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Nov 8

REMEMBERING YOLANDA: DISPELLING THE MYTHS

Ten years on, we have a new perspective of Yolanda.

If the government response was a failure, I should be the first one to condemn it: I lost 20 relatives to the super typhoon.

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No, it was not a failure. This compared to the actions of subsequent administrations in times of crises, both natural and man-made.

PNoy sent his Secretary to Ground Zero in Leyte to coordinate emergency operations with the local government, the PNP and the military.

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Duterte's Interior Secretary Año was never on top of the government response to the pandemic, being stricken twice by Covid and undergoing heart surgery twice - putting him out of action for extended periods.

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Sep 14

𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐏𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐘. 𝐆𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐍 𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐆’𝐬 𝐒𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐍 𝐀𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐃𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐓!
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REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
PASIG CITY ) S.S.
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AFFIDAVIT
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
I, GLENN A. CHONG, Filipino, of legal age, and a resident of Valle Verde 5, Pasig City, Philippines, after having been sworn in accordance with law, hereby depose and state that:
1.I am a former congressman of the lone district of Biliran;
2.I have been advocating for honest and credible elections since the advent of the automated national and local elections in 2010;
advocacy is focused on exposing -
a.The fraudulent election system of, and the systematic cheating of our votes by, Smartmatic and/or its
b.affiliates/subsidiaries;
c.Their wanton and unabated violations of the applicable election laws, especially those involving the mandatory security features of the election system; and
d.Their stranglehold of the procurement process as shown by their monopoly of practically all election and related contracts in the 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and 2022 national and local elections;
the course of my advocacy spanning over thirteen years -
a.I attended numerous hearings of several committees of the Senate of the Philippines as resource person on automated elections and related issues;
b.I gave lectures/presentations to a wide range of audience across the country showing the anatomy of fraud perpetrated by Smartmatic and its cohorts, and the evidence thereof;
c.I authored a position paper on voter receipt (VVPAT1) which
Supreme Court cited in Bagumbayan-VNP Movement,
1 Voter-Verified PaperAuditTrail

Inc ., and Richard Gordon, as Chairman of Bagumbayan-VNP Movement vs The Comelec,2 a Petition for Mandamus seeking to compel the Comelec to issue the voter receipt;
d.I acted as resource person in the oral arguments before the Supreme Court in the same case; and
e.I published countless write-ups and gave numerous interviews on automated election manipulations, public vigilance and electoral reforms in both mainstream and social media, both in the Philippines and abroad;
2016, I was consulted by the political campaign of a presidential candidate in the United States of America on the issues of automated election manipulation and Smartmatic;
2019, I was also consulted by a technical consultant of the political opposition in Argentina regarding the issue of election fraud involving Smartmatic;
7.A day after the 9 May 2016 national and local elections, I was summoned to the campaign headquarters of Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. (Bongbong) by former Rep. Jonathan A. Dela Cruz to shed light on the tweaking of the transparency servers used during the tabulation of the votes; there, I met the candidate and his wife, Louise A. Marcos (Liza);
8.Thereafter, I was made to face both foreign and local media to explain and answer questions about what happened on the night of the vote canvassing;
9.Over the next six years, I worked with Bongbong and Liza (collectively, Marcos couple), their lawyers, and practically all of their staff who were involved in the electoral protest filed by Bongbong against then Vice President Maria Leonor G. Robredo;
10.Along with the Marcos couple, our select group of six individuals ("techies") regularly and privately met over dinner at the couple's house in Forbes Park and, at other times, at the office of the law firm of Liza in Bonifacio Global City; we met for discussions of technical issues, brainstorming and crafting of strategies, updates and socials;

11.I assisted the Marcos couple, their lawyers and their staff in many different ways without any compensation or expectation of reward because Bongbong's electoral protest was at the core of my advocacy; I firmly believed that Smartmatic manipulated the 2016 general elections as it did in all previous and subsequent general elections;

