Huge White 4-Engine Jet's Flyby in Dagupan

 By Mortz Ortigoza

When I heard a loud roar of an aircraft at 8 to 9 A.M today, I thought it was either Pangasinan Governor Monmon Guico or Pangasinan 2nd District Congressman Mark Cojuangco’s P40 million Robinson 44 helicopter in-flight from eastern Pangasinan to their offices in Lingayen, Pangasinan.

“Mga 7:30 AM dumadaan kayo sa itaas ng bahay ko,” I told once the young governor – a helicopter pilot whose family owned an aviation school – in a huddle while he waited for his chopper to fetch him at the ground of the provincial government’s spruced up Capitol Resort Hotel.

My photo grabbed at the internet of the U.S Air Force's C-141 Starlifter.

“Saan ba ang bahay mo banda?” he retorted.

“Sa Barangay Tapuac, Dagupan City”.

“Sige pag daan ko uli doon huhulugan kita ng durian,” the thorny fruit eating former Congressman who bought regularly a sack load of Puyat, Arancillo and Malaysian 101 durians when my family still sell the fruits in the Bangus City we bought from Davao and Cotabato during the pandemic of 2020.

I digressed on that big white jet, teh heh!

Before noon today my errand boy Galman told me: “Sir! Nakita niyo iyong malaking eroplano na umikot dito ngayon lang?'

“Hindi, pero malakas ang ugong akala ko helicopter na mababa lang ang lipad”.

While I was typing my news at my laptop at 5:30 A.M, I jumped off from my seat and ran outside to have a glimpse of the airborne plane leaving a loud noise.

Sanamagan! It was painted white with four jet engines like a commercial jet going to the direction of Lingayen.

I thought it was the U.S Air Force or U.S Navy’s Poseidon that monitor the movements of the ships of the Chinese’s coast guard and navy at the nearby Scarborough Shoals.

But it couldn't be the Poseidon - U.S maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft developed and produced by Boeing Defense, Space & Security - since I saw it up close when I covered the U.S and Philippines military exercises at Clark in Pampanga. I got the photo of the two engines' aircraft at the sideline since American soldiers would not allow us inside.

The Poseidon and the U.S P-3 Orion were seen on TV making fly-by as the Philippines Navy and its resupply mission civilian vessels carefully tread the water going to the ghost Navy ship - where our Marines were ensconced - in the Ayungin Shoal as Chinese military and militia ships harrassed them.

I googled “four jet engines of the United States military” and I saw at my screen the images of the C-17 Globemaster III, C-141 Starlifter and C-5A Galaxy giant cargo planes of the Yanks.

What was that huge long jet been doing in the airspace of Dagupan City today?

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A pilot friend in the U S commented on my post at Face Book about the mysterious white plane that passed by above our abode. He said it was owned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA) of the Yanks.

I googled again and this was the excerpt of the news from the Philippines News Agency I saw:

"The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said Tuesday a DC-8 aircraft of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) would fly at low altitude over the Manila urban area to study the air quality in the Philippines as part of an international collaboration.

"NASA’s Airborne and Satellite Investigation of Asian Air Quality (ASIA-AQ) science mission will deploy the DC-8 aircraft targeting four flights between Feb. 5 and 14.

“The aircraft will fly over the Manila urban area at a safe, low altitude, without harm, to study the air quality in the Philippines as part of the international collaboration of NASA and the DENR,” the DENR said".

Magka-Coup ba ang Away Duterte, Marcos?

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

Palala' ng palala' ang pagtuligsa ni dating President Rodrigo Duterte sa kay President Bongbong Marcos. Pagkatapos niyang banatan si Marcos sa Anti –Charter Change Rally na ginanap noong January 28 sa Davao City, isang patutsada na naman ang binitawan niya sa ginanap na press briefing noong January 30:

“Sinasabi ko lang sa kanya huwag kayong pumasok diyan (amendment of the Constitution) kung hindi niya ituloy happy days are here again. Huwag lang iyan kasi hindi talaga puwede sa Pilipino iyan para kasi pampahaba nila e…makuntento ka na lang enjoy the remaining years of your presidency huwag ka na maghanap ng gulo baka ma Marcos, Sr. ka”.

