
Syria: National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces – Syrian Opposition Coalition – On Need for Immediate End to Infighting in Freed Territories (12.10.2022)





The Executive Office of the Forces for Freedom and Change held a meeting on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 AD, in which it discussed the political developments in the country and listened to a report from the Communication and Foreign Relations Committee on the political process and its developments.
In this context, the Executive Office for Freedom and Change would like to clarify to the masses of the Sudanese people, local and international public opinion, the press and the media, as follows:
First: Following the success of the Steering Committee of the Sudanese Bar Association in gathering a wide range of political actors around the draft transitional constitution, which gained internal and external momentum, and the Forces of Freedom and Change were one of the actors in its development, positioning the project as an acceptable basis for ending the coup and establishing a real civil authority that implements the tasks and issues of the democratic transition.
Second: The coalition received, through informal contacts with the military component, evidence of accepting the draft transitional constitution as a basis for a political solution, with some limited comments on it. Accordingly, he formed a committee to receive these observations and pass them on to the coalition bodies to decide and study them.
Third: The Committee conveyed the notes to the meeting of the Executive Office, which decided to draft a paper that constitutes its position on the issues of ending the coup and establishing full democratic civil authority. Subject to consultation with the forces of the revolution and the forces that agree on the draft transitional constitution, to form an agreed basis among the broadest base of stakeholders in the civil democratic transformation.
Fourth: The Forces of Freedom and Change confirm that the news circulated about the existence of any agreement that has been reached is incorrect, and that it will not proceed with any political solution without a broad consensus that includes the forces of revolution and democratic transition.
Fifth: The Forces of Freedom and Change reaffirm their firm position that the acceptable political solution of the alliance is the one that leads to the complete closure of the coup, the establishment of a complete civil authority, and the disassociation of the military institution from political action and leading to a single professional and national army in accordance with comprehensive reforms with specific timings and procedures. It addresses issues of justice in a fair and comprehensive manner, dismantles the structure of the June 30, 1989 system, and leads to free and fair elections at the end of the transitional period that will enable the Sudanese people to express their free will and choose their representatives in a fair and transparent manner.
Finally: Freedom and Change urges the forces that resist the coup and adhere to the democratic transition and restore it to consolidate their ranks to complete the process of achieving the legitimate aspirations of our people for freedom, peace and justice in a democratic civil state.
We believe in our people’s ability to eventually win and realize their legitimate dreams and aspirations.
Executive Office – Forces of Freedom and Change
October 12, 2022 AD

“Alex Jones & Infowars’ parent company must pay 14 family members of 8 Sandy Hook Elementary School victims, plus an FBI agent who responded to the scene of the 2012 massacre, which killed 20 first graders and 6 educators, a collective total of $965 MILLION” (Ali Velshi, 12.10.2022).
The Infowars and conspiracy news peddle Alex Jones has finally been fined in the Courts. After years of litigation and lack of accountability for his actions. In the Sandy Hook defamation case, Alex Jones is now owning $965 million or close to a billion dollars. That’s a huge debt to pay and he got to cough up money from now on.
He better hope his followers and that the Republican Party helps him out. His been a part of the rise of Trump and Trumpism. They have been connected and his one of them. Even accepted the gay-frogs and all other crazy stories that Jones has peddled over the years.
The conspiracies around Sandy Hook school-massacre has now backfired. Certainly, there is plenty of other stories and such, which could been seen in similar light. It isn’t like Sandy Hook is one off. No, it is just one of the most notorious ones of his. This is staple and part of his business model.
InfoWars now has to find either a 1 billion dollars or they have to get supporters to fund this. If not his going bankrupt and his media house is over. Alex Jones have created this all by himself and cannot blame others.
Today’s court verdict is important, because Jones got nowhere to hide now. Jones got to be responsible and be able to pay them. This judgement will follow him for the rest of his life. He will not able to run away from it.
We can expect that Jones will beg his audience for funds and buy his vitamins or special packages for dooms-day from the InfoWars merchandize store. Alex Jones now has to answer the families and the victims of Sandy Hook.
Alex Jones cannot just run away from the tab. InfoWars are surely in trouble and all his conspiracies can now be tested in the Courts. I am sure the lizard people will not respond, but others might. Especially, all of the people who has been scorned and mocked by him over the years.
This got to hurt and sting… he needs a new hustle and quickly. Especially, since he has to pay this vast verdict to the families. It got to be detrimental to his business and his livelihood. Peace.



