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No vision on food, no urgency on fuel

No vision on food, no urgency on fuel

by | Apr 12, 2023 | Gotcha

PNA photo of wheat 

GOTCHA

written on March 9, 2022

 

 

The President said Sunday the country must ensure grain security and rely on the domestic market to sustain production. Food is as essential as industrialization and must not rely on the international market, he said. His remarks came amid disruption to the global grain supply chain from the conflict between top grain producers Russia and Ukraine.

That president is Xi Jinping. He envisions stabilizing China’s food and corn production, and expanding soybean and oilseed output to ensure “Chinese bowls are mainly filled with Chinese food,” Reuters reported. The strategy is to develop the seed industry for self-reliance, because seed security is “related to national security.”

In the Philippines, the opposite is happening. Government is over-importing food and animal feeds. It even slashes import duties, ostensibly to keep consumer prices low. But market-goers do not see the promised price respite.

Filipino producers are left to fend for themselves. Most of the imports come from China.

Chinese chicken flooded the market starting 2020. At the time, domestic poultrymen were reeling from low demand due to pandemic lockdowns of restaurants and school, office and factory canteens.

As feed demand dropped too, corn farmers suffered. Still government imported corn to offset the price spike of US soybean, a feeds ingredient delayed by port congestion.

Government lowered to only 30 percent the 50-percent tariff on rice imports. Palay farmers’ prices not only fell, but funds to buy up their harvest also depleted.

For six months now, government has been importing galunggong, bonito, tanigue, mackerel, tuna and sardines from China. Little aid goes to repairing boats and nets damaged by typhoon. None to protect fishermen from Chinese maritime militia who poach in Philippine waters. Ironically, the stolen fish are sold to Filipinos. In China, communist commissars justify the higher fish rates because supposedly caught in their waters that “Filipinos are grabbing.”

Vegetable and fruit producers not only must contend with cheap imports from China. Smuggling of carrots, onion, garlic and ginger also thrives.

Luzon piggeries fell to African swine fever. Four times the projected pork shortage was brought in, at only five- to ten-percent tariff instead of 30. Government was unable to raise the funds needed to buy and bury diseased hogs to stem the epidemic.

Government is presently importing sugar, right in the middle of the milling season. Bankrupted planters may no longer afford inputs for the next cropping year.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is further pushing up oil and gas prices already soaring from global economic recovery. Tankers near the war zone are being blocked and international traders are speculating. Expensive fuel is pushing up the cost of food production and transport.

Yet government seems to have no sense of urgency. Farmers, fishermen and transporters of harvest direly need fuel subsidies. Their irrigation pumps, hand tractors, threshers, harvesters, boat engines, pond aerators, trailer-jeeps and public transport must keep running.

Pump prices of diesel already rose in 2021 by P15.80 and gasoline by P16.30 a liter. Since January, diesel further zoomed by P17.50 and gasoline by P13.25 a liter.

Yesterday, another P5.85 was added to diesel and P3.60 to gasoline. On Tuesday, analysts forecast another P12 increase on diesel and P8 on gasoline.

All the while bureaucrats are blaming Congress. Supposedly lawmakers have not revisited the Oil Deregulation Act. Yet yesterday, department secretaries were absent from an emergency hearing of the House fuel crisis ad hoc committee. That superbody combines the powerful committees on ways and means, economic affairs, transportation and energy. Mere underlings of six Cabinet members attended. One of them made a presentation although abroad; none could commit on a policy to stabilize food and fuel prices.

Sinovac safety efficacy and price still need clarifying

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An alternative to marching into certain ignoble defeat

An alternative to marching into certain ignoble defeat

by | Apr 12, 2023 | Gotcha

Wikipedia photos of Battle of the Little Bighorn, Battle of Tirad Pass and Battle of Thermopylae

GOTCHA

written on March 4, 2022

 

 

Men make last stands in the face of imminent defeat. The Spartans at Thermopylae, Custer at Little Big Horn, Del Pilar at Tirad Pass had no more option. The enemy was attacking in superior numbers, food and supplies had run out, no reinforcements were coming. Death was chosen over dishonor. But sometimes retreat is possible, even preferable. Tough leaders thence set the site and terms of next battles.

It is foolhardy for non-administration presidential candidates to make a last stand on May 9, 2022. Defeat is not imminent. By uniting behind only one of them, they can turn the tide of political battle. Coalescing now can snowball to victory. Any more delay makes that prospect slimmer.

