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| “Miracle tree” malunggay has been promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the past 20 years as a low-cost health enhancer in poor countries around the globe |
Sabado, Hunyo 16, 2012
Pacquiao’s loss blames on Malunggay (Moringa Oleifera)
Huwebes, Hunyo 7, 2012
HOW TO ROB PUBLIC FUNDS IN THE PHILIPPINES
By MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA
A
top government official told me how an assessor of a town or city
fleece a taxpayer (seller or buyer of a real property) who asked for the
certification of a real property’s classification.
The classifications are residential, agricultural, and commercial.
The classifications are residential, agricultural, and commercial.
Miyerkules, Hunyo 6, 2012
Pacquiao vs. Bradley: Analysis
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| The author (Left) analyzes the nitty-gritty of the Pacquiao versus Bradly tiff at the Philippines major TV station GMA-7 |
By MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA
Manny
Pacquiao is Jim Croce’s Big Bad Leroy Brown on his outing against Tim Bradley
on June 10, 2012. Manny has been fighting at 147 lbs for countless of times
while Tim fought on it, but excellently and dominantly, only once versus Luis Carlo
Abrigu in July, 2010.
The Filipino has knack for knockouts with 64.41 % ratio on his
54 fights versus the modest 41.38 % of the American's 28 fights.
But there was a cracked on the armor of Pacquiao in his sluggish
rubber match against Juan Manuel Marquez in
November 12, 2011.
It can either be a sign of wear and tear from the wars he
had been, or a sign of too many activities in politics and showbiz?
Bradley declared he trained hard for 10 weeks on this
toughest fight of his life.
“I studied Pacquiao for four years” he quipped.
Manny satisfied
himself with seven weeks of training that could be deducted by “a week” of
emphatic prayer meeting, intense proselytizing, zealous curing of believers
with eye and hand problems who flocked for a miracle to an overnight preacher
in his training hideaway in the cloud kissed mountain of Baguio City,
Philippines.
In case the congressman loses because of these spiritual
distractions, it means God Almighty has a plan for him: Preach, sing, govern, or
a comeuppance. It is a comeuppance for him to train harder for a rematch with
the “Desert Storm” on November this year.
Advantages of Bradley
He is the busiest body puncher Pacquiao’s has ever met.
Fast pace puncher and slick foot worker who will give
Pacquiao a problem when he brings the fight inside the telephone booth.
He got three heads, two are covered by real gloves the
other, as big as a Kevlar helmet, by bare skin. You ask Nate Campbell and Devon
Alexander how it felt to be hit by a black skin head cum short jab.
He has intense body punching prowess that Pacquiao has not
dealt with his past opponents.
Can box and
brawl like what he did to opponents like Devon Alexander and Junior Witter.
Advantages of Pacquiao
64.41 % knocked out ratio against 42% of Bradley.
He is the bigger and stronger fighter on this fight.
This is David versus
Goliath once again -- but Goliath here carries a bazooka for a
kill and revenge.
Lethal left hook and straight left complemented by his newly
minted power right hook.
Disadvantages of Bradley
His propensity to slug aggressively with “the baddest man in
the whole damn town” in the hurt business will be his undoing
He telegraphs his right straight and hook by shaking his
fist first before he uses it.
His KO ratio is only 42%, and a possibility of becoming a
splattered jig-saw puzzle after the match.
Disadvantages of Pacquiao
He does not fight effectively inside.
Sign of wear and tear on his rubber match with Marquez.
Every time he uses
his right and left straight or hooks his bread basket becomes open target from
the enemy’s counter punches.
What Bradley should do
Hit Manny with powerful left and right straights to his face
after he (Pacquiao) pitter-patter him with a right punch.
Use a strong combination of 1-2-3-4 right and left hooks to
his body like what he did to Alexander and Peterson. Repetition of these can
weaken Manny.
Use that looping overhand right that hits Luis Carlo Abregu
with success at the face. Manny was vulnerable to this every time Marquez avoid
Manny’s 1-2 hooks and unleashed this technique.
