PGCot starts cloud seeding operations

By Jimmy Sta. Cruz
PGO Media Center

AMAS, Kidapawan City (Feb. 18) – The Provincial Government of Cotabato, through the Office of the Provincial Veterinarian (OPAG) and Provincial Governor-s Office-Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Division (PGO-DRRMD) has started the cloud seeding operations on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2016 as an key initiative to mitigate the negative effects of the heavy drought brought to El Niño phenomenon.

Central Mindanao Airport at M'lang,
Cotabato Province

The cloud seeding kicked-off at Central Mindanao Airport.t (formerly M’lang Rural Airport), Barangay Tawan-Tawan, M’lang with the personnel from Dept. of Agriculture 12 Bureau of Soils and Water Management (DA12-BSWM) as partners in the operation which is scheduled for 60 days.

Provincial Agriculturist Engr. Eliseo M. Mangliwan informed the cloud seeding operations is significant because it will help to increase the level of water in irrigations and other water ways that supply water to rice fields and other crops.

“We aim to enhance the water level of irrigations so as to improve and sustain water supply to farm lands which is essential to crops and animals” said Engr. Mangliwan.

Dept. of Interior and Local Government Provincial Director Abdullah Ali, LGU M’lang Municipal and Barangay Tawan-Tawan officials also witnessed the kick-off ceremony.

The drought has affected some 27,558 hectares of farm lands and damaged of more than P200 to crops and plants in different municipalities apart from the rat infestations in some areas.

Central Mindanao Airport at M'lang, 
Cotabato Province

The drought brought heavy damage in some municipalities including Alamada, Kabacan, Matalam, Makilala, Tulunan and M’lang. A mild to moderate rain occurred in in Alamada after the cloud seeding kicked off in the morning.

Gov Emmylou “Lala” J. Taliño-Mendoza has allotted P3.4M for the cloud seeding operations from its calamity fund. The Province of Cotabato was declared under the state of calamity last Jan. 14, 2016 in order to hasten the assistance given to affected farmers which includes initiatives such as the cloud seeding operations, financial and technical assistance among others.

The provincial government has also allotted an additional P700, 000 from the calamity fund as counterpart to the cloud seeding operations of DA12 which has started last month. This is an initiative to help the department lengthen its cloud seeding operations, according to the OPAG.

Leolito Siase, Area Coordinator of DA-12 BSWM who supervised the kick-off underscored the importance of the cloud seeding during the interview conducted by the “Aksyon Serbisyong Totoo” radio program of the Provincial Government of Cotabato.
“The artificial rain which will be produced by cloud seeding is necessary to increase water level especially in irrigations within the highlands which will be benefited by the affected farmers”, said Siase.

Are Actors like Edu Manzano Competent in the Senate?

ARE ACTORS COMPETENT ENOUGH FOR THE SENATE? 

Watch the video below after I quizzed Edu Manzano who runs for the 2016 Philippine Senate Race. But before you click the video, here were the texts of my posers to Manzano - an llonggo like me.

Q: I’m Mortz Ortigoza, political columnist of http://mortzortigoza.blogspot.com/ The intellectual class in the Philippines looked down on actors and actresses like Manny Pacquiao, Alma Moreno, Amay Bisaya running for the Senate. They looked at them as an aberration and a big joke that only undermines the integrity of the August Chamber. 

ACTOR. Actor Edu Manzano (blue shirt) with reporters after the press
conference in Dagupan City he and presidential front runner
Grace Poe attended.

My questions, our country faces high employment rate and the solution is to amend the economic provision of the constitution, are you amenable for it? Our country has the highest cost of electricity per kilowatt, are you in favour for the constructions of Nuclear Power Plants to lessen the prices of power? Filipinos breed like rabbits that cause for their penury or kahirapan, are you amenable for a strong population control like aggressive distribution of free contraceptives in the barangays?

Robbers with MBA's jargon. Must read to polish your jargon

(Grabbed from Face Book, unknown author)

During a robbery, the bank robber shouted to everyone in the bank: “Don’t move. The money belongs to the State. Your life belongs to you.”

Everyone in the bank laid down quietly. This is called “Mind Changing Concept” Changing the conventional way of thinking. When a lady lay on the table provocatively, the robber shouted at her: “Please be civilized! This is a robbery and not a rape!” This is called “Being Professional”

Focus only on what you are trained to do! When the bank robbers returned home, the younger robber (MBA-trained) told the older robber (who has only completed Year 6 in primary school): “Big brother, let’s count how much we got.”

The older robber rebutted and said: “You are very stupid. There is so much money it will take us a long time to count. Tonight, the TV news will tell us how much we robbed from the bank!” This is called “Experience.

