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Guam: Dozens turn out to decry military build-up on US territorial outpost

Dozens of protesters marched on Guamanian Governor Eddie Calvo’s complex to criticise his apparent silence over a proposed 1,000 acre deforestation project to make way for a military firing range, near the island’s capital Hagatna in the settlement of Adelup, Tuesday. The community-organised group Prutehi Litekyan rallied under the banner ‘Save Ritidian’, the name of the area in the Guam National…

A Pathological Liar is someone who lies all the time, who doesn't know how to tell the truth. There could be many reasons for this behavior. It could be a person that is totally spoiled and never made to face consequences for their behavior. It could be they're simply lazy and unwilling to work at improving themselves, so lying is easier to them than actually telling the truth. Most psychiatrists agree that pathological lying is often the result of a mental disorder or low self-esteem.

A Sociopath is typically defined as someone who lies incessantly to get their way and does so with little concern for others.  A sociopath is often goal-oriented; i.e., lying is focused - it is done to get one's way.

A Compulsive Liar is defined as someone who lies out of habit. Compulsive liars bend the truth about everything, large and small. For a compulsive liar, telling the truth is very awkward and uncomfortable while lying feels right. For the most part, compulsive liars are not overly manipulative and cunning - unlike sociopaths; rather they simply lie out of habit - an automatic response which is hard to break.

Lie: Calvo's Director of Communications Troll Torres says that Calvo "would've likely chosen the same thing last year but the health insurance contract was mired in protests."

Truth:  Last year, Calvo never considered allowing government workers the right to choose from multiple insurers. From the beginning Calvo kept telling the public (a lie): that choice was bad, too costly - a threat to seniors and employees.

Insurance contract negotiations in 2012 ground to a rapid halt because oddly enough, the Department of Administration, after informing TakeCare that their proposal was ranked among the top 3 bids, and inviting the insurer on July 26th, to move on to the negotiating phase, DOA mysteriously had a change of mind - literally overnight.

The very next morning, when negotiations were scheduled to begin, assistant attorney general John Weisenberger and DOA Director Benita Manglona verbally informed TakeCare that negotiations with them were being cancelled and DOA's July 26 letter inviting TakeCare to negotiate was withdrawn. TakeCare protested.

It is simply untrue when Troll Torres says Calvo "would've likely chosen the same thing last year." That was never an option. GovGuam's health insurance procurement since 2011 was designed to choose just one contractor during the process. That company was the one owned by the governor's family.

Lie:  Adelup trollete Torres boasts Calvo gives GovGuam employees a choice with a multiple carrier scenario offering a price that is cheaper than the plan offered by Calvo's SelectCare, the exclusive insurer since Calvo/Tenorio took office in 2011...this is a slick lie actually hiding behind a deceptively 'truthful' statement.

Calvo's SelectCare cost the government almost $75 million for 2012.

But....

Truth:  This year, TakeCare offered the lowest bid for health insurance to GovGuam. Calvo's SelectCare would have lost the insurance contract if the same exclusive conditions were applied this year to the procurement process...and the government would have saved $18 million. That is enough money saved to completely pay off the GMH debt (without the need for gambling) or to allow for the Hay study raises that Calvo hopes to use to buy votes for next year's re-election bid.

It was impossible to justify not giving TakeCare the contract out right, as the lowest exclusive bidder.  So, the nonexclusive option Calvo NOW insists is a good thing, splits the business, thus SelectCare remains in the game with a year to figure things out. Some anticipate a protest from TakeCare demanding an exclusivity of the new contract. This would create the most bizarre scene of Calvo fighting for what Pangelinan and most Democrats have been trying to push for the past 3 years: consumer choice.

Meawhile, The Committee reports comments made by SelectCare executives during the process indicated they apparently had knowledge of the rates submitted by competing insurers StayWell, TakeCare and Aetna - this despite those bids being sealed.

The choice Calvo ordered his people to make only has the limited potential to save taxpayers $1 million, but will allow the Calvo family insurance company to continue to keep their finger in the government treasury earning millions.

Lie:  “Bill 81 is fiscally irresponsible,” Calvo wrote in May when he vetoed Pangelinan's measure. “It is mathematically and actuarially impossible....This administration will not enact legislation that increases the uncertainty and the cost of necessities on our man'åmko' and on our hardworking employees.” 

Truth:   The non-exclusive health insurance option negotiated by the health insurance negotiating team, and selected by Calvo, for government of Guam employees and retirees will cost $17 million MORE in premiums than the exclusive option the team negotiated with TakeCare. The non-exclusive option was estimated by the team to be, at best, $1 million less expensive than the cost of the current contract with Calvo's family business. It will negatively impact man'åmko' and cost them more money.

Pathological or Compulsive Lie:  Torres now says the administration submitted the new budget, not knowing "if the deficit was gone."

Truth:  Calvo bragged in February, "I have a special announcement to make....one that I wasn’t aware of until late last week. Tonight I have the distinct honor of being the first governor in 23 years to tell you... that the deficit is gone." He added there would be reflected in the fiscal year 2012 audit report a $10 million surplus.

