Russia, not US, won WWII

Russia, not US, won WWII

(Herman Tiu Laurel / DieHard III / The Daily Tribune / 05-11-2015 MON)

 

The 70th anniversary of Russia’s defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II was celebrated last Saturday, May 9.  I missed the live broadcast on RT (Russia Today) but watched it on YouTube.

 

The real highlight of the celebration was the march of at least 300,000 Russian people holding portraits of their relatives who fought and died in the Great Patriotic War.  Officially, 27 million Russian soldiers and citizens sacrificed their lives and not a single Russian family today is without one or more family member who died in that war.  But there is more Filipinos should know that their US-enslaved colonial mentality has not afforded them.

 

Few Filipinos know that Russians were a major factor for the early end of World War II in the Pacific.  Two months after the end of World War II in Europe at midnight of August 9, 1945, Russia liberated Northeastern China with its invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.  The Japanese had hoped that Russia, which had remained neutral on Japan until that hour, could help broker a better surrender deal with the US.  But the shock of Russia’s entry into the war against them when the atomic bomb had been exploded just three days before at Hiroshima precipitated the immediate surrender of the Japanese.  For this the Philippines also owes much to Russia.

 

Today the US shows that its leaders did not involve themselves in World War II for the good of mankind and humanity.  Their actions 70 years later in creating global chaos, murder and mayhem from Afghanistan, to Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Ukraine, with the US military and its hired thug, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, have made the world economically so much poorer while enriching the global financiers of war industries.

 

And so their boycott of the Moscow 70th Victory Day celebrations only confirms US Gen. Smedley Butler’s curse: “War is a Racket.”  All wars are bankers’ wars.  Now that China, which is also helping Latin American and Africa, is overtaking the West, the US also seeks to “pivot” its wars to Asia.

 

World War II was engineered to destroy Russia, which was then transitioning from a feudal state to a rising industrial economy.  According to reformed-theology.org, “The largest contributor to (Adolf Hitler’s) fund was IG Farben (a German chemical industry conglomerate) … 45 percent of the funds for the 1933 election (when Hitler’s party gained plurality) came from (it).  If we look at the directors of (the) American (branch of) IG Farben … (listed down are) Edsel B. Ford of the Ford Motor Company, Charles E. Mitchell of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Walter Teagle, director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Georgia Warm Springs Foundation.

 

The site further adds, “Paul M. Warburg, first director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and chairman of the Bank of Manhattan… brother Max Warburg… also a director of IG Farben, H.A. Metz of IG Farben… director of Warburg’s Bank of Manhattan… Carl Bosch of American IG Farben… director of Ford Motor Company A-G in Germany… (Although these) board members of American IG Farben were found guilty at the Nuremburg War Crimes Trials: Max Ilgner, F. Ter Meer, and Hermann Schmitz… American board members--Edsel Ford, Charles E. Mitchell, Walter Teagle, and Paul Warburg--were not placed on trial… not even questioned about their knowledge of the 1933 Hitler fund.”

 

The Western bankers are experts at corrupting governments and subversives to fight their wars while subduing uncooperative governments or simply creating chaos for those they cannot control.

 

Now it is Vladimir Putin’s government persisting in defending Russian sovereignty and compelling the Russian financial class to serve Russian interests, not Western bankers’.  Before, it was the destruction of Libya (led by Col. Muammar Gaddafi), which was issuing its own gold dinar independent of Western bankers’ control; and before that Saddam Hussein, who went around the US dollar in selling Iraq’s oil; same with the Talibans, who refused Unocal’s demand for a pipeline through Afghanistan.

 

The US and other Western leaders’ boycott of the Moscow Victory Day celebration succeeded only in isolating the West.  China’s President Xi Jinping stood beside President Putin while India sent a contingent of military honor guard troops to march at the parade along with several other countries, including a contingent from China representing its three major services.  Other BRICS and SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) member-countries were also there in force.

 

Russia paraded its latest Armata tank, its Yars ICBM, Tu-160 strategic bombers, two blade helicopters, heavy lift planes, and most of all its army that minced Napoleon and Hitler’s formidable armies as a reminder to the US if it ever tries.

 

On September 2, 2015 it will be China’s turn to celebrate its 70th victory anniversary in the war against Japanese Imperialism.  Will the Philippines boycott that celebration as well or will it be on the truthful and right side of history?

