Listen to “One Day More.”
Itaguyod ang Katotohanan.
It is time to be COUNTED!
Join us at the Friday Inter-Faith Prayer Rally
Ayala cor. Paseo de Roxas — 4:00 to 8:00 PM
Where former President Cory Aquino and Jun Lozada will join us as we make the call for Truth and Accountability.
Black and White Movement, together with Hyatt 10/La Salle 60, MBC, MAP, Manindigan,
and other professional and church groups will assemble at the
AIM (Paseo de Roxas) Parking lot at 3:00 PM.
Please join us.
Sa Totoo Tayo. Now Na!
Today there will be people from all walks of life and different generations and varying political and non-political persuasions, coming together to make a stand.
It’s unfortunate that the focus on Makati will obscure the efforts being made elsewhere in the country. Whether a rally in Cebu City, or elsewhere, the only divide I see is between urban and rural Filipinos: though the majority, for some time now, of Filipinos are urban dwellers. I strongly believe the sentiments among urban Filipinos are converging while rural opinion won’t be far behind.
Returning to today’s rally, the authorities are pulling out all the stops: PNP renews warning about communists, terrorists at rally. They’re spooked.Yesterday, something remarkable happened at PUP, see: PUP bomb threat fails to stop Lozada. And something else happened, see: Dirty Tricks in Uniffors.
But two bloggers say it best.
Market Manila declares he will be there:
Because we live in a democracy by choice. Because not speaking up when you know something is wrong makes you an accomplice to the wrong. Because I think everyone must be held accountable for their actions, particularly where their actions impact the welfare of millions. Because of the increasingly brazen disregard for the laws and even basic ethics that should apply to educated individuals. Because in many ways, I am embarrassed to be in the same gene pool as those who are perpetrating and then possibly getting away with such outrageous actions. Because of dozens of other reasons I will keep to myself as I know you get the point.
A reply he gives to a commenter is zeroes in on the issues even more:
mapster, I agree that we have to do everything we can everyday. I pay my taxes and a LOT of them. I have never ever slipped a policeman lunch money. I have voted with a conscience and watched at the polls. I have volunteered services for politicians or candidates which I thought rose above the rest, and I have never accepted any gifts, compensation or positions for the effort. So yes, I think we have to do our daily bit. But I also used to believe that we had a high corruption rate because we were poor… and that somehow the petty corruption of the streets and licenses, etc. were a function of poverty. But that is simply not true. The folks who are implicated in multi-billion scandals are well to do, and as someone above says, how much money do they need to live a decent and comfortable life? And the Hello garci scandal was offensive precisely because it suggests that the elections themselves are rigged, hence the votes of the people are ignored. At the very least, we have to indicate a great deal of displeasure and let everyone know they can’t get away with these kinds of behaviors.
As for being in the company of crooks and wannabees as some intimate above, I think in all democracies people from all walks of life will band together for similar causes, though they all may not look, sound, or be the same. While some of the folks who will be there at the rally this afternoon are opportunists and perhaps not folks I would normally look up to, many others could or should be every day folks who simply want to say, TAMA NA! And while I am not the biggest of Cory fans, I think she IS someone to look up to and her presence is only one of the minor reasons I would show up this afternoon.
I agree with other sentiments about changing the system et al. But I would agree more that we need to change the people on a massive scale with folks that really want to do the BEST for their country, a noble and difficult scenario, I concur.
As for others, you are definitely entitled to your opinion and free to choose what you will, can or want to do. With Marcos it took 20 years to reach the “boiling point.” In subsequent administrations the flare ups occurred with less time required. But at some point, when we all are personally so incensed or affected directly, you too will feel the need to do something.
If you re-read the post above, I would like to point out that I only said that I WOULD BE GOING. Not that I thought all of you should as well, that is obviously your choice.
Touched By An Angel says,
Though not a popular choice by our Catholic Bishops, I believe, GMA has to go. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has to go.