Recently, however, public auditor Doris Brooks admitted, there is no real surplus despite the claim by Calvo and his chosen auditor Deloitte & Touche.

While most residents know claiming the deficit is gone is a word game Calvo/Tenorio is using in a deceptive ploy, the administration, nonetheless, has continue to claim, since February there is no deficit....now troll Torres claims they (the administration) didn't know if their own claim was true.

Hafa Adai,

I was reviewing the Governor's budget and saw a major discrepancy. Maybe you can get this clarified.

According to the Governor's website, they list their current contracts as of April 26, 2013 for only $138,500.

But if you look at the Governor's Office budget information on the OFB website, the contractual data for Adelup shows it is actually at nearly $900,000 - including a rather odd, unexplained notation of a contract for the "Lt. Governor's House." 

Is there an official residence for the Lt. Governor now?

Is it possible for you to please verify why there are conflicting amounts for contracts indicated and why the governor's website does not have the true amount listed.

Thank you.

A Guamblog Follower

Award-winning investigative journalist

Former Chief of staff for then-senator, Felix Camacho

Communications Director, Governor Camacho

Port of Guam Marketing Administrator

Mother

AFTER a weekend with their panties aflame over news that senator Rory Respicio has hired illegally terminated Port of Guam marketing administrator, Adelup notches up their personalized political prosecution Bernadette Meno.

The Committee tells Guamblog, that Eddie Calvo and his Front Office mafia were livid upon learning that Meno had landed, softly, though tentatively, on her feet at the upstart senator's office. Learning that their outrageous campaign to "take her down," which cost the Administration considerable political collateral damage, including the trashing of former Port GM Mary Torres, did not "destroy" Meno, Adelup turned to a new tactic of intimidation.

Not content with firing Meno, Torres and five other employees, including veteran port leader Vivian Leon, Eddie Calvo has turned to his family's media empire in a desperate attempt to intimidate Senator Respicio into firing Meno and create further financial hardships for her family.

Amid a growing scandal involving Port legal counsel Mike Phillips, PAG board chair Dan Tydingco and questionable contract deals worth millions, and despite evidence received at Guamblog that shows Calvo-appointee former deputy GM Anisia Terlaje engaged in deceptive, and possibly criminal, activities such as federal grant violations and intercepting confidential reports from Port management to protect favored employees, as well as illegal hires, Calvo has focused his petty ire on Meno again.

Sources close to the Meno family inform Guamblog that Federal officials are reviewing at least three possible violations of federal labor laws which will likely end in a major lawsuit against the Port, the Port board and the Calvo administration.

Charges could include wrongful termination and defamation of character along with a list of other wrongful acts, including an egregious attack that has major implications for working women across the island.

Federal complaints have already been filed by Meno; Guamblog can confirm that as as of today, Meno was interviewed by federal investigators over the controversial politically-motivated termination.

Ironically, but typical of the hypocrisy that has become a Calvo/Tenorio hallmark - along with the betrayal of longtime friends and supporters -, Calvo recently signed legislation that makes blacklisting of government workers an illegal act. (WTF?)

Respicio, Guamblog sources said, is pushing Port oversight chair senator Tom Ada to not delay in a holding an oversight hearing of the multiple problems at the Port, that which have drawn the attention of Federal officials.

Nonetheless, Ada has decided to wait more than a month to hold a limpwristed "informational briefing" on March 5, during which time many in the Legislature confided they expect the lethargic senator to do nothing to very little at all.

With Port legal counsel working to approve contracts and leases that favor his personal friends, outside clients and large donors to his privately-held school, Mt. Carmel, and efforts by Calvo cousin Champ Calvo to do a runaround anti-privatization laws intended to protect the Port - which could jeopardize $237 million in federal modernization funding - all Calvo can focus on is petty political vendettas that target government workers who did not support his election campaign in 2010.

I guess, its about time Guamblog readies the email thread showing how board chair Dan Tydingco, Casamar (Port leasee and Mt. Carmel donor) and attorney Phillips colluded with Adeup to "gin up" a shady deal that cheats the Port out of millions over the term of a lease negotiated by Phillips with Cruz....it might refocus their efforts on the real issues confronting this administration: total political corruption.

AFTER carefully preparing to respond to whatever attack on me that governor Eddie Calvo and Ray Tenorios' conclave determined they should launch before Calvo left the island again, I have decided that a "suicide run" may not be necessary.

One of my problems has always been overkill. It's a habit - when attacked, hit back so hard that if there is anyone standing afterwards, they won't come back. Ever. No prisoners. No mercy in war.

But that is exactly what I have been asked to do. Show mercy ("take it easy").

I will try...this once.

But, let me be perfectly clear, to the governor, Tenorio, John Mafnas, Troy Torres and even the inconsequential Natalie....and to you other three who shall, for now remain nameless: mercy is not one of my virtues.

Deep, dark thoughts and desires are just that for a reason. They're dark because everyone fears what it means, about them. From these come dark deeds that must be occulted. Secrets in the dark.

