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Wars of ancient history were about possessions, territory, power, control, family, betrayal, lover's quarrel, politics and sometimes religion.

But we are in the Modern era and supposedly more educated and enlightened .

Think about this. Don't just brush off these questions.

  • Why is RELIGION still involved in WARS? Isn't religion supposed to be about PEACE?
  • Ask yourself; What religion always campaign to have its religious laws be accepted as government laws, always involved in wars and consistently causing WARS, yet insists that it's a religion of peace?

WHY??

There are only two kinds of people who teach tolerance:
  1. The Bullies. They want you to tolerate them so they can continue to maliciously deprive you. Do not believe these bullies teaching tolerance, saying that it’s the path to prevent hatred and prejudice.
  2. The victims who are waiting for the right moment to retaliate. They can’t win yet, so they tolerate.
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Aerial View of Cagayan de Oro City

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Customs bureau, businessman 'lying'

By Annabelle L. Ricalde


THE Bureau of Customs (BOC) and suspected vehicles and firearm smuggler Lynard Allan Bigcas are not telling the truth, said the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) during a House inquiry in Cagayan de Oro last Friday. NBI-Northern Mindanao Director Jose Justo Yap said BOC's documents were fake, compared to documents obtained by the NBI from NYK Shipping Corporation, one of the shipping services that initiated Bigcas's shipment.ased on NYK Shipping Corporation's documents, Yap said the place of receipt of the shipment is Houston while the port of loading is Los Angeles, and the place of delivery is Cagayan de Oro with container number NYKU5778257.However, he said the BOC documents given to NBI showed that the place of receipt is Incheon, Korea, while the port of loading is Incheon and the place of delivery is Cagayan de Oro with container number NYKU5778257. "The BOC wanted to make it appear that the shipment is direct from Korea and not in the United States," Yap told Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro during the hearing. Bigcas failed to appear in the hearing, conducted by the House committee on ways and means, reportedly because his legal counsel, lawyer Jose Pallugna, is in the United States. Yap also said it took two months for the BOC to provide the NBI with the necessary documents for the investigation despite the two request letters the probe agency sent to BOC. NBI's progress investigation conducted against Bigcas with the help of a Legal Attaché of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation showed that the containers shipped by Bigcas from the US to the Philippines containing motorcycles and other vehicles were fraudulently declared as "used household goods and personal effects." Employees of All Points Moving and Storage testified that on several occasions, Bigcas asked help from them to load motorcycles and motorcycle parts in a container where it was loaded as a whole and not by parts, contrary to the businessman's earlier statement that he chopped the motorcycles and put it in a balikbayan box and shipped it to the Philippines, particularly in Cagayan de Oro. It was also learned that Bigcas purchased huge volume of firearm parts, including 40 boxes of BEOWULK 334 bullets and huge volume of lower receiver of .223 caliber AR-15 weapons, which are usually purchased when the person is building a custom-made rifle. Eric Christian Peterson, owner of New World Forwarding, LLC, a freight forwarding company based in Houston, Texas, confirmed that he arranged the empty metal containers to be dropped as requested by Bigcas. Once a contract has been negotiated, Bigcas admitted to Peterson that he had been shipping too many containers to the Philippines and needed to change the consignee's name on the bills of laden. Based on the schematic diagram of the shipment process, smuggled motorcycles and other vehicles loaded by Bigcas were accepted in Houston, Texas and transported via train to Los Angeles, loaded at the port of Los Angeles, discharged at the port of Singapore, loaded to a small vessel and finally discharged at the port of Mindanao International Container Terminal in Tagoloan town, Misamis Oriental. Aside from the New World Forwarding and NYK Shipping Corporation, other shipping services that initiated Bigcas's shipment were Vanguard Logistics Services and APL Containers. Yap said NBI agents were able to identify the alleged consignee and brokerage that facilitated the discharge from the port and the trucking company that hauled the containers. He said based on the shipping documents, the shipper and consignee involved in the shipment of the containers were Florjan Merchandising, Sra Mae A. Galagnara, Imelda A. Casiño, Mark Christian A. Densing, Denny Marie France Fernandez Santiago, Rene Carlo F. Santiago, Mark Benedicto Concepcion, Lou Garcia Nepomuceno and Teodoro D. Oca. Of these nine, only Casiño, Densing and the Santiagos were traced by the NBI and were sent with subpoenas. However, Yap said only Densing and Casiño have cooperated with the NBI. "Ginamit lang daw ni Bigcas ang pangalan nila kasi nag-apply sila ng trabaho kay Bigcas at pinangakuan naman daw kaya ibinigay nila ang kanilang passport without knowing na ginamit pala ni Bigcas," Yap said. Though Bigcas failed to attend Friday's hearing, he sent a text message to Representative Rudy Fariñas, chair of the House sub-committee on customs and tariffs, explaining that although he wanted to attend to clear his name, his lawyer asked him not to since he might not "be able to answer properly the questions from the panel and may cause his imprisonment." [edit]