Photo credit: Philippines Star

Kasama si former Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, sinabi rin ng dating Pangulo ang plano nila na mag secede o maghiwalay sa Luzon ang Mindanao dahil winawaldas nila Speaker Martin Romualdez ang bilyung bilyong pera ng Mindanao sa Manila.

Sa January 28 rally, ito ang banat ng dating Pangulo kay Marcos, Jr.:

“Bongbong, bangag ‘yan. That’s why sinasabi ko sa inyo. Si Bongbong Marcos bangag noon. Ngayong presidente na, bangag ang ating presidente. Kayong mga military alam ninyo ‘yan, lalo na ‘yong mga nasa Malacañang, alam ninyo. The Armed Forces of the Philippines, alam ninyo. May drug addict tayo na presidente! Putang inang ‘yan!”

Sinagot naman siya ni Marcos bago ito lumipad patungong Vietnam na dapat ay alagaang mabuti ng kanyang doctor si Duterte dahil may masamang epekto ang matagal na niyang paggamit ng “Fentanyl” na isang highly addictive drug.

Ang peace rally noong January 28 ay tungkol sa di pag sang-ayon ng mga Dutertes sa People’s Initiative (P.I) sa planong pagpalit ng presidential to parlimentary form of government sa Constitution na sinusulong ni Romualdez – pinsang buo ni Marcos.

Pag parliamentary na ang Pinas, maging isang panaginip na lang ang pagiging President ni Inday Sara Duterte dahil si Romualdez na ang heir apparent ni Marcos.

Tinawagan pa ng dating Presidente ang militar at kapulisan – mga armadong organisasyon na lumubo ang mga sueldo sa panahon ni Duterte – na protektahan ang pag tsubibo ni Speaker Romualdez at mga Kongressmen sa Constitution.

Ang masabi ko lang sa away nila Marcos at Duterte: Mag isip ang mga men in uniform, ano mang coup d’tat na gagawin nila ay may katumbas na kontrang pagsugpo sa mga Amerikano na hindi papayag na basta na lang ibalik ang mga Duterte sa kapangyarihan dahil sila ay kilala na maka China.

 Ang South China Sea o ang West Philippines Sea ay napaka-halaga sa mga Kano dahil ito ay host ng $5.3 trillion worth na kalakal na binabiyahi kada taon. $1.2 trillion dito ay pera ng mga Amerkanong negosyante. Malaking dagok sa kanila ang alyansang Pinas at China pag bumalik ang mga Duterte.

Hindi lingid sa mga Amerkano ang nakakabinging katahimikan ni Vice President Sara Duterte sa mga paghihimasok ng Tsina sa mga islands at shoals natin gaya ng mga pagharas sa mga resupply missions sa ating mga Marines sa ghost ship na BRP Sierra Madre sa Ayungin Shoal.

Bukod diyan, ang isang military takeover ay magpapabagsak lalo sa ating kulelat na pambansang ekonomiya.

Tingnan niyo ang Vietnam kung saan magsusupply sa atin ng two million metric tons na bigas kada taon sa limang taon dahil sa pagbisita ni Pres. Marcos kamakailan doon. Dati rati isa siya sa napakahirap na bansa sa Southeast Asia. Pero ngayon siya na ang No. 2 na top exporter kung saan ang Singapore ay No. 1.

Ito ang 2022 data ng SeaAsia para mas lalong maintindihan ninyo kung sino ang pinakamayaman at dukha sa rehiyon na ito:

Singapore (No. 1 U.S$ 515, 077, 895, 000), Vietnam (No.2 U.S$ 469, 548, 577, 000), Malaysia (No.3 U.S$ 353, 149, 561, 000), Indonesia (No. 4 U.S$ 291, 979,103, 000), Thailand (No.5 U.S$ 284, 106, 705, 000), Philippines (No. 6 U.S$ 78, 929, 719, 000), Cambodia (No. 7 U.S$ 20, 575, 773, 000), Myanmar (former Burma) (No.8 U.S$ 17, 084, 513, 000) Brunei (No. 9 U.S$14, 238, 438, 000), Laos (No.10 U.S$9, 158, 998, 000).