 

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The real champions

The real champions

(Herman Tiu Laurel / DieHard III / The Daily Tribune / 04-29-2015 WED)

 

I don’t call them NGOs (non-governmental organizations); that name’s been despoiled not only by Janet Lim-Napoles but even more so by Western-funded civil society groups that have been at the forefront of subverting the Philippine nation-state for the past five decades.

 

I call them citizen-champions who take up causes for the Filipino.

 

Driven only by a fervent desire for truth, justice, and creating a better future for the nation, these citizen-champions who selflessly take up causes for the Filipino have won the recent round of cases against the two giant water concessionaires in the Metro and against the provider of our fraudulent election counting machines.

 

In the former case, our citizen-champions such as the United Filipino Consumers and Commuters (UFCC), which has been at the forefront of this fight, successfully stopped abusive and exploitative private water companies from slapping their corporate income taxes onto water consumers’ bills.  Thus, the rates of the two water companies can be expected to go down by as much as 10 percent per cubic meter, amounting to billions of pesos of savings for us water users.

 

These fighters, these brave citizen-champions, who have sacrificed so much without thought of financial support from any source or rewards of fame and glory, should rightly be the idols of this society more than the likes of Manny Pacquiao et al.

 

Meanwhile, the victory of our citizen-champions over Smartmatic stopped the corrupt midnight repair deal of the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines by the former poll body chairman, which is likely to push elections back to variations of manual counting and electronic transmission, guaranteeing transparency and verifiability.

 

This should absolutely not pose any problem to our existing election automation law as pointed by our Tribune publisher Ninez Cacho-Olivares.  Since the voter’s shading of the ballot for the PCOS is done manually, a manual counting and recording procedure can be safely added before the ballot is inserted into the automated counting machine.

 

There is a variation of this voting and balloting system that lawyer Melchor Magdamos, one of the leading crusaders to bring us this victory over the rigged election slot-machine, proposes.  He calls it the “visual system” where the ballots, after being manually filled and taken out of the ballot box, are counted manually before a computer camera and projected onto a wide screen for all to see and take videos and pictures of while encoded into a computer for electronic transmission.  The projector and computer can then be bequeathed to the schools after the elections.

 

Among those at the forefront in our victory over the predatory practices in the water service sector is RJ Javellana, founder of Water for All Refund Movement (WARM), who exposed the wholescale corruption and abuse by the water concessionaires several years ago.  Javellana later expanded his advocacy to include the MRT/LRT commuter issues and, upon forming the UFCC, has also started tackling power issues, aided by anti-power oligarchy champion Jojo Borja of Iligan Light and Power.

 

Recently, the UFCC has been assisting Borja at the hearings of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) on a major power distributor’s rate issues.  When UFCC was registering as an “intervenor” (a technical-legal term in ERC rules), the dominant power company submitted its objection and opined that since the National Association of Electricity Consumers for Reform (Nasecore) has already been representing consumers, there was no need for others.  It is at this point that I must inform the public of dubious NGOs in the power advocacy sector that must be watched closely.

 

Our new crop of citizen-champions stand on the shoulders of many others who have made sacrifices for the past three generations fighting the system imposed by the Yellows after Edsa I.  The victory over the private water companies’ pass-on of corporate income tax to consumers was based on the struggle of the late Mang Naro Lualhati, his colleague lawyer Cefie Padua, and other petitioners who won the 2003 case against a major power company’s corporate income tax pass-on to consumers (which, the sneaky ERC chairwoman reversed via a sleight of hand insertion).

 

In the struggle against Smartmatic and the fraud of computerized election, credit must go to the Center for People Empowerment in Governance and a number of individuals, such as Gus Lagman and the 60-30-10 discoverer Ado Paglinawan.  This space is organizing a victory celebration for these and other fighters and citizen-champions on our GNN TV show this Saturday.  It is our humble contribution to duly recognize the real fighters who must be extolled and emulated by other citizens of this country.  They are beyond doubt our real heroes.

 

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Princess Jacel for senator

Princess Jacel for senator

(Herman Tiu Laurel / DieHard III / The Daily Tribune / 04-13-2015 MON)

 

The BangsaMoro Basic Law (BBL) has simultaneously become a unifier for the vast majority of Filipinos as well as a major source of division for the Philippine military and police into acrimonious camps.

 

Enemies of the Republic hankering for the permanent separation of North Borneo (Sabah) and parts of Mindanao must be laughing their heads off.