New Banknotes have Enough Security Features

Posted by The MINDANAO CURRENT at 11:32 AM


The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), here in Cagayan de Oro, has assured that the new generation banknotes have upgraded security features to protect the public from counterfeits. This assurance came from BSP Assistant Branch Manager Virgilio Gomez, during a recent meeting of the Regional Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee (RLECC), who said the newly- designed banknotes have new security features which are difficult to imitate. Gomez said these features include the kind of paper, serial numbers, embedded security fibers, watermark, concealed value, and security threads among others. The new banknotes, namely those of P20, P50, P100, P200, P500 and P1,000 bills, he said, have 4-level security features ranging from those that are highly visible to the public and recognizable by professional cash handlers or bank tellers to those detectable by the BSP and law enforcers with the use of specialized equipments.“The reason behind the upgrading of the security features of the banknotes is to protect the integrity of the currency in order to attain financial stability,” he emphasized. The upgraded security features, which are easy for the public to identify but difficult for counterfeits to copy, were illustrated to the RLECC members through an audio-visual presentation (AVP). Accordingly, the new banknotes are a little bit rough to touch because they are made of cotton and abaca while their serial numbers consists of one or two prefix letters and six to seven (6-7) digits in asymmetric or increasing size. Likewise, red and blue fibers embedded in the banknote paper glow under ultraviolet light while the watermark shows the image of the portrait and the banknote’s denomination on the blank space when viewed against the light from both sides of the note. When the banknote is rotated in 45 degrees and tilted downwards, a concealed denominational value can be seen super-embossed on the smaller version of the portrait. In addition, both the P20 and the P50 bills have embedded 2mm wide security threads that can be seen when the banknotes are held against the light while a 4mm wide stitch-like metallic security thread, whose color changes from red to green when viewed from different angles, can also be seen in P100, P200, P500, and P1,000 bills. Further, both the P500 and P1,000 bills have ‘optically variable device patch’ reflective coil that changes color from red to green when the notes are rotated 90 degrees. The reflective coil of the P500 note bares the image of a small BSP logo and the blue-naped parrot while that of P1,000 note carries the image of a small BSP logo and the south-sea pearl. Another security feature, that is, exclusive for P1,000 note is the optically variable ink for the embossed denomination value on the lower right corner of the face of the bill that changes color from green to blue when viewed from different angles. Meanwhile, Gomez stressed that the present banknotes will remain in circulation and will continue to be accepted as legal tender for a period of at least three (3) more years.

Congress probes “ground zero for car smuggling”

