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WWII in the Philippines: Medal of Honor Recipients v. 50 Richest “Filipinos” of 2015

There were 51 Medal of Honor recipients who earned the distinction defending and liberating the Philippines in WWII. Of these, thirty-one (31) were awarded posthumously. Because Japanese collaborators retained power even after WWII, few Filipinos and even Americans know about the heroism and sacrifices of these men. 1st Lt. Alexander R. Nininger, Jr. “A” Co. 57th Infantry, Philippine Scouts, US Army, was the first American soldier to win the Congressional Medal of Honor in WWII but his name and

exploits is virtually unknown in the U.S. and in the Philippines.

Seventy years after the end of WWII, on 26 Aug. 2015, Forbes Magazine listed the 50 richest “Filipinos” whose combined net worth totaled $73.1 billion. Yet none of them has been credited with any invention, development or discovery with which they could associate their wealth. Remember after WWII everyone in the Philippines was poor.

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE POOR IN THE PHILIPPINES Living in a Garbage Dump; the “Stockholm-Manila Syndrome” (Bienvenido Macario, USA, 11/12/15 7:05 am) http://waisworld.org/go.jsp?id=02a&objectType=post&o=100109&objectTypeId=79903&topicId=17

This is for the heads of state of 21 member-countries going to the APEC summit in the Philippines on November 18 and 19, 2015.

The Philippines is very rich in natural resources. In 1972 the population was around 38 million. We used to say: “Stick a broom anywhere in the ground and it will grow back and yield a-plenty.” (Magtapon ka ng binhi kahit saan tutubo at mamumunga.)

Fast forward to…today. In the Philippines people are eating food they dig out of the garbage. Other than taking one’s own life, the poor in the Philippines have three choices: 1) Leave the country. 2) Work as a prostitute or lead a life of crime. 3) Eat garbage, literally.

These are the best approaches to philanthropy in the Philippines, in my opinion. Notice they are not Americans.Uploaded on Sep 3, 2009

“When Briton Jane Walker first saw children rummaging through trash heaps while on a trip to the Philippines in 1996, she decided to do something about it. Employing about 100 people, Walker helps improve the lives of thousands of children and their families who otherwise would be forced to eke out a living picking through Manila’s garbage dumps.

Jennifer Glasse reports.” Garbage Dump Philanthropist Helps Thousands in Philippines Escape Poverty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_9FZG1JyHQ

How can the International community allow the 50 richest “Filipinos” to continue amassing so much wealth while majority of the natives of the Philippines are starving and reduced to eating garbage?

Another item, from 2012: “Having to give birth to your children on a rubbish dump is squalor that shocks. The only anchor of hope on a burning Philippine refuse tip is the priest and SVD missionary Fr. Heinz Kulüke from Germany.”

Living on a Philippine rubbish dump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heVMnceNJS8

Excerpt: “I buried 17 children myself in one week.”–Fr. Heinz Kuluke of Steyler Mission

Most Filipinos fall into four types: 1) the brainwashed; 2) those with Stockholm syndrome; 3) the indifferent ones. 4) Combination of the three. I’m sure by now many Filipinos have the “Stockholm-Manila Syndrome” that started in 1946. It is a syndrome in which the victims, in this case Filipinos, end up loving their abusers the oligarchs, their politicians, the politicians’ relatives and friends, and the oligarchs’ cronies. And they hate the Americans and European missionaries. “Stockholm-Manila syndrome” is really the better designation for Filipinos instead of just “Stockholm syndrome,” which psychologists are more familiar with. Filipinos love their abusers–this is the “Stockholm Syndrome”–and hate those who genuinely care and help them–this is the “Manila Syndrome.”

JE comments: The sad lot of the Philippines’ garbage-dump residents reminds one of Mexico’s “pepenadores,” who have developed a complex culture among the rubbish. Bienvenido: what is the Tagalog term to refer to these people? Is the “Manila Syndrome” limited to the Philippines? Might we say there is a universal human trait to resent your benefactors–even when you are outwardly thankful?

