh area in 1994 under Geophysical Survey and Exploration Contract (GSEC) 73, which covered all of Maguindanao, North Cotabato, South Cotabato, Sultan Kudurat, Sarangani, Davao, and Bukidnon provinces of Mindanao.

It added that Malaysia’s national oil company, Petronas, partnered with the PNOC for the exploration of the marshland.

“By the late 1990’s, they had located natural gas and/or oil in five sites, including Datu Piang (Dulawan) and Sultan Sa Barongis in Maguindanao and Lambayong in Sultan Kudurat.

According to the PNOC, the estimated natural gas deposits in Sultan Sa Barongis alone would be enough to fuel a 60-megawatt (MW) combined cycle power plant for 20 years.

“The PNOC had hoped to use this gas to support the power requirements of Mindanao as well as for industrial applications. However, the PNOC and Petronas suspended operations in the Liguasan Marsh area due to threats from the MILF and extortion by local mayors and political warlords,” it added.

It cited incomplete data and unconfirmed reports that the Philippines may have untapped mineral wealth worth between $840 billion and $1 trillion.

It said the US Geological Survey hopes soon to conduct a more comprehensive survey of minerals, with funding from the Philippine government.

A special advisor on the GRP-MILF Peace Process in the Office of the President recently described Mindanao in particular as “a treasure trove” of mineral resources, including gold, copper, nickel, manganese, chromites, silver, lead, zinc, and iron ore, it added.

It cited data from the Mines and Geosciences Bureau that up to 70 per cent of the Philippines’ mineral resources may be in Mindanao.

“Interest has grown significantly since a December 2004 decision by the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Mining Act. Companies that are up to 100 per cent foreign owned may now pursue investments in large-scale exploration and development of minerals, oil, and gas. As of early 2006, there were 23 mining projects nationwide,” it added.

Multinational firms are already eyeing areas in Mindanao for possible projects, it said.

The cable stressed that despite official optimism over a final GRP-MILF peace agreement by the end of 2006, disputes over land and natural resources, clan conflicts (locally called “rido”), and tensions between Muslims and Christians will remain important undercurrents and challenges to peace and development in Mindanao.

“Diffusing such tensions will be a major challenge for the GRP-MILF peace process during the years ahead, requiring careful governance and significant amounts of foreign assistance,” it said.

Malacañang had repeatedly denied the participation of the United States government in the meeting between Aquino and Murad in Tokyo but it had refused to reveal details about the two-hour meeting."

Ang TATAKAW nila! 

Mga KAMAG-ANAK talaga!

Pero ayaw ng mga traditional Sultans and leaders.

Siyempre, sino ba si Tingting Cojuangco?      

They also want the Oil in Sulu. They want to get the OIL in Sulu. My Tausug friends tell me na merong lanang lumulutang sa dagat kapag naligo ka sa beach.

In other words, since they could not get ARMM GOVERNORSHIP, they put HATAMAN muna, para pagaaralan muna nila kung papaano sila makakapasok ng Mindanao.

Then here comes MURAD, the DOG. 

Then you pit MURAD vs MISUARI at kapag nagka giyera, pasok ARMED FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES at pati na mga US FORCES.

THEN pasok investors, bigyan ng seat mga kamag-anak ni PNOY sa mga mining and agricultural corporations and make money. That’s what you call 60% of Filipino members in a foreign corporate board. 

The KAMAG-ANAK compose the 60% of Filipino interests. 

HOW PATRIOTIC!

COURTESY OF THE CORY CONSTITUTION. 

Even Manoling Morato confirms this.

Kaya kapatid na NUR MISUARI, BILISAN mo na. 

TANDAAN MO NUR, KUNG HINDI KA KIKILOS, DARATING ANG ARAW, LAHAT KAYONG MGA MUSLIM DIYAN SA MINDANAO, MAGIGING KATULONG, BOY, MESSENGER, DRIVER, BODYGUARD, YAYA, WAITER AT WAITRESSES NG MGA FOREIGN CORPORATIONS AT NG MGA COMPANYANG KAIBIGAN NI PNOY.

GAGAWA SILA NG HOTELS, BEACH RESORTS, CLUBS, MALLS DIYAN SA INYO AT SILA LANG ANG MAKIKINABANG.

NAPAKA-DELIKADO SAPAGKA'T HAWAK NG MGA KANO SI PNOY AT BABABUYIN NILA LAHAT NG NATITIRANG KULTURA DIYAN SA MINDANAO.

NANAKAWIN NILA ANG LAHAT NG IYAN. 

THEN YOU WILL ALL SERVE THEIR ASSES.

AND HISTORY WILL REPEAT ITSELF.

Abnoy AQUINO has already sold Mindanao to foreigners and MAKATI Oligarchs. ABS CBN LOPEZ has already bought the Geothermal operations in North Cotabato. 

It’s about time you should move and coordinate with Mindanao’s Christian and Lumad leaders against this oppression, that is about to be committed. 

Huwag na muli tayo pa-under sa mga OLIGARCHs.

WE ARE ALL SUPPORTING YOU.