Cayetano mulls independent VP runs

        If no prexy bet gets him

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

DAGUPAN CITY – Last term Senator Alan Peter Cayetano said he mulls to run as independent vice presidential bet in case he could not find a presidential tandem in two weeks’ time.

PERA, TRABAHO, KITA.  Senator Alan Peter Cayetano (red shirt) meditates last Tuesday with members of two vendor organizations inside the Malimgas Market in Dagupan City. The senator dropped by the city to give them P100 thousand as additional seed monies for their business ventures. Cayetano had given them for free in the past years hundreds of thousands of pesos of his micro-financing program to stave off these vendors from usurious lenders. Presently, the solon has 160 organization, primordially composed of vendors and public utility vehicles’ drivers and operators, that are beneficiaries of his  Pera, Trabaho, Kita or PTK program. He expects that they grow by 200 organizations before the May 2016 national election. MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA

“Will, that is why we are considering an independent run,” when asked if one of the major presidential candidates did not get him in the ticket.

Aside from running independent, Cayetano cited his friends have been talking for a while with the party mates of Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte for the vice presidential motive of the solon. Roxas and Duterte have moist eyes on the presidency.

“Right now there are two groups na kinakausap namin. These of course the groups of Secretary Roxas,we have some informal talk sa mga kaibigan niya kaibigan ko. Kay Mayor Duterte naman so far he is not running. But some people close to him are also talking to people close to me because medyo may kahawig din ang pananaw namin sa pag dating sa pagastos ng pundo nailabas sa Metro Manila. So there is some common values, hindi lang ako makapagbigay ng date kasi,” he stressed.

He said he was hell bent before to run for the presidency but surveys and public opinions had given him an anaemic score.

The two weeks self declared deadline ensued, Cayetano said, because he did not run for the presidency where he could just tell anybody at his whims when he would run.

“Siguro if I was running in the presidency at ako ay nanliligaw sa VP puwede ako magbigay ng deadline. But some of my supporters telling me to run as an independent. So I am considering that also. Pero tingnan natin. Siguro mga two weeks,” he stressed.

When asked how he could wiggle out and runs for the vice presidential race amid fellow Nationalista party mates Senators Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. and Antonio Trillanes IV nursing a desire to the same post, he said they could settle the kinks as they are closed with each other.

 “I hope we did not go our separate ways. I hope two of us withdraw from the race or run for the other post”.

He said any one of them can run against each other but doubts if they can get the party support.

“So, ayaw kung pangunahan ang kapartido ko. But I am hoping na maging solid kami”.

Sen. Escudero decries India made cars for PNP

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

DAGUPAN CITY – Senator Francis Escudero assailed and promised to investigate the procurement of defective and questionable made in India cars the government bought for the national police.

CONTROVERSIAL PATROL CAR. The India made

 CAC Mahindra’s Enforcer Patrol Cars like this one 

in photo is being questioned by Senator Francis “Chiz” 

Escudero to be defective and dangerous because it was a

 conversion of a right hand  drive vehicle to a left drive car. 

(Photo Credit: Manila 

Times) 

Escudero said the 1,470 units of CAC Mahindra’s Enforcer Patrol Cars that have been converted from right hand drive to left hand could endanger their passengers.

“India is a right hand drive vehicles’ country, ”he quipped to media men here Thursday.

The Department of Budget and Management approved the P1.3 billion budget for their procurement.

He cited that when the driver manoeuvre the driving wheel to the right, the right front wheel did not jibe to the desired location of the driver.

De Lima for VP? She did not do anything for the INC!

By MORTZ C. ORTGOZA

Geez man, just saw at Fox  News Tv's host Bill O’Reilly interviewing the pretty LEA GABRIELLE.  Lea Gabrielle who?!