By Froilan Gallardo


CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/06 August) — The 30-hectare Mindanao Container Port in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental, is now the subject of a congressional probe for allegedly serving as ”ground zero for car smuggling” in the country. The House Committee of Ways and Means chaired by Rep. Hermilando Mandanas (2nd district, Batangas) has subpoenaed three officials of the Bureau of Customs and 11 consignees of hot cars seized last month. The Bureau of Customs seized 14 vehicles placed in container vans and declared as truck replacements at the Mindanao Container Port in Tagoloan on July 16. A report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation which was furnished to Philippine authorities revealed that suspected car smuggler Lynard Allan Bigcas shipped stolen cars from the United States through the Mindanao Container Port. “This port was intended to help export products from Mindanao to the world. We never intended this port to become a smugglers haven,” Rep. Yevgeny Vicente Emano (2nd district, Misamis Oriental) said. Rep. Benjo Benaldo (1st district, Cagayan de Oro) said this is probably the reason why so many right-hand converted vehicles are found in Cagayan de Oro. “There is definitely a collusion between the smugglers and the Land Transportation Office here,” Benaldo said. National Bureau of Investigation Director Jose Justo Yap said they have included two other persons in the smuggling charge sheet along with Bigcas, who was accused of stealing an US$ 80,000 motorcycle owned by Hollywood writer Skiff Woods in April this year. Yap said they have found Bigcas shipped a total of 11 container vans from the US to Cagayan de Oro from 2009 to 2011. He said aside from the stolen vehicles, Bigcas also shipped assorted number of AR 15 rifle parts and ammunition. “The FBI was able to interview the gun shops where Bigcas bought the rifle parts and ammunition,” Yap said. Yap said of the 11 vehicles seized from Bigcas, the FBI found eight were stolen from the US. Bigcas has not been detained pending the resolution of the two cases filed by authorities which was questioned by his lawyer. Yap said the FBI sent him a report detailing how Bigcas was able to send the stolen vehicles from Houston, Texas to Cagayan de Oro. “Bigcas shipped the vehicles and motorcycles by train from Houston to Los Angeles,” Yap narrated. From Los Angeles, Yap said Bigcas shipped them to Singapore where it was transferred to a smaller ship that brought his cargo to the Mindanao Container Port. “He declared his container vans as surplus household appliances,“ Yap said. Bigcas was invited to the public hearing of the Committee on Ways and Means in Cagayan de Oro last Friday, August 5, 2011 but his lawyer said he was in the hospital for treatment.

2011 Little Olympics opens Saturday in Oro

Sun Star, Cagayan De Oro Newspaper


HUNDREDS of student athletes in Mindanao gather in Cagayan de Oro City today, Saturday, as one of the biggest and most anticipated sporting events of the year formally opens at Don Gregorio Pelaez Sports Center. The Mindanao Milo Little Olympics 2011, now entering its 23rd year, desires to make young athletes become champions in life. Reigning champions City Central School in elementary level and Corpus Christi in secondary level lead around 40 public and private schools from all over Mindanao seeing action in at least 12 sports disciplines. These are swimming, athletics, badminton, chess, football, gymnastics, lawn tennis, sepak takraw, table tennis, taekwondo, volleyball and scrabble. Misamis Oriental Governor Oscar S. Moreno will be on hand to grace this afternoon's opening ceremony along with Msgr. Elmer Abacahin, the parish priest of Alubijid; School Division Superintendent Dr. Myrna S. Motoomull, Milo Sports Executive Andrew Q. Neri; and Regional Director Luz S. Almeda of the Department of Education in Northern Mindanao. Last year's five outstanding athletes in each division will have a torch relay for the Lighting of the Milo Little Olympics Friendship Urn. Event organizer Megdonio R. Llamera said the showdown of athletes, cheerdance competition and drum and lyre exhibition will also take centerstage before the Milo sporting buffs who are expected to fill the main grandstand of Pelaez Sports Center. "Just like in the past, we are expecting schools from as far as Davao, Cotabato and Tangub to join this year's edition of the Milo Little Olympics," Llamera said. (LLS)

Union Galvasteel opens Cugman branch

Gold Star Daily


CUNION Galvasteel Corporation will reopen its Cagayan de Oro plant today at a new location. Now located at the corner of Malasag Road in barangay Cugman, Union Galvasteel has been in Cagayan de Oro since 2002. It used to be located at Kimwa Compound in barangay Baloy but president Arthur Florendo said they decided to relocate in Cugman so they can get closer to the needs of their clients. A member of the Phinma group, Union Galvasteel Corporation manufactures prepainted roofing and walling materials such as duratile, durarib, duracorr, duraspandrel, duracurve and pre-insulated panels; steel framed building systems such as duradeck, C-purlins, light metal frames and steel framed house; galvanized coils and sheets such as long span and heavy gauge; installation and repairs; and free estimates. According to Florendo, the construction sector in Cagayan de Oro has improved 20 percent from 2002 to the present thus it is one of their most prolific markets countrywide. "We've seen Cagayan de Oro grow. Property developments are just about everywhere," Florendo remarked. The Union Galvasteel branch at Cugman caters to the needs of clients all over Northern Mindanao. Union Galvasteel does not stop providing quality products though. It also has a corporate social responsibility to the people of Cagayan de Oro as evidenced by the construction of a dental trough at Kamakawan Elementary School, a project with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Government officials laud Zubiri's decision to resign

