Put faces in the names of the congressmen who voted for HR 1109 (please follow the link):
Salamat sa World Wide Web. I bumped into this rather educational and entertaining video of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo dancing to her Cha-Cha via Con-Ass (produced by YouTube’s Vickitoh). C’mon, watch it. It would not take you two minutes. Laugh, sing, laugh… then take action. We can no longer stay complacent with all these events unfolding. Make your voices heard, words read. Let’s stop this Con-Ass from happening.
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Inspired by the blog of Pedestrian Observer GB: Cha Cha Dancing Queen Gloria Arroyo’s latest conASS!
Libreng dyaryo... Kanino nanggaling?
Filipinas Herald… “News should always be free,” it says.
This certain publication is said to be published by Hav Media Publications. As of today, it only has one exact match in Google. Considering the daily production costs of this publication, it suggests that Hav Media should at least have an established reputation in press publication… and having no links or matches in the World Wide Web makes it all the more doubtful.
Being a graduate of a communication course, with decent familiarity to most forms of media — especially print, I noticed quite a few troubling things most readers actually wouldn’t mind.
(1) There are no advertisements. Thus no source of revenue, then why publish? Why spend so much and expect nothing in return?
(2) In its 08 June 2009 release, in the article entitled “Mancao faces trial until discharged as accussed“, the writer only interviewed two (2) persons as sources. If this was submitted in a Journalism class, I’m sure his/her professor will ask for more sources. A front page news, with only two sources, with Lawyer Carolina Comon of former Police Senior Supt. Cesar Mancao II almost only doing the talking… will that produce fair and credible news? I doubt.
(3) Check out the editorial cartoon. Top of the class editorial cartoon, ei? Not. And under the supposedly “The Bible” verse, a quote from Mother Teresa was used instead. Hays. Stupid.
(4) And finally, this is all Arroyo government news. This is the only publication who does not criticize GMA and all her cohorts.
So is this what they call FREE? Are we again just being fooled? With more than three (3) government television networks and more radio networks, why take another cover from this publication? Someone might have told them that reading news leaves a mark in for the long haul compared to watching or listening to them. People view written materials as readily credible sources of news and information.
Well, whatever it is, this government is doing everything in its power to sell this current administration in exchange for a more positive view from the people.
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Wow. I hope you can help me find out who runs this Filipinas Herald shit. It bothers me that taxpayers’ money is again being used by this government in their propaganda shit.
Leading us to hell…
Can you fucking believe this self-serving congressman, Speaker Prospero Nograles, of the Lakas–Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino Christian Muslim Democrats (Lakas-Kampi CMD) Party?
In the official site of the House of Representatives, it has a poll about this certain provision which is about to be included in the latest attempt to amend the constitution. Geez.
| Many progressive countries allow foreigners to own land in their own territories. Do you favor amending our laws to allow non-Filipinos and majority foreign-owned corporations to own land as a means of attracting new capital and investments? | |
| agree 91 votes. (23.16 %) |  |
| disagree 296 votes. (75.32 %) | |
| undecided 6 votes. (1.53 %) | |
| Total votes: 393
These politicians are selling us, the Filipinos, out yet again… to the foreigners. WE NEED FILIPINO LEADERS, not these easy-way-out-thinking TRAPOS! |
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Who do you want to save?
Here we go again… the Palace talking gibberish. Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita has “urged all the women in Dr. Hayden Kho’s sex videos to press charges, saying that ‘anything that is offensive to public morals must be sanctioned.’“
The irony is, the Palace pardoned a convicted child rapist in the person of Romeo Jalosjos. Wow. Will the people from this so-called Palace just stop talking? For chrissake.
*I’m not saying Hayden “Ultimate Perv” Kho should not be put in the fucking shit hole he’s in, I just want the Palace to shut the fuck up because they are not in the position to teach us morals or to fight for our rights… as they have long tampered both.
To everyone who says the
Jonas Brothers
are going to be the next Beatles,
next Aerosmith
and next whatever…
I fucking doubt.