Every time Manny covers his face with his gloves and
forearms; Bradley punishes him with body punches and a ricocheting uppercut to
the jaw that enter between the ankles of Manny.
Bait his left face for Manny’s right jab so he can hurt his
(Pacquiao) face with a right punch.
After unleashing his 1-2, shrewdly butt Manny’s eyebrow just
like what he did to Alexander and Campbell. The Filipino would surely be
destructed to the blood that oozes to his eye just like in his Eric Morales
fight.
To avoid
being knocked out by Manny’s left, he heed what his trainer Joel Diaz told him
in the Witter fight: “Cover your right face with a glove and bury your chin to
your breast”.
What Pacquiao should do
As the bigger and stronger pug, steamroll Bradley every time
he engages him in a brawl.
Watch Bradley’s looping power left hook after he unleashed
his right hook or jab.
Watch Tim’s right hook that he incessantly pounds to the
face of his opponents.
Feigns his right but hit Tim instead with a powerful left
straight or hook then followed by right hook. He was successful on this tactic
against Marquez lately.
Right jab followed by power left straight or hook then back
pedal or bobble to avoid Bradley’s counter.
Hit Bradley with a left upper cut to the jaw after he
attacked.
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‘We don’t want a new Cold War in the Asia Pacific’
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| RP's former 5-time Speaker Joe de Venecia speaks before an international forum |
Statement of
Former Speaker Jose de Venecia, Founding Chairman of the International
Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP)
On His Speech
and Meetings Last Week in Beijing
June 3, 2012
For the United States, its military
presence on the peripheries—the outer limits—of
the Chinese mainland may be a kind of “forward defense.” Since the nineteenth
century, American strategists have feared that it is from Asia that an invasion
of the US mainland would threaten. The Japanese and World War II justified that
fear.
Lunes, Hunyo 4, 2012
Corruptions at Assessor, BIR, Register of Deeds
By MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA
A
top government official told me how an assessor of a town or city
fleece a taxpayer (seller or buyer of a real property) who asked for the
certification of a real property’s classification.
The classifications are residential, agricultural, and commercial.
“With the right amount given by the taxpayer, he certifies the land as residential even it is located in a commercial area,” he told me.
He explained that the government lose a huge amount of taxes that runs to thousands if not millions of pesos because a P30 thousand per square meter (PSM) of real property (land and/or building) will become P10 thousand PSM only for just a stroke of a pen by a corrupt assessor .
Then
The classifications are residential, agricultural, and commercial.
“With the right amount given by the taxpayer, he certifies the land as residential even it is located in a commercial area,” he told me.
He explained that the government lose a huge amount of taxes that runs to thousands if not millions of pesos because a P30 thousand per square meter (PSM) of real property (land and/or building) will become P10 thousand PSM only for just a stroke of a pen by a corrupt assessor .
Then
Lunes, Mayo 7, 2012
Malacanang protects smugglers because it raises election funds?
An engineer from the Department of Public works & Highway commented on my last week’s column titled “Where is the money for the footbridge, DPWH?”
He explained the nuances of a program budget for the P90 million repair of the Marusay Bridge in Calasiao.
He gave a hypothetical illustration.
Program project is P120 million. The lowest bid chalked up by DPWH from a private contractor is P90 million thus a saving of P30 million for the government.
He said if the people and leaders in Calasiao want a foot bridge, the office of the mayor there could facilitate its construction through a resolution and an intercession of 2nd district Rep. Rachel Arenas and 2nd sub-engineering district chief Marietta Mendoza at the DPWH’s central office since its construction is a national government-supervised project.
He said the project is not a grant (free) from the Spanish government. It is a long term loan where ‘usually the freebies given by the Spanish government are the trusses (steels that hold the bridge above or below its platform)”.
Except the trusses, he said the rest of the materials are funded from the loan the taxpayers would pay later.