Leni Robredo, Manny Pacquiao, Isko Moreno and Ping Lacson can take another try at consolidation. They may not have appreciated its cruciality in exploratory talks six months ago. But survey ratings since then consistently show them about to be overrun. The same numbers show that if they combine, their common choice among themselves can prevail. Staying fragmented will only end in frustration.

Their defeats will be ignoble. History will judge them for vainly clinging to personal ambition. Doy Laurel gave way to Cory Aquino in the 1986 snap presidential election; united, Cory became president and Doy as VP fulfilled one of his life goals – to serve as foreign minister. Filipinos memorialize Doy for his self-sacrifice.

This early, people are asking if the “presidentiables” love the country enough to make similar sacrifices. After all, their platforms complement in being pro-poor, reformist and patriotic. Coalescing can mean sharing their brilliant advisers and eventual Cabinet appointees. Continuing disunity can bring catastrophe. Surely they and their followers foresee that.

Under a false leader national sovereignty will be surrendered to China. Greed will be the creed. Partymates will resume their plunder. Cronies will take over state resources and public utility contracts. Provincial political dynasties will finish off what’s left.

The platforms of Robredo, Pacquiao, Moreno and Lacson will become pipe dreams. Filipinos will continue to suffer hunger, child malnutrition, learning inability, joblessness, homelessness, hopelessness.

The non-administration candidates endure the same difficulties in campaigning: insufficiency of funds, harassment by coopted election officers, excessive restrictions from partisan local authorities and more. The only things keeping their spirits up are enthusiasm of volunteers and attendees in their campaign sorties.

None of the four intends or has a history of buying votes. Each now refrains from bashing the others. At the back of their minds, they likely realize they may need to join forces. Although that may not solve their campaign woes, their common program of government will at least have a better fighting chance.

Their campaign strategists know each other. There is no shame in initiating talks to assess the political battlefield. Sincerity of purpose is always noble.

The Philippines is in a deep rut of poverty, injustice and foreign aggression. It will take two successive good presidents to pull out of it, analysts say. A common vision for those 12 years can be the take-off point for Robredo, Pacquiao, Moreno and Lacson to unite.

Sinovac safety efficacy and price still need clarifying

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Flashback: Laurel’s self-sacrifice to unite the Opposition in 1986

Flashback: Laurel’s self-sacrifice to unite the Opposition in 1986

by | Apr 12, 2023 | Gotcha

Wikipedia page photo of Salvador “Doy” Laurel

GOTCHA

written on March 2, 2022

 

 

“No sacrifice is too great,” Salvador “Doy” Laurel declared on Dec. 12, 1985. He had fought Martial Law since 1972, forming the United Nationalist Democratic Opposition for the cause. A big battle unfolded when the dictatorship suddenly announced a presidential election by January or February 1986. Laurel was to be UNIDO standard-bearer. But other opposition factions had their own presidential choices, including the widowed Cory Aquino.

The following statement encapsulates the painful process Laurel underwent for the sake of unity and a chance at victory. Today’s candidates can learn rich lessons from this, and his 1991 memoir, Sworn to Serve:

“Last Sunday, December 8th, I brought to you the sad news that the opposition had failed to unite despite my willingness to give up my presidential aspirations for the sake of unity.

“I was willing to forego the presidency and give way to Mrs. Cory Aquino if she would only agree to run under the banner of UNIDO, the dominant opposition party in the country today.

“This condition was rejected and I was left with no choice but to file my certificate of candidacy the next day as mandated by the UNIDO National Convention last June 12.

“The other day, Mrs. Aquino told me that she has reconsidered her decision and is now willing to run under the banner of UNIDO. This development, although a most welcome one, was also most painful and puzzling for me. I was being asked a second time to give way – after I had already filed my certificate for the presidency.

“But I do not wish to question or inquire. What matters is that my original condition has been met.

“So this time I bring you ‘glad tidings.’ Consider it as my Christmas gift to our people. In the interest of unity which is the key to victory, victory which will dismantle the dictatorship and bring about the establishment of a truly just and democratic order, I wish to announce that late last night I withdrew my certificate of candidacy for the presidency and that, together with Cory, we filed also last night, our certificates of candidacy both under the banner of UNIDO, she for the presidency, and I for the vice presidency.

“I know that this is a painful decision to many of my supporters who honestly believed that I pose the stronger challenge to Marcos, and that my labors in developing and nurturing the UNIDO as the dominant opposition party deserves not only recognition but preference.

