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Presidents never err; only appointees do

Presidents never err; only appointees do

by | Apr 14, 2023 | Gotcha

PNA photo of the White House and Malacañang

GOTCHA

written on July 6, 2022

 

The President is always right. Not so his appointees. When the highest official of the land fouls up, a lesser mortal must take the fall.

The White House evolved that infallibility rule. The US Chief Executive’s image must be kept intact, noted George Reedy in “The Twilight of the Presidency” (1970). First in Washington’s firing line is the White House Chief of Staff. The CoS is the president’s right-hand man, overseeing for him the entire executive staff. The appointee needs no congressional consent, but lower ones must pass grilling.

Adopting America’s ways, Malacañang follows that unwritten code. The Philippine equivalent is the executive secretary. While that primus inter pares of appointees must submit his credentials, Congress’ Commission on Appointments confirms him promptly, as courtesy to the President.

The ES has both line and staff functions. He supervises 8,000 other presidential choices. Those include the President’s immediate circle: spokesman, legal counsel, finance director, aide-de-camp, protocol officer, social secretary and management staff. Plus, Cabinet secretaries, under- and assistant secretaries, bureau and regional directors, commissioners and state corporation board members.

President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has barely started the selection. Only a week in office, he has yet to pick secretaries for health, energy and environment and natural resources. The rest can be stretched over the first 100 days’ honeymoon with the opposition, press and public.

Yet controversies rumble about early choices. Reportedly with conflicts of interest are the four highest positions at a GOCC (government-owned and controlled corporation). The general manager-designate reportedly owns with daughters ferry lines. Operating 20 percent of ports, his firms allegedly owe government P132 million. His lawyer claims they intend to pay the debt after litigation. He is said to be bringing in three fellow-shipping and port businessmen to various positions. “The regulated also will be the regulators,” competitors howled.

 

Executive Secretary Vic Rodriguez is expected to withdraw the appointments. He must avert the explosion of the issue in his boss Marcos Jr.’s face. Those backgrounds may have slipped past the vetting committee; Rodriguez must serve as final screener.

Three other controversies have been reported. One is the surprise nomination of an ex-congressman with no knowledge in the energy secretary-ship. This shunted aside another former lawmaker and dynastic supporter of Marcos Jr. Second is the placement as environment secretary of a failed mayoral candidate last May. The law bans election losers from government appointment till after one year.

The last is Marcos Jr.’s veto of the bill for economic zone status to the rising New Manila International Airport in Bulacan.

Authored by Marcos’ sister Senator Imee Marcos, the bill grants tax incentives to aviation investors that would set up shop in Aerocity beside the 1,500-hectare NMIA. Congress intends such incentives to attract high-tech firms. San Miguel Corp. is to build the P740-billion aerodrome on its own, without sovereign guarantee.

The veto could have been limited to the exemption from certain state audit rules, the portion that Malacañang disliked. The Constitution’s Article VI, Section 27 allows line-item veto in an appropriation, revenue or tariff bill. Raising eyebrows, the blanket veto unfairly put SMC’s project in a bad light. It was rushed last weekend apparently with incomplete staffwork, as the bill would have lapsed into law last Monday, 30 days after enrollment.

Those controversies could have been avoided. Four times the President was left with nobody covering his back.

In his book “The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency” (2017), political analyst Chris Whipple quoted job self-descriptions by 30 former CoS of 12 US presidents. Among them: the President’s SOB, absolute loyalty to the Boss, able to meld policy and politics, know how to fire and be fired, humble enough to listen to all, present to the Chief Executive all views including those contrary to his, able to tell the President painful truths, manage daily the President’s idea-processing time to include screening of unnecessary visitors even close friends and relatives, and discipline appointees who have “spoils of war” mentality. Most of all, must willingly take the bullet for him.

                                                 

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Resume the drug war – scientifically this time

Resume the drug war – scientifically this time

by | Apr 14, 2023 | Gotcha

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GOTCHA

written on July 1, 2022

 

Ending the shabu scourge remains top priority. A society softened by addiction cannot progress. The previous admin admitted failure of its promised drug war. The new one must avoid past mistakes.