Gusto ba natin na lalong bumagsak ang ranggo natin sa Southeast Asia  dahil sa isang coup at maging ka laos na natin ang Burma at Laos?

Kung isa kayong matalinong Pilipino, alam naman ninyo na itong hidwaan nina Duterte at Marcos ay nagsimula noong tinanggalan ng House of Representatives si Vice President at DepEd Secretary Sara ng P650 million confidential and intelligence fund (CIF) para sa year 2024.  Pina iexplika at pinababalik din sa kanya kung saan niya ginastos iyong illegal disbursement na P125 million CIF na binigay sa kanya noong December 2022. May mga asunto na na isinampa laban sa kanya dahil dito.

Isa pang pinagaalburuto ng matandang Duterte ay ang pagpapasok kuno ni Marcos sa International Criminal Courts (ICC) para imbestigahan siya at mga galamay niya sa kasong Crimes against Humanity kung saan mga 12, 000 (Human Righs Watch) Pilipino ang namatay sa kanyang Drug War noong siya’y Presidente pa.

Ano sa tingin ninyo mga kapatid, dahil ba sa bangayan na ito hahantong ba ito sa isang coup?

(Send comments to totomortz@yahoo.com)

We Fear China’s Economic Retaliation

  By Mortz C. Ortigoza

If not dangerously water cannoned and intentionally rammed countless of times our supply mission vessels to our Marines ensconce in the ghost ship’s BRP Sierra Madre (LS-57) at the Second Thomas Shoal (known too as Ayungin Shoal), the Chinese Coast Guard brazenly coerced recently our poor fishermen to throw the shells they caught back in the water of Scarborough Shoal – a part of the Philippines territory.

China President Xi Jinping (left) and Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. (Photo credit: YouTube)

All these patent violations of our sovereignty meted only the unabashed China a series of diplomatic protests from the Philippines. Why we could not do a Widodo?

CAN WE DO A WIDODO?

Widodo is Indonesian President Joko Widodo who ordered with intrepidity the firing and sinking of foreign vessels caught poaching in his country’s economic zone.

We could not do it because we fear more the economic retaliation of China than her military response.

China and the Philippines know that in case the former shot or bomb our Lilliputian coast guard and navy it triggered the automatic military intervention of the juggernaut's United States military because of the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty.

CHINA FEARS THE MALACCA STRAIT

As long as China has no answer to the choke point in the Malacca Strait – where almost U.S$ 4 trillion of world’s trade and 60% of China oil import pass there yearly - it would not start a shooting war with the U.S otherwise she gutted to the ground her already plunging economy (through real estate meltdown where 70% of family assets are tied up ) through those lethal U.S nuclear subs. 

President Xi Jinping and his top apparatchiks in the Communist Party know this dilemma by courting mass demonstrations in China and military takeover from messianic faction in the army sympathetic to the plight of the suffering population.

CHINA'S TRUMP CARD VS PH

China’s trump card against the Philippines however is its imports from our country. By stopping to patronize them means tens if not hundreds of thousands of jobs and U. S$10.97 Billion (P616 billion) would be lost in the Philippines.

 We exported P616 billion to China in year 2022 according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. Some of them were electronic equipment, ores slag and ash, copper, edible fruits, nuts, peel of citrus fruit, melons and fish, crustaceans, molluscs, and aquatics invertebrates.

Our import from China was U. S$29.8 billion (P1.6 trillion) billion for the same year.

Our five top exporting countries in 2022 were U.S, Japan, China, Hong Kong and Singapore with revenues of US$ 12.4 billion, US$11 billion, US$10.9 billion, U.S$10.4 billion, and U.S$4.9 billion, respectively.