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12.On 31 July 2018, I testified before the Senate of the Philippines concerning the anomalies and fraud involving the Smartmatic automated election system in the 2016 national and local elections;
13.Among many others, I testified and produced the evidence involving the electronic transmission of election results in 459 precincts one day before election day; as shown in the records and footage of the hearing, both the Smartmatic and the Comelec were miserably unable to explain the phenomenon;
14.On 22 October 2018, in compliance with an order, I filed a 250-page Comment with the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) in the protest case of Marcos, Jr. vs Robredo;
my Comment, I detailed the anomalies and fraud of the Smartmatic automated election system in the 2016 national and local elections; I attached all the evidence obtained from the election system itself; significantly, the PET did not sanction me for allegedly violating the rule on sub judice, neither did it issue a gag order which was urgently pleaded by the respondent;
16.On 26 November 2018, I filed my Certificate of Candidacy as a substitute candidate for senator in the 2019 national and local elections; my avowed aim was to bring the issue of automated election fraud by Smartmatic into the fore of national attention and discussion; my candidacy would provide me greater visibility and an amplified platform to advance my advocacy;
17.However, on 9 December 2018 -
a.133 days after I testified in the Senate of the Philippines;
b.48 days after I filed my 250-page Comment to the PET; and
c.13 days after I filed my Certificate of Candidacy in substitution,

my trusted and long-time personal/security aide, Richard Y. Santillan (Richard), was mercilessly tortured, and "brutally and brazenly"3 killed by twenty police officers;
18. To be clear, I have no known enemies except Smartmatic and its cohorts; while the politics in Biliran were at times unruly and heated, I have not run for any elective position there or elsewhere for years prior to the incident; thus, to my mind, the incident was a clear case of "selective terrorism"4 perpetrated on a person very close to me in order to frighten me into submission and silence;
19.During the memorial service for Richard, the Marcos couple extended their condolences and sent flowers; less than three weeks after the incident, Liza summoned me to her office and offered to pay for two of my new security aides for the next six months; she deposited their salaries directly to my bank account from January to June 2019;
20.Sometime before the pandemic, in one of our private gatherings at the couple's house in Forbes Park, Bongbong asked who among the eight of us in the dining table had paid the highest price in the fight against Smartmatic; I replied that I probably had paid the highest price with the life of Richard; Bongbong readily agreed;
21.Towards the end of October 2021, after Bongbong had filed his Certificate of Candidacy for president, Liza summoned me to her office; as we ate lunch together, she requested my presence at the Marcos campaign headquarters for "even just twice a week";
22.After she made the request, she asked how much she would have to pay me; I readily assured her that I will be present at the Marcos campaign headquarters two days each week at the minimum until election day, and that she did not have to pay me anything;
23.I reminded her that I have been truly grateful when she paid for two of my new security aides for six months in 2019; since I have volunteered to help the Marcos couple in line with my advocacy, without any compensation or expectation of reward, her gesture wasmore than enough for me;

24.Before we ended our lunch, Liza promised me that if Bongbong is elected as president, I will be appointed as commissioner of the Comelec, then later, its chairman; I thanked her for her promise;

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25.I started my duty at the Marcos campaign headquarters along EDSA in Mandaluyong City by the middle of November 2021; I was there twice a week until it became almost daily towards the end of the campaign period;
26.On 10 December 2021, I received SMS5 from the secretary of Liza requesting me to attend a meeting with Smartmatic; it was Liza who instructed her secretary to relay the request to me; the meeting was scheduled at 6:00 in the evening at 5600 South Super Highway corner Arellano Street; unfortunately, I was not able to attend the meeting;
27.The next day, I found out that the meeting was between the representatives of Liza, supposedly including myself, and the officials of Total Information Management Corporation (TIM Corporation) at the latter's office; TIM Corporation is the joint venture partner of Smartmatic; they formed Smartmatic TIM Corporation for the automated elections in the Philippines;
28.Between the middle of November 2021 to the middle of March 2022, I worked at the 6th floor of the Marcos campaign headquarters; this is one floor below the restricted offices of the candidateandhis top campaign officials; our unit was designated as the Vote Protection Unit (VPU); only a small office separated our unit from the office of Liza;
addition to my duty at the Marcos campaign headquarters, I also went to the provinces of Nueva Ecija, Zambales, Laguna, Iloilo and Guimaras to actively campaign for Bongbong;
January 2022, upon the request of Partido Federal ng Pilipinas, I set up the Marcos campaign headquarters in Biliran in my family's commercial building; I paid for the utilities and the allowances of the volunteers manning it and those campaigning for Bongbong in Biliran; I informed Liza about this matter and she thanked me;
31.Sometime after 7 March 2022, and before our unit wasfully transferred to a bigger office at the Cybergate Plaza across the Marcos campaign headquarters on 21 March 2022, I was scheduled for a one-on-one meeting with Liza;