The campaign flopped because driven by dazzle and not data. Planning was haphazard. Malacañang trumpeted to wipe out shabu lords in three months, then six months, then one year. None of the deadlines was met.

Four of five supposed syndicate bosses were slain: two in prison, the third in police custody and the fourth in a raid. The last, close to higher-ups, was spared. Narcs dismantled dozens of shabu laboratories in rented mansions with swimming pools, penthouse condos and huge piggeries. Police barged into shanties or busted pushers in the streets. Thousands were killed following a pattern: “nanlaban (they resisted)”, pulling out rusty 38 caliber revolvers from basketball shorts when cornered.

Crime-riddled streets turned quiet. Over a million confessed addicts surrendered to barangay officials. But there was no rehab plan at all. After half-day lectures under the sun, they were told to go home and sin no more. Left unused was a multi-story halfway house hurriedly built inside a military camp by a Chinese donor who turned out to be in the government’s very drug watchlist.

The demand-side of the narco-trade remained. Yet authorities could not agree on figures. The policy-making Dangerous Drugs Board estimated addicts to number 1.6 million. Its Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and deputized Philippine National Police counted 3.2 million. Wars are lost on miscalculations.

The supply-side went on too. Shabu continued to be smuggled by the tons in ports or dropped shipside in isolated islands. Contraband slipped past Customs inside metal printing cylinders and magnetic lifters, or concealed in cargo containers of tapioca starch and tea bags.

Malacañang and its enforcers could not see their mistakes. Hunger for publicity blinded them. They kept top billing the tens to hundreds of millions of pesos worth of shabu they confiscated in street buy-busts. More so, the billions in cash of bulks they interdicted in warehouses.

But peso values were inaccurate measures of success. Those values fluctuate depending on smuggling arrivals and location of seizure. A freshly delivered kilo-bag (1000 grams) of shabu may fetch P10 million for gangsters in Bicol or the Visayas, where they have fewer provincial sub-dealers and street-pushers to sell to fewer addicts. Yet even only a tenth of that volume in 100 one-gram sachets peddled by a grandmother can command the same P10 million in Metro Manila, where there are more cops on the lookout. Enforcers craved media headlines for nabbing without understanding the fluctuations.

After each such multimillion-peso success, vice squad leaders wrote up self-commendatory reports for promotion. As they rose in rank, they “intensified” the drug war for still higher promotion.

The better success measure should be the volume of shabu versus the number of addicts. Authorities should seize more supply to make it prohibitive for addicts – assuming the latter finish months-long rehab.

Only once did the PDEA summarize its data – in #RealNumbersPH, July 1, 2016-June 30, 2019. Stated among others was that 4,409 kilos of shabu were seized in those three years. Its value of P34.75 billion is irrelevant.

Days after PDEA released the report in November 2019, the PNP-Drug Enforcement Group reiterated what it was up against. Three million addicts each snort one gram of shabu per week. That’s a staggering three million grams or 3,000 kilos a week. The value of that shabu market is P25 billion a week, PNP-DEG said. That’s why criminals persist in narco-trafficking.

Analyzing the PDEA and PNP-DEG data showed a dismal success rate. In the 156 weeks of July 2016-June 2019, the government had seized only one-and-a-half week’s consumption of shabu. That was at the cost of nearly 6,000 drug lords, pushers – and lawmen – killed.

As far back as April 2019, Malacañang surrendered: “The shabu problem was swallowing the country.” Thereafter, raids and buy-busts continued here and there – still highlighting the irrelevant street values instead of the volumes.

If the drug war must resume, it should be scientific this time. (Read also “Report volume, not value of shabu interdictions”, Gotcha, 4 Dec. 2019: https://www.philstar.com/opinion/2019/12/04/1974051/report-volume-not-value-shabu-interdictions

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Run after lawmakers’ taxes too, not only Marcoses’

Run after lawmakers’ taxes too, not only Marcoses’

by | Apr 14, 2023 | Gotcha

PNA photo of BIR building

GOTCHA

written on June 24, 2022

 

Incoming BIR commissioner Lilia Guillermo can up the ante. Collect, as announced, not only the P23.3-billion estate tax of the family of her new boss Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos. Sweep the table by going after tax liabilities of lawmakers as well. Pay special attention to the supermajorities in the Senate and House of Reps. That way Guillermo can fulfill her revenue collection strategy of leadership by example.