I truly believe that The President and her people have engaged in so much lying that they can no longer recognize the truth even if it stared them in the face. (PDI) As to the next step to take, I will take one step, one day at a time. I do not have the answers yet but in time, I will discern it. Our Filipinos will discern it. I will be there at the The Interfaith rally…
Among young people, there will be those, like on a red day who will be there, as will Tristan’s Mental Assylum ristan’s Mental Assylum and Jamel Ignes who is attending a rally for the first time! (for the religious, see melo touch). Other young people share their views, and efforts at discernment: a slice of wine.. and a shot of cake.. points out the dividing line and respects those who have decided to speak up against the President. There are others who are still uncertain, yet watchful, like Prudence and Mandess, and such as student Timmyland or who remain ambivalent, who will not go but who will be keeping those gathered in their thoughts, see OFW jihAn.zillA. Sh, and Yeweifang’s blog .
Among more senior bloggers, Red’s Herring puts everything in perspective:
If the events that have led to People Power I (EDSA Revolution of 1986 or EDSA I) are any guide, revolutionary uprisings go through certain levels (of consciousness): First, the underlying belief by a sizeable segment of society that the rulers and certain institutional arrangements have lost legitimacy; second, certain intense participants or change agents have gotten around their sense of powerlessness and come to realize they have the power or capacity to effect the needed changes; third, the disaffected members of society have more or less formed a consensus as to the nature and or scope of the changes they desire to occur in lieu of the illegitimated rulers or arrangements, whether be it about a total systemic overhaul, a “regime change,” an extra-constitutional overthrowing of a corrupt or immoral government, etc.
My sense is that People Power III has already reached the first and second levels of consciousness described above. However, before the Great Beast “could take care of itself” today it has yet to hurdle the third level of consciousness.
For one, I have noted even the reformists in the military and the progressives in the civil society are still tentative about the scope and the nature of the changes to be sought (note should also be taken for instance that the mere suggestion during the Manila Peninsula “uprising” that a military junta was being contemplated has not sit well with potential supporters), while other veteran people power practitioners are apprehensive the next exercise “could again end up repeating a vicious cycle of simply ‘moving on’ in circle, and not leaping onward or to a higher ground” or a “new qualitative state.”…
…Now, the question once again: Why is People Power III taking its time?
My own take is: There is yet no general consensus among potential people power participants and activists, as has been in EDSA I or EDSA II, as to what change to aspire for and institute.
Arguably, proposals for reforms or transformations, at odds with each other for the most part, still abound. To cite a few: some who believe the two EDSAs were both a failure aim this time to act against a failed system and plan to overhaul it either according to some rigid ideologies or based merely on the “best practices” of ongoing successful experiments; other groups are just angry and frustrated because of “relative deprivation” (middle class weighed upon with a looming downgrade to the next class complain how come only their counterparts in other regions are having all the fun); still others are focused only on struggling for control of the state apparatuses and effecting “regime change” while keeping both the political and economic structure intact; and specifically, accused coup leader and now detained senator Sonny Trillanes is eager to transform the nation “without reinventing the wheel” or whereas Bishop Francisco Claver can only entertain the belief that “our problem comes down to this: how to correct the aberration that is the present administration without destroying the stabilizing structure that is our democratic system of government.”
…As a result, reactionary moves from old and once reliable alliances, the CBCP in particular, are silently taking place in the form of tokenism (a plea to President Arroyo to take lead in the fight against corruption) and diversion (a call for a new brand of People Power through “communal action”).
Mon Casiple on the part of the political pundits, observes,
The nature and circumstances of this political crisis is such that it can only have one resolution: the end of the Arroyo regime within the context of the existing electoral democracy. From there, it may result in the affirmation of this electoral democracy and thus the integrity of the 2010 elections. Or, more remote, it may lead to the ending of the electoral democracy itself. At any rate, these are the days of reckoning.
The people’s consciousness and readiness to action are developing by leaps and bounds. The usual tactics by the GMA administration are not working anymore and proved to be ironically pushing faster the momentum for change. From the JDV triumphal ouster to its present travails, the Arroyo administration has rapidly traversed a half-circle towards a downward spiral.