” Nowadays, experience is more important than paper qualifications! After the robbers had left, the bank manager told the bank supervisor to call the police quickly. But the supervisor said to him: “Wait! Let us take out $10 million from the bank for ourselves and add it to the $70 million that we have previously embezzled from the bank”.

This is called “Swim with the tide.” Converting an unfavorable situation to your advantage!

The supervisor says: “It will be good if there is a robbery every month.” This is called “Killing Boredom.” Personal Happiness is more important than your job.

The next day, the TV news reported that $100 million was taken from the bank. The robbers counted and counted and counted, but they could only count $20 million. The robbers were very angry and complained: “We risked our lives and only took $20 million. The bank manager took $80 million with a snap of his fingers. It looks like it is better to be educated than to be a thief!”

This is called “Knowledge is worth as much as gold!”

The bank manager was smiling and happy because his losses in the share market are now covered by this robbery.This is called “Seizing the opportunity.” Daring to take risks! So who are the real robbers here?

War between U.S, China remote - FVR

Nuclear War between them will destroy humanity

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

A graduate of the elite United States Military Academy and former Philippine president did not believe that the brinkmanship between the United States and China at the Spratly Islands will  result to war.

CAVEAT. Author giving a hardbound book by former U.S State Secretary
Alexander Haig titled "Caveat" to former Philippine President Fidel V.Ramos
 at the Department of Foreign Affairs' satellite office in Pangasinan. Haig 
and Ramos are alumni of the United States Military Academy at
West Point in New York.

Former President Fidel V. Ramos said the U.S and China need not plunge themselves to war because it would be mutually assured destruction for them and to the U.S allies in the East Asia Region.

“You visit your homework. I wrote about this since 12 years ago. In the 21^st Century you don’t talked about the 19^th or 20^th Century. Nobody wants war especially World War III because of the massive destruction and the thermal radiation wave of modern weapons,” he stressed to Northern Watch when he graced the inauguration of the satellite office of the Department of Foreign Affairs in Calasiao, Pangasinan.

Ramos cited an instance that the latest hydrogen bomb is 5000 times more lethal than the atom bomb dropped by the B-29 Super Fortress bombers at Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan on August 1945.

“You don’t need a B-29, you just pressed the button. But the U.S study says counter-strike. Somebody has to push the button with the coordination of the 38^th Parallel. With the strike and counter strike all of a sudden all that will disappear,” Ramos, who is known as FVR, said last Sunday.

Amend Constitution for more jobs - Grace Poe

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

POZORRUBIO  - At last a presidential bet courageously acknowledged that amending the Constitution for 100% foreign ownership just like in Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore would generate more jobs among Filipinos.

VIDEO where Philippines Presidential Bet Grace Poe acknowledges to political columnist Mortz Ortigoza's perennial proposal that she is open to amend the economic provision of the Constitution so more foreign investors come to the country and generate more jobs.

Senator Mary Grace Poe told reporters here that how can Filipinos find a job when there are fewer investors that could provide employment in the Philippines.
“Tama ang sinabi ninyo. Bakit? Walang namumuhunan sa atin sapagkat ang ating infrastructure. Paano sila makakarating sa lugar sa tamang oras kung walang utilities (like airport) (You hit the nail on its head on amendment. Why? No one wants to invest in the Philippines because of the lack of infrastructures. How can they punctually arrived on their destination when there are no facilities like airport),” she answered to the pose by Northern Watch how pathetic the country was when it got only U.S$ 6.2 billion 2014 foreign direct investment (FDI) while FDI poured $ 9.2 billion in Vietnam, $ 22.6 billion in Indonesia, $12.6 Thailand, and S67.5 billion in Singapore in the same year according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) had already eclipsed the country.
Poe cited why foreign investors were lukewarm to pour their capitals in the country.
“Una, ang taas ng ating personal and corporate taxes. So bakit tayo mamumuhunan dito ang dami mong babayaran na buwis, doon na tayo mamuhunan sa ibang bayan sa China at sa Vietnam (First, we have a prohibitive personal and corporate taxes. So why they would invest here where they would be burdened with heavy taxes when they could go to China or Vietnam that offer them better incentives),” she said.

She declared that she is open for the amendment of the xenophobic 60-40 percent economic provision of the Philippine Constitution so foreign investors can own 100 percent of the business capitals in the country and not be relegated to the 40 percent as minority stock owners.

DRUG BUSTER BUSTED

Arrested ex-PDEA agent's surveillance work 'illegal' —PNP Brass

NEW

The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Thursday said Lt. Col. Ferdinand Marcelino's claim that he was performing surveillance work when arrested in an anti-illegal drug operation was illegal if true.

