October 12, 2009 at 12:28 am (Accident, Cataclysm, Catastrophe, Death, Disaster, Disaster Assistance, Earthquake Hazards, Ecology, Emergency, Emergency Assistance, End of a Phase, Environment, Environmental Hazards, GIS software, Health, Legislation, National Hazards, Nature, Pag-asa weather forecast, Philippines, Safety, Typhoon Ondoy, United Nations, United States, World Bank, state-of-the-art disaster assessment and assistance coo, state-of-the-art disaster monitoring)
Tags: 2010 Hazards Mapping and Environment Summit, advanced planning, amount of rainfall, ANNUAL ECOLOGY CRISIS CONFERENCE, Asia, Bangladesh, better approaches to hazard mapping, Business, calamities, Catastrophe, China, Climate Change, commercial establishments, consider shifts in land mass, coordination of efforts, crisis, crisis mapping, cyclone, databasing, determine plan and cost of implementing plan for mass safety, disasters, earth, earthquake, earthquake faults, Eco 2010 Summit, Emergency, first of an annual series, flood GIS, forest GIS, full-function GIS, GIS design, GIS development, GIS investigation, governments, Hazard, hazard mapping, hazards GIS, higher level of rainfall, hot spots, hurricane, incidence of natural disaster, increasingly hazardous calamities, Indonesia, Join Resource Recovery Movement, last few decade changes, liquefaction potential, Manila, national sub-national planning, natural calamity, new weather factors, non-government organizations, Pacific Rim, Pacific Rim of Fire, Pakistan, Philippines, plan, planet, planning, resource recovery movement, risk mapping efforts, risks and dangers to communities, scores of people dead, sign up link, Thailand, transformations in land mass, tremendous changing of Philippine landscape, tropical climate, tropical countries, Tsunami, typhoon, typhoon Frank, Typhoon Ondoy, Typhoon Pepeng, unforeseen occurrences, use and sharing, volcanoes GIS, vulnerability areas
We encourage the Philippine Government, Asian Governments, combines like the United Nations, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, to support this milestone activity from the remainder of 2009 up to 2010.
ANNUAL ECOLOGY CRISIS CONFERENCE
The Resource Recovery Movement will hold the first 2010 Hazards Mapping and Environment Summit (Eco 2010 Summit) in Manila, Philippines. This is ultimately borne about by the tremendous changing of the Philippine landscape and those of other countries in the Pacific Rim in the last few decades. All efforts towards risk mapping in relation to calamities and disasters in the past should now take into consideration the great shifts and transformations in land mass, the enormous amount of rainfall brought about by Climate Change and many new factors that were heretofore not factored into national and sub-national planning by governments as well as even by business establishments and non-government organizations.
Click this link to sign up: Join Resource Recovery Movement!
The 2010 Hazard Mapping and Environmental Summit (HMES) is intended to develop better approaches to mapping risks and dangers to communities in the Philippines and other countries with tropical climates. It takes a cue from the recent experience in China, Indonesia and the Philippines, notwithstanding the previous experiences in Thailand, Bangladesh, Pakistan where scores of people died due to unforeseen occurrences during the incidence of a natural disaster: earthquake, typhoon, tsunami and other calamities. The databasing, mapping and full coordination of efforts towards use and sharing of a full function GIS on hazards, volcanoes, water, flood, forests in the Philippines and Asia, vulnerability areas, liquefaction potential, crisis and hot spots is long due because of the long-running phenomenon of Climate Change in the planet. This is also significant in that the Philippines, among other countries, lies in the Pacific Rim of Fire where a large number of earthquake faults lie.
The most important value of the conference is to determine the plan and the cost of implementing such a plan to make the Philippines and other participating nations safer from increasingly hazardous calamities.
Note: The organizers reserve the right to make minor changes in the Conference details prior to the actual Event.