“But like my late father who gave way to Magsaysay 32 years ago, I believe that personal and group interest must yield to the national interest.

“I now ask UNIDO leaders and followers all over the country to support the widow of Ninoy Aquino, remembering that Ninoy, until his unofficial execution last Aug. 21, 1983, was UNIDO’s National Vice President for External Operations.

“Let me conclude by thanking all those who have toiled and struggled with me and never for a moment wavered in their loyalty and commitment. We must all do our part, no matter how painful, if we are to win back our people’s freedom and honor. This is the primordial objective we never lose sight of. This is the primordial objective to which Cory and I now pledge ‘our lives, our fortune and our sacred honor.

“May God Almighty continue to guide us.”

Epilogue: Aquino and Laurel were cheated. A civilian-military uprising put them in office. Laurel went on to fulfill one of his life goals, to serve as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Sinovac safety efficacy and price still need clarifying

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Lawyer to Comelec: Err on side of right

Lawyer to Comelec: Err on side of right

by | Apr 12, 2023 | Gotcha

Facebook page photo of Romy Macalintal

GOTCHA

written on February 23, 2022

 

 

Suspend your confiscation of oversized campaign posters, election lawyer Romy Macalintal wrote the Comelec Monday. In tearing those down from private houses last week, the poll body has antagonized voters. Targeted were campaign volunteer centers of leading non-administration presidential aspirant Leni Robredo. Untouched were those of Bongbong Marcos and running mate Sara Duterte. Suspicion is growing that the Comelec is biased for the latter. More so since the four commissioners, left after three others retired, had upheld Marcos’ candidacy despite ineligibility for perjury and tax evasion.

The Comelec’s size limit on billboards, streamers and stickers pertains only to public spaces, especially common poster areas. No plaza can accommodate the posters of all ten bets for president, nine for VP, 64 for senator, 165 for party-list and soon hundreds more for governor, mayor, provincial board member and councilor. Thus, the need to cap public postering.

It’s wrong for Comelec to impose limits on posters in private spaces that owners voluntarily put up. If the Comelec must err, let it be on the side of right. Specifically, the Bill of Rights, Macalintal told Sapol dwIZ on Saturday.

Postering is free expression, and no law, much less a Comelec rule, can abridge that. The Constitution in Article III further guarantees security in one’s home, papers and effects “against unreasonable searches and seizures of whatever nature and for any purpose.” The property may not be entered without a court warrant, and the poster taken without due process of law. There shall be no presumption of guilt.

 

 

The Comelec also misinterpreted the Supreme Court jurisprudence on poster size limit, Macalintal said. When the agency in 2015 tore down a huge poster in the Bacolod Cathedral courtyard, he counseled the bishop to seek redress. The poster enumerated senatorial candidates for and against reproductive health, therefore to vote for or not. The SC ruled that Comelec was wrong to tear it down since it was in private premises. Now the Comelec narrowly reads that ruling to pertain only to “advocacies” and only to that incident.

No portion of the SC decision states that it was solely for the Bacolod Cathedral, Macalintal said. “Again I hope that the Comelec errs on the side of the Bill of Rights, not on its curtailment.”

As for “advocacies,” a poster in a private property urging to vote or not for any candidate is an expression of the owner’s stand on issues. “It reflects the property owner’s advocacies,” Macalintal explained.

Macalintal also cited the 1992 SC ruling on “Adiong vs Comelec,” in which he served as counsel. That verdict upheld voters’ right to install campaign stickers of senatorial candidate Blo Umpar Adiong on their private vehicles. Stricken down was the Comelec’s rule against mobile campaign posters by ordinary voters. “When a voter posts such campaign material, he is expressing his own advocacy because the candidate’s advocacy and that of his supporters are indivisible,” Macalintal recounted. “It is fair to say that one’s choice of candidate represents one’s own advocacy.”

An election specialist for more than 50 years, Macalintal is one of Robredo’s campaign lawyers. He ran but lost in the 2019 senatorial race.

Sinovac safety efficacy and price still need clarifying

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Now it’s sugar imports: killing domestic producers one by one

Now it’s sugar imports: killing domestic producers one by one

by | Apr 12, 2023 | Gotcha

PNA photo of sugar import

GOTCHA

written on February 18, 2022

 

 

They did it to rice. First, Malacañang endorsed a law to let anyone import rice as long as 50 percent duty is paid. Revenues were to fund irrigation, fertilizers, pesticides, harvesters and driers. Yet it cut that tariff to only 35 percent. Cheap imports flooded in. Farmers groaned from double whammy. They not only got less subsidies, but the import oversupply also depressed their farmgate prices. Benefited most by the tariff cut were two grains smugglers in the Visayas and Mindanao.