Nielsen Field Manila, Philippines: The Forgotten Airfield of WWII

Dec. 10, 2015 – Ma. Elena G. Macario’s Fifth Death Anniversary

If you look at Ayala Ave. – Makati Ave. and Buendia Ave. these three roads form a triangle similar to an airfield. It was the old Nielsen Field. (See Photo)

The road going up and down is Ayala Ave. and the one going left to right is Makati Avenue.

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It was Joseph McMicking’s idea to develop Makati as the new financial center of the Philippines. Yet not a tiny street, park or even a building was named after Joseph McMicking and Roy Hall.

Neither was there anything named after Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

The Old Nielsen Field. It was Joseph McMicking’s idea to relocate Manila’s financial district to Makati in the old Nielsen Field. What I read was:

“Just before noon on Jan. 20, 1945 Japanese soldiers came to there house. SOMEBODY MAY HAVE REPORTED THEM OR IT MAY SIMPLY HAVE BEEN A RANDOM SWEEP. (Seriously? Ayala-Zobel’s cousin Manuel A. Roxas was working with the Japanese Occupation Army at that time!)

Lt. Col. Joseph R. McMicking’s brother Alfred McMicking sisters Consuelo M. Hall, Helen McMicking, Helen’s fiance Carlos Perez-Rubio, Consuelo Hall’s children Rod and Ian & Marita Lopez Mena a family friend then staying with the McMicking-Hall families were taken to the Masonic Temple at Taft Ave. then the Headquarters of the dreaded Kempeitai. Later the children and the servants were released.

For ten days the Hall kids and servants brought pots of hot food to the prisoners. Then on or about 30 Jan. 1945, the guards told Rod & Ian Hall to stop coming – the food was no longer needed.”

Below is a better map of Nielsen Air Field and Nichols Air Field during the Battle For Manila. 1945. Changing names and use of land won’t change the past. Why are there so many streets and avenues named “Ayala” & “Roxas” but Lt. Col. Joseph McMicking and the Hall family were practically left out?

Below Nielson Field (now Ayala Triangle) under construction Sept. 27, 1937 US Army Air Forces, US National Archives Photo

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Manuel A. Roxas (photo below with Japanese officer Col. Jimbo) had ten (10) days to intervene on behalf of the Hall-McMicking Families held by the Japanese Marines at the Kempeitai HQ. He never lifted a finger to save them. Then after the war, his cousin Jaime Zobel de Ayala took over the plans, brainchild of Lt. Col. Joseph McMicking. As if to cover-up the crime, no street or park was named after any of the McMickings and Halls family.

Oligarch-Traitor Exposed - It was US Sec. of Interior Harold Ickes who questioned Manuel Roxas’ war record in an editorial published on July 22, 1946. — Oligarch-Traitor Exposed – It was US Sec. of Interior Harold Ickes who questioned Manuel Roxas’ war record in an editorial published on July 22, 1946.

Alistair Hall and his children after the “liberation” of Manila. Rod Hall would later write that after his mother Consuelo, grandmother, uncle Alfred Lt. Col. Joseph R. McMicking’s brother, aunt Helen McMicking, Helen’s fiance Carlos Perez-Rubio & Marita Lopez Mena a family friend were taken to the Masonic Temple at Taft Ave., a group of bandits entered and took over the house, searching for valuables.

“A Spanish friend of my mother’s, married to a German, complained to Japanese Army headquarters, and so we found ourselves for some days having two Japanese army sentries patrolling our home each evening, while the Japanese marines were holding our family!” – Rod Hall, then 9 yrs.

So the Ayalas, Zobels & Sorianos who were Spaniards and all related to Manuel A. Roxas, had some clout since Spain was friendly to Germany, Japan & Italy, the Axis Powers.

Nielson Field 1940 Nielsen Air Field / Manila International Airport Tower, 1940.