Moreover, we have 242,107 Chinese tourists that arrived in the country from January 1 to November 27, 2023. 

We have limited options to challenge China because we are a poor country.

If our total export in 2022 is a mere US$78, 929, 717, 000, our neighbors' Indonesia, Vietnam and Singapore have a mammoth exports of US$291, 979, 103, 000 US$469, 548, 577, 000 and US$515, 077, 895, 000 in the same year (Seasea Stats).

As the maxim says: Beggars like us (like those military hands me down from our patron the U.S) cannot be choosers.

Busty Actresses Prostituting with Politicians

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

Former Datu Unsay town Mayor Andal Ampatuan, Jr. was convicted recently by the Sandiganbayan (criminal court) with 210 years of jail time after he embezzled P44.184 million from the provincial government of Maguindanao – whose governor then was his father and namesake Andal, Sr. – of fabricated delivery of 1.14 million liters of diesel.

Photo of a sultry lady is an internet grabbed.

An excerpt of the conviction by the court considered the poser: how could Andal owned Shariff Aguak Petron Station delivered in year 2008 1.14 million liters to the various infrastructure projects of the literally poorest province in the Philippines when Petron Corporation only delivered 618, 000 liters and its underground tank that has only a capacity of 31,000 liters?

The acts of Andal and conspirators were evident bad, patently fraudulent and palpably dishonest. We called this as INCREDIBLE delivery of goods, son of a gun!

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The conviction of the former mayor – known for his eccentric behavior – coincided on the 14^th anniversary of the gruesome massacre of 58 people – including the 32 reporters who joined the convoy. 

It ensued on November 23, 2009 when the evil Unsay commanded the murder of Genalyn - the wife of then Buluan Vice Mayor Esmael “Toto” Mangudadatu – a schoolmate in the early 1980s at the Southern Baptist College in M’lang, Cotabato – when he challenged the younger Ampatuan for the 2010 governorship election of the landlocked province in Mindanao.

There was evidence on that horrendous killings that at least five of the female victims, four of them reporters, were raped before being murdered while "practically all" of the women had been shot by guns on their genitals by the men of Andal, Jr.

Andal, along with his brothers Zaldy and Anwar Jr., were found guilty of 57 counts of murder over the ghastly massacre.

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When I attended the 60th birthday of fellow Ilonggo and Cotabato trucking magnate Don Roberto “Jun” Alba, Jr. held at the swanky and cozy Sirmata in Cuyapo, Nueva Ecija, one of the kasimanwas (fellow Ilonggo in English) used to be the agricultural consultant of Unsay.

“Don’t you know the huge hectares of his corn farms succumbed to insect infestation and he lost multi-millions of pesos of his money there,” he told me in a huddle.

“Maayo waay ka niya ginpapatay sa bulong nga ginhambal mo sa iya as his farm consultant? (Good that he did not order you killed after what you advised him what insecticides he would use on his farm?),” I inquired with curiosity.

My friend said the Datu was not angry and told him instead: “We could not do anything. It’s Allah (God) Will”.

My friend, who asked on conditioned of anonymity, told me that when they were in Manila Andal allegedly hired the sexual services of voluptuous busty Manila actresses who moonlighted as prostitutes to moneyed individuals. Two of them have first letters “A” and “V” on their first names.

I told him one of them fornicated with a rich Pangasinan’s politician. The other lady who had tryst with the moneyed man was the then sultry young actress with an “A” on her first letter of her name and a “Z” on her surname. She married before a debonair actor and a hot runway model but their marriage was annulled by the court probably because of the promiscuousness of the gorgeous thespian.

“I spent more or less P1.3 million for her on her various visits in the hotels in Dagupan,” my politico pal told me almost two decades ago.  

Those actresses I mentioned are still active on the celluloid screen business.

If you're dead curious what are their complete names, just asked me gently on my Messenger, hahaha!