What’s Casiple referring to? I can only guess, but think of this. Did you notice the article, 52 governors troop to Palace to show support for Arroyo ? A friend encountered one of these governors on a plane bound for Manila, and the governor prattled on about how he was going to Manila on business -only for my friend to see the governor on TV lurking near the edge of the gathered governors. Said my friend: you see, they’ve begun to get embarrassed over their support for the President (the governor knew my friend’s an oppositionist; but a mere month ago, the governor would needle my friend and crow about the President every chance he got). And the news leaves an even bigger question hanging: what of the other 29 governors?
Recall that one of the officials proclaimed a convenor of the Loyalist rally in Manila on Feb. 25 pointedly told the media, “oh, I’m in Manila doing shopping.”
While Amando Doronila notices that:
Speaking to a joint meeting of the Makati Business Club, Management Association of the Philippines and PinoyME Foundation last Feb. 26, Aquino did not make a pitch for another People Power uprising, to the disappointment of many people. She merely called on President Arroyo to step down, saying it was the least disruptive way out of the “severe moral crisis” facing the country. She said, “She must give way to a credible government that could lead by example. Given our concern to protect the moral pillars of democracy, the extra-constitutional removal of the President is not an ideal we would want to aspire for.”
Aquino’s call for restraint was echoed by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, which in a pastoral statement on Feb. 26, called on the President to allow her officials to tell the truth about the slew of allegations of corruption related to several government transactions, but fell short of demanding her resignation. Instead, the bishops urged the President to be “part of the effort” to seek the truth.
The coyness of Aquino and the disappointing position of the bishops restraining people power highlighted the departure from the dynamics of 1986, when Aquino rode the crest of a forceful people power movement driven by the activist archbishop of Manila, Jaime Cardinal Sin, and the mass civilian participation in street protests in support of the military mutiny led by Marcos’ Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and Constabulary chief, Lt. Gen. Fidel Ramos.
Today’s configuration has lost the fervor for mass action of 1986. It tells us that today’s movement is not based on mass action to bring pressure on the key support institutions of government to defect, such as the military and the bureaucracy. Today’s movement has changed emphasis. It has shifted its cutting edge from confrontation in the streets to bringing moral pressure on government. The shift is not exerting a powerful pressure on government officials to step down. It emboldens them to stonewall.
Though as the Inquirer editorial today points out,
We realize that, in itself, the language of the recommendation (“Urge the President and all the branches of government to take the lead in combating corruption wherever it is found”) seems to be neutral. But in the present context, it actually disregards a fundamental reality. In the scandal over the National Broadband Network, the President and her men have been less than forthright in telling the truth. That, in fact, is one of the reasons we have a crisis in the first place.
Apropos of the bishops, read An Open Letter to the CBCP at Brown SEO.
(courtesy of pedestrianobserver)
Official Countdown… DAY 2
“The fact that I don’t care about this whole issue is really my own thing and I should have left it at that. It was totally improper of me to impose my point of view upon you and other readers of the blog.”
A gentleman’s version of dissing. Creeps me up.
“the easiest way is a year zero”
Don’t even get us to talking pot, as in Pol Pot.
“But corina is prettier and sexier than Noli’s wife. he he he. Yam yam yam!”
Hm, reminds me of ABS-CBN’s penchant for busty anchor women. Worked for them.
Question:
What is theory behind these TGIF rallies?
@jason born
“but corina is prettier and sexier than Noli’s wife”
Yes, if you find someone caked in two-inch thick make-up pretty. I make it my vow to ensure that Mar and Korina split up if Mar decides to make a run for top banana.
TGIF rallies? I would venture more people, no work the following day. Gimmick pagkatapos.
I agree. I also don’t believe in a ‘year zero’.
you’re always welcome here, carlos. specially if its to exchange views.
Madonna, the power of the old (landed) elite is quickly being repleced by the merchant (entrepreneur) thanks to the taipan/mini-taipans. Lets hope these new elites are much more civic-minded and give back to the lower classes like us.