He disagreed to a previous proposal by an expert by borrowing one million pesos (from the P90 million appropriations) intended for the riprap of the Marusay Bridge for the contractor to use for the construction of the foot bridge and pay it later after Eng. Mendoza source out the one million budget.
“That is risky, I’ll not do that. What if the P1 million could not be sourced out by the DPWH?”
He feared that DPWH official would be administratively and criminally liable for that.
***
Hog raisers group said they welcome the decision of Secretary Proceso Alcala of the Department of Agriculture to sack Efren Nuestro and Jane Bacayo as heads of the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) and National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS), respectively, for the unabated smuggling of cheap imported meat at the expense of backyard swine raisers particularly.
My poser: When would president Benigno Aquino III ax Custom Chief Ruffino Biazon?
For more than a year now he has yet to apprehend a smuggler of imported pork who misdeclared good meat as cheaper offal that cost our government billions of pesos in revenues.
In year 2010 alone, the government lost P2.8 billion because of smuggling, technical smuggling, and mis-declaration of good meat to offal (swine parts like heads and innards for sisig but not consumed abroad). He explained the total revenues lost due to smuggling, technical
The top ten smugglers of pork in the country have each a capital stock of P100 thousand.
This is incredible because with that measly capital they eclipsed big swine meat importers Purefoods, RFM, and Monterey in terms of the volume of importation.
A source told me that the scandalous smuggling of meats could not be stopped because Malacanang abets it. The palace, according, to my source, allowed the unabated smuggling because it gets a cut, just like in jueteng, that it saves to help bankroll the election expenses of the senatorial and other major candidates of the president’s Liberal Party in the midterm poll next year. (You can read my selected intriguing but thought-provoking columns at http://mortzortigoza.blogspot.com. You can send comments too at totomortz@yahoo.com)
He explained the nuances of a program budget for the P90 million repair of the Marusay Bridge in Calasiao.
He gave a hypothetical illustration.
Program project is P120 million. The lowest bid chalked up by DPWH from a private contractor is P90 million thus a saving of P30 million for the government.
He said if the people and leaders in Calasiao want a foot bridge, the office of the mayor there could facilitate its construction through a resolution and an intercession of 2nd district Rep. Rachel Arenas and 2nd sub-engineering district chief Marietta Mendoza at the DPWH’s central office since its construction is a national government-supervised project.
He said the project is not a grant (free) from the Spanish government. It is a long term loan where ‘usually the freebies given by the Spanish government are the trusses (steels that hold the bridge above or below its platform)”.
Except the trusses, he said the rest of the materials are funded from the loan the taxpayers would pay later.
He disagreed to a previous proposal by an expert by borrowing one million pesos (from the P90 million appropriations) intended for the riprap of the Marusay Bridge for the contractor to use for the construction of the foot bridge and pay it later after Eng. Mendoza source out the one million budget.
“That is risky, I’ll not do that. What if the P1 million could not be sourced out by the DPWH?”
He feared that DPWH official would be administratively and criminally liable for that.
***
Hog raisers group said they welcome the decision of Secretary Proceso Alcala of the Department of Agriculture to sack Efren Nuestro and Jane Bacayo as heads of the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) and National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS), respectively, for the unabated smuggling of cheap imported meat at the expense of backyard swine raisers particularly.
My poser: When would president Benigno Aquino III ax Custom Chief Ruffino Biazon?
For more than a year now he has yet to apprehend a smuggler of imported pork who misdeclared good meat as cheaper offal that cost our government billions of pesos in revenues.
In year 2010 alone, the government lost P2.8 billion because of smuggling, technical smuggling, and mis-declaration of good meat to offal (swine parts like heads and innards for sisig but not consumed abroad). He explained the total revenues lost due to smuggling, technical
The top ten smugglers of pork in the country have each a capital stock of P100 thousand.
This is incredible because with that measly capital they eclipsed big swine meat importers Purefoods, RFM, and Monterey in terms of the volume of importation.
