Thank You President Obama, & the American people for all the help your government so generously granted to the millions of poor Filipinos - double victims of Supertyphoon Haiyan & decades of severe-corruption by local officials. Even the (shameless) corrupt local officials of the devastated constituents benefited...

Metrics: Measures of Progress & Success – Helping Save At Least A Total of 999 Lives in 10 Years

Quantitative, numbers. We will declare progress and success based on as close to academic-standards as possible. And we will submit for comments and validations, maybe even simple merits, our results and computations to - as to achieving milestones and ultimate success - both foreign and local researchers and academic personalities. Indeed we mean business here.

If it becomes impossible to determine, however, we will simply cite verifiable anecdotal evidences. Or both.

Because this project is part of a larger and innovative anti-corruption crusade we are initiating, we might not be able to give regular-interval updates as to our progress. One thing - we are doing it all with less than shoestring budget and in extremely difficult circumstances. And while in hardships.

The Missing Link/s in President Aquino’s Epic Fight Against Corruption

First, we believe lasting success can't be through some knockouts. So we believe are the best methods in drastically curbing severe corruption in the Philippines to ensure lasting success and that substantial benefits reach the millions of the poor families.

But winning in broad fronts. Even slowly perhaps, but consistently. Before we go to the topic of what we think are the missing links in President Aquino’s battle against monstrous corruption, let us first give you an overview of the Philippine context. And rare are public officials even allies of the President who can do or accomplish any more than what they already did that can give even more impetus to sustaining or even improving the already successful (at least at strategic level) fight of the President and his top men against monstrous corruption in the country.

Sad FACTS - Severe Corruption in the Philippines

Please keep in mind that this blog is ran by 2 mere bastards and nobodies in the country. They intend to subscribe only to their standards in terms of quality of English writing. As we type from memory almost all of the time, in between noisy, rowdy young gamers oftentimes and during extremely challenging personal circumstances that we are in right now - we can’t be strictly adhering to academic or court standards in terms of writing our thoughts, ideas and activities here. However, we are aware of not a few policy-makers who are to read what we write about in this blog. So we impose some standards on ourselves nevertheless. And we are ready and confident that the plausibility, validity or sense of our ideas can withstand the harshest of criticisms from objective academic persons even at Ivy League universities in the US.

World' Worst Disparity Between Top 100 Tycoons & Millions of Poor Families

We don’t have a small segment of the population vastly influencing or controlling our government, a fact in many major third world countries like Thailand and Mexico, and controlling a disproportionate percentage of our national wealth. We do have only less than 100 supertycoon-families controlling, say, more than 20% of our national wealth and vastly influencing our government – including its mechanisms for counterchecks and balances. More than 5 million families live on $2 a day, in this country of roughly 100 million hostages-people.

A problem of astronomical proportion: Organized crime lords easily flourish in this kind of environment where a few very powerful tycoons, public officials dictate upon or manipulate government policies to favor them, with dearth of exceptions.

Help Save 991 Lives- Insights As To Our Intentions and Thoughts at This Time

What can you expect from this blog? 
Of course with your help, we can help with more probably realized our goal of helping save a total of 991 lives and least in less than ten years

Printing results after weeks of overnight number-crunching work

How Do We Intend to Accomplish Such An Ambitious Goal?
We have a range of initiatives planned - creative, innovative but simple and doable ones. Not all solutions are complex and many are already solutions and hand. 

Yet we can not narrate it all here, as some discretion and prudence during the initiation phase of these project are required to make sure it all proves effective and produce desired results approximated as - help save 991 lives and least in ten years



How Can You Help?
By contributing sensible, maybe even simply wild ideas here. By spreading the word about this initiative.

For one, we will be highly selective and extremely careful as to making any Decisions or actions that can potentially compromise the intended results of our planned courses of actions to take and in the accomplishment of our ultimate objectives - and help save 991 lives in ten least years. 

Please help us obtain more signatures for this petition at causes.com. Thank you.

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https://www.causes.com/campaigns/73915-help-samar-leyte-heal-rise-faster-prevent-corruption-now

This aims to Prevent theft of relief and rehab funds for the millions of poor families in Central Philippines. Please invite friends to sign the petition. That will go a long way. And all you need to do is click a "Sign the Petition" and confirm it in your email account. Then please help spread the word ...

Now Showing - The Ugly Faces of Corruption That Kills

Weary and in despair, Agapito (not his real name) narrated to us how he slowly rebuilt the roof of his very old mother's house in Central Philippines without a single nail or a single peso of help from anyone and from any government agency. Though at first he felt rather lucky that none of his relatives perished when Supertyphoon Haiyan struck...

Admittedly, it is a challenge for both the local government agencies, international aid & relief organizations and foreign government aid agencies - to ensure an equitable or even distribution of relief and rehabilitation resources and efforts to... 

But what so dishearten them all in his village, he laments, is a near-decade of bad governance as they think the local chief executive (Mayor) minded only how to enrich himself and not just recover his election vote-buying expenditures. He never embarked on any infrastructure improvements, as he amassed wealth rather fast affording his family to buy several vehicles in a short period of time (a phenomenon so common in the Philippines, anyway)...

This blog is under development and our lives are some danger... We are actually under some clandestine persecution right now but nothing stops us... A courage and risk we're taking as nothing stops the severely corrupt local officials from trying their most ingenious means to steal or profit from even charity money for their constituents, the very ones they deprived of much development funds over the years, including disaster-mitigation funds... 

It's so big a shame for us Filipinos to do nothing as many volunteers who live comfortable lives in their paradise-like communities or countries help to mitigate not only the devastation caused by natural disasters here but by man-instigated or man-exacerbated disasters...

We invite you all to share us stories of destruction caused by corruption in your villages, towns, cities and districts... We need your help. You can help. And we all can help beyond superficial level - that we are all guilty of as we simply shrug-off reports of corruption... Corruption that kills...

Thank you.


Ernest Barraquias Jr.
Rian Igos