Maginoo, not quick enough. Also, the linkage between the landed oligarchy and the merchants is still too close. In the United States, the tensions between the industrialists and the landlords (aka the slaveowners) was resolved in favor of the former via Civil War. Over here, they’re all too closely linked for that.
We can make the replacement quicker by implementing land reform more aggressively. Also, even for the taipans (as well as the Ayalas), why are they concentrating on real estate? Let’s make real estate unprofitable for them so they can shift their capital to industrial activities where they actually can make money by making stuff as opposed to just renting property out.
maginoo,
Why don’t you join them instead, so that you can exert influence and encourage them to do their part, or at least, you can do your part as a mini/taipan and be civic-minded yourself?
cvj,
Way too simplistic of you to say “make real-estate unprofitable” to encourage manufacturing.
Real estate is the core of the capitalist economy. Consider that, in the most successful capitalist Southeast Asian economies (Singapore and Malaysia) as well as the northern Asian economies (HongKong, China, Taiwan, Japan) the success of their economies have been preceded and ushered in by intense real estate development. Killing the profitability of real-estate leads to the collapse of economies.
Look at the US subprime crisis. What triggered the crisis? At the end of the day it will boil down to real-estate’s unprofitability.
What’s the sarcasm for? The statement was made in the context of Ms. Madonna’s perceived and real inequalities in society.
yes, i have no doubt you can make Corina and Mar split up if you have your face caked in two-inch thick make-up and run for Mar’s banana. 🙂
Article Excerpt from this week’s Economist
“The Tigers that lost their roar”
– …after all this time the region’s five main economies-Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand- are still notable for the near-absence of companies that could truly be called world-class.
The region has 570m people and had a head start in the economic development over much of the rest of Asia. So why does it still have no global consumer brands of the stature of South Korea’s Samsung and LG?…….the region’s business scene, says Joe Studwell, remains dominated by old-fashioned, mediocre, sprawling conglomerates, run at the whims of ageing patriarchal owners. These firms’ core competence, such as it is, is exploiting their cosy connections with governing elites. Their profits come from rent-seeking: being handed generous state contracts and concessions, or using their sway with officialdom to keep potential competitors out…..as a result the region has no indigenous, large scale companies producing world class products and services….”
…The reason why SEA has been slower than other regions to produce world-class businesses are complex and open to debate. But they do seem to be linked to the perserverance of narrow elites and to the countries’ sluggishness in overcoming old rivalries and building an integrated regional market….”
The article also point out that we actually do very little trade with our ASEAN partners, instead doing 3 times as much trade with non-ASEAN members, this prevents the growth of local companies.
DISCUSS.
i believe in year-zero
maginoo,
No sarcasm there. I myself am taking up the entrepreneurship challenge (with my wife) to see how far we could go. Our first “social” project is to help our daughter’s nanny to finish her college education, who had to quit school midway through her freshman year.
My point is, many times we detach ourselves from both taipans and politicos, when in fact many of them started out as ordinary people like us.
@jason,
are you implying mar has a fetish for thick white powder? 😀
ha ha ha.
Cat,
Sabi mo “Lozada failed to convince the people of his hero image.” Bakit, nandoon ka ba?
Dakdak ka ng dakdak, wala ka naman doon sa rally, pagkatapos sasabihin di niya nakumbinsi. Paano mo alam? Eh di mo naman narinig ang lahat ng talumpati ng mga nagsasalita.
Palibhasa, pro-Gloria ka, nahihiya ka lang sabihin, pa-ekis ekis pa ang mga eksplanasyon mo!
Peke ka, duwag ka! Sabihin mo ng totoo! Umuwi ka rito sa Pinas, manood ka ng rally, saka kita paniniwalaan. In the meantime, shut up ka muna sa San Francisco ha?
Cat,
Sabi mo: “YOng iba naman ang pilit. Just like the University of Makati staff and students. Ano kayang memo ang natanggap nila para sumali? Sana naman si Mayor Lim, hindi ginagawa yan sa PLM.”
Pro-Gloria ka talaga! Eh bakit di pansinin yung mga pro-gloria rallyista sa Welcome Rotunda. Yung ang talagang binayaran. Ni hindi alam kung anong pinag-rarallihan.