 

The national discussion on our cultural and religious minorities, particularly on the Philippines’ Muslim communities, must be raised to such a height that the nation gains a deeper understanding of the myriad issues stretching across the past and future of what are undoubtedly Filipino lands and seas.

 

Elevating the level of discourse can never be easy when government itself is engaged in shameless disinformation and misinformation that say peace depends solely on yielding to a rebel group, such as the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), and its sponsors’ demands no matter what the cost.

 

Therefore, the task of distracting the nation from forming a rational perspective is as easy as creating the next Mindanao beheading or roadside bombing by some supposed “rogue” elements.

 

Were it not for the MILF’s naked brutality, as caught on video and in the news, and the BS Aquino peace panel’s horrid lies on the Mamasapano tragedy, Filipinos would still be Pied Piper-ed by the MILF-peace panel narratives.

 

BS Aquino, his peace panel cum enemy propagandists, the MILF, and its Western alliance backers (namely, Canada, Australia, Japan, and other US client governments and NGOs comprising the International Monitoring Group) are ganging up on the Filipino public to hammer it with propaganda that equates peace with surrender to MILF terms.

 

Thankfully, the Filipino is no longer too susceptible to the deceptions.  Yet something more is needed to deliver the “coup de grace” to the pro-BBL-MILF propaganda and political badgering: Discrediting it outright by showing that all Filipinos, including Muslims, are united as one nation.

 

Over the Lenten holidays, several parties from various non-partisan political movements conferenced over SMS and the Internet on the relentless US-Malaysian streamroller to pass the BBL by June of this year.  It was Ado Paglinawan, discoverer of the 60-30-10 Smartmatic-PCOS election fraud algorithm, who struck upon what may well become the “coup de grace” against the BBL.  “Why not start a Princess Jacel for Senator Movement,” Paglinawan opined, and raise the symbol of resistance against Malaysian usurpation of Philippine territory and subversion of the Republic’s unity?

 

Princess Jacel Kiram-Hasan was the Philippines’ Joan of Arc in the patriotic quest of the Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo, together with the Filipino nation, to restore Sabah to its rightful place as an essential and historic part of Philippine patrimony.

 

By force of her charm and wit, Princess Jacel immediately became spokesperson of the Sultan of Sulu at the pivotal moment when the Royal Sultanate Army, under the late Sultan Jamalul Kiram III, returned to Sabah to bring to international attention the Sultanate and the Filipino nation’s rightful claim.

 

Princess Jacel’s name, for those not in the know, is a combination of the first names of her father Jamalul and mother Celia.  If there’s anyone who has shown the articulation and mettle to face down Malaysia and the MILF, it is Princess Jacel.

 

I suggested the move to several parties, arguing that calling for a Muslim senator in the next government would ensure participation of the sector.  But one of those I contacted cited an even better argument--that it would be a referendum on Sabah and the BBL.  Just imagine if the nation gave Princess Jacel an overwhelming endorsement.

 

As a senator of the Republic, Princess Jacel will raise to even more commanding heights the point of view of the vast majority of Filipino Muslims who do not subscribe to the MILF’s treacherous conspiracy with Malaysia.

 

After the passing of Sultan Jamalul Kiram III in 2013 and the assumption of Sultan Esmail Kiram II, support is now being extended by the Wazir of the Sultanate (coordinating its cabinet) Al Marim Centi Tillah, together with spokesperson Abraham Idjirani and Fiscal Basa as chair of the Rumah Bichara or Advisory Council--all learned individuals able to represent the Sultanate and the national Muslim community.  Then there’s also Firdausi Abbas who has lately exposed the military weakness of the MILF due to its aging leadership.

 

But, as any initiative involving the Sultanate should be brought first to the Sultanate’s leadership, we suggest that we permanently put to rest efforts of foreign interests to subvert the Philippine claim to Sabah and divide the Filipino nation by a pivotal move, a “brilliancy” as in chess or a lethal Kani Basani throw in Judo, that checkmates or pins the adversary down with finality.

 

Raising a Joan d’Arc with the message that there is no Muslim-Christian war, that Sabah is an inalienable part of Philippine territory, and that the nation’s Muslim minority is an integral part of the national community is such a move.

 

In the continuing consultations with many parties, we believe that a Joan d’Arc in the person of Princess Jacel, who has become the face of the Philippines’ claim to North Borneo, serves the mission best.  We shall bring this proposition to the Sultanate and its council, to the public, and to the many political parties to consider for universal adoption Princess Jacel Kiram-Hasan as a unity candidate for the entire nation.

 

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