“What our Budget has delivered is security for families for the next two winters. It has made sure we will see higher economic growth, lower inflation and more opportunities. The way we are going to get our country growing is through more jobs, more growth and more opportunities, not through higher taxes, higher spending and his friends in the unions stopping hard-working people getting to work” – Prime Minister Liz Truss (12.10.2022).
Today’s Prime Minister Questions in the House of Commons has truly exposed Prime Minister Liz Truss. If your reading the Hansard alone… you know things aren’t going smooth. Prime Minister Truss wasn’t answering questions with credibility. The short amount of time her reign has been and this PMQ only proves how inept she is.
This is really striking as she was taking over for the corrupt and incompetent Boris Johnson. It should be easy to be better and start to deliver campaign promises of 2019. However, Liz Truss cannot do that and only can go rogue.
It is clear that Keir Stramer and Ian Blackford is exposing her lack of responsibility. They must be giddy that she’s the current PM. Truss is answering Blackford about lack of building nuclear power plants, when Blackford was raising the bar about rising prices on mortgages. That just shows how inept she is and thinks she can bamboozle everyone.
The Prime Minister should reconsider the “mini-budget” or the biscotti, but she doesn’t seem concerned about the consequences in the gilt market. Neither the rising mortgages or the costs of living in general. People are getting saved by a thread by the energy prices, but destroyed by inflation and rising mortgages prices. If not they companies or funds securing their pensions are crashing. So, the PM should have had some cleverness and ability to answer for her choices.
The PM is still instead saying stuff like this: “We in the Conservative party understand who pays our wages—it is the people who get up every day to go to work and the businesses that are set up. Those are the people driving our economy and we will be unashamedly pro-growth, pro-business and pro-opportunity” (Truss, 12.10.2022).
She isn’t helping herself or her cause. If she is afraid of internal squabble or dagger in the 1922 Committee. The PM hasn’t been her long and she’s not creating any sort of stability. Neither is there any promise in her words. This is burning down the shop and hoping nobody is noticing the dumpster-fire. That’s how she’s acting and it’s not a good look…
This PMQ was brutal. I have seen plenty and read lots of Hansards over the years. This was just a waste and Truss seems out of order.
It doesn’t help with this final quote either: “I think the last thing we need is a general election” (Truss, 12.10.2022).
Nothing gives her an edge and neither is there any promise. It is just utterly disgraceful. As the PM she should stand up and be responsible. Instead, she is trying to overshadow her own actions and what her chancellor has done. It has all backfired… and Truss cannot even stand tall and face the music.
Truss just wants the dance, but don’t know what to do when the music stops. Peace.

“Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, October 4) — President Rodrigo Duterte signed on Monday a law postponing the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections for the second time. “The President has signed into law the resetting of the barangay and SK elections,” House Majority Floor Leader Rudy Farinas said on Wednesday. Republic Act No. 10952 set the local elections to May 2018, with incumbent local officials ordered to remain in office” (VJ Bacungan – ‘Duterte signs law moving barangay, SK polls to May 2018’, 04.10.2017).
Today it’s official that the scheduled Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections for December 2022 are postponed to the 31st October 2023. Just like during the predecessor time in office, the Barangay captains and other elected representatives in the previous election are getting more time in office. The postponement means they are longer in office and prolonging their terms before new campaigning.
We know that Duterte did it with the reason of the drug-war and “narco-list” of dozens of barangay officials. Who wasn’t supposed to be eligible to stand or be candidates in the up-coming elections. Duterte postponed the Barangay and the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections twice. He moved it from 31st October 2016 to 23rd October 2017 and finally moving it to May 2018.
Today it’s official that President Ferdinand “BongBong” Marcos Jr. are following where Duterte left off. What is striking there is no official reason or argument for the postponement. Yes, on the 10th October 2022 Marcos Jr. signed the Republican Act. 11935 and Commission on Elections (COMELEC) just have to follow this order. Though there is no valid reason for it or probable cause for doing so.
Why are Marcos Jr. postponing it? Is he to busy travelling leisure trips or not finding sources for cheap sugar? What is the reason for it? That’s what’s bugging me.
At least Duterte could acknowledge certain reasons for doing so. He could muster up arguments that could make sense. Though you could disagree and wonder if it was true. Duterte still mustered up something and cooked up an edible dish.
What are we served up today?
I don’t know if it is soup, adobo or if he we have to run to Jolibee. Because, there is no meat to the bone. Only a new date in one year time and scheduled in October in 2023. There is no justification or saying that are uttered. We are about one month away from the supposed polls of December 2022 elections.
We can just await more information to come, but this isn’t a good look. Marcos Jr. isn’t doing anything new. Duterte did it already before him. His just following where he left off on this particular manner. However, one vast difference.
Duterte had a reason for the postponements. From Marcos Jr. it is radio-silence and no blinking lights leading us in any direction. Time will tell…. Peace.

“Only 3,200 out of the targeted 10,594 Saccos have been cleared to receive Parish Development Model (PDM) cash after meeting requirements as outlined under the implementation guidelines, the government has said” (…) “Ms Nabbanja said all the ready Saccos are to receive the funds directly to their bank accounts. The government has so far released Shs80.92b to cater for the first quarter, while Shs1.05 trillion was earmarked as revolving funds to the PDM Saccos in this Financial Year 2022/2023. During yesterday’s meeting, the premier approved disbursement of funds to three Saccos from Otuke, Butaleja and Lira districts as model Saccos” (Peter Sserugo – ‘Over 7,000 Saccos miss PDM money’ 12.10.2022, Daily Monitor).
The latest news that only one third of the SACCO’s are able to receive partly the Parish Development Model (PDM). The Government of Uganda has made the PDM the biggest development investment and is the biggest programme after the 2021 General Elections. This follows several of other micro-financing schemes, which haven’t delivered.
Now, after Parliamentary Reports and investigations into the PDM. There has been revelations already that the SACCOs, the local governments and everyone who was about to be involved in the PDM wasn’t prepared. So, it’s not shocking that only a third of the SACCOs are able to reach on time.
This is a rushed enterprise, where the state and the high ranking officials has pushed it through without having it all coordinated from the top to the ones down in the hierarchy. That’s why when Prime Minister Nabbanja is today disbursing funds. There is a lack of totality. This because of the warnings, which previously mentioned hasn’t been regarded.
The government haven’t prepared or didn’t consider the implications of it. That’s why later the Ministries and the high ranking officials had to make procedures for due diligence and for some sort of oversight. Though with this sort of disbursement, there will most likely be mischief and be misgivings. It is bound to happen. The mere scale of it and the possibilities are endless.
While the PDM is promised to be a game-changer, it will only end up in the dust-bin of time. The writing has already been on the wall and this sort of operation isn’t making it better. Today just shows again how it’s failing. I cannot wait to read new Parliamentary Reports about these disbursed funds and how it didn’t go where it was anticipated. This is bound to end in tears and tragedy. Not because I want to see it, but for one simple reason.
The PDM wasn’t prepared or regulated properly before the government launched. When you do that and with such vast funds. It is bound to be painful. The proverb of “missing funds” is an upcoming theme. The funds will not cause a massive change or be significant to be substantial in any manner either. It might change some lives and ensure their livelihoods. However, in the grand scheme of things… it will not revolutionize the economy or the financial markets. That needs another breed and more robust financial mechanism, which does various of things and not move money from one account to another.
There will be more about the PDM in the future. Just like there been revealed the fallouts and the failures of Emyooga, Operation Wealth Creation and all the similar micro-financing schemes from the government. It is just a creature that is bound to die. We just don’t know when to have the funeral or when the sing the psalms of David. Peace.

