OPINION: Nowhere to go

oct 20

BLOGISTA

By Cha Monforte

Congressman Arrel Olano of Davao del Norte’s 1^st District might have already chickened out from taking another political career path gauging his latest tough talk with the local media. I got him right after Senator Chiz Escudero ended his friendly banter last Friday at Mankilam’s Tahanan with Gov. Rodolfo del Rosario, Tagum City Mayor Rey Chiong Uy, him- Olano, Vice Mayor Victorio “Baby” Suaybaguio and several other officials.

The info man of Sen. Chiz told me while covering their table talk that the good opposition senator was on a side trip in the province just to meet with provincial officials who are his friends and possibly know problems and suggestions from his constituents in this part of the country. (He was the guest speaker of the Philippine Judges Association conference in Davao City in the evening) . Naturally, being an elected senator of the Republic the governor, city mayor and Cong.Olano had to meet and accommodate Sen, Chiz regardless that he is one great oppositionist. Maybe Cong. Anton of the 2^nd District was not home yet last Friday, that is if the hatchet has already been buried between RDR and the Floirendos. Had that been the case, the Lakas-Kampi family in the province would have been complete in meeting the youthful Chiz, a presidential timber.

Sino ba kaya sa kanila ang tunay na oposisyon? Si Manny Villar? Si Mar Roxas? Si Ping Lacson? Si Erap? Sen. Chiz threw a puzzle to his listening pack of provincial and city officials. Each one of today’s presidential timbers, sans him and Sen. Loren, were unmasked of their flip-flopping records in terms of legislations pursued and positions to Pres. GMA’s policies and actuations. Sen. Chiz would seem to say that all of these presidential wannabes in the opposition picked up both carrots and sticks in dealing with GMA, and hence imply that all of them were not true-blue oppositionists. I wouldn’t enumerate here such flop-flops for lack of space.

They were all listening perhaps dumbfounded to the usual razzle-dazzle of Tagalog enunciation of the senator on the matter except quite visibly Cong. Olano who was so busy in his cellphone- texting. Had it not been a friendly banter, he could have been called as out of protocol before a talking senator. Maybe those were urgent messages. I wouldn’t imply that the congressman wasn’t interested to the topic of Sen. Chiz. He has nowhere to go except the opposition.

If Cong. Olano meant it true, during an ambush interview made by some local mediamen, that he didn’t want to be intrigued by the question posed of whether his earlier plan of running for city mayor or governor and others when the present reelectionists are all his partymates, then he is indeed nowhere to go. He said that “the mayor is with Lakas, the governor is with Lakas and I am with Lakas” “Don’t intrigued me with that question,” Olano threw a pique on us.

If we voluntarily take a ride over Gov. RDR’s hint that there seems to be no Floirendo running against him for his reelection, then all’s well is bound to end well with Lakas in Davnor. With the principle of the equity of incumbent, Olano couldn’t be the administration’s standard–bearer for mayorship, governorship, and even to vice governorship and vice mayorship that rightly belong to reelectionist Suaybaguio and Allan Rellon, respectively. He has no incumbent son or daughter to bargain for the open post that he’s finishing to serve, unlike Comval District 1 Cong. Manuel “Way Kurat” Zamora, who has his daughter Boardmember Maricar Zamora-Apsay long gunning for the post in stiff competition with Vice Gov. Ramil Gentugaya (don’t disturb, just married).

But sadly, what remains to Olano for an easy admin crack is a lowly boardmember’s seat, for remaining up to this day to be porkless unlike their Comval counterparts. Such is a real contrast to a congressman’s position that has lots of pork barrel funds that a white paper of Speaker Nograles wanted so much to be demystified of its negative and irregular connotations. But he has lots of top posts for a picking at his pleasure and luxury. Only that he’ll have to jump ship to the opposition where Sen. Chiz truly belongs.

BLOGBUZZ: I felt the academe’s free spirit again. That was last Tuesday when I gave journalism crash course for the UMTC English Guild. Thanks for the invitation to the Rural Urban News, my outfit, for Felimonne Em-em Monteros, the guild’s prexy, Ma’am Armela Gertos, the amiable adviser…. Kodus to NBI Tagum for pinpointing the establishment where the known UM Tagum sex scandal occurred- the Aroma Café and Computer along Sobrecarey St.. Ironically, the suspect establishment is owned by Edgardo Silagan, the president of ICAT- Internet Café Association of Tagum City. The NBI agents armed with warrant seized Thursday 23 computer units from the alleged culprit establishment. Now justice for Baby and her family is near. (Tomorrow: Olano’s fret on purok. For online edition, visit my blog at: http://cha4t.wordpress.com, email: chamonforte@yahoo.com)

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NEWS: Big internet café tagged in Tagum sex video scandal

sept 8

Remote access software reportedly used to secretly record coed
“Baby” is “chinita, puti, flawless” wearing UM Tagum uniform, chatting with “Cled”

A big internet café in Tagum City has been suspected to have secretly recorded using a remote access software to the young coed who figured in playfully baring sensitive parts of herself and doing orgasmic acts using a sex toy penis on webcam on the proddings of a foreigner chatmate boyfriend she was chatting with.