But nothing done in the dark remains in the dark forever.

Sadly, I think you people, plotting to physically cause me harm, to "take me down," are just too stupid to understand that - confident your secrets are safe.

Trust me - I don't lie (often or greatly). Your secrets are not only yours anymore. You have all done too many bad things, to too many people to keep your secrets forever.

Secrets are like stars: hot, volatile concentrations of energy, and they have two ways of dying. With time, small stars simply burn out and cool off; these are white dwarfs.

But massive stars collapse in on themselves, growing so dense they create an immense gravitational vortex from which even light can't escape. They are black holes that will pull everyone into it. I gravitate towards black holes.

"You're only as sick as your secrets" is a saying in Alcoholics Anonymous. And they should know: one of the hallmarks of of any addiction is deception. Addicts deceive others to cover up their addiction and themselves to deny they have one. From there their lives are deceit and they only know dark dealings and lies. They do not create, they destroy. Their plans always focus on destruction and deceptions; fast schemes and secret tricks. This defines their character. Chaos and confusion, turmoil and conflict surround them always.

There are few things in the world that will make people more defensive than secrets. Simply watch how stressed and concerned people get when their secrets may be exposed.

Concealing truths is like swallowing slow-acting poison: one's insides gradually rot. If you want to know how rotten a person - or a family - find their secrets. It really isn't that hard. Secrets go back generations.

Bastards in Hawai'i, money fights to the grave, exiled drug slingers who ratted on their dealers are nothing compared to the decay of family and the type of character they fester.

These kinds of people are never who they appear to be - or as they want you to perceive them. They cluster together and are fond of the same mischief and corruption. They are obscene in thought and character; this can be noted in their deeds.

Rule 34

There are 10,000 reasons why Calvo should remove Communications troll Troy Torres. 10,000 reasons why he wouldn't want a top advisor arrested on fraud charges while he serves in an administration already imperiled by what could turn into a Federal investigation into significant government contracts...that yet again benefit family.

But, Rule 34 does not apply to these 10,000 reasons. Or to the photos of "Vinny." Who cares about him or their fun 34. Rather, I call Rule 34 on fun time and pics from Barrigada to Harmon to Tumon, and points in between.

From the Palace hotel, to the homes of friends, Rule 34'd! That's what should concern the governor; despite that he too has secrets and little moral standing for repugnancy.

Is it kept secret from Adelup, who the other the people IN these other photos are? And the comments made by parties visible from online chats. Weapons of mass destruction.

In response to any attack from the Front Office, I could not dump these images files online with blurred faces - to protect the innocent - the ones who never did me harm. I just can't.

That could be twisted and used to argue against my credibility. No. In order to avoid charges of photo manipulation, the pixel arrangements must remain unaltered and untouched to withstand (legal) scrutiny.

As such, a full dump is a suicide run. It leaves a scorched social and political landscape. Sons, daughters, husband, wives, brothers and sisters of Guam. Friends. All burnt because only a firewall stops a troll.

Look around you carefully. Your spouses and mistresses, your brothers, their wives, your sisters and their kids. Consider the vain secrets of family - generations of secrets. Now, consider that you don't know me or what I know, but you do know I know more than I should...this is not a fight you want. Really.

I have nothing to lose. Can you say the same?

        Let's all play nice, shall we...since this "war" comes about as the result of the inexplicably odd defensive mechanism of John Mafnas and Ray Tenorio over suspicions they were behind backstabbing one of the Calvos most valuable and enduring family friendships, I will lay out the evidence that supports such cause for suspicion. All you have to do is refute it...in the end, Eddie has little room to wiggle, thanks to the trio of trolls at Adelup. He can get rid of them though.

TROLLS create online content in forums that targets another person.  Tactical trolling and strategic trolling are part and parcel of a game about identity deception. Deception the operative word here for understanding the offline characters of trolls.

The success of a troll depends on how well the troll understands how to analyze identity cues of others while masking their own. Trolls must work within communities to survive. Guam online has very few communities. Three to be exact.

Facebook is too open for trolls to operate effectively.

Within such a small community, like the one found on the KUAM site, for example, is a very tiny base with almost no measurable activity until the trolls engage. Even then, most often the trolls are hampered by the "lurking" tendency of Guam demographics who seldom engage their foils.

Easily identifiable with offline identities cues that are less opaque, the tiny troll pack at KUAM have been exposed in what "The Committee" says is a major imbroglio between powerful Republican factions.

Seems the Calvo/Tenorio administration are repeating the same mistakes that ultimately led to the fracture of the island's Democrat party, from which it still has not recovered to this day.

I have wondered what Calvo's legacy in office would be; if he would even have time to work on creating one. I've had my ideas. Even I couldn't have imagined it would be as the Troll King. Will he end up being the governor that undermined the Republican party of Guam and tore it apart - with trolls?

Halloween is coming late to the trolls at KUAM/Adelup, but the trick could well be on them. There are more than a few curses being whispered tonight. The bells may soon toll not for Christmas but the trolls in the shadows.