By Annabelle L. Ricalde


ALTHOUGH saddened by the resignation of Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri, officials said this has somehow elevated the Senate’s credibility, according to Misamis Oriental Vice Governor Norris C. Babiera. Babiera said with Zubiri’s resignation, he is hoping that it will put closure to the issue and that the Senate Electoral Tribunal can give its decision.“It is appalling, especially that he’s a working senator with many accomplishments, but we also welcome if the electoral tribunal will rule out and proclaim Aquilino ‘Koko’ Pimentel III,” Babiera told Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro. The Vice Governor expressed admiration to Zubiri's courage and sacrifice because of honor without waiting for the decision of the electoral tribunal as he believed that if there was really fraud in the 2007 election, Zubiri has nothing to do with it and he has no knowledge of the alleged anomaly. “We lost one representative from Mindanao. Hopefully, we will be able to replace him with a Mindanaoan,” Babiera said. For his part, Senator Francis Escudero said he admires Zubiri for this courageous and difficult decision. “It must be a tough time for him and his family and I wish them well as they go through it,” Escudero said. City Councilor Edgar Cabanlas said Zubiri’s decision is the highest form of sacrifice as far as legality of the case is concerned. “It only shows that he did not do anything wrong during the election and that he is not involved in any fraud,” Cabanlas told Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro. He added that Zubiri’s resignation could be a good record for him in the next election.

Users of unlicensed computer software warned of raids

By Cong Corrales


CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/02 August) — A government anti-piracy team warned it will conduct raids on businesses, internet cafes, schools and even religious institutions here that are using pirated or unlicensed computer software. The Pilipinas Anti-Piracy Team (Papt) announced they will conduct the raids and inspections starting 8am of August 22. “Businesses should audit and legalize their software in a certain period, or else face the risk of being raided by the team if they have not done so,” Papt warned in an emailed statement Monday. “Local businesses, including schools and hospitals, prepare your software inventory and proof of software licenses. This will save time during Papt inspections,” the statement continued. “Your next visitor might be a Papt officer,” their full-page public notice in local dailies that has been running for weeks now reads. “Time is running out for businesses in (the cities of) Cagayan de Oro, Butuan, General Santos and Davao! Your areas are next,” the Papt ad warned. In an interview, Senior Supt. Noel Armilla, Regional Investigation and Intelligence Division (RIID 10) division chief said they are ready to assist the Papt should it request for additional personnel for the impending anti-piracy raids here. “We will need the proper mandate to cooperate. The request should be coursed through the office of the PNP 10 regional director,” said Armilla. Four years ago, Armilla had joined anti-piracy raids such as the ones that Papt has scheduled later this month. In D. V. Soria, a thriving bazaar of pirated DVD movies, computer game applications and software are owned and operated mostly by local Maranao traders. Ironically, Police Station 1 is sitting on top of this—literally—as its office is on the second floor of the pirated DVD bazaar. With the impending raids, Mohamad Sidic Gondarangin, chair of Oro Jemaah Muslim Association, has made an appeal to the Maranao traders involved in software and movie piracy to consider finding other business ventures. “They should look for other business. If they continue to do this, then we cannot help them because what they are doing is against the law,” Gondarangin said in a phone interview Tuesday. According to the Business Software Alliance’s Internation Data Corporation (IDC) study on global software piracy, in 2008 alone, software piracy in the Philippines stood at 69 per cent. Revenue losses caused by software piracy soared from US$147 million in 2007 to US$202 million in 2008. Composed of the National Bureau of Investigation, Optical Media Board and the Philippine National Police, the Papt has launched series of raids on firms using pirated software in their workplaces. This special government anti-piracy policing unit, formed in August 2005, is tasked to map out several major business centers around the country as software piracy-free zone. It has since received 1,144 software piracy reports and conducted 139 raids against corporations, computer stores as well as internet cafes. It has also seized around Php400 million worth of computers and software. In a statement posted on PAPT’s official website, (www.papt.org.ph), NBI director Nestor Mantaring said the campaign this year will concentrate on key areas where their team frequently receives reports of software piracy. “We believe that a more focused and targeted operation will bring about maximum results in both our awareness-generation and enforcement campaigns,” he said in the statement. He added that for this year’s campaign, the BSA is offering cash rewards of up to P1 million for “software piracy informants.” Just the other month, Papt-Visayas cracked down on schools, banks and hospitals for reportedly using pirated computer software. On June 8, in the cities of Bacolod and Iloilo, Papt-Visayas “found not just internet cafes but rural banks, schools particularly universities, and hospitals were still using unlicensed software.” The raids in the Visayas were also preceded with a 20-day countdown to action announced through ads in local dailies. “We warn the companies that refuse to have their software inspected that they will face legal sanctions unless they show proof that they are using licensed software,” OMB chair Ronnie Ricketts said in a separate emailed statement Tuesday.