Sa susunod, wag kang puna ng puna ng mga anti-gloria. Umuwi ka muna rito mula sa San Francisco bago kumutsya ng mga taong nag-rarally. Beha!
What Should Gloria Do With A Problem Called “Mike Arroyo”?
“My father has always steered clear of any action that might even cast doubt on my mother’s integrity.”Luli Arroyo
The Results To-date on the EQ Poll on “What Gloria should do with a Problem called Mike Arroyo”?:
Divorce Him:20%
Send Him On Exile Again:(18%)
Tell Him To Buck Off From Deals ((20%)
Go on Exile Together With Him (75%)
Tuloy ang Ligaya (3%)
BASE:101 EQ Readers
Note:multiple answers allowed in poll)
naku…..
tama na itong mga buladas ninyo.
wala ring mangyayari.
hintay na lang kayo sa 2010. naiisip ko tuloy na walang kapanaloan sa taon, kaya hanggat maaga kampanya na.
hehehe
o sa 2016 na lang kaya!
hahahaha!
I am alarmed by the number of simple-Simons who sport the you’re-either-with-us-or-against-us attitude.
Para silang si George W. Bush. Badtrip.
Hi Cat:
I’m putting my bet now on the table. Lozada won’t run for any public office. Do you have a Nostradamus school there in San Francisco? Are you studying there? Can I please borrow your crystal ball. Ah, maybe, you’re a madam auring wanabe. tarot cards nalang. he he he
I’ve been writing in this comment what i think will happen and they all happened.
btw, I am one those who see dead people. ngggiiii.
Wow, bakit ang mga anti-GMA pikon. Sabi nang pag walang nangyari sa demos, walang pikunan eh.
YOng mga pro-Gloria rally ay talagang pro-Gloria sila.
Pero yong mga pumupunta sa mga anti-GMA rally dahil takot silang matanggal sa trabaho, iba yon. I know that, naging govenrment employee doon ako. The only difference is I was not intimidated by the memos. Kasi di ko bread and butter. As I have been saying, I do not eat bread and butter, pandesal lang saka matamis na bao.
May rally din dito sa SFO agaist GMA. Yong mga orgnizers will make you hold a placard tapos may kadokan. Ang piktyurs pinadadala sa media.
Cat,
Sabi mo: “You bet on this, Lozada will join the club of the whistleblowers who tried politics and never won even a local election. mwehehe”
Ang galing mong magsalita. Palibhasa, hindi ka pa nakidnap or bantaan ng mga may makapangyarihan. Maging whistleblower ka muna diyan sa San Francisco bago ako makikinig sa yo.
Ang galing mong pontificate. Panay ang bira mo kay Lozada, ni hindi mo alam ang kanyang pinagdaanan. Huwad ka talaga! Pro-gloria ka, ayaw mo pang aminin. Bakit, nakakahiya bang aminin?
Kamusta ba ang San Francisco? Boring ba at wala kang magawa kungdi kutyain ang mga anti-gloria. Kamusta yung rally sa Welcome rotunda. Pinalakpakan mo ba? este nakutya mo na rin ba?
Bakit walang nangyari? Kahit ang TFC, GMA at ANC proceeded with their regular programming. Hindi kagaya noong may mga malalaking rally na nakatutok ang TV networks sa happening.
PIKON TALO. Inom ka ng maramig tubig.
kayong mga blog addicts, puwede ba pag-aralan muna niyo yung i-popost ninyo. nauubos space ni manolo sa inyong mga walang kuwentang kumentaryo. yung iba nahahalata pagka-bading niyo.
Jon Limjap,
Alam ko, masipag kang tao. Pero isa lang ang tanong ko sa yo, mayroon ka bang kamag-anak na naging biktima ng extrajudicial killings? Kung ikaw ay nasa katayuan ng mga biktima, sa tingin ko, hindi ka sasang-ayon na hanggang 2010 pa ang presidente.