Who is going to win?
I say, “PACMAN all the way…
“
“Haters keep off. This is a boxing fight, not a visit to your gradeschool guidance counselor. Stop preaching about being nice this and that, because you’re probably a bigger ass than you think. Suckers.
Educated boxing comments please. If you have time, watch HBO’s Pacquiao-Hatton 24/7 on YouTube. And don’t forget to watch the fight on May 2, 2009 (May 3, Manila time).
A slap in the face we, Filipinos, all deserve.
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Why are we a nation of servants?
By F. Sionil Jose
Here we go again, some inconsequential columnist in Hong Kong takes a cheap shot at our unhappy country, calls us “a nation of servants” and immediately an uproar, and magma feelings of hurt are unleashed. Editorials, columnists, politicians are outraged — they demand apology as if one would really salve the bone-deep insult. It was the same sometime back when an English publisher defined “Filipina” as a housemaid. Such insults hurt profoundly but the pain fades quickly and soon after all that enraged outburst, we settle down to the same complacency, we continue sending more of our women abroad to be raped by Arabs, demeaned by Malaysians and Chinese, heckled by the Brits. What has our sense of outrage brought us?
Go to Hong Kong, to Singapore. Visit the Star Ferry environs in Hong Kong or Lucky Plaza, and Singapore’s Orchard St. And there, on Sundays you will see them, hundreds of Filipino domestics, yak-yaking, socializing on the sidewalk, having a pleasant respite from their work.
To the visitors, tourists and the natives, they are a piteous sight, illustrating so clearly and so well how this country has sank. As a Filipino, having witnessed such, I am utterly shamed. I do not blame our poor women for their sorry condition, for I know only too well their plight is the only way by which they can help their families at home and survive.
It is such a boring cliché now, but back to the not-so-distant past: Filipinas was the second richest country in the region, next only to Japan; our universities attracted students from all over Asia, and we had the best professionals, the most modern stores and hospitals.
And what was Hong Kong then? There were slums crawling up those hills on Victoria island, and slums all over Kowloon. Singapore as an English naval base was like old Binondo, with its small squalid shops and equally small houses.
But look at Singapore and Hong Kong now, then look at our country and people.
Sure, you can find in Makati magnificent mansions, the biggest luxury cars, the tony restaurants, skyscrapers. But elsewhere the ugly sprawl of slums, the very poor who now eat only once a day. We must ask ourselves that question, why we became “the hewers of wood and drawers of water” of the world. What happened to us, a very talented and heroic people with a revolutionary tradition?
Once we have answered this question, then we should no longer wonder why there is a continuing diaspora of our brightest people, of our women. It is then the time for us to be truly enraged — not at that Hong Kong columnist — but at the creators of this dismal miasma we call Filipinas. Do not kill the messenger who comes to us to tell the horrid truth about us. Ingest his message, then turn all that outrage, that vehemence, to the Filipinos who turned this beautiful country into the garbage dump of the region: the oligarchs, the Spanish mestizos, the Chinese Filipinos and the treasonous Indios who sent their money abroad instead of investing it here in industries to create jobs for our people. Then it is time for us to rail and condemn the crooked politicians who are the allies of these wretched rich who permitted the relentless hemorrhage of this nation’s capital.
Revolutionary tradition? Ask those rebels why, after 40 years, these leeches are still feasting on our blood!
Who do you think will WIN in the battle of electronically enhanced voices?
Let your comments be heard!
I was on a bus, on my way to Metro Manila… and 80% of the households from Dasma, Cavite to Pasay, Metro Manila had their lights on. Can’t blame them. I have to agree with the Time article, Can Earth Hour Galvanize the Global Warming Fight?, that the reason why the movement against global warming has yet to culminate is because, “We can’t see it yet, not quite — and we can’t see its victims. But by the time we can, it will be too late.“
And I believe that Earth is going to be fine… even if global warming goes full blown! Earth is going to live. It is the people who are going to die. A DEATH each one of us deserves.