Lea Gabrielle, a skater when she was young. saw the U.S Air Force Blue Angels made some acrobatic jets' (F-16s) stunts, and told herself she want to be a fighter pilot someday.
With 10% female that composed the 100% of her  Class 1997 at the United States Naval Academy  (USNA) in Annapolis, Maryland (Alma mater of Philippine Congressman Roilo Golez and Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya of the Department of Telecommunication and Communication) she burned her midnight candle there and survived the rigorous training that would transform a civilian to a military killing “machine”.
“I did not find the training there hard. Probably because I was into skate when I was young,” she told O’Reilly.
She said she served the navy for 12 years and flew the F/A18  “Hornet” jet for combat missions in a Carrier during the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.

“With  combat deployment from USS George Washington. Her call sign as a pilot was "Flower". Additional duties were as a landing signals officer (LSO) and as a squadron public affairs officer. She also served as an intelligence operations officer during Operation Enduring Freedom, and while in Afghanistan she was embedded with a Navy SEAL unit conducting intelligence operations. She was also a defense foreign liaison officer,”Wikipidea reported.
“What was the dangerous part of being a fighter pilot?” O’Reilly posed to Gabrielle.
“When I would be landing on a night mission on an aircraft carrier,” Gabrielle retorted.
When asked why she wanted to be journalist at NBC,  a military reporter for KNSD-TV (NBC 7), Fox News TV from being a fighter pilot, she said: “Because of journalists, many people support the war efforts. I saw you too (she referred to O’Reilly) supporting the war efforts of our country”.
 Geez man, just remember yesterday the book I gave to the pretty Michelle Zarate Lioanang, a congressional staff, when I joined the group of Congressman Pol Bataoil (2nd District, Pangasinan) having  a party, with the people’s organization composed of the Unwashed of the Society, at a far flung village in his district.

Where did Roxas get his huge media mileage funds?

By MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA

Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas, a presidential wannabe, has been aggressive in barnstorming the country and putting his national TV, radio, and newspaper’s daily info-mercial to shore up his pathetic surveys image.

KICK BACK.The overpriced KIA 2700 police patrol cars that
 Department of  Interior &Local Government  Secretary Mar Roxas
 and the police purchased at P1.9 million each or a spike of alleged
 kick backed of P740,000 each or an overpriced of P155 million for
 the 210 vehicles.

Former Speaker Joe de Venecia told me years ago, when his son Joey ran for the 2010 Senate election, that a 30-seconder advertisement at ABS-CBN and GMA-7 ran between P200 to P300 thousand.

Moneyed politicians normally have three to five 30-seconders on each of the national TVs.

Where did Roxas get all the monies when his monthly salary is a pittance at the Department of Interior & Local Government?

First, according to Abono Party-list Chair Rosendo So, whose family owns the Toyota Display and Service Centers in the cities of Baguio and Dagupan, the 210 new modified KIA 2700 vehicles cost P1.9 million each after Roxas and the Philippine National Police purchased them and showed them to the media as the result of the “Daang Matuwid (straight path)”.

So said on his Face Book page that it was an overpriced of P740 each or P155 million to all of the cars.

Anak ng baka anong bukol ito? Hindi pa natin pinag-uusapan dito iyong big discout sa huge purchase na ito sa patrol car na may makina na ginto from the management ng KIA.

Second, when Bert Lina was plucked as the commissioner of the Bureau of Custom, many suspected that he is there to raise six billion pesos campaign funds for Roxas.

They said the honest and uncompromising former Commissioner John Sevilla resigned last April because he could no longer stand the “political nature” and continued corruption hounding the BoC while others said he was unceremoniously replaced by President Benigno Aquino III because he could not be manipulated to do the billing for Roxas’s ambition.

Lina got the goat lately of the overseas foreign workers (OFW) when he ordered that Balikbayan or OFW boxes would be subjected to random check up for taxable items.

The brouhaha against Lina had been raised to a higher decibel after Custom Deputy Commissioner Jessie Dellosa and brass of sugar planters rose raucous that 182 metric tons of smuggled sugar had entered the country since May this year at the expense of local planters and workers.

Other critics assailed Lina too of unabated smuggling of agricultural products, petroleum, and others.