At saka, ano ang problema kung paalisin siya ngayon. Nagbitaw na ng salita ang MBC, mas ikabubuti ang ekonomiya pag ang ating pamahalaan ay hindi kasangkot sa korapsyon. Ang problema sa mga tulad ninyo, dahil maganda kuno ang ekonomiya, papayag kayong malagi si GMA diyan. You would have allowed Hitler to stay on because the economy is doing great. Ganyan kayong kabulag!
@cat
“YOng mga pro-Gloria rally ay talagang pro-Gloria sila.
Pero yong mga pumupunta sa mga anti-GMA rally dahil takot silang matanggal sa trabaho, iba yon.”
You seem so sure about your factoids.
No one disputes you dear that what you write did not come from what you think, otherwise, you are this year’s first Breakthrough in Science: THE FIRST ROBOT BLOGGER.
They all happened? Let’s see.
Future questions:
(1) Will GMA run for the presidential election after she promise not to run during Rizal’s Day?
(2) What will be the result of the 2004 presidential election between GMA vs FPJ?
(3) Since GMA is the incumbent president, will she use govt resources, including the fertilizer fund, for her bid.
(4) Will she talk to commissioner Garciano election day?
he he he he
No one disputes you dear that what you write did not come from what you think, otherwise, you are this year’s first Breakthrough in Science: THE FIRST ROBOT BLOGGER.
They all happened? Let’s see.
Future questions:
(1) Will GMA run for the presidential election after she promise not to run during Rizal’s Day?
(2) What will be the result of the 2004 presidential election between GMA vs FPJ?
(3) Since GMA is the incumbent president, will she use govt resources, including the fertilizer fund, for her bid.
(4) Will she talk to commissioner Garciano on election day?
he he he he
@jason
“(1) Will GMA run for the presidential election after she promise not to run during Rizal’s Day?”
I was at Rizal Park when she said that. Pumalakpak pa nga kami sabay “Hay salamat, buti naman.” Yun pala she was just making etching. The bitch. (And I mean ‘bitch’ in a bad way and not the term of endearment I use for my dogs)
that’s why her confidant call her “Evil Bitch” he he
Cat,
Bakit kailangan may mangyari? Ikaw pala nakabaon sa EDSA 1. The fact na nasa Crame ang presidente mo na nagtatago imbis na sa bahay niya, the fact na ginawang no fly zone ang Ayala dahil takot ipa-alam ang makitang mga madla, the fact na sabi ng pulis kinse mil lang ang nagpunta, nagpapakita lang na takot ang pamahalaan ng gobyerno. E ano kung walang nangyari ngayon? Galit na ang mga tao! Bulag ka na, sinungaling ka pa, parang si presidente.
Pwede ba Cat, tumigil ka na sa pagkukunwari mo! Wala ka naman sa rally, dakdak ka pa rin ng dakdak. Para kang babaeng Golez! Magpahinga ka muna sa San Francisco ha? Meow meow…Beha!
THE STORY is told about a burglar who broke into a house one night. Unknown to him, it was the house of FG. As fate would have it, the two met each other in the dark corridor and they both froze in their tracks: When the scared burglar recognized FG he ran away shouting, “Thief! Thief!”
(Above story modified from the joke of Fr. Jerry Orbos)
Cat,
Sabi mo, “Pero yong mga pumupunta sa mga anti-GMA rally dahil takot silang matanggal sa trabaho, iba yon. I know that, naging govenrment employee doon ako.”
Namputsa, sinungaling ka na, bulag ka pa! Ang memo ng gobyerno ngayon, wag papuntahin ang mga tao sa anti GMA rally. Pwede bra, ayusin mo ang mga facts mo!
Eh ano ngayon kung naging government employee ka noon, pakialam ako! Kung mayroong government employee pupunta ngayon sa mga anti-GMA rally ngayon, lalong nagpapakitang hindi sila takot mag-attend ng rally dahil hindi sila bulag, o mga sinungaling na tulad mo.
Oy, beha! Pwede ba? Kung sinasabi mong hindi ka pro-Gloria, sasabihin ko rin sa yo na hindi ako pikon!