The first 100 days are crucial. Marcos Jr. needs to prove his mettle at once. He would be inheriting a P13-trillion public debt and 25 percent unemployment and underemployment. Food, energy and transport crises loom. Solutions lie in government start-ups and “ayuda”. Those cost money – tax money.

Filipinos know why lawmakers form supermajorities. It’s not only to show fealty to the president. It’s more to get what they want – pork barrels from which to take kickbacks.

The Supreme Court has outlawed pork barrels since 2013. Before then, each senator received P200 million and congressman P70 million per year to spend at will. Those used to be called Countryside Development Fund, Priority Development Assistance Fund and Disbursement Acceleration Program. After illegalization, legislators resorted to “insertions” by the billions of pesos. Public funds are re-channeled from executive departments to their personal projects. Most preferred are multibillion-peso “flood control” works; that is, make-believe river dredging. The money goes straight to the legislators’ pockets.

Spotting the crooked in Congress should be easy for Guillermo. They usually are those who swap or synchronize seats with spouses, siblings, parents and offspring. A political dynasty used to target the P200-million loot. Today each hoards P2 billion to P20 billion. Not to forget the bureaucrats and local officials.

Every year one-fifth of the national budget is lost to corruption, the World Bank laments. That would be P1 trillion of this year’s P5-trillion expenditure program. Guillermo can partner with the Ombudsman and the Anti-Money Laundering Council to go after the stolen wealth.

As for Marcos, Guillermo already has her work cut out for her. The BIR as far back as 1991 calculated the estate tax: P23,293,607,638. In addition was the income tax deficiency in 1985-1986 of spouses Ferdinand Edralin Marcos Sr. and Imelda Romualdez Marcos: P184,159,289.70. Plus, Marcos Jr.’s income tax liabilities in 1982-1985: P20,410, an issue raised in the election campaign.

The SC in 1997 deemed those collectibles final and executory.

During the recent campaign too, retired SC justice Antonio Carpio computed the estate tax to have swelled to P203.8 billion due to interests and surcharges.

Marcos Jr.’s staunchest supporters say his presidency is his one chance to redeem the family name, through actions and accomplishments.

Guillermo’s role in that cleansing is vital. Collection of taxes from perceived untouchables would make the new admin credible. Individual and corporate income earners willingly would chip in their share. Foreign and domestic investments will multiply. The government would be able to take out additional loans.

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Stop reinventing the wheel; build upon science studies

Stop reinventing the wheel; build upon science studies

by | Apr 14, 2023 | Gotcha

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GOTCHA

written on June 22, 2022

 

A new administration need not reinvent the wheel on assuming office. Building upon previous leaderships’ accomplishments guarantees quick results. More so since past successes invariably are anchored on scientific data and practices.

An example is in agriculture. In 1992 then-secretary Senen Bacani commissioned a soil study of the archipelago. Thick ring-binders of acetates illustrated the type and depth of loam – and therefore the suitable crops – in each municipality and barangay.

From the database farmers were persuaded to plant cash crops like asparagus, sorghum, broccoli, celery, peppercorn, even ornamental flowers. The Land Bank and some rural banks lent capital. The aim was to replicate Japan’s One Town-One Product program as Thailand did.

Unfortunately, the chain was broken. Government devolution moved state agricultural technicians to municipal payrolls. Unready for new responsibilities, many mayors retired the experts. No second-liners were mentored. Farmers lost trainors in new methods and techniques. Buyers lost suppliers.

That strategy can be revived. New cheaper technologies can be applied for crop packaging, storage and transporting. Imagine carts on hillside ziplines. Harvesters can link up online directly with buyers like restaurant chains, hotels and wholesalers. No longer should farmers be forced to throw away unsold produce on roadsides.

Correct applications eliminate guesswork. With good aquaculture research for instance, the country may not need to import fish. Government statisticians must not limit data gathering to “consignaciones.” Few tilapia and milkfish-raisers drop off harvests in those fish trading depots, says aquaculturist Norbert Chingcuanco. Most deliver straight to public markets.