DRUG BUSTER BUSTED. After they raided a drug den in Dagupan City on 2010 I told then Major Ferdinand Marcelino (extreme right) "You're the saving grace of the anti drug drive of the government after he arrested earlier the Ayala Boys". Then I saw him going for several times in the U.S and even meeting my brother who was his military professor at PMA. Today, Marine Lt. Col. Marcelino was arrested by the PDEA in a drug storage facilities in Sta. Cruz, Manila with more or less 64 kilograms of suspected shabu placed worth P320M, assorted chemicals, and other laboratory equipment.
PHOTO: From left, Mortz, PDEA Regional Director Robert Opena (my neighbor when I was a kid at PMA),and Major Ferdie Marcelino

According to Sr. Supt. Antonio Gardiola Jr. of the Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Force, Marcelino had no business in the place where he was arrested as anti-drug operations are not among the responsibilities of a soldier.

Marcelino, a former government drug buster, was among those arrested in a raid in a shabu laboratory in Sta. Cruz, Manila, on Thursday morning by operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA).

Seized from the group, which also included a Filipino-Chinese national who was once an interpreter in PDEA, were 64 kilos of suspected shabu.

Gardiola admitted that Marcelino, who was part of PDEA when the agency was under retired military general Dionisio Santiago, was neither on their record nor on their watch list.

While Interior and Local Government Secretary Mel Senen Sarmiento lauded the successful operation, PDEA chief Arturo Cacdac Jr. said they were saddened that a former PDEA member was among those arrested.

Cacdac described Marcelino as someone who has contributed a lot during his stint in PDEA. He also said Marcelino's arrest showed that "no one is above the law."

For his part, Marcelino appealed to the media to focus on his case as he insisted that he was just performing surveillance work in the area.

Gardiola said they will look into Marcelino's recent activities to determine his relationship with the arrested Filipino-Chinese suspect.

Navy statement

Meanwhile, the Philippine Navy said it will not condone  any illegal activities by its members, even if they have yet to ascertain if Marcelino is the same Lt. Col. Ferdinand Marcelino among its active Marine officers.

"As (of) this time, the Phil. Navy is not aware either of the circumstances of the arrest or if the person arrested and the one in our record are the same. Assuming that he is the same person, the Navy is not aware of the reason for his alleged presence in the location of the raid," said Col. Edgar Arevalo, Navy spokesman.

"If the person reported is indeed a member of the Navy and clearly in violation of our laws, (the Navy) will cooperate actively in the implementation of the law," Arevalo added. — Oscar Oida/KBK/RSJ, GMA News

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Kailangan din ang mag sinungaling

By Anonymous

Ito nga ba ang alamat kung bakit nagsi-sinungaling ang mga lalaki?

Karpintero itong si Joel at isang araw eh gumagawa siya ng isang bahay sa tabi ng ilog.
Sa lakas ng pagma-martilyo niya eh nalaglag ang martilyo niya sa ilog.

Umiyak siya at lumitaw yung guardian angel niya,
"tutulungan kita, Joel"
...sabay lundag sa ilog.

Lumabas ito na me hawak na gold hammer,
"ito ba ang martilyo mo?"...
"hindi po"...
Lundag uli ang anghel at lumitaw na me silver hammer,
"ito ba?"...
"hindi po"...

Lundag uli sa ilog ang anghel at lumitaw na me ordinary hammer,
"ito ba?"..."
Opo" ...natuwa ang anghel.
"Dahil honest ka, bukod sa martilyo mo, sa'yo na rin ang gold and silver hammer"...

Makaraan ang ilang araw, naglalakad si Joel sa ilog at kasama ang misis niya.
Eh sa katangahan, nalaglag si misis sa ilog...iyak si Joel.

Litaw si guardian angel, "tutulungan kita"...

sabay lundag sa ilog at ng lumitaw eh kasama si Sam Pinto,
"ito ba ang misis mo?"
...sagot si Joel,
"OPO!"

...nagalit si anghel,
"sinungaling ka. Akala ko pa naman mabait ka Joel"...

Nag- reason-out si Joel,

"Sorry po, guardian angel...kasi kapag sinabi kong 'Hindi', eh lulundag ka uli sa tubig at pag-litaw mo eh kasama mo si Megan Fox. At pag sinabi ko uli na hindi siya ang asawa ko, eh lulundag ka uli at ang tunay na misis ko na ang kasama mo.

At dahil sa kabaitan ko, eh ibibigay mo din sa akin sina Sam Pinto at Megan Fox!

Mahirap lang po ako at hindi ko kaya ang me tatlong asawa, kaya 'Yes' na lang ang
sinagot ko nung una."

                                        MORAL OF THE STORY:

Kaya lang naman nagsi-sinungaling ang mga lalaki eh for a good and noble reason.