HMES 2010 Organizers
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August 29, 2008 at 11:56 pm (Aviation Industry, Philippine Aviation, Safety, Transport)
Tags: 20 sea mishaps during Frank, aeronautical highway, Africa, Aft fuselage part, Air craft cockpit, Air Craft Engines, Air craft impacting, Air Craft parts, Air Link crash, air mishap, bad news of airline industry, boats, Booma Cruz Probe TV ABS-CBN, buying one radar for Davao, C-130 survivors victims remains, C-130 wreckage, Cabin floor, charred bodies of C-130 victims, Commanding General Gen. Cadungog, Components at impact swath, Congress, Cory Cojuangco Aquino, countries in Africa, Crash Victims C-130, crude prices, Dagat, degree latitude, degree longitude, degrees magnetic, Department of Budget and Management, diesel, disaster pouches, divers cannot go deep, Dr. Enerico Sampang, Ernesto Pernia, etc., failure in area of safety, Fidel Valdez Ramos, Fishermen finds, floating coffins service provider, food deficit, franchise, Fuselage, greedy businessmen behind coups, high gasoline, HongKong, hot spots, IDs, ilalim ng tubig, Immediate environment of air disaster, Impact heading, In-flight structural damage, instant image at crash site, Investigation On Site Report, Jennifer Santiago, Jose Marcelo Ejercito, judicial activism, judicial revolt, kill Gloria Arroyo, Luz Rimban, make legislation, make policy, maraming tubig, marine vessels, Metal splatter, New Zealand, no safety agency in RP, NTSB, Office of the President of the Philippines, One third of main cabin, PAF, PAF can’t find bodies, PAF cannot investigate, personal items from C-130, Personnel on the scene, Philippine Air Force, Philippine airlines low promotional rates, Philippine Navy, Philsca President, policy sponsorship, political opposition, politician handlers of young officers, poor masses, PR girl Ellen Tordesillas, PR group VERAFILES, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Rear fuselage, recent airplane crash, recent ship sinking, recover underwater, recovered boots, recovered from sea, Republic of the Philippines, RORO, RP, RP too many international airports, sa tubig, sabotage, sad day for aviation, safety in the Philippines, Scene of crash, Sec. Leandro Mendoza DOTC, Singapore, strike on impact, strong republic nautical highway, Sulpicio Lines sea mishap, Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno, survivors and bereaved families, Survivors C-130, Temperature on ground, ultra-right takeover attempt, underdeveloped countries, unified policy advocacy, uniforms, Vice Gov. Emmanuel Piñol, Videotape of crash site, wallets, we grieve deeply for crash victim families, wheeler-dealer Antonio Carpio, Wings C-130, Yvonne Chua Manila Standard
The Victims of the Amazing Philippine Aviation
Recently there was a C-130 crash. The following miserable data could be gleaned from a visit to the crash site:
Arrival at scene, instant image — dagat, occasional fishermen and banca
Immediate environment of the air disaster — dagat
Videotape of crash site — maraming tubig
Air craft impacting — dagat
Impact heading — degree latitude, degrees magnetic, degree longitude, dagat
Air craft cockpit — nasa ilalim ng tubig, don’t ask
One third of main cabin — sa tubig din
Fuselage
Aft fuselage part — recovered from dagat daw?
Rear fuselage — so far recovered from dagat, daw
Engines
Possible parts– don’t ask
Wings
Right wing — don’t ask, look in dagat
Left wing — don’t ask, look in dagat
Landing gear — dagat
Altitude of First strike on impact — degrees magnetic, dagat
Seats and harness — dagat
Survivors — none, kinain dagat
(Anyone who didn’t want to return to family? Investigate.)
Remains
None — boots, uniforms, IDs, wallets? dagat
Disaster pouches —
Metal splatter, hot spots — who would know if there was sabotage?
Cabin floor collapse — how to know? ask dagat
Components outside impact swath — unknowable, ask dagat
In-flight structural damage — ask dagat
Temperature on ground — immaterial, ask tubig
Investigation On Site Report — report about langoy langoy sa ibabaw by divers, cannot dive deep
Personnel on the scene account — puro dagat
Possibilities
Dagat rises on high tide
Dagat subsides on low tide
Airplane still in the deep
Philippine Air Force Gen. Cadungog will have to explain a lot to the families of the victims. PAF cannot investigate. PAF can’t find the bodies. Fishermen and other people found small pieces of wreckage and personal items, that was all. If the bodies of the casualties were charred, the water would have swallowed the burnt flesh and ash. In an abnormal circumstance such as this, if there was an NTSB and foreign funding was provided for the agency there may have been enough equipment for personnel to make a dive into the 600 deep waters, a marine vessel of NTSB to bring both instruments and personnel to the site, and so on.