Third, another source of funds for Roxas can be taken from illegal gambling game jueteng. Did I tell you before on my past column that in Pangasinan alone Meridiane (played like the illegal game jueteng) earns P5 million a day ( you can access my article at https://northwatch.wordpress.com/2014/12/21/ortigoza-p10m-bets-daily-from-gambling-in-pangasinan/).

With 81 provinces and the 17 cities and towns that composed Metro Manila in the entire country that host jueteng, Meridian, Last-2, massiao, and other illegal betting games, and each of these provinces and those in Metro Manila contributes say P500 thousand a day or P49 million for all of them, that would be a staggering P1.47 billion campaign funds a month to spike the pathetic poll stocks of Roxas in his march to the May 2016 presidential election.

Blunders on the scrapped AFP's Missile Systems; Lessons from the Yom Kippur War

The good thing about YouTube or Putlocker.com is you don’t need to read.
You just grabbed a cold San Miguel Beer Light, lies at your bed, watch the documentary or flick rolls before your eyes.

Shore based anti ship missile system (photo : Militaryphotos)

Last night I was glued with the video documentary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War between Israel and Egypt. Yom Kippur is the holiest day in Judaism, which also occurred during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Shore based anti ship missile system (photo : Militaryphotos)

Anti-drugs chief cites why pushers flee

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

DAGUPAN CITY – The chief of the Provincial Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operation Task Group (PAIDSOTG) explains why illegal drug pushers abscond to other towns in Pangasinan after the police ran after them.

SHABU QUEEN. Alleged illegal drug shabu queen Daria Fatima Lim (extreme left), 
38, single, after she and three male companions were arrested in a buy bust
 operation by the joint elements of Calasiao, Pangasinan police and the Philippine Drugs
 Enforcement Agency in Brgy. Buenlag of the town. Lim is rumored to be one of the notorious 
shabu dealers in the town.  Several months ago, PO1 Jerry D. Mabanglo, assigned at the Philippine
 National Police office in San Manuel, Pangasinan, was arrested inside the house of Lim 
in possession of the illegal drug’s methamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu and its 
paraphernalia during a raid by the Provincial Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operation Task 
Group (PAIDSOTG) led Supt. Benjie Ariola who raided it.
MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA

Supt. Benjamin Ariola cited the tendency of the pushers here and those in the cities of Urdaneta and Alaminos to shift to neighboring towns to perpetuate their illicit trade.

He said drug operation in Urdaneta City has been aggressive under the tight watch of its chief of police Supt. Jeff Fanged.

“Merong disruption technique po si Fanged. Pumunta sa Villasis. Alam mo kung ilan ang huli ng Villasis? 145 grams o P300 thousand to P500 hundred ang street value”.

He cited the interruption techniques of Supt. Fanged made pushers scampered to neighbouring Binalonan and Asingan towns.

Ariola would not say what kind of disruption techniques Fanged dealt those scared pushers.

Manaoag did not get the moist eyes of pushers in Urdaneta City because of its location unlike Villasis and Asingan that are stone throw away from the city.

He said after the police seized 198 grams of shabu (methamphetamine hydro-chloride) in Alaminos City, the illegal trade there and the towns in the Western part of Pangasinan became sluggish.

He cited however those pushers shifted to Bani town after 98 grams had been confiscated by police there.
He cited the drugs in Alaminos City came from Infanta town.

Because of the gung-ho operation of Supt. Cris Abrahano, Dagupan City’s chief of police, where almost every day pushers are nabbed, Ariola said pushers in the city run to nearby Calasiao and Mangaldan towns to perpetuate their trades.

“Kita mo sa Dagupan City matinde rin operation diyan halos araw-araw may nahuhuli operation diyan,” he said.

Ariola cited Mangatarem, Infanta, and Urdaneta City as the three gateways of drugs in Pangasinan after big time pushers bought shabu in the National Capital Region and Cavite province.

“Pagpasok sa Mangatarem. So ang babagsakan niyan Malasiqui, Bayambang, Calasiao, Dagupan. Central so kuha na rin”.

He said drugs also proliferate in Bayambang and Malasiqui because they are near Camiling, Tarlac where drug trades thrive.

He said his men seized a substantial size of shabu in Mangatarem.