They did it to poultry. Chicken sales have been down since 2020 as pandemic closed restaurants, school, factory and office canteens and market stalls. Despite the resulting overproduction, the Department of Agriculture kept importing chicken. Smuggled cuts also poured in from China. Dozens of multimillion-peso poultry farms closed shop from the unfair competition. Thousands of workers were laid off.

They did it to corn. When domestic poultry growers scaled down, demand for corn feed dropped. Losing incomes, corn growers appealed for lower farm inputs. Instead the DA authorized cheap corn importation. It was supposedly to offset increased prices of soybean from the US, a major ingredient in feed milling, delayed by port congestion.

They did it to pork. African Swine Fever began ravaging Luzon backyard and commercial piggeries in 2019. To stem the epidemic, hog raisers begged authorities to buy and bury the infected stocks. The DA allocated only P5,000 per diseased animal instead of the break-even P10,000. Discouraged, backyard raisers continued slaughtering and selling contaminated meat in markets, further spreading the ASF. DA’s transporting of live clean hogs to Luzon from the Visayas and Mindanao was spotty. When Luzon retail prices zoomed, the government swung like a pendulum to massive importation.

Hog raisers suggested to bring in 240,000 tons, the projected domestic shortfall, at the usual 30-percent tariff. The tax could finally push to P10,000 the DA’s buying price per diseased stock. Malacañang approved 840,000 tons at only five- to ten-percent tariff. Collections fell short to quell the ASF yet pork imports flooded even ASF-free Visayas and Mindanao. Inserted among the cheap imports were smuggled pork cuts from ASF-infested China. Deprived of government support, domestic hog raisers are contemplating shifting to non-food businesses.

 

They did it to vegetables and fruits. For two years now, smuggled farm produce from China have been flooding public markets. Contraband is hidden behind authorized imports. Planters in Cordillera, Central and Southern Luzon keep alerting Customs of the modus operandi – to no avail. Even red onion came in, forbidden to protect domestic producers, and easily detectable via Customs X-ray.

Customs officials blame DA counterparts for absence during examination of refrigerated cargo containers. The latter accuse the former of not providing a holding area for first-border inspection at seaports. Both sides withhold from the public the identities of warehouse owners and cargo consignees of raided and confiscated stocks. Without DA help in market information and transport, vegetable and fruit planters have had to throw away harvest by the roadside.

They did it to fish. On pretext of catch shortfall during the annual fishing ban last quarter, meat importers lobbied to bring in 120,000 tons of seafood. Commercial and artisanal fishermen and aquaculturists protested. Only commercial fleets were covered by the ban. Small fishermen would still catch their usual. Bangus and tilapia pens and ponds were brimming with stocks harvestable within the next seven months. The three sectors forecast only 15,000 tons shortage in case of natural calamity. The National Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management Council in which they, academics and NGOs are represented to advise the DA, suggested a maximum of 30,000 tons.

The DA approved 60,000. Of that, only 37,000 were imported and 12,000 released from cold storage – the market’s absorptive capacity.

Last month the importers again lobbied for another 120,000 tons. Pretext this time was supposed fisheries destruction by Super Typhoon Odette. NFARMC said no: there was still 25,000 tons in refrigerated warehouses and 23,000 tons unfilled imports from the previous quarter. Still the DA allowed 60,000 tons of galunggong (round scad), mackerel, sardines, and bonito and tulingan varieties of tuna from China. The fish likely were stolen by Chinese maritime militia from Philippine seas.

Now they’re doing it to sugar. Supposedly due to tight supply of standard and bottlers’ grade refined sugar, the DA is importing 200,000 tons. Sugar planters are howling, as it’s the middle of the harvest and milling season. Their associations in Western Visayas, Central Luzon and Southern Tagalog have long been asking the DA for help to lower fertilizer costs. The DA’s default response was to import the finished product.

Sinovac safety efficacy and price still need clarifying

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Sinovac safety efficacy and price still need clarifying

Make China liable for ruinous pandemic

Make China liable for ruinous pandemic

by | Apr 12, 2023 | Gotcha

Stock image 

GOTCHA

written on February 16, 2022

 

 

Four facts make China liable for SARS-CoV-2:

• When the disease was detected near a wild animal market and a virology center in Wuhan in November 2019, officials did not act immediately.