A source told me that the scandalous smuggling of meats could not be stopped because Malacanang abets it. The palace, according, to my source, allowed the unabated smuggling because it gets a cut, just like in jueteng, that it saves to help bankroll the election expenses of the senatorial and other major candidates of the president’s Liberal Party in the midterm poll next year. (You can read my selected intriguing but thought-provoking columns at http://mortzortigoza.blogspot.com. You can send comments too at totomortz@yahoo.com)
Philippine and Chinese Air Forces: Tale of the Tapes
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| Philippine Airforce plans to purchase a squadron or 12 of the South Korean-U.S consortium made F/A-50 supersonic light combat jets. |
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| Russian made Sukhoi Su-27 |
In case war breaks between the Philippines and Mainland China, the following are the aerial military hardware the two possess:
PHILIPPINES
Fixed-wing jets: Two (2) from the 13 (that crashed or lack of spare parts) ground support and jet training Italian made Aermacchi A-211,
Aircrafts: 12 North American OV-10 Bronco attack aircraft, 39 SF-3 260FH/TP/MS, and MADSIDHING PANALANGIN (Fervent prayers by our poorly equipped air force pilots).
MAINLAND CHINA
Multi Role’s Fighter Jets:200 Chinese made Chengdu J-10, 76 Russian made Sukhoi Su-30MKK ,76 Russian made Sukhoi Su-27 Air Superiority Fighter, 180 China made Shenyang J-8 Interceptor Fighter, 350 China made, Chengdu J-7 Fighter/Interceptor,70 China made Xian JH-7 Fighter bomber.
Jet Bombers: 120 China made Xian H-6 Strategic bomber, 130 China made Nanchang Q-5 close air support
Airborne Warning & Control System: 8 China made KJ-2000 AWAC and 2 KJ 200 China made AEW&C.
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With the proposed plan of the Philippines government to purchase a squadron (12 jets) of F-16 multi-role jets (where the latest model can cost up to $30 million or P1.3 billion apiece) to strengthen the defense of the country and make very costly any incursion of Chinese warship in case war breaks between the two countries, the question is, can the Philippines afford them?
The answer is “yes” at the expense of the government’s appropriation for social service and infrastructure!
Vietnam, who has a claim too, like the Philippines, in the South China Sea versus China and is poorer than our country, has the following modern Russian made fighter jets that are at par or much better than the U.S made F-16 Thunderbird.
Airborne Warning & Control System: 8 China made KJ-2000 AWAC and 2 KJ 200 China made AEW&C.
***
With the proposed plan of the Philippines government to purchase a squadron (12 jets) of F-16 multi-role jets (where the latest model can cost up to $30 million or P1.3 billion apiece) to strengthen the defense of the country and make very costly any incursion of Chinese warship in case war breaks between the two countries, the question is, can the Philippines afford them?
The answer is “yes” at the expense of the government’s appropriation for social service and infrastructure!
Vietnam, who has a claim too, like the Philippines, in the South China Sea versus China and is poorer than our country, has the following modern Russian made fighter jets that are at par or much better than the U.S made F-16 Thunderbird.
VIETNAM:
24 Russian made Sukhoi Su-30 Multi Role fighter (44 more Su-30 til 2015 to build three Su-30 Fighter Regiments), 15 Russian made Sukhoi Su-27 Air Superiority fighter (that is superior than the F-16 but with the same price of $30 million apiece(or equivalent of the entire military U.S aid worth $30 million or P1.3 billion to the Philippines this year)), 144 Russian made Mikoyan MiG-21 fighter.
24 Russian made Sukhoi Su-30 Multi Role fighter (44 more Su-30 til 2015 to build three Su-30 Fighter Regiments), 15 Russian made Sukhoi Su-27 Air Superiority fighter (that is superior than the F-16 but with the same price of $30 million apiece(or equivalent of the entire military U.S aid worth $30 million or P1.3 billion to the Philippines this year)), 144 Russian made Mikoyan MiG-21 fighter.
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