With accurate data capture, policymakers may discover oversupply in fish pens and ponds, and that difficulties may lie in transporting via dirt roads and clogged streams. Tutors are scarce in fish deboning and filleting for added value.

Trainors are needed too in duck and goose raising. As contract-growing of chicken thrives, so should that of other fowl – with strict weight standards.

The energy department too has a wealth of information. But petroleum, wind and tide surveys are gathering dust. Millions of dollars’ worth of studies obtained from international experts and oil-and-gas explorers will go to waste. Uncaring appointees let the documents rot and videotapes mildew.

Liguasan Marsh in Cotabato-Maguindanao-Sultan Kudarat has long been estimated to contain up to 20 billion cubic feet of methane. Yet no admin has harnessed the gas in the 2,200-square kilometer bog into electricity worth a trillion dollars. Neither have forceful seawater flow in numerous straits been used for energy from new tide technology.

The Mines and Geosciences Bureau mapped all geohazard zones in 2003. Yet mayors continue to permit residential development in flood- and landslide-prone ridgesides.

Environment bureaucrats know all the watersheds that need protection. Yet their mindset is to license those off to mine and quarry speculators.

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Despite Manila’s protests, Beijing gets what it wants

Despite Manila’s protests, Beijing gets what it wants

by | Apr 14, 2023 | Gotcha

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GOTCHA

written on June 17, 2022

 

“A diplomat is a gentleman who can tell a lie in such a manner to another gentleman (who is also a diplomat) that the second gentleman is compelled to let on that he really believes the first gentleman, although he knows that the first gentleman is a liar, who knows that the second gentleman does not believe him, yet both let on that each believes the other, while both know that both are liars.” (Herbert V. Prochnow)

Beijing lies when it says it is Manila’s friend. All its acts are belligerent. It occupies or blockades nine western Philippine reefs, shoals and islets. Its warships machinegun and watercannon Filipino boats approaching those traditional fishing grounds. Filipino exploration vessels are chased away.

China’s Communist Party deploys its fisheries militia to poach in exclusive Philippine waters. One steel trawler rammed an anchored Filipino wooden boat and left the 22 fishermen floating in the cold night sea. The CCP even justified the hit-and-run, a breach of international maritime law.

The People’s Liberation Army taunts Filipino defense forces. Bombers and troop transports test-land on airstrips concreted in the occupied reefs. Fighters routinely barge into Luzon airspace. Spy vessels trespass Sibutu Strait in Tawi-Tawi and Tubbataha reefs between Palawan and Panay. One PLA frigate aimed weapons at a Philippine Navy patrol near Malampaya gas field.

Beijing has neo-colonial designs on the Philippines – revealed in 1989. It designated a virtual Great Wall at sea along the Philippine west coast to Taiwan and Okinawa as a First Island Chain of Defense. A Second Island Chain connects the Philippine east coast, also to the two northern territories that Beijing claims to historically possess.

The plot has unraveled. Chinese warships traverse Philippine waters around Batanes, the sea lane from Balabac to Surigao Strait, and Sibutu Strait. They illegally explore the Philippine (Benham) Rise east of Luzon.

Part of the plot is to soften Filipinos. The CCP puts up national, congressional and local Manchurian candidates. Its United Front department influences via inducements Filipino academics, security specialists and businessmen. It abets shabu shipments to addle the minds of Filipino youths.

In March Chinese militia trawlers swarmed Julian Felipe (Whitsun) Reef, like last year, to attempt annexation. In April the China Coast Guard dropped fishnets and buoys to prevent Filipino sailors from resupplying Marines in Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal. The CCG insisted that the Filipinos take a shallow but treacherous route instead.

Beijing was making it clear that Philippine vessels may only reach Ayungin with its permission and that it can prevent this anytime, says international maritime lawyer Jay Batongbacal, PhD. “So, if we act the way they expect us to, we lose.”