Built by the Americans before the war, the Nielsen airfield had two intersecting runways, the main runway NW/SE and a smaller runway running NE to SW, with taxiways that connected both, plus dispersal areas in the surrounding area. Prewar, used by American Far Eastern Aviation and Philippine Air Lines (PAL).

When the threat of war loomed, Nielson was taken over by the FEAF (Far East Air Force) and enlarged with hangers, workshops and facilities. FEAF’s Manila Air Depot is where new aircrafts were assembled and equipment stored.

American Consolidated B-24 “Liberator” bombing Nielsen Field 1945.

Nielsen airfield had two intersecting runways, the main runway NW/SE and a smaller runway running NE to SW, with taxiways that connected both, plus dispersal areas in the surrounding area. Nielsen Airdrome in 1945 back under U.S. control. Had the Philippines remained a U.S. Territory, Nielsen Field and Nichols Field would ~~have~~ been American Battlefield Monuments like the rest of the entire Philippines.

Nichols Airdrome & Nielsen Airdrome

Ayala Triangle was in fact the old Nielsen Field (Ayala-Puyat-Makati Triangle). Nichols Field was renamed Villamor Air Field. See map below.

Nichols Field later renamed Villamor Air base then became the NAIA Terminal 4

Below: Map of Manila, Manila Bay with the old Nielson Field (center right) and Nichols Field (center bottom) with the end of the arrow-head shape runaway pointed towards Manila Bay Credit: USAAFDate: 1945
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© PacificWrecks – Map of Nielson Field in Manila
Source: https://www.pacificwrecks.com/airfields/philippines/nichols/maps/map-manila-nichols-neilson.html

The area labelled as “Carmona” seems to be the old Sta. Ana Race Track.

“All that glitters is NOT gold.” – William Shakespeare – The Merchant of Venice, Act II – Scene VII

Related: Proverbs 13:7-8

7 One person pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth. 8 A person’s riches may ransom their life, but the poor cannot respond to threatening rebukes.

This should be part of the American Battle Monument since modern Makati was built on the old Nielson Field. The street on the left is Ayala Ave. and on the right is Makati Ave. forming the “V” shape of the triangle with Paseo de Roxas on top.

On The Issue of Collaborators in the Philippines During WWII – A Declassified CIA Report

10 December 2015

“Three things you cannot hide for long: the sun, the moon and the TRUTH.” – Buddha

INTRODUCTION: As WAIS Editor John Eipper noted in Francisco Ramirez’s 11 March 2015 post:

“JE comments: Yes, Philippines was still officially part of the US during WWII. We do know that our friend Bienvenido Macario has never recognized the legitimacy of the 1946 act (Treaty of Manila) which granted the Philippines its independence.“

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Neither the Filipino people nor the American people were ever consulted through a referendum, if our parents and grandparents wanted to be “on the road to independence” when the Philippine Independence Act of 1934 aka Commonwealth Act of 1934 was passed by the U.S. Congress.

And again in 1946 there was no referendum held asking our parents, grandparents, the Filipino people if they wanted to GIVE UP THEIR AMERICAN NATIONALITY and SECEDE from the U.S. at a time when we needed U.S. administration and guidance the most when WWII just ended.

We are forced, to this day, to embrace treason!

We were forced to renege on our Pledge of Allegiance to the US flag. Remember that part of the oath: “one nation under God INDIVISIBLE with liberty and JUSTICE for ALL.”? Puerto Rico a U.S. territory acquired from Spain along with the Philippines and Guam held a referendum on 6 Nov. 2012.

Excerpt: “The September 18th referendum in Scotland should remind all Filipinos that our parents were not consulted when known Japanese collaborator Manuel A. Roxas sought independence that the US Senate illegally, irresponsibly and prematurely granted with the ratification of the 1946 Treaty of Manila on 22 October 1946. On Nov. 6, 2012, a referendum was held in Puerto Rico, and only a tiny 5.6 percent of Puerto Ricans voted for independence.”