But there is no safety agency in the country. Sec. Mendoza, his people, the Department of Budget, Congress, the office of Madame Gloria, we all wonder what they’re doing after Cory Aquino, Fidel Ramos, Jose Marcelo Ejercito all failed to put up such a vital agency that vibrantly exists in other countries including the small ones like Singapore; even HongKong, a city state, or New Zealand (although NZ is not necessarily just a small town state) I think, have their very own. Some African countries that are underdeveloped may even have their own, it’s a real shitty situation for RP.
The Philippine Navy even suffered its own air mishap earlier this year. No one seemed to bother about the crash since the people in the air craft and the pilot did not die, suffering only bruises and cuts.
There seems to be something terribly wrong. What is going on with aviation in the country? Some fools are drumming up issues like aviation should get less attention because the country is suffering from a food crisis. PR girl Ellen Tordesillas (who lately teamed up with Yvonne Chua of Manila Standard, Booma Cruz of Probe TV and ABS-CBN, Jennifer Santiago, Luz Rimban, etc. to form a new PR group called VERAFILES) blogged that RP has too many international airports that it is remiss at managing the food deficit. The article in Ellen’s blog was written by Ernesto Pernia.
No self-respecting country will scrap its aviation. Ellen and Mr. Pernia should try blogging about more safety in the Philippine aeronautical highway than bitching about food. Everyone recognizes the problem about our oil and food crises, but there is little attention being given towards our safety in land, sea and air. For God’s sake, maybe even a thousand road mishaps have happened all over the country that should never have occurred at all. The Sulpicio and other sea mishaps are now lost items of human memory, except those of the survivors and the bereaved families of the recent sinkings. If we all forgot that there were no less than twenty — that is 20 in numerics — marine vessels, big and small boats that went down into the deep seas during Typhoon Frank’s onslaught that would have been very sad indeed.
Although in fairness to Ellen and Mr. Pernia, the international wire is fraught with bad news about the airline industry. Due to high gasoline, diesel, crude prices, the high stake of flying by air has driven away many customers. Those that want to go to destinations fast are merely compelled by circumstance to do so. It might even be said that aviation all over the world is currently, temporarily, a dying industry. But look at the small air lines in the country advertising low rates, they are trying to bolster their shrinking egos perhaps, but there is more to saving the industry than just letting it die.
Here in the country, government has created the strong republic nautical highway and the many new RORO destinations has instantly become a popular route for commuters. Mainly because it is cheap. But an aeronautical highway, is very long into the future. Dr. Enerico Sampang, President of the Philippine State College of Aeronautics (currently website not available, but Wiki has some brief highlights about Philsca) dreams of an aeronautical highway. Again, that will be in the future. The institution of a colleague of Dr. Sampang from the aeronautical education community just suffered another airplane crash when a trainer plane with a student pilot in it crashed just after the C-130 went down.
What is government to do? In a situation like the one prevailing in the country’s aviation industry, so much needs to be done and it is not simply buying one radar for Davao. It is not merely suspending or even taking away the franchise of a floating coffins service provider like S-Peruwisyo Lines. No one has even lifted a finger to thoroughly investigate what happened to the 20 odd other boats that sank during Typhoon Frank’s fury. No one is trying to make policy or much less, policy sponsorship or much, much less, unified policy advocacy for safety.