As active defense, retired Supreme Court justice Antonio Carpio suggests that Manila build permanent civilian outposts on Ayungin and other West Philippine Sea features. Retired general Edilberto Adan, Advocates for National Interest chairman, proposes arming Filipino coastguards with water cannons. Asserting Philippine control over its waters is essential.

Geopolitics professor Renato de Castro, PhD says coast guards must protect Filipino fishermen from Chinese harassment. Former foreign secretary Albert del Rosario seeks more naval exercises with Philippine allies and tabling Beijing’s bellicosity at the UN General Assembly.

So far Manila only protests Beijing’s mounting provocations. Some leaders are subservient, unconstitutionally giving the top CCP commissar unlimited fishing rights in Philippine seas. Others are defeatist, proclaiming as futile buying patrol helicopters and boats.

Beijing’s foreign ministry is exhilarated. “A diplomat is a fellow that lets you do all the talking while he gets what he wants.” (Kin Hubbard)

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Scientists, tribesmen, notables join outcry against quarries

Scientists, tribesmen, notables join outcry against quarries

by | Apr 14, 2023 | Gotcha

PNA photo of alleged encroaching on the Masungi Georeserve

GOTCHA

written on June 15, 2022

 

Government scientists, tribesfolk and civic leaders have joined the outcry against quarrying in the Marikina watershed. In separate statements they denounce rock-crushing in the mountaintops of Rizal province that ruin protected areas and ancestral lands. Landslides and flash floods destroy lives and property in the cities below. The rainy season has begun. They plead with Malacañang and the Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources to preserve the forests, not level the slopes.

Their support boosts the morale of the few park rangers in Masungi Georeserve. The rangers replant and secure 2,700 hectares of hillsides in Baras town. Trespassers maul and harass them with gunfire.

Leave the watersheds untouched, National Museum specialists advise. Interconnected with surrounding watersheds, Masungi is sensitive to various disturbances. They propose ways to preserve it.

Karst characterize the Marikina watershed. Limestone beneath the topsoil absorbs rain, serving as aquifer for plants and clean spring water for animals and humans. Quarrying destroys the karst dating back to the Paleocene epoch 66-56 million years ago.

“The quality of any karst depends on the relationship of water, land, vegetation and soil,” National Museum chairperson Luli M. Arroyo-Bernas reiterates that 1997 report of the World Commission on Protected Areas in a May 6 letter to DENR Acting Sec. Jim Sampulna.

“Major land or hydrologic disturbance, even outside the actual karst landscape, can have expensive consequences,” Arroyo-Bernas stresses. “Anthropogenic activities [human disturbance of nature] in the vicinity may not cause direct destruction in the geopark itself, but may still disrupt the karst systems. These include forestry, agriculture, land clearance, quarrying, waste disposal, landfill and other developmental activities.”

The National Museum study was circulated among Filipino conservationists last May 22, International Day of Biological Diversity. Arroyo-Bernas says the report strengthens and substantiates state plans to preserve the watershed. “I hope this report and the recommendations specified can form a useful basis and tool for assessing and determining important measures to protect and conserve the area.”

Dumagat-Remontado tribesfolk petition authorities to save Susong Dalaga (maiden’s breast) peak. Part of their ancestral domain, the mountain formation is within the watershed. Yet DENR included it in two of three quarry permits issued in 1998.

A hundred Dumagat-Remontado leaders want President Duterte, Sampulna and Rizal Governor Rebecca Ynares to preserve the peak, their sacred shrine. Most of the tribe members farm within Antipolo City below the 1,300-hectare quarries.

A thousand hectares of quarry land overlap with the Masungi Geopark. In 2017 then-Sec. Gina Lopez tasked the Masungi Georeserve Foundation to rewild the watershed.

Birds, butterflies, wild boar and various flora flourished within five years of replanting 67,000 native trees, foundation president Ben Dumaliang beams. But trespassers have built a dozen swimming pool resorts in the overlapping zone. The two largest have fenced off and diverted half a kilometer of riverway into their pools. Illegal woodcutters engage in slash-and-burn (kaingin) farming.