From: “A Tale of Three Jesuses (Bienvenido Macario, USA) Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:43 PM”

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Scotland Referendum Aftermath; What About the Philippines? (Bienvenido Macario, USA) Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:08 AM

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Below is a declassified CIA report (13 pages) on the implications of Philippine Pres. Manuel Roxas’ granting of amnesty to accused collaborators in the Philippines. Entitled:

“POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENTS RESULTING FROM THE GRANTING OF AMNESTY TO ACCUSED COLLABORATORS IN THE PHILIPPINES“

This was published on 28 April 1948, three (3) months after Manuel Roxas, Sr. signed the general amnesty.

It was out of Roxas’ desire to escape justice, selfish ambition and the collective greed of the oligarchs that he opted to declare independence without consulting the people. Roxas’ decision is the single cause of the misery and suffering of millions of Filipinos especially the OFW’s to this day.

On page 1 the Summary page, the report says: “SEVERAL HUNDREDS OF FILIPINO GUERRILLAS OPPOSED TO THE OCCUPATION UNDER THEIR OWN OR US LEADERSHIP, ARE NOW IN CUSTODY AND SUBJECT TO PROSECUTION IN THE PHILIPPINE COURTS FOR ALLEGED ACTS OF VIOLENCE COMMITTED DURING THE WAR AS PART OF THEIR ANTI-JAPANESE AND ANTI-COLLABORATIONIST ACTIVITIES.

The ultimate effect of the amnesty, therefore, may well be detrimental to US interests in the Philippines in that

Elements suffering from its effects will believe themselves betrayed by the US and thus may reverse their previous loyalty to it; and
Former collaborationists who play on extreme Philippine nationalism and are themselves secretly or avowedly anti-US, are likely to achieve political and economic control.”

It now appears the Philippines was not liberated in WWII. This explains why the Philippines never celebrated VJ Day, MacArthur’s Leyte Landing or the Liberation of Manila. This is no longer acceptable.

Dedicated to MEGM.

Declassified CIA Report On the Impact of Granting Amnesty to Japanese Collaborators p.3

Above: An undeniable proof that Benigno Aquino, Sr. the grandfather of former Philippine Pres. Benigno Aquino III and father of Paul Aquino supposedly the geothermal magnate of the Philippines, was a Japanese collaborator during WWII.

A notice from Japanese Military Attache – Japanese Embassy (c. 1943)

OFFICE OF THE MILITARY ATTACHE

TO THE JAPANESE EMBASSY

Manila, Philippines

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

This house belongs to His Excellency Benigno S. Aquino^, Speaker of the National Assembly. The same

should be respected and the occupants thereof given the necessary protections.

IMPERIAL JAPANESE FORCES

^ – The grandfather of Benigno Aquino III was a die-hard Japanese collaborator. The Philippines has never held any Liberation Day or VJ Day parade or any celebration whatsoever.

Manuel A. Roxas (above with Col. Jimbo) was a Brig. Gen. in the US Army when he collaborated with the Japanese during the occupation of the Philippines. To escape his war crime of treason under the Uniform Code of Military Justice and trial by court martial, Manuel Roxas sought and amazingly enough was granted independence for the Philippines without consulting the Filipino people.

Philippines Mid-Term Elections: Duterte Allies Victorious (Bienvenido Macario, USA, 05/16/19 5:17 am)

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The Philippine mid-term elections were held on May 13th. The Liberal party to which former President Benigno Aquino III belongs, together with other independent parties, fielded the Ocho Derecho (spelled Otso Diretso) candidates for the Philippine Senate.

Three Ocho Derecho (Straight Eight) candidates stand out:

1. Mar Roxas II (Mar Roxas), Aquino III’s anointed successor, who lost to Pres. Duterte in the 2016 presidential election. His grandfather was US Army Brig. Gen. Manuel A. Roxas, Sr. (Photo above) who avoided the court martial for treason under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) by seeking independence under the 1946 Treaty of Manila.

