DIE HARD III / Herman Tiu Laurel / March 24, 2014
Last week saw several media cover-up operations that we would like to point out to the public. First, we have the Department of Justice (DoJ)’s National Agribusiness Corp. (Nabcor) — PDAF “media payola” issue sustained by the Inquirer, where the latter had this March 21 headline: “Media men in payoff may face bribe raps… No special treatment for broadcasters tied to pork scam — Palace.” That was, of course, a defense strategy cooked up by DoJ Secretary Leila de Lima and Malacañang against the devastating revelation from the two unjustly sacked National Bureau of Investigation deputies, Reynaldo Esmeralda and Ruel Lasala, that a video tape exists (and will be released) of De Lima and BS Aquino’s appointed former NBI irector Nonnatus Rojas meeting with the alleged pork barrel scam queen Janet Lim-Napoles.
Rojas resigned after media exposed NBI “leaks” of the impending arrest of Napoles while De Lima and Malacañang cast diversionary aspersions on the other NBI officials and subsequently raised the media payola issue.
Media payola is nothing new and the habitual takers of these “envelopes” are known to most savvy members of the media community as well as PR agents. Politicians, major government agencies, and giant corporations have long engaged in this practice; and so it is barely headline material at all. Instead, what is of vital importance is the incontrovertible video evidence that can lead to an investigation of Rojas, who may just directly link De Lima and BS Aquino to his “secret” talks with Napoles.
Meanwhile, on the international front, the most significant media diversion is the headline, “Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for 9/11 attacks, says son-in-law.” Suleiman Abu Ghaith, married to bin Laden’s daughter Fatima, recounted a meeting in an Afghanistan cave hideaway on the night of Sept. 11, 2001, where bin Laden supposedly said about the attacks: “Did you learn what happened? We are the ones who did it.” But isn’t that hearsay?
A 10-year bin Laden manhunt ended with him supposedly shot dead by US Navy SEALs in an Abbottabad, Pakistan raid. This latest “Osama did it” story has long been discredited as a yarn diverting blame from the conspiracy among Bush, Cheney, Jewish oligarch Silverstein, and Saudi and Israeli intelligence for profit and the “perpetual war.”
A 2013 YouGov US survey showed that one in two Americans doubt the official US government investigation blaming bin Laden. Forty-six percent believe the third building, Building 7, which collapsed on its own footprint, was caused by controlled demolition; only 28 percent still believe that fires caused it. Forty-one percent now support a new investigation, compared to 21 percent who don’t.
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, composed of 1,500 top professionals and scientists, are campaigning to reopen the 9/11 investigations.
And what about that Navy SEALs team (whose members, by the way, were all killed in a suspicious copter crash a year later) raid on bin Laden? Famed My Lai Massacre and Abu Ghraib prison journalist Seymour Hersh in a book says, “not one word of it is true” and everything is “one big lie”; a gigantic stage production to reinforce the “bin Laden did it” diversion.
(Tune in to “Sulo ng Pilipino” on 1098 AM, dwAD, Tuesday to Friday, 5 p.m.; catch GNN’s Talk News TV with HTL on Destiny Cable Channel 8, SkyCable Channel 213, and www.gnntv-asia.com, Saturday, 8 p.m. and replay Sunday, 8 a.m., this week on “Manila’s truck ban” and “The Napoles-De Lima scandal”; visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com; and text reactions to 0917-8658664)
Last week saw several media cover-up operations that we would like to point out to the public. First, we have the Department of Justice (DoJ)’s National Agribusiness Corp. (Nabcor) — PDAF “media payola” issue sustained by the Inquirer, where the latter had this March 21 headline: “Media men in payoff may face bribe raps… No special treatment for broadcasters tied to pork scam — Palace.” That was, of course, a defense strategy cooked up by DoJ Secretary Leila de Lima and Malacañang against the devastating revelation from the two unjustly sacked National Bureau of Investigation deputies, Reynaldo Esmeralda and Ruel Lasala, that a video tape exists (and will be released) of De Lima and BS Aquino’s appointed former NBI irector Nonnatus Rojas meeting with the alleged pork barrel scam queen Janet Lim-Napoles.
Rojas resigned after media exposed NBI “leaks” of the impending arrest of Napoles while De Lima and Malacañang cast diversionary aspersions on the other NBI officials and subsequently raised the media payola issue.
Media payola is nothing new and the habitual takers of these “envelopes” are known to most savvy members of the media community as well as PR agents. Politicians, major government agencies, and giant corporations have long engaged in this practice; and so it is barely headline material at all. Instead, what is of vital importance is the incontrovertible video evidence that can lead to an investigation of Rojas, who may just directly link De Lima and BS Aquino to his “secret” talks with Napoles.
Meanwhile, on the international front, the most significant media diversion is the headline, “Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for 9/11 attacks, says son-in-law.” Suleiman Abu Ghaith, married to bin Laden’s daughter Fatima, recounted a meeting in an Afghanistan cave hideaway on the night of Sept. 11, 2001, where bin Laden supposedly said about the attacks: “Did you learn what happened? We are the ones who did it.” But isn’t that hearsay?
A 10-year bin Laden manhunt ended with him supposedly shot dead by US Navy SEALs in an Abbottabad, Pakistan raid. This latest “Osama did it” story has long been discredited as a yarn diverting blame from the conspiracy among Bush, Cheney, Jewish oligarch Silverstein, and Saudi and Israeli intelligence for profit and the “perpetual war.”
A 2013 YouGov US survey showed that one in two Americans doubt the official US government investigation blaming bin Laden. Forty-six percent believe the third building, Building 7, which collapsed on its own footprint, was caused by controlled demolition; only 28 percent still believe that fires caused it. Forty-one percent now support a new investigation, compared to 21 percent who don’t.
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, composed of 1,500 top professionals and scientists, are campaigning to reopen the 9/11 investigations.
And what about that Navy SEALs team (whose members, by the way, were all killed in a suspicious copter crash a year later) raid on bin Laden? Famed My Lai Massacre and Abu Ghraib prison journalist Seymour Hersh in a book says, “not one word of it is true” and everything is “one big lie”; a gigantic stage production to reinforce the “bin Laden did it” diversion.
(Tune in to “Sulo ng Pilipino” on 1098 AM, dwAD, Tuesday to Friday, 5 p.m.; catch GNN’s Talk News TV with HTL on Destiny Cable Channel 8, SkyCable Channel 213, and www.gnntv-asia.com, Saturday, 8 p.m. and replay Sunday, 8 a.m., this week on “Manila’s truck ban” and “The Napoles-De Lima scandal”; visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com; and text reactions to 0917-8658664)
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