The prestigious Knights of Rizal also wants the quarry permits cancelled and the trespassers evicted. “We lend our voice to the long overdue imperative to protect our forests, waterways, oceans and biodiversity,” the Chivalry Order says. ”State policy is to protect and promote the right of every Filipino to a balanced and healthy ecology. Every citizen should do his part to care for and protect our natural heritage, including forests which serve as our sole natural defense against disastrous floods, landslides and other calamities.”

The Knights condemn trespassers such as a retired DENR bigwig and an active police general who have built manors within the georeserve. The quarries, resorts and trespassers “have long destroyed our forests and waterways and irresponsibly put the lives and property of our countrymen downstream in peril,” state Supreme Commander Gerardo Calderon and eight other national officers. “The recent summer flood and landslide in Leyte killing about 200 is a wake-up call.”

Last April more than 30 conservationists and NGO leaders also sought quarry prohibition. They asked why, despite cancellation orders by then-Sec. Roy Cimatu in March 2020, his subordinates have not acted. Among the petitioners are environment lawyer Tony Oposa, Edward Hagedorn, Bro. Armin Luistro, UN Environment Program goodwill ambassador Antoinette Taus, University of Santo Tomas College of Science dean Rey Papa and Manila Observatory head Fr. Jett Villarin.

The other week Sampulna suspended the three quarries. Dumaliang criticized it as feeble, explaining that mere suspension means the quarries can be resumed and even extended for another 25 years.

Sixteen other quarries operate in Rodriguez (Montalban) mountains of Rizal. Victims blame them for the flash floods during Typhoon Ulysses in November 2020 in San Mateo, Marikina, Cainta, Antipolo, Taytay, Pasig and Quezon Cities. A former DENR official owns the largest of those quarries.

Sinovac safety efficacy and price still need clarifying

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2.2 The Service and its Contents are protected by copyright pursuant to the Republic of the Philippines and international copyright laws. You may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce (except as provided in Section 2.3 of this Agreement), create new works from, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit, any of the Content or the Service (including software) in whole or in part.

 

2.3 You may download or copy the Content and other downloadable items displayed on the Service for personal use only, provided that you maintain all copyright and other notices contained therein. Copying or storing of any Content for other than personal use is expressly prohibited without prior written permission from jariusbondoc.com or the copyright holder identified in the copyright notice contained in the Content.

 

  1. FORUMS, DISCUSSIONS AND USER GENERATED CONTENT

 

3.1 You shall not upload to, or distribute or otherwise publish on the message boards (the “Feedback Section”) any libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, or otherwise illegal material.

 

3.2 (a)Be courteous. You agree that you will not threaten or verbally abuse jariusbondoc.com columnists and other jariusbondoc.com community Members, use defamatory language, or deliberately disrupt discussions with repetitive messages, meaningless messages or “spam.”

 

3.2 (b) Use respectful language. Like any community, the Feedback Sections will flourish only when our Members feel welcome and safe. You agree not to use language that abuses or discriminates on the basis of race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual preference, age, region, disability, etc. Hate speech of any kind is grounds for immediate and permanent suspension of access to all or part of the Service.

 

3.2 (c) Debate, but don’t attack. In a community full of opinions and preferences, people always disagree. jariusbondoc.com encourages active discussions and welcomes heated debate in our Feedback Sections. But personal attacks are a direct violation of this Agreement and are grounds for immediate and permanent suspension of access to all or part of the Service.

 

3.3 The Feedback Sections shall be used only in a noncommercial manner. You shall not, without the express approval of jariusbondoc.com, distribute or otherwise publish any material containing any solicitation of funds, advertising or solicitation for goods or services.

 

3.4 You are solely responsible for the content of your messages. However, while jariusbondoc.com does not and cannot review every message posted by you on the Forums and is not responsible for the content of these messages, jariusbondoc.com reserves the right to delete, move, or edit messages that it, in its sole discretion, deems abusive, defamatory, obscene, in violation of copyright or trademark laws, or otherwise unacceptable.

