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The Fleurdelis Green Heights Project - Mindanao - FGH

FGH is going to the use the technology of green and blue roofing, among many other green engineering and design concepts. This is showcased in the world renown township design of an architectural firm for the City of Gwanggyo, South Korea shown in the images below:

Green construction technology is going to break barriers today and in the future. The rapid depletion of green resources around the world will encourage governments and the private sector to push ahead in that direction.

QualityChange.org supports the campaign for Anti-Slavery

Philippines: among the highest incidents of slavery around the world

Without the fact being publicized, the Philippines in reality ranks among the countries with the highest incidences of slavery.

A short walk down red light districts all over the country will reveal too many young and not so young women forcibly taken into unpleasant sex jobs and unable to escape their circumstances.  Some time ago, and perhaps even up to the present, provinces in Southern Luzon became popular for young boys and girls sold to both locals and foreigners in child prostitution - pedophile patrons paid large sums of money to engage in sexual acts painful to these children.

In many homes, farms, factories - not always within the country, very young people of both sexes are forced to work as domestic helpers, menial workers, odd jobbers - some are subjected to rape, brutality and other unconscionable forms of violence by their masters. Many of these young people are barely compensated since they are at the mercy of their very masters and if they have no will to fight, cannot escape their virtual imprisonment. Who is to say that not a single one of these severely oppressed domestic workers have not been kidnapped from their own homes and instead willingly went to work for jobs where they could hardly eat, sleep and earn decent pay?

Many point at India and African states and nearby countries as having the worst numbers of people trapped in slavery. The subtle nuances of slavery in the Philippines does not make the country less answerable to the charge that the government cannot do so much to solve the problem of blatant enslavement of humans and robbing them of their natural rights to exist in relative freedom and enjoy life like their fellow human beings.

In countries where government are more concerned with the fanfare of political vengeance or vendetta, killing prospects of political rivals for future elections, as well as engaging in extreme forms of money making to the exclusion of safeguarding the welfare of the citizens, slavery will thrive and truly prosper.

A true inventory of how many people are victims of slavery in the Philippines will reveal the hurting truth that this country is suffering too many of its children, women and even a huge chunk of the working sector in abject slavery. For this reason, it is categorically claimed that the Philippines is one country where the incidence of slavery in child prostitution, white slavery, forced enslavement in mean and low-paying menial jobs, among many other forms of slavery, is one of the highest in the whole world.

This has to change.

QualityChange.org fervently desires the coming together of more individuals, families, organizations and religious groups, sectoral aggrupations to end slavery in the country and help bring down the statistics of Filipinos being victimized by international slavery rings.

Letter to Pres. Aquino and Sec. Abaya

Open Letter to His Excellency Benigno Simeon Aquino III, 

President of the Philippines

and Honorable Joseph Emilio Abaya, Secretary

Department of Transportation and Communications

Dear President Aquino and Secretary Abaya:

Between 1989-1990, we began the advocacy for a Philippine safety agency that led to the passage of the Republic Act to create the NTSB - National Transportation Safety Board.

Shown below is the reconstruction of the briefing on the need to operationalize the National Transportation Safety Board. We revised the briefing over and over again. The updating of the voluminous data on accidents over land, to include actuarial and statistical computations of the probabilities of new accidents for extended, extrapolated periods, is not included since it would be too tasking for us and we do not have the resources nor are equipped any longer to undertake the job.

In the past, we were fortunate to be working with a foreign counterpart - the Harris Corporation Florida USA, a conglomerate with over 100 companies under its wings, that allowed us to opportunity to campaign for the privatization of the then Air Transportation Office's ATS (Air Traffic Service) as well as to push for the creation of the Philippines' transport safety agency.

- Original proponents for National Transport Safety Board 1994
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Aquino government moro-moro

The zarzuela continues. This supposedly "good-intentioned" Senate Hearing, in aid of Demolition, succeeds as a major public relations campaign of world wide magnitude. As a play, the entire production does not rate even a low D grade. It was too transparent to be stage managed, with Madam Janet Lim Napoles talking to her friend-senators as if they were long-lost friends. She does not even use the respectful address of Your Honor and never leads her statements with Mr. Chairman of the Committee.

Madam Napoles was in the Senate at her best element. She even complained that she must be given her free lunch time.

Led by Senators TG Guingona, a known substance abuser and Peter Alan Cayetano, a man insanely driven by the ambition to rise above the person who fed his young models-loving father from the palm of his hand (called Tanda by Sen. Miriam Santiago, ex Judge and former Cory appointee as well as collector of about a half-million pesos bribe per head now ensconced in Switzerland from the lion's share of undocumented 4 million chinese in the Philippines during the 1986 installed revolutionary regime), the drama goes on attempting to be the best Pitong Komikera-Komikerong Itlog show in this part of the globe.

The lady from Lima was also present, hubnubbing with Sen. Santiago during recess with Sens. Cayetano and Trillanes trading ideas from time to time during the interregnum when the Great Madam money giver to presidents, politicians and bureaucrats and money grubber, in the league of Mr. Zaldy Co and Mr. Edwin Gardiola said Time Out, I Have To Eat Lunch. Missing the action was the real lawyer of Madam, Atty. Fred Villamor, for whom the lady of Lima lawyered for Madam Napoles, being an obedient , willing partner with or without her underwear.

The useless debates centered on the scripted silence of Ms. Napoles and the supposedly honest, "credibility of the truth" statements of Benhur Luy, as well as other Napoles underlings. Even President Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino the 3rd did not bother to listen to any of the burdensome, inane and previously scripted talk flying freely at Senate. The turd had prepared speeches to media about the bagyo - super typhoon Yolanda. The Madam continuously denied everything while Brain dead Miriam Santiago became her tutor in how to deny everything in the most decent, legalistic manner: "I refuse to answer, I invoke my right against self-incrimination."

On occasion, at least once or twice, it was mentioned that the famous NGO (non-government organization) and PO (people's organization) community organizer, Madam Napoles, even used the dead to populate her NGOs and POs. From her probably great gratitude to the dead, she possibly bought beautiful Heritage Park lots for her benefactors - Senators, Presidents, Congresspersons, the President's top men and women, local officials and national budget bigwigs.

A Letter Inviting GeoHazard experts to Manila for a Conference

December 9, 2013

Dear Sir / Madame,

Greetings!

This is to formally invite your attention to our determination to hold the international conference on geohazard mapping and relevant environment issues. Our group decided to launch a campaign in 2009 for sustainable crisis hazards mapping and relevant environmental concerns after returning from Mindanao, Philippines following the end of the effort in ending the highly expensive hotel billeting by Juma’a Abu Sayyap of selected staff members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from Switzerland (Andreas Notter), Italy (Eugenio Vagni) and Philippines (Mary Jane Lacaba).  More  >  >

Reconstruction and Recovery

The World Bank says that timely reconstruction will help lessen the impact of super typhoon Yolanda. Before we digest these words, it is also significant to look back into the past.

There was a time in fairly recent past when NBC news anchor Brian Williams sounded like a broken record repeating the words over and over again that: Aviation in the United States of America is dying. This is now true with Philippine air line companies and selected several other businesses in the Philippines right at this very moment.

During the post-Yolanda period, only at least one air line company that very enterprisingly lowered its passenger rates (presumably including for cargo) per seat-mile, notwithstanding that the Philippine government ordered that a number of fees and charges being levied in the aviation sector will be waived, among other behests in order to lessen the burden for victims of the calamity and those that had to fly to ground zero to participate in disaster relief and recovery operations . . . .

Dire is a weak description for the situation that a select number of businesses in the Philippines are in right now. More > >