32.When I arrived at the VPU that afternoon, I saw Atty. Ivan E. Uy (Ivan) and Atty. Hubert B. Guevara (Hubert) at the conference table; Ivan and Hubert are part of the VPU and the select group of six individuals ("techies") who regularly and privately met with the Marcos couple over the years; when I was called for my meeting with Liza, they also came along with me to her office;
33.The first to get inside the office was Ivan, followed by Hubert and myself; Ivan seated himself at the farthest end of the conference table, to the right side of Liza who was standing on the other side of the table; Hubert seated himself closer to Ivan, almost directly opposite to Liza; I seated myself at the other end of the table opposite to Ivan, to the far-left side of Liza;
Liza was standing on the other side of the table and facing Ivan and Hubert, she declared the following: "Guys, I have a meeting with the owners of Smartmatic. I need two technical guys to come with me.";
35.Then, she suddenly turned around to face me, emphatically pointing her finger at me, and blurted the following: "But not you because they hate you so much."; at that point, I already knew what the meeting with the owners of Smartmatic involving "two technical guys" will be about;
36.Smartmatic had to reach out and talk to Liza, as much as Salome danced before Herod, in order to neutralize me, as did John the Baptist lose his head;
37.I found out later from my source at the Bureau of Immigration that one "Pi?ate Martinez, Roger Alejandro", born on 22 April 1975, Venezuelan citizen, arrived in the Philippines on 17 March 2022 and departed on 5 April 2022; thus, "Pi?ate Martinez, Roger Alejandro" was in the Philippines at about the time Liza declared that she is meeting with the "owners of Smartmatic";

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Jun 9

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A long thread from the FB of Eliseo Rio Jr.
@ChairGEGarcia
The Commission on Elections (@COMELEC ) and its Automated Election System provider @smartmatic, have made a change in their protocols, which prevented the tracing of the actual source of transmission of votes from
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precincts that can potentially be used to tamper with the results as warned by then Senate President Tito Sotto and Senator Ping Lacson.

And here are the proofs that the results of the 2022 Election were TAMPERED OR RIGGED, as warned. In the “Raw Files” (gzip) uploaded by
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COMELEC on their website last March 23, 2022, these observations were made. In the first hour of counting by the Transparency Server, several precinct Election Returns (ER) received from different VCMs HAVE THE SAME IP ADDRESS!
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Jun 2

I believe these are the three main issues, among others, that hound the #MarcosInvestmentFund (MIF):
1.CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE. Filipinos and foreign investors alike have a crisis of confidence on the people behind the MIF and those who will be managing it.
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They do not trust the Marcos-Romualdez political dynasty and their cronies to run the show considering the family's sordid track record of corruption and plunder. This explains why the pledges that the host countries made to FBBM in his 11 or so visits there have not been
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translated into reality. Likewise, this is the reason why there has been widespread opposition from the more enlightened sectors of Filipino society against the idea.
2.VIABILITY. The Constitution requires the test of economic viability before a GOCC could be created.
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Jun 2

FAT CATS OF THE MAHARLIKA FUND

Under Section 12 of the #MarcosInvestmentFund law, admin costs are limited to 2% of the capital. That looks small on paper. But considering that target capitalization of the fund is in the neighborhood of ₱500B, that would amount to ₱10B.
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That's more than the combined budget of P7 Billion allocated to Lung Center of the Philippines (P835.2 M), National Kidney and Transplant Institute (P1.7 B) , Philippine Children’s Medical Center (P2.1 B), Philippine Heart Center (P2.1 B) for the year 2023.
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The more capital they are able to shake down from government institutions the more money for the salaries and emoluments for the officials of this Fund headed by Finance Secretary Diokno - who will not even be breaking sweat, considering that theirs are not full-time jobs,
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Jun 1

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Dedicated to @loren_legarda for giving us a good for nothing being!

Antiqueño Ingenuity: The AIs of Paliwan 🌊

The top 12 best Paliwan memes are a reflection of how Antiqueños can see the humorous side of a stressful situation, and deal with a calamity with resiliency.
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We've also discovered the hidden talents of Antiqueños in social media editing.

These memes were not only ideas or a trend that spread by means of imitation from netizen to netizen within our Karay-a culture, but it carried a symbolic meaning representing a particular
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significant social issue.

Why are Antiqueños so immersed and interactive with these current memes of Paliwan? Is this because we feel hopeless with the situation? Is this because we feel powerless? Something to think about 🤔
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