Huwad! Umuwi ka rito sa San Francisco at tigil mo yang mga armchair comments mula sa San Francisco! Beha!
Haha, tama.
Gusto mo ng history? Ang tiyo ko, tibak. Muntik na siyang i-purge ng CPP noong 80s, pinatakas lang siya ng isang magsasakang kasapi sa kilusan na naawa sa kanya. Nung hinahanap yung tiyo kung iyon ng mga sundalo, ikinulong ng halos ilang araw ang nanay at lola ko sa Crame. Buti pinalaya sila nang buhay.
Nung paslit pa lang ako, sinalakay ng METROCOM yung compound namin kasi gusto agawin ni Marcos yung lupa nung PAF officer na nakatira sa katabing-bahay namin.
So siguro kelangan ako mismo ang dukutin at patayin ng militar para maintindihan ko yung sentimyento mo? O ipinagdarasal mo na iyon ngayon, alang-alang sa ika-liliwanag ng aking pananaw?
Mahabag nawa ang Panginoon sa aking kaluluwa.
Cat,
Sabi mo: “Wow, bakit ang mga anti-GMA pikon. Sabi nang pag walang nangyari sa demos, walang pikunan eh.”
Hoy Beha! bakit ang mga pro-Gloria, ayaw aminin na sadlak sila sa pagmamahal kay presidente? Bakit ba meow meow, nakakahiya bang aminin?
Huwag ka nang magsinungaling! Siguro, it is a better vice to be pikon than to be a liar like you!
Umuwi ka muna mula sa San Francisco bago ka magpontificate! Dakdak ka ng dakdak! Beha!
Jon Limjap,
Sa sinabi mong karanasan mong yan, lalo akong nagtataka sa iyong 2010 na paniniwala.
Mahabag talaga kayo sa kaluluwa ninyo. Sana, pag-isipin mo muna yung mga sinasabi niyo dahil sa mga nakararaming mga maralita, ang presidente na sobrang gahaman sa pera at korapsyon ay hindi dapat malagi na muli.
Hindi lang gahaman ang presidente, pati ang mga inaakalang mga mabubuting mga tao sa gobyerno tulad ni Manny Gaite at Avelino Razon ay napipilitang magsinungaling at magtakip para lamang sa kanilang presidente.
And by the way, kilala kong matalik si Bo Sanchez.
Cat,
Sabi mo: “Wow, bakit ang mga anti-GMA pikon. Sabi nang pag walang nangyari sa demos, walang pikunan eh.â€Â
Hoy Beha! bakit ang mga pro-Gloria, ayaw aminin na sadlak sila sa pagmamahal kay presidente? Bakit ba meow meow, nakakahiya bang aminin?
Huwag ka nang magsinungaling! Siguro, it is a better vice to be pikon than to be a liar like you!
Umuwi ka muna mula sa San Francisco bago ka magpontificate! Dakdak ka ng dakdak! Beha!
Pikon,pikon, pikon. Mumog ka ng listerine, mawawala yn.
Bakit ako uuwi, papakainin mo ba ako. Exercise mo muna ang utak mo. Palagay ko masyadong nakokorta sa kapikunan. mwehehe.
Bencard,
Ang kapal ng apog mo! Pa sulat sulat ka rito, hindi mo pa sinasagot si Manuel Buencamino. Tapos patutsya ka pang hinamon ni Joker, tameme ka pa rin.
Hoy, Abugagong pulpol! Sumagot ka sa tanong ni Manuel Buencamino! Yabang mo pang turuan si Mr. Buencamino, tameme ka nung nalaman mong diplomat siya!
Magaling ka lang dito sa comment thread! Pero isang kang malaking duwag!
Cat,
Duwag! Duwag! Duwag! Dakdak ka ng dakdak! Wala ka naman sa rally! Pwede bra beha! tumigil ka na.
Hoy behang bingi! Aamin akong pikon ako kung aamin kang pro-Gloria kang beha ka!
At kapal muks mo! Bakit kita pakakainin, eh di kainin mong yung pusa mo! Beha!