Safety. Should anyone really care for it? If people like Ellen who are complaining about food, people like Vice Gov. Emmanuel Piñol are complaining about the land they don’t own will be given back to their rightful owners, people like Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno and his colleagues – specially that fixer and wheeler-dealer Antonio Carpio will be worried about a judicial revolt that will rain fame, money, favors, women and love and passion and torrid sex on their supremest house, the political opposition flukes about when they will get to strangle a small president with their angry fingers, the ultra-right about when they can take over the country in behalf of a few politicians and greedy businesspersons, and the poor when they get to be rid of their poverty, no one will be thinking a bit about aviation. What is that shit anyway?
No one outside of the affected will even say, the recent crashes are a really sad day for our aviation. We grieve deeply for the families of those that were victims of the recent crashes.
If our efforts do not go to naught, some day, we shall pay a tribute to all of your kin that died and any small or large indemnity due them will go to you, the bereaved and grieving. Lose not your little hopes for that day…
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August 20, 2008 at 3:29 pm (Dr. Larry Cahill, Male Brain, McMaster University, Men's Brain, University of California at Irvine, first date)
Tags: Dr. Larry Cahill, female brain, first date, guys in general just aren't as verbally adept as women, hippocampus, initial memories, limbic cortex, Male Brain, McMaster University, men are not skilled at reading subtle emotional clues, Men's Brain, Men's Largest Sex Organ, Men's Sex Organ, remember your work, tell him straight-up how you're feeling, University of California at Irvine, won't notice you changed your hair
I ran across the article of Laura Schaefer featured in msn messenger today. (She must be a fellow German descendant. My ancestors are Germans and used to carry the surname, Brun after they settled in the Philippines and changed it to our present family name. The surname is also otherwise spelled by our relatives who went very far to Russia as Vroon, or in fiercely independent Bavaria as Braun. Here in Makati, I see a company Braun Chemicals. I never really had the least interest in finding out if we’re related. For all I know, their family name comes from Brawn, spelled in a different way, which is quite a different thing altogether, hehehe. Just joking. J)
Laura’s article interests me because she made my brain my largest sex organ! Whew! Read on guys!!!
The Male Brain, Explained
By Laura Schaefer
[excerpt]
Remember his brain is his largest sex organ
In males of several species including humans, the preoptic area of the hypothalamus is greater in volume, in cross-sectional area and in the number of cells. In men, this area is more than two times larger than in women, and it contains twice as many cells. And what, say you, does this have to do with the horizontal mambo? Plenty. This area of the hypothalamus is in charge of mating behavior.
This small structure connects to the pituitary gland, which releases sex hormones. So if your bf wants to get intimate all the time and you feel like Ms. Low Desire, remember: You’re just experiencing normal, brain-based differences.
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August 17, 2008 at 2:48 pm (Ancestral Domain, Economics, Enemies of Peace Pact, Finance, GRP-MILF Peace Negotiations, Indigenous Peoples, Politics, Supreme Corrupt, Supreme Court, Tribal, United Nations Forum on Indigenous Issues)
Tags: 40 years rebellion?, ancestral domains, artificial War, Asia/Pacific Regional Representative to the UNFII, award of ancestral domains, awarding of ancestral domain claims, Bangsa Moro struggle, business interest groups, condition of Muslim Filipinos, Corazon Aquino, Department of Environment and Natural Resources -- DENR, Dr. Cesar Majul, early wars vs. Muslims by Spain America and other count, enemies of Mindanao peace pact, expanded ARMM, Fidel Valdez Ramos, freedoms, full-scale hostilities, full-scale war, historical movement, History of Islam in Mindanao, indigenous issues, Indigenous Peoples, Islam in Mindanao, Jose Marcelo Ejercito alias Joseph Estrada, livable space for Muslims, Maguindanao Sultanate, Malaysia, Manila, Mecca, Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domains (MOA-AD), Metro Manila, MILF ancestral claim, MILF powers over ancestral domains, MILF self-governance and self-defense, MILF-MNLF Merger, Mindanao, more than 400 years of struggle, Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), Muslim communities issues, National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP), NCIP Chairman Eugenio Insigne, neglect of ancestral domain issue, Nur