An internet café assistant told Sidlak on condition of anonymity that the video clip of the coed, identified by her username as “Baby” who was chatting with a username “Cled” at the other end, was taken in a big internet café which uses the same white plastic monoblock chairs and has a yellow-colored wooden partition as seen in the “Tagum sex video scandal”.

She said that she has been hearing now and then that assistants of the suspected internet café have long been seeing online activities of their users by using a remote access software secretly installed in their networked computers.

She said that what is urgent is to conduct inspection now to all internet cafes in the city and find out whether a remote access software has been installed in all their computers.

The name of the suspected internet café could not yet be divulged as efforts of Sidlak to reach its management for comment failed.

But the source said that authorities have already leads in pinpointing the suspected internet café from the physical features alone as shown in the 20-minuter video clip that is already uploaded in several pornographic websites offering free uploads for sharing.

She said that the partly-shown yellow-colored wooden partition, electrical line across the white-colored wall background and the monoblock chair used by the girl are “good leads” for the authorities to start on.

Last week, Councilor Maria Lina Baura said that the Tagum sex video clip was being spread from cellphone to cellphone.

BABY CHINITA

Reports said that the coed has already stopped schooling in one of the colleges in the city and left the city to unknown place.

Councilor Alfredo Pagdilao said that he already located the residence of the girl, but other Sidlak sources said that the coed was just renting a boarding house in Mabini street area.

“She is chinita (in eyes), white and flawless in complexion,” a lady internet assistant told Sidlak.

She said that the girl appeared to be coming from a middle class and not from a poor family judging on her looks and attire.

As the city council girded up to investigate Tagum’s cyber scandal last week, the internet café association in the city met before the weekend and called on to stop the further spread of the Tagum sex scandal video.

REMOTE SPY

Remote access software allows user of the “server” computer unit to spy simultaneously on what is happening to other computer units connected as “clients” around the network of the internet café.

It can also capture screenshots, steal data saved and record live webcams into video files without the user of the client desktop knowing that his activities have been monitored and recorded with by the user in the server desktop.

It can control the mouse and keyboard of the client computer unit.

Wikipedia, the popular free online encyclopedia, says that remote desktop applications have varying features, some of which allow seeing an existing user’s session in a running desktop and “remote controlling” it in front of the user’s eyes.

The software thus allows one to access his computer from another computer via the Internet, local area network (LAN), or phone connection and work on the computer remotely as if he were sitting in front of it.

But remote applications through the Internet, which allows one or a business to access a subject computer while miles away from it, are not free and have high dollar prices.

There are though trial softwares downloadable in the Internet, which Sidlak sources said could only work on local area network (LAN) such as the internet café’s network.

The trial software could have been the one used in recording the almost 20 minutes of webcam shows and chat conversations between “Baby” and “Cled,” presumed to be her foreigner chat boyfriend.

Sources said that the sex video clip was spliced only to join the chat message board and the webcam’s live streaming into one clip, both of which were recorded simultaneously in one screen.

The webcam video shows of “Cled” on the same screen was though not included in the clip.

PORNO SITES

Sidlak in its own online sleuthing has found at least two pornographic sharing websites as of yesterday in first pages of Yahoo and Google search engines where the Tagum sex scandal had already landed.

One has the sex video clip was uploaded just late August and the other last week. One has in fact carried an alleged full name of “Baby”.

In lookup of its domain name owners, one website is based in Denver and the other in Chicago.

In one website that does not asks for prior sign-up registration, the clip has a total length of 19 minutes and 35 seconds and shows “Baby”, a pretty looking young coed, wearing a visibly UM-Tagum uniform with a tie marking of “UMTC” and an ID card slung around her neck. She is wearing on her right hand a teener’s watch.

She clip shows her doing her thing with a sex toy penis and in various orgasmic acts and appears be doing under the command of “Cled” who has always his blurred text chats always scrolling up.

Sometimes “Baby” would hit the keyboard for short replies in their exhange of I love yous and ahhhs. Visibly “Cled” is a foreigner as their chat conversations were in English and is also doing his thing at the other end based on his proddings to “Baby”.

On the first show towards the middle of the length, the webcam has only the body of “Baby” captured until her face finally flushes out on screen especially on the near ending when they engaged in brief chat with long text.

The two appear to be already intimate online friends as it appears only a single mention of money in blurred text has been talked about in passing during their chat conversations that revolved more on love relationship. (Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News) http://ruralurbanews.blogspot.com

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