From abs-cbn “Legarda not joining calls for GMA to resign”
mlq3 – GMA now have allies from the opposition for her to stay until 2010. These senators dreaming of becoming president (also including Villar, Lacson, Roxas) are showing their true agenda. They got scared of the item on VP being ready to assume the presidency. Let the maneuvers begin.
what irony! even if an impeachment charge reaches the Senate, these solons will vote aginst it. what circus our politicans lead us into.
From the above, variation of the end game.
1. Pawns, Bishops rebel.
2. Military knights support Queen.
3. Political knights want status quo, afraid of the Pawn who would be King
4. Some Knights want to be King/Queen
5. Queen holds Castle for 28 more moons.
6. Pawns lose, again.
My point is, many times we detach ourselves from both taipans and politicos, when in fact many of them started out as ordinary people like us. — Jon Limjap
Yes, a few perhaps, but “many” with reference to the absolute number is not accurate. The fact is that most of the taipans and politicos did not start as “ordinary” people as most of them are 3rd or 4th generation wealthy. Just research on the families lording it over the House of REpresentatives or the wealthiest families in the Philippines. It’s so hypocritical when the likes of Manny Pangilinan say that he was not rich when he started out — how so when he was sent to Ateneo and then to Wharton for business school? Even John Gokongwei is not immune to spinning about “ordinary†roots – when in fact he was born wealthy.
My point is that the socio-political elite as a whole must look beyond charitable giving as a means to solve inequality but look at the viability of systematically implemented programs or policies (progressive taxation, land reform, agricultural productivity, more employment generation in high value-added sectors of the economy etc.).
Ground zero manolo as in purges ala Cambodia and China? Lol, thanks to that stupid book by Jose Maria Sison, I ended my flirtation with communism and anarchy when I was 18.
Inequality of power is a means for oligarchs to perpetuate their quasi-legal hold on the economy and society and without addressing inequality we will not get rid of rampant corruption.
Without getting rid of oligarchic power, neither would our economy get in full throttle because oligarchs stifle the workings of a free market economic system and we will not be able to drive up productivity.
Otherwise, we should jus be content with sending labor to other countries and wait manna from OFWS. Meanwhile, our country is being increasingly reduced to a land where the poor and powerful majority pine away in apathy in the case of increasingly rapacious oligarchs.
In another generation if the inequality of the social system is not addressed, our middle class will be totally wiped out.
There are the so-called enlightened elite such as the coteries of Cory and FVR, but most of them practice Western style liberalism and fail to see that freedom and rights tend to become abusive weapons of the few especially in our country’s case where oligarchs and elitists wield power. Although with the case of FVR, I admire him for having the ability during his presidency to balance relatively liberal economic policies with respect for public opinion, which is a core aspect of a working democracy. In 2010, I would vote for someone who is equally a liberal as much as he is a democrat. I think a Villar, not a Mar Roxas would suit my criteria.
jackast,
its one of many reasons why people which includes me dont want GMA unseated. i believe that if the impeachment goes to the senate, they will also junk it. the serial opposition are only for the media mileage and not really seeking the truth. they are the meanest people I know of as they play others people emotions.
“poor and powerful majority” — > poor and powerless majority
Jon, as far as the role of real estate in economic development is concerned, here’s how Hongkong did it:
In China, the government also owns all land.
In Singapore, it’s something similar with the government’s Housing Development Board (HDB) providing housing for 85% of all Singaporeans.
In these countries, there is hardly any place for landed oligarchs in the scheme of things.
The subprime crisis was a result on speculation on real-estate. What triggered the crisis was the realization these structured investment vehicles were actually a package of dodgy debts i.e. housing loans that were unlikely to be repaid.
http://www.cvjugo.blogspot.com/2008/01/ingenuity-of-market-primer-on-subprime.html
All along, it was a confidence game by confidence men, hardly in the true spirit of entrepreneurship which produces real products (and services) and more in the province of speculation on the change in prices of assets.
I doubt if this kind of asset speculation is what you want to promote as the basis of our economic development. We should instead be producing real things of value.