Misuari, Office of Muslim Affairs (OMA), OMA mandate, one hundred ten ethnolinguistic tribes, outside intervention of Muslims' affairs, Palawan Council for Sustainable Development (PCSD), Peace Negotiations, peace pact, Pilgrimage, political interest groups, preparatory act to signing of peace compact between GRP, protest vs. annexations to ARMM, Ramadan, Republic of the Philippines, requirement for peace in Mindanao, return of Muslim ancestral land, rights and privileges over their awarded ancestral doma, scholarly and academic studies on Muslim ancestral land, Spanish American colonizers, Spanish colonizers, Spanish invaders, Sulu Sultanate, the late President Ferdinand E. Marcos, tolerance for self-rule self-governance self-determinat, too late for compromise, tribal freedom to exercise powers, tribal peoples, Tripoli Agreement, United Nations, United Nations Forum on Indigenous (Peoples) Issues (UN, war-mongering rival tribes, world wide indigenous community
The discussion below gives a brief idea about ancestral domains. As much as possible, the minimum requirement for peace in Mindanao is a livable space, free from the fetters of intervention and war-mongering that rival tribes and foreign invaders in the past had undertaken. But as had been agreed upon in the peace negotiations, MILF will be granted by government with certain powers over their ancestral domain. The enemies of the peace pact cry foul. In all honesty, those that protest the annexation of selected pieces of real estate and the granting of powers of governance and self-defense are using the wrong premise. That is a practical and logical reaction since the objectors to the peace process between GRP and MILF are taking the wrong side of historical movement.
The United Nations seriously addresses the issues plaguing indigenous peoples all over the world. But even that fact will not prevent interest groups from asserting what they want others to believe as right: that tribal peoples will not be able to hold water to their money, influence and might. At the end of it, the enemies of the peace pact in Mindanao will find they are in the wrong side of the fence and will agree to compromise. By then, it will have been too late. An artificial War will have erupted into full-scale hostilities not only in Mindanao but also in Manila.
The only redeeming factor in the coming rush of violent events, is when the protestors of the peace process will be the first to die. And God-willing, I will be among those to first draw the sword to make that happen.
Ancestral Domain Claims
Understanding the ancestral domain claim of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is not difficult. Since the period of the late Pres. Marcos, up to the time of Tita Cory, FVR and to some extent, in Erap’s time, comprehensive efforts have already been taken to give back land belonging to the tribal peoples of the Republic of the Philippines. . . .The ancestral domain awards process is not perfect. But so far, there has been scant publicity that will put the entire effort per se in a negative light. To a large extent, the awarding of ancestral domains may still be considered a success. See the rest of the post here.
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August 16, 2008 at 3:38 pm (Indigenous Peoples, Mindanao, Mindanao Peace, Peace Process, Philippines, Politics, Tribal People, Tribes, peace talks)
Tags: Advisers to Presidents, Ayala Alabang Mafia, Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno, GRP, high level fixers Carpio and company, Justice Antonio Carpio, Justices of the Supreme Court, Mayor Jejomar C. Binay, MILF, Mindanao Peace, Peace Agreement, Peace Process, peace talks, Pretender Analysts on the Mindanao Peace Process, Sen. Joker Arroyo, War in Mindanao
Did Malacañang really back track on the peace process? What is Gabby Claudio doing back in Malacañang and yet uttering statements being quoted out of context by the media?
Is the peace process dead? . . .
To create milestones toward consensus, the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church met and formed joint resolutions with leaders of MILF. It was obviously not a mere grand standing act similar to that of mayors, congressmen, governors, vice governors, and all the other shitheads that the entire ecological system is suddenly teeming with. It was a true-to-form reaching out to blaze trails to peace, to refuse to accept the certitude of the defeat of the peace process. Puno and his gang’s blocking notwithstanding, the senators and other malicious trolls’ railroading of an all-out war, regardless. More about this post here…
Speaking of trivia and trivializing…
Blogger Corrimhao apparently does not like Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno. However I learned a new expression that is absolutely unblasphemous, courtesy of dearest corrimhao: susmaryopaze!