He said in the tactical interrogation of his men with apprehended drug peddlers most of them incriminate the Muslims as their source.

“Kasi lahat ng sources ay tinuturo, iyang tactical interrogation pag huli ng subject, saan galing ang item? Sa Muslim. Parang Muslim ang tinuturo,” he said.

Judge threatens to kill 2 lawyers

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

Sa isang malayong bayan sa Ifugao, tinawag ng isang Fiscal o Prosecutor ang isang lola na nasa loob ng court room ng judge.

“Lola, kilala ninyo ba ako?”

“Siyempre kilala kita. Kahit noong tutoy ka pa kilala na kita. Sa totoo lang nakakahiya ka, sinungaling, babaero, at naninira ng dangal ng mga kaibigan pag nakatalikod sila,” ani ng lola.

Muntik ng mahulog sa platform ang fiscal sa taranta at biglang napasambulat:

“Lola, kilala ninyo ba iyong defense lawyer ng akusado na naka upo?”

“Siyempre kilala ko rin! Katulad mo lasenggo, laos, at babaero rin iyan. Isa sa mga kabit niyan si misis mo!” ani ng lola.

Muntik ng mahulog sa kanyang kina-uupu-an ang defense lawyer.

Tinawag ng mahinahon ng judge ang dalawang nagtutungaling abugado, at matigas na binalaan ang dalawa:

“Oras na isa sa inyo ang magtanong sa lola kung kilala niya ako, ipapabit-bit ko kaagad kayo sa police sa labas para i-diretso na kayo sa Muntinlupa para ma electric chair!”
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Philippine Daily Inquirer quoted recently ambivalent presidential aspirant and Davao City Mayor Rod Duterte who opined on our country's military position  with Mainland China: "Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said the government committed a “blunder” when it bought two used F-16 fighter jets because these would not be of much help in securing the country against aggressors like China.
“The decision to buy two F-16s is really a blunder. How would it help?” he said.


My retort: It's not the government that committed a blunder here, it was Mayor Rod Duterte's faux pas. PH bought a squadron of brand new South Korean Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) F/A 50 jets which can also be used as a Lead-In Fighter Trainer (LIFT). Two of the jets would be delivered on December this year. The mayor, to avoid this media blunder, should consult first an expert on military aviation before he opines on Air Force firepowers. The FA-50 is made by the South Korea’s “Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI)”, and is a smaller, license-built version of the F-16 Fighter aircraft. It entered the South Korean Air Force service in 2014.

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Here was an arrogant supervisor of the security guards of Bessang Pass at the Hall of Justice in Lingayen, Pangasinan telling media men last Monday that they were not allowed to cover fellow media woman, Lina Cervantes of DWPR, who filed her counter affidavits on the libel cases filed by Pangasinan Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr.

“Iyan ang utos sa amin ni executive judge, bawal ang coverage ng media,” the security supervisor named Vallo, who is a dead ringer of movie side kick Bentong, sternly told me.

“Paano naging bawal, hinde naman korte ang iko-cover ko sa office ng fiscal naman ang pupuntahan ko,? I calmly posed.

“Lahat dito hawak ng executive judge,” he hissed.

“Sa buong Pilipinas ngayon lang ako nakakita na ang media bawal pumasok sa office ng fiscal, under sa Department of Justice iyan hinde sa sala ng judge o sa Supreme Court. Noong na libel ako, may dala rin akong national TV (GMA-7) network dito” I protested.

When I insisted that I have to cover it, the watch men’s boss, who is 5’ 2” feet, stood up and held my right wrist as if he was preventing a 5’9” feet athletic but hard headed high school student to escape the school lecture.

“Sige, hawakan mo iyan at ide-demanda kita!” I vigorously warned him instead of hitting him with my left flush hook for a knock-out on his inviting jaw.

He immediately released my hand and dared me that I file a case.

When I registered my name on the logbook tended by his two white clad guards who were armed with their side pistols, one of the guards insisted I could not scribble my name.

“Hinde na ako mag-ko cover, manu-nood na lang ako,” I told them.