Our military needs high-flying drones

That would be divulging state secrets, which is tantamount to treason.

President Digong was right in reprimanding his newly designated drug czar.

To be fair to VP Leni, I don’t think her intention was to divulge state secrets when she asked for the list of drug personalities. She is probably just overzealous at her new job.

But I agree with VP Leni in seeking the help of the United States government in addressing the country’s drug problem.

The US has been helping countries like Colombia and Mexico in South America combat their drug problems.

The US has the intelligence capability, which the Philippines doesn’t have.

Vice Leni is right in pointing to China as the source of shabu (crystal meth) despite protestations from her co-chairman in the InterCommittee on Anti-Illegal Drugs that our illicit drug shipments come from the “Golden Triangle.”

The Golden Triangle, that border area where Myanmar, Thailand and Laos intersect, is the source of opium and not shabu.

That’s the reason I’ve been proposing in this space that Robredo ask the help of Chinese law enforcement agencies in containing shabu shipments from China. They are only too willing to help.

I should know, being our special envoy to China on public diplomacy.

The routing of government troops by communist New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in Eastern Samar recently — six Army soldiers killed and 20 wounded against one NPA rebel killed — shows the

armed forces.

High- flying drones, not the commercial ones, are excellent intelligence apparatus as they can detect the enemy from the sky.

China has offered the country military drones capable of carrying bombs through my special envoy

and easy installment terms.

- ment of National Defense have opted to buy drones from Israel at a very high price.

Representatives of the Chinese drone manufacturer who talked to me said their state-of–the-art equipment were bought by many countries, including Israel.

I don’t see the logic of our country buying drones of the same quality from Israel at a much higher price instead of China, which offers a lower price.

Even President Digong expressed willingness to buy drones from China when I told him about the offer.

There is a dire need for the reinstatement of capital punishment. Policemen who get involved in

- ing” of drugs on innocent civilians, and murder or gun-for-hire should be meted the supreme penalty of death.

There are so many cops who kill or oppress innocent citizens, whom they have vowed to “serve and protect,” that their numbers can no longer be ignored.

There are just so many criminal cops.

If some citizens were to have their way, these scalawag policemen would be hanged in the plaza for the public to see.

Capital punishment was scrapped by former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo under intense pressure from the local Catholic Church, the same institution that is responsible for the country’s population growth rate.

Jose “Pepe” Ong, the other half of the CDO Foodsphere partnership, should inspire young people who want to go into business.

Pepe passed away Thursday after a lingering illness.

But his legacy lives on in his wife Cora (co-founder of CDO Foodsphere) and their three children.

CDO started as a “mom and pop” company on June 25, 1975.

Pepe quit his job as a biology teacher at the Ateneo de Manila University to run the mom and pop business that was started at their home kitchen in Valenzuela, Metro Manila.

Cora, a hospital nutritionistdietician by profession, did the recipes on their (steamed bun) with (local sausage) filling and other ways of making

The early days saw husband and wife doing the marketing for their products in the wee hours of the morning.

Cora made the recipes, while Pepe cooked the food that they sold to cafeterias in schools and hospitals.

Delivery of the food to their early customers was done through a rickety, rundown jeepney that Pepe drove. Cora would unload the goods at their destination.

From a backyard industry, CDO now employs 3,000 people, making it one of the biggest food manufacturing companies in the country.

Its corporate social responsibility is handled by the CDO-OCD Foundation, which feeds 30,000 hungry children every day.

The foundation also teaches mothers food processing, like making and to help many poor families cope with hard times.

The CDO- OCD Foundation also helps calamity victims by contributing canned foods to the Philippine Red Cross where Cora

Asked what made Pepe and Cora tick, Dindo Danao, CDO Foodsphere executive director, said hard work, commitment and their passion for detail.

To this day, the company is still run like a mom and pop business.

Employees at CDO dispense with calling Pepe and Cora “sir” or “ma’am.” They’re addressed or elder brother and or elder sister.

Lowly employees like janitors go straight to kuya and ate when they have personal problems.