Corrimhao’s susmaryopaze Posts:
Peaceful travel in North Cotabato
I like to eat Erap ( excuse me 
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August 16, 2008 at 11:09 am (Enemies of Peace Pact, GRP-MILF Peace Negotiations, Indigenous Peoples, Induced War, Mindanao, Politics, Terrorism, Tribal, War, artificial War)
Tags: Announcements on Terror Acts, attacks vs. government, caution, eruption of hostilities, fighting in Mindanao, Future terrorist acts in Manila, Girbaudz's Universe, going to Malls, interest groups, Mall Shopping, Mall strolling, Malling, measures vs. terrorism, observant, personal safety, Philippine political opposition, prudence, reprisals vs. Christians, safeguards against terror, Shepherd of Lions Gathering, sobriety, vigilant, War in Mindanao, www.wordpress.com
I am not willing to bet that their will a war in the country. However, at this time, I think it would be prudent to be prepared. Politicians, other kinds of interest groups are all agog over the what Girbaudz called portent of war. In reality, the events to come are more of the terror kind. Everyone is therefore advised to be both sober but also perennially observant, vigilant, cautious and prudent. Going to malls is still not advised against, but take an occasional look at this blog, at Girbaudz’s Universe, at Shepherd of Lions Gathering and linked blogs. Some announcements may be made in the near future. You might just save your day.
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August 14, 2008 at 3:23 pm (GRP MILF Peace Process, Mindanao Peace, Reassessing GRP MILF Peace Process, War in Mindanao)
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Now I see what good will come out of the stupid ripostes in various fora about the Mindanao Peace Process. And it will be a lot of good, a really, really lot of good. I only recently made a comment in The Warrior Lawyer’s Blog. That simple comment gave me an inspiration to write this post.
Linked item:
Noralyn Mustafa, To Be or Not To Be Bangsamoro, Philippine Daily Inquirer
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August 14, 2008 at 1:10 am (Mindanao Peace, War in Mindanao)
Tags: Aborigines, Adel Tamano, agreement, Ambassador Alonto, Aquillino Pimentel, bribery and corruption at Supreme Court, Celso Lobregat, centuries-old issue, Court intervention, drive away Gloria from Malacañang, Economic, Erap, Erico Fabian, Ethnic, Filipinos, Finance, Gov. SACDALAN, Government, Government of the Republic and the Philippines, Governor Jesus SACDALAN, history, independent, Indonesian Royalty, injunction, intervention, Isabel Climaco, Joseph Estrada, Judgment, Judicial Revolution, kill Gloria Arroyo, King Solomon's Wisdom, Loren Legarda, Maguindanao, Maguindanao Sultanate, Maguindanaoan Royalty, Malaysia, Malaysian Royalty, Mar Roxas, Maranao Sultanate, Marriot Hotel, Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain, MILF, MILF problem, millennium-long stewardship of Maguindanao Tribe Marana, Mindanao Tribes, Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Muslim community, Muslims, North Borneo Sultanate, Original Natives of the Philippine Islands, Peace Agreement, peace talks, Ping Lacson, Putrajaya, Rajjah Muda, Raschid Lucman, resolution, Rodolfo Biazon, Rufino Biazon, Ruling of the Supreme Court, Selangor, signing of Ancestral Domain Memorandum of Agreement, Southern Philippines Muslims, sovereign, Superior Court, Supreme Court Activism = Judicial Suicidealism, Supreme Court conquest, Supreme Court of the Philippines, Supreme Court Ruling, temporary restraining order, the Philippine's Government, Tribal, Tribes People, Vice Gov. Emmanuel Piñol, Vice Governor Emmanuel PIÑOL
You will never understand why there is a war in Mindanao. The both sides blame people like MILF Commander Umbracato. Now while Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) are negotiating a peace agreement in Mindanao, government is waging almost a full-scale war against their counterpart? GRP and MILF were supposed to sign an agreement at Marriot Hotel, Selangur, Putrajaya, Malaysia but Supreme Court issued an injunction and aborted said signing.
Supreme Court deeply embarrassed a lot of people. The United States of America Ambassador Kristie Kenney of the US Embassy in the Philippine, Organization of the Islamic Conference Ambassador Sayed Elm Masry, Japan Ambassador Makoto Katsura, and Australian Ambassador Roderick Smith were in Malaysia to be witnesses to the signing.