• They even squelched the news and arrested ophthalmologist Li Wenliang for alerting fellow doctors of possible epidemic.

• After confirming the outbreak in late December they let five million Wuhanese travel the country and abroad, spreading the coronavirus.

• They ignored global calls since 2003 to close down the $79 billion-a-year wild animal trade despite their own findings that SARS-CoV-1 sprung from it.

Individuals, families and organizations can demand recompense from China. Tens of millions lost loved ones to the pandemic. Infection survivors suffered permanent physical damage. Jobs and businesses vanished. Hunger worsened.

Governments must espouse their cause for damages. In international law, only states have the standing to make claims, Fr. Ranhilio Aquino told Sapol-dwIZ on Saturday. The dean of San Beda University’s Graduate School of Law, like countless experts worldwide, has been studying the issue. With the pandemic subsiding, aggrieved states can get together and talk to China.

Legal bases for China’s fault are strong. Primary is the United Nations Covenant on Social, Economic, Political and Cultural Rights, of which Beijing is a signatory. Article 12.2 compels state-parties to “control and treat epidemic diseases.”

Chinese Communist Party rulers committed more misdeeds. President Xi Jinping disinformed the world that (1) a European brought the virus to Wuhan, (2) Wuhan was not the first epicenter after all and (3) it was a creation of the US Army. He stamped out an online denouncement by 14 million Chinese of World Health Organization Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus’ glossing over the CCP’s tepid pandemic response.

“Uncle Xi” then propagandized to Chinese that they were to save the world. Yet he tied emergency medical supply donations to geopolitics. Face masks and ventilators were airlifted to the Czech Republic only after it sacked its long-serving cybersecurity chief who had first warned the world in 2018 about Huawei and ZTE’s spyware. Same with aid to African and Middle Eastern states, given after wangling concessions for seaports, naval bases and reef reclamations.

Xi embargoed trade with Australia where the parliament sought an international investigation of the pandemic’s source. For one year he barred WHO scientists from Wuhan then, after relenting, restricted their movements and interviews.

 

The CCP took advantage of the Philippines where the first reported infectee was a Wuhanese tourist. With Filipino fishing and patrols scarce due to Luzon-wide lockdown in 2020, Beijing intensified naval and coastguard trespass of the West Philippine Sea where it declared two new incursive “scientific research districts.” In the first half of 2021, 240 Chinese fisheries militia trawlers blockaded Julian Felipe (Whitsun) Reef in Pagkakaisa (Union) Bank. Reinforced by a hundred more, they then poached at Kalayaan Islands and Recto Bank. 

 

The People’s Liberation Army also attempted footholds in Fuga Island, Cagayan; Subic Bay, Zambales and Sangley Point, Cavite, the Philippine Fleet’s main port. Media exposés and quiet Philippine military resistance prevented it.

Elsewhere in ASEAN, the PLA repeatedly violated air and maritime zones of Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia. More dams in China’s side of the Mekong diverted river flow from Indochina, wrecking grain harvests and inland fisheries of Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar.

Supposed Chinese pandemic assistance came at a huge cost to Manila. A year since Malacañang first purchased mostly Sinovac inoculants, it has yet to disclose the price. Sworn to non-disclosure, health bureaucrats only estimated P3,640 per double dose. The same Chinese vaccine was openly sold at only P250 per vial to Thailand and P815 to Indonesia.

Revealed in the Senate were pricey pandemic procurements from Chinese suppliers, to the exclusion of Filipino manufacturers. Among those that cornered P42 billion is a Chinese state machinery fabricator that suddenly shifted to medical paraphernalia. The rest, led by Pharmally, were fly-by-nights of suspected Chinese state agent Michael Yang, also special presidential economic adviser. Most were not registered to operate in the Philippines and paid no income taxes. Quietly, 90-percent shares of oil giants Chevron and Shell in Malampaya gas field were transferred to a newborn Filipino firm tied to China National Offshore Oil Co.

Fr. Aquino said countries must bind together under the UN or regional groupings to negotiate damage payments from China. ASEAN can bargain without need to make China admit fault. Reparations can be in machinery or cash like from Japan after World War II.

Sinovac safety efficacy and price still need clarifying

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Sinovac safety efficacy and price still need clarifying

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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.