2. Lorenzo Tañada III (Erin Tañada), the grandson of Lorenzo Tañada, Sr., Chief Prosecutor appointed by Manuel A. Roxas, Sr. Tañada prepared the list of suspected collaborators to be pardoned immediately after July 4, 1946.

See: “Man-To-Man: Roxas Is Asked To Explain Stand”

by Harold L. Ickes

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Monday, July 22, 1946:

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bsMwAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ymkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1774%2C3074145&dq=philippines%20collaborators%20tanada&hl=en&fbclid=IwAR3GHncGFvG-5wSe8R5pXVVwACzt6L1aIgpjDRYtgjtoLIXYNpRHbV5VClU

3. Benigno Aquino IV (Bam Aquino), another grandson of Benigno Aquino, Sr., the most dedicated and loyal Japanese collaborator of all. His father Paul Aquino was appointed to the PNOC-EDC privatization commission and sold the entire geothermal industry to the Lopezes at dirt-cheap prices. He then became the president of the privatized Energy Development Corporation (EDC). It was my late wife Ma. Elena G. Macario who discovered, assisted in the development and management of those geothermal resources in the Philippines while working for PNOC-EDC and before earning her MS in Petroleum Engineering at Stanford in 1991. On Dec. 10, 2010 she died penniless.

See: WAIS NEWS–Elena G. Macario (Bienvenido Macario) Dec. 13, 2010

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I am sure the oligarchs and the two million richest in the Philippines who never invented, developed or discovered anything even remotely associated to their obviously ill-gotten wealth, are desperately trying to find ways to explain where and how they managed to amass such an obscene amount of wealth. One way is money laundering. And my late wife’s accomplishments are the perfect target.

I digress.

None of the Ocho Derecho candidates were elected to the Senate.

JE comments: Happy to hear from one of our dearest colleagues, veteran WAISer Bienvenido Macario. Duterte’s allies won resounding victories in the mid-term elections. Bienvenido, is Duterte really that popular? I know he’s good at summary executions and um, “outspokenness,” but has he brought any real progress to the Philippines?

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Just two (2) months after the Philippines was granted independence, on Sept. 4, 1946, The New Times published an article saying that former puppet President Jose P. Laurel called Roxas a collaborator.

The Philippines was only liberated in the military sense. In every other sense, the Japanese collaborators retained effective control of the Philippine Islands, an abandoned US territory.

The US Senate of the 79th US Congress did not ratify the Treaty of Manila and the granting of independence until Oct. 22, 1946. How could the US Senate still proceed with the granting of a US territory, independence under the control of unknown anti-American quislings and traitors?

This is Washington DC’s Jekyll and Hyde foreign policy towards the only US territory ever granted dependent-independence.

Below: “President Roxas was my collaborator during the Japanese occupation, is my collaborator now and will be hereafter.” -Jose P. Laurel, puppet ruler the Japanese. Article: “Puppet Laurel Calls Roxas A Collaborator” Chicago Daily Tribune p.7 Thursday Sept. 5, 1946

Below: Map of Manila, Manila Bay with the old Nielson Field (center right) and Nichols Field (center bottom) with the end of the arrow-head shape runaway pointed towards Manila Bay Credit: USAAFDate: 1945B&W

“All that glitters is NOT gold.” – William Shakespeare – The Merchant of Venice, Act II – Scene VII

This should be part of the American Battle Monument since modern Makati was built on the old Nielson Field. The street on the left is Ayala Ave. and on the right is Makati Ave. forming the “V” shape of the triangle with Paseo de Roxas on top.

Below: “President Roxas was my collaborator during the Japanese occupation, is my collaborator now and will be hereafter.” -Jose P. Laurel, puppet ruler the Japanese. Article: “Puppet Laurel Calls Roxas A Collaborator” Chicago Daily Tribune p.7 Thursday Sept. 5, 1946

Below: Map of Manila, Manila Bay with the old Nielson Field (center right) and Nichols Field (center bottom) with the end of the arrow-head shape runaway pointed towards Manila Bay Credit: USAAFDate: 1945
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