‘…Pharmally bagged its first contract amounting to P13.86 million — more than twice the maximum — and even got a second contract amounting to P54 million, all within the same year…’
AND the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression.” [V for Vendetta, Warner Bros. Pictures, 2005]
Here in the Eastern “Land of Take-What-You-Want” (a maritime ochlocracy masquerading as a Republican democracy), the most unpleasant and vaguely humanoid Vogons violate their own procedures in order to favor or facilitate the feedings of the Boghog. In fact, a recent translation using Babel Fish revealed: “My opinion of this is that it is a defective approval, therefore the approval is invalid because clearly there’s a lot of inconsistencies and any major transaction like this should not lead to confusion. Instead of us appreciating it, we got more confused by the DOE’s own admission that there is indeed confusion,” Gatchalian said in scrutinizing Udenna’s buy-out of Chevron in Malampaya during the hearing of the proposed 2022 budget of the DOE. [http://wingatchalian.com/news/does-approval-of-chevron-udenna-malampaya-deal-defective-invalid/]
Meanwhile, the insanely aggressive Silastic Armourfiends continue to wreck galactic peace.
So be extra-vigilant when using the Sub-Etha in Terran seas: The South China Morning Post has revealed that Chinese boats have been harassing civilian vessels in the Malaysian and Vietnamese portions of the South China Sea “on a daily basis” for years.
[https://ph.yahoo.com/news/war-brewing-south-china-sea-210000127.html] Better yet, refrain from using your Electronic Thumb: Washington has revoked the US licence of one of China’s biggest telecoms companies citing “national security” concerns.
[https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59055360] Three different threat actors have been compromising high-profile business assets. [https://therecord.media/five-southeast-asian-telcos-hacked-by-three-different-chinese-espionage-groups/]
Consult your copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy because you may want to bypass this planet, which is in turmoil: “Our addiction to fossil fuels is pushing humanity to the brink. We face a stark choice: Either we stop it – or it stops us. It’s time to say: enough.
Enough of brutalizing biodiversity. Enough of killing ourselves with carbon. Enough of treating nature like a toilet. Enough of burning and drilling and mining our way deeper. We are digging our own graves.” [António Guterres (Secretary-General of the United Nations), Remarks to the World Leaders Summit — COP26, 01 November 2021; https://www.un.org/sg/en/node/260426]
The climate crisis has even converged with the health crisis: “While progress has been made through increased uptake of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics, analysis of the present situation and forecasting models indicate that the pandemic is far from finished.”
[https://www.who.int/news/item/26-10-2021-statement-on-the-ninth-meeting-of-the-international-health-regulations-(2005)-emergency-committee-regarding-the-coronavirus-disease-(covid-19)-pandemic] And waiting in the wings is another killer disease: “While countries are focused on the COVID-19 response, they should strengthen their preparedness for potential Ebola cases…Ebola is a severe, often fatal illness affecting humans and other primates. Case fatality rates have varied from 25% to 90% in past outbreaks.”
“This year Ebola outbreaks have been declared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Guinea, but it is the first time an outbreak has occurred in a large capital city such as Abidjan since the 2014—2016 West Ebola outbreak.” [https://www.afro.who.int/news/cote-divoire-declares-first-ebola-outbreak-more-25-years]
Ah, humans. Only the third most intelligent species on the planet and descended from Golgafrinchan telephone sanitizers. They survived the Spanish Flu but nearly destroyed themselves 80 years ago when they allowed Hitler and the Nazis to win power via election.
“I am not dealing with the mistakes of the Government. I hold strongly that the Government is less important than the people. That the Government should in a true sense be the servant of the people. If it is not, then the fault lies with the people. That was one of our mistakes.”
“Too many of us happily accepted the advantages of democracy but shirked the responsibilities. We voted when an election came, and then forgot all about things outside our private lives. We were not good citizens. To be a good citizen in a democracy one must be vigilant, aware, responsible, informed, and try to be guided by considered judgments instead of instinct and prejudice…It is the aim of the civilized democracy to develop the intellect.”
“Yet until there is war, or danger of war, too many people regard politics as being ‘no concern of theirs.’ Only when the bomb drops does it ‘come home’ to them.” [Patricia Strauss (Author and Wife of British Labour M.P. G.R. Strauss), “We Have Learned Some Lessons,” Stephens College Forum, Columbia, Mo., November 6, 1941]
Ah, Earthlings, particularly those of the Eastern “Land of Take-What-You-Want” (aka Maharlika Republic). Why are you behaving like the Quarlvistians? “October 28, 2021: At the Senate Blue Ribbon hearing on irregularities involving the procurement of medical supplies to deal with the Covid pandemic, Lacson said Pharmally had a net working capital of P599,450 and could only be given a maximum contract of P5.994 million. Yet, Pharmally bagged its first contract amounting to P13.86 million — more than twice the maximum — and even got a second contract amounting to P54 million, all within the same year, Lacson said, citing documents so far obtained during the hearing.”
[https://pinglacson.net/article/lacson-ex-ps-dbm-oic-lao-violated-anti-graft-law-with-huge-pharmally-contracts] Are you imitating the pessimistic Poghrils of the Pansel star system who all succumbed to famine? If you continue on this course, you will repeat the fate of Earth-27 where the St. Mary’s Virus became the excuse to install Sutler as High Chancellor for life.
Is there a cure? Is it V? “This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin.”
“We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught. He can be killed and forgotten. But 400 years later an idea can still change the world. I’ve witnessed first-hand the power of ideas.”
The idea: “Look at Christ, my dear friend; He suffered so much, and did not even have the joy of being completely understood by those around Him, and yet He was happy, for He was the Son of God. His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being and in the fact that He was the saviour of mankind.” [http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mikhail-bakunin-on-religion]
Vi veri veniversum vivus vici