Monster Kitchen opens 2nd branch in Cagayan de Oro

By Nicole J. Managbanag

MONSTER Kitchen has opened its second branch over the weekend along Rizal-San Agustin Streets, Cagayan de Oro City. The new branch of Monster Kitchen has come up with a new twist. Aside from being known as a supplier of baking recipes over the years, tourists and locals will now enjoy Monster Kitchen’s mouthwatering treats and other well-known delicacies from neighboring municipalities, as they now incorporate a pasalubong center and a Monster Kitchen school for baking into this new branch. John Uy, owner of Monster Kitchen Inc., said their family-owned business will now serve as the catalyst for home bakers who want to improve their products by enhancing the theoretical background, principles and essential techniques in baking breads, pastries, cakes, confections, frozen desserts, and cake decorating through their baking school. y said aside from the recipes they provide for reasonable prices, they also have their own version of a pasalubong center for the students to display their products. “This is our way of helping the community and improve the lives of home bakers,” he said. Uy hopes that Monster Kitchen will expand and be institutionalized by the Department of Tourism as the home of the best delicacies in the years to come. He also said they will come up with a Monster club for home bakers to display their products at the Gaston Park during Sundays as part of their marketing plan. “This will be our own version of the night café. After Sunday mass, people will be able to enjoy resting in the park while eating our treats,” Uy said. During the opening, guests were treated with sweet delights and overflowing desserts made by their in-house chefs. The first 50 guests also enjoyed buy-one-take-one on all items displayed in their pasalubong center.

DPWH sets August deadline to finish CDO flyover

VVP, GMA News

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) intends to complete the P362.95-million Puerto-Sayre Flyover project in Cagayan de Oro City (CDO) this month.

The DPWH said the two-lane prefabricated modular permanent flyover, the first of its kind in Northern Mindanao, is now 73 percent complete.

"DPWH President’s Bridge Program Office Director Oscar Villanueva is pushing for the early completion of the project three months ahead of the original schedule (November 2011)," the DPWH said in a news release.

DPWH Undersecretary Rafael Yabut is supervising the DPWH foreign-funded projects in CDO.

The project is part of the Mega Bridges for Urban and Rural Development Project of the President’s Bridge Program Office. It is funded under the French Government’s financial assistance to the Philippines.

It is also part of the Philippine government’s engineering measure to mitigate vehicular congestion.

The 195-lineal-meter flyover project along Puerto-Sayre Highway Road includes five spans modular steel, four piers and road approaches with a length of 38.83 meters.

DPWH Secretary Rogelio Singson said the project, once completed, will decongest vehicular traffic and provide an immediate link to the region’s production and commercial zones.

The DPWH cited a study showing traffic volume in CDO as the capital city of Misamis Oriental has increased rapidly due to urbanization.

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