An international diplomatic faux pas. And the anti-Glorias are demanding the axing of the head of Hermogenes Esperon. Needless to say Supreme Court and the enemies of Gloria Arroyo had a different agenda. They want the talks and entire process scuttled. And after that, they want more. They want an impeachment. They want people power. They want to rule in a new government they will establish. They want the drugs. They want the money from kidnapping. They want the money robbed in banks and simple, helpless withdrawers. They want the protection skim from smuggling. The Director of a law enforcement Agency who is secretly one of them, is a silent coordinator for their stupid bunch. He collects from an excess of Eighty to occasionally more than Two Hundred Million a month (!) in these times of poverty and want, to live with them in grandeur and great comfort. The fucking corrupt want the country to die and Filipinos to wallow in abject suffering in the dying carcass of a nation.
They are agitating everyone. Most of all, the fellow Muslims of the Maguindanaos are not a big help. The enmity between the Tribes have gone into their guts. They don’t like the Maguindanaos for being lowly and unroyal. They would rather go to War against their own brother and sister Muslims. What a dilemma that is!
We do understand their sentiment but it is hoped that there will be at least a conciliatory approach to these things. And that time is now. It is now passe to say that all Maguindanaos are robbers and thieves and kidnappers and scoundrels. They have always been that way, true, but education proves men and women to be capable of change. And it does no good to keep bringing them down to the level of mud. There is so much bad karma in that.
The nincompoop politicians from the opposition tell everyone and sundry that they are studying their options over whether or not to support MILF in the war against the government. Studying options my ass! They have already determined to conduct a new wave of killings, bombings, rallies, ambushes, crime operations, hate and black propaganda campaigns to pursue Gloria’s impeachment, fight cha cha and to ostensibly to kill Gloria’s chances of running again in 2010 nor extending her presidency beyond that period. The fools!
Moreover in the continuation of the post here, we strived to present that the MILF and political opposition will not nor ever be able to join forces against the government. It is like mixing oil with water. The belief is that the forthcoming destabilization actions will put an incredible amount of salt on the already painful injury of the Government and MILF following the killed MOA signing on the Ancestral Domains claims between GRP and MILF. The US Ambassador, OIC Ambassador, Japanese Ambassador, Australian Ambassador, were humiliated in Malaysia for standing in support of that event. The politicians and for-hire Supreme Court might not know they are playing with fire. And that certainly it is a big, big fire.
At the end of the game, the political opposition, Justices, the civil society whom blogger Ezky calls New Civil Society of Lesbians and One Vacla, the left and right, and their allies inside the government feeding them morsels of information on when to make their sabotage moves, despicable destabilization actions and operations, will be flushed out and could be hung for their obnoxious treatment of the peace talks in Mindanao. In the end, it might not just be the dustbin of history where they will find themselves buried, but rather more immediately, six feet below the ground or scattered in the wastelands for vultures to feed on. Click here to read the rest of the post…
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August 11, 2008 at 1:01 pm (Uncategorized)
ARMM ELECTIONS, PEACE TALKS
In Mindanao at this time, they’re holding an election to choose the ARMM Regional Governor. The winner will get to be the implementor of the final GRP-MILF peace agreement and virtual head-of-state. But that latter role is being protested by some. Senators even say RP selling sovereignty. Read the article in Philippine Star at the post page by Christina Mendez dated today, August 11, 2008. Click here please.
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August 11, 2008 at 1:41 am (Indigenous Peoples, Mindanao, Mindanao Peace, Peace Process, Philippines, Politics, Tribal People, Tribes, peace talks)
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Let Us all join hands to
Help Our Muslim Tribes Now!