 

3.5 You acknowledge that any submissions you make to the Service (i.e., user-generated content including but not limited to: text, video, audio and photographs) (each, a “Submission”) may be edited, removed, modified, published, transmitted, and displayed by jariusbondoc.com and you waive any moral rights you may have in having the material altered or changed in a manner not agreeable to you. You grant jariusbondoc.com a perpetual, nonexclusive, world-wide, royalty free, sub-licensable license to the Submissions, which includes without limitation the right for jariusbondoc.com or any third party it designates, to use, copy, transmit, excerpt, publish, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, create derivative works of, host, index, cache, tag, encode, modify and adapt (including without limitation the right to adapt to streaming, downloading, broadcast, mobile, digital, thumbnail, scanning or other technologies) in any form or media now known or hereinafter developed, any Submission posted by you on or to jariusbondoc.com or any other website owned by it, including any Submission posted on jariusbondoc.com through a third party.

 

3.6 By submitting an entry to jariusbondoc.com’s Readers’ Corner, you are consenting to its display on the site and for related online and offline promotional uses.

 

  1. ACCESS AND AVAILABILITY OF SERVICE AND LINKS

 

4.1 jariusbondoc.com contains links to other related World Wide Web Internet sites, resources, and sponsors of jariusbondoc.com. Since jariusbondoc.com is not responsible for the availability of these outside resources, or their contents, you should direct any concerns regarding any external link to the site administrator or Webmaster of such site.

 

  1. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

 

5.1 You represent, warrant and covenant (a) that no materials of any kind submitted through your account will (i) violate, plagiarize, or infringe upon the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy or other personal or proprietary rights; or (ii) contain libelous or otherwise unlawful material; and (b) that you are at least thirteen years old. You hereby indemnify, defend and hold harmless jariusbondoc.com, and all officers, directors, owners, agents, information providers, affiliates, licensors and licensees (collectively, the “Indemnified Parties”) from and against any and all liability and costs, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees, incurred by the Indemnified Parties in connection with any claim arising out of any breach by you or any user of your account of this Agreement or the foregoing representations, warranties and covenants. You shall cooperate as fully as reasonably required in the defense of any such claim. jariusbondoc.com reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you.

 

5.2 jariusbondoc.com does not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any advice, opinion, statement, or other information displayed, uploaded, or distributed through the Service by any user, information provider or any other person or entity. You acknowledge that any reliance upon any such opinion, advice, statement, memorandum, or information shall be at your sole risk. THE SERVICE AND ALL DOWNLOADABLE SOFTWARE ARE DISTRIBUTED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.

 

  1. COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN JARIUSBONDOC.COM AND MEMBERS

 

6.1 If you indicate on your registration form that you want to receive such information, jariusbondoc.com, its owners and assigns, will allow certain third party vendors to provide you with information about products and services.

 

6.2 jariusbondoc.com reserves the right to send electronic mail to you for the purpose of informing you of changes or additions to the Service.

 

6.3 jariusbondoc.com reserves the right to disclose information about your usage and demographics, provided that it will not reveal your personal identity in connection with the disclosure of such information. Advertisers and/or Licensees on our Web site may collect and share information about you only if you indicate your acceptance. For more information please read the Privacy Policy of jariusbondoc.com.

 

6.4 jariusbondoc.com may contact you via e-mail regarding your participation in user surveys, asking for feedback on the Website and existing or prospective products and services. This information will be used to improve our Website and better understand our users, and any information we obtain in such surveys will not be shared with third parties, except in aggregate form.

 

  1. TERMINATION

 

 

7.1 jariusbondoc.com may, in its sole discretion, terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Service for any reason, including, without limitation, breach or assignment of this Agreement.

 

  1. MISCELLANEOUS

 

8.1 This Agreement has been made in and shall be construed and enforced in accordance with the Republic of the Philippines law. Any action to enforce this agreement shall be brought in the courts located in Manila, Philippines.

 

8.2 Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, nothing in this Terms of Service will serve to preempt the promises made in jariusbondoc.com Privacy Policy.

 

8.3 Correspondence should be sent to jariusbondoconline.com.

 

8.4 You agree to report any copyright violations of the Terms of Service to jariusbondoc.com as soon as you become aware of them. In the event you have a claim of copyright infringement with respect to material that is contained in the jariusbondoc.com service, please notify jariusbondoconline.com. This Terms of Service was last updated on November 7, 2020.