Not everything is going well at this time in Mindanao. In a recent encounter in Barangay Culambog, Pikit, North Cotabato, one government trooper died and fifteen MILF elements were killed. A lot have things have to be put right. The current troubles in Mindanao must stop. Blogger Girbaudz says:
Portent of War in Mindanao
I shall not venture to give any substantial number of facts except point to some vignettes from the past, existing and current events, statements and discussions about the issue of the government’s peace negotiations with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Click to the linked page here…
On the other hand, the suffering members of tribes in Mindanao (in our own syndicate, we prefer calling our brother and sister Muslims by the sobriquet, Muslim Tribes, instead of just Muslims, to differentiate them from other Islamic communities around the world — some of which consist of the majority population in Islamic states) are not going to get happier. The brief news article below really hit my gut:
Roxas hit for allegedly fomenting anti-Muslim sentiment
By Perseus Echeminada
The Philippine Star
Monday, August 11, 2008 A former Commission on Human Rights (CHR) commissioner hit Sen. Manuel Roxas II over the weekend for allegedly fomenting anti-Muslim sentiment when he announced that Christians in Panay Island are now raising funds to arm their brothers in Mindanao and oppose the creation of an expanded Muslim autonomous region.
Lawyer Nasser Marohomsalic told reporters during the weekly Kapihan sa Sulo Hotel forum in Quezon City last Saturday that high-ranking government officials particularly senators, are unnecessarily raising alarm over the proposed memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain between government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
He said Roxas, who is among the strong advocates against the supposed agreement, is practically agitating anti-Muslim sentiments, an allegation that Roxas vehemently denied, stressing he is for peace in Mindanao.
“The statement of Senator Roxas has created strong anti-Muslim sentiments,” Marohomsalic said.
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He said the controversy over the ancestral domain issue in Mindanao has practically diverted the attention of the people from the economic crisis facing the country, including the high prices of commodities and oil.
The former CHR commissioner said the ongoing peace negotiations with the MILF are just a repeat of the peace negotiation of the government with the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), which resulted to the creation of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
Marohomsalic said the proposed memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain only aims to expand the coverage of the present ARMM but the area is actually lesser compared to the original accord forged with the MNLF.
Roxas, for his part, said he is for peace in Mindanao, but not for an unconstitutional agreement like the GRP-MILF agreement on ancestral domain.
Roxas said that peace won’t be achieved through force and threats just like what he claims is advocated by former AFP chief and Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Hermogenes Esperon Jr. and the Arroyo government. – With Aurea Calica
Whatever your faith is, I implore you to pray for the swift resolution of the troubles in Mindanao. I ask you to be involved and to concerned. Howsoever lowly our station in life, let us all pitch in what little we can offer to not let those that are sabotaging the effort towards peace in Mindanao succeed.
The road ahead is long and tricky, savage and could be violent. Are we prepared to let our future generations be hostage to the whims and caprices of a few people in the Supreme Court? Will we just allow our ethnic communities be forever at the receiving end of oppression? Will we let the Supreme Court continually make rulings that are inimical to the interest of the country? Will the Filipinos not want to stand up and make history? Will people like Governor Jesus Sacdalan, Vice Governor Emmanuel Piñol, Rep. Isabel Climaco, Mayor Celso Lobregat, Rep. Erico Fabian, Sen. Mar Roxas, Rep. Rufino Biazon, Sen. Ping Lacson, Sen. Loren Legarda, be more precious to all of us than the Maguindanao Tribe Maranao Tribe Tausug Tribe, Sama Tribe, Yakkan Tribe, Badyao Tribe, the original people of Mindanao notwithstanding the other Tribes in the area, who used to be a sovereign, very proud and highly cultured people? Are these idiots and nincompoops combined any better than the Tribes’ long-standing relations with the Brunei Royalty — authentic and non-authentic — as well the regular Bruneians, the Indonesian Royalty and their subjects, the Malaysian Royalty and the commoner Malays? Let us remember that we have a very rich link both in blood and interchanges with our literal relatives in those countries. The sooner that we realize how to harness these relations, the faster we will realize that those who think they are as powerful as their saboteur acts and subterfuge, and malevolent determination to divide this already crippled country of ours, are just as the Chinese, Indonesian and Malaysian progressive thinkers, call the pseudo politicians: paper tigers.
Paper tigers? As for me, I would neither want them inside my book shop nor even an inch near it.
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