December 6, 2011 at 8:33 am (Corruption, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Judiciary, Law, Law and Order, Philippines, Politics, Reform, Regime Change, Supreme Court, Zealotry)
Tags: a time of evil men, bloodsucking the people, crime at highest places, decadence, Lao Tzu, systematized vampirism, Tao, Tao Te Ching, time of corruption and decay, Way of the Tao
The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu says that the Tao is the beginning wherefrom all things issue. And all things must return to the Tao.
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In the beginning was the Tao.
All things issue from it;
all things return to it.
To find the origin,
trace back the manifestations.
When you recognize the children
and find the mother,
you will be free of sorrow.
If you close your mind in judgements
and traffic with desires,
your heart will be troubled.
If you keep your mind from judging
and aren’t led by the senses,
your heart will find peace.
Seeing into darkness is clarity.
Knowing how to yield is strength.
Use your own light
and return to the source of light.
This is called practicing eternity.
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The great Way is easy,
yet people prefer the side paths.
Be aware when things are out of balance.
Stay centered within the Tao.
When rich speculators prosper
While farmers lose their land;
when government officials spend money
on weapons instead of cures;
when the upper class is extravagant and irresponsible
while the poor have nowhere to turn-
all this is robbery and chaos.
It is not in keeping with the Tao.
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Whoever is planted in the Tao
will not be rooted up.
Whoever embraces the Tao
will not slip away.
Her name will be held in honor
from generation to generation.
Let the Tao be present in your life
and you will become genuine.
Let it be present in your family
and your family will flourish.
Let it be present in your country
and your country will be an example
to all countries in the world.
Let it be present in the universe
and the universe will sing.
How do I know this is true?
By looking inside myself.
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He who is in harmony with the Tao
is like a newborn child.
Its bones are soft, its muscles are weak,
but its grip is powerful.
It doesn’t know about the union
of male and female,
yet its penis can stand erect,
so intense is its vital power.
It can scream its head off all day,
yet it never becomes hoarse,
so complete is its harmony.
The Master’s power is like this.
He lets all things come and go
effortlessly, without desire.
He never expects results;
thus he is never disappointed.
He is never disappointed;
thus his spirit never grows old.
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Those who know don’t talk.
Those who talk don’t know.
Close your mouth,
block off your senses,
blunt your sharpness,
untie your knots,
soften your glare,
settle your dust.
This is the primal identity.
Be like the Tao.
It can’t be approached or withdrawn from,
benefited or harmed,
honored or brought into disgrace.
It gives itself up continually.
That is why it endures.
Small Men, or the Corrupt Men, the Mediocre Men, defend their actions by saying that they are loved, anointed by the great masses of people. When in reality they cheated their way to power.
Small Men defend their grissly acts by saying that they have conviction. When in fact, they merely have desire. Small Men say they must fight against the Great Men. But naturally, they always do! Because the interest of Small Men, will never coincide with the Virtue of Great Men.
Small Men are wont to outburts. They credit this to sensitivity. They hide under the vestige of the pulse of the people, that in actual conditions does not exist. It is merely the false – not the pulse – reading of the Small Men. Done for their own convenience.
Small Men make promises, but are never wont to fulfill them. Because they are heartless, soulless and have no compunction to hurt others.
Small Men are Vultures and Parasites of the first order. They thrive on the life energy of others and enrich themselves at the expense of their fellow humans with no guilt, remorse nor conscience.
Small Men blame others for being dubious, but the dubiousness in others is a mirror of the Small Men’s criminal intents.
Small Men also keep to their oaths to their bedmates that are as corrupt, vile and filthy as them. Because they always need allies by their side by the dangers created of their own doing and undoing.
Many Small Men thinking in their small ways, with their small brains, believe that if they consolidate their power, they will be immune to the turning of the cycles full circle. That even with immense power, the end must come, and things shall come to pass.
That is the way of the Tao: Everything must come to Pass.
That, the Great Men always know, so they let things pass and are silent and peaceful in the face of the onslaught of Small Men at their very doorsteps.
Even under severe criticism, Great Men do not talk, for it is a sign that one is a Small Man and doesn’t know.
And so it will come to pass, that the Corruption in Government will end at one point and selected persons will be declared as the real embarrassment to the country. An abomination in the eyes of the world. That is the Way of Things. That is the Way of the Tao.
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December 6, 2011 at 7:08 am (Corruption)
Tags: Abnormal, Bad Government, Bad times, Corruption, Criminals at the highest levels, Decadent, Thieves and Con Men, Unscrupulous
Reprinted from Asian Forum Journal August 11, 2010 04:32 am
The time of the I Ching’s Small Men has arrived. The Great Men are in retreat and the Small Men have advanced and taken the Kingdom. They wield the power and placed the Great Men and their following on their knees. I have written about the Great Men and Small Men in the past.
Like vultures and parasites, the Small Men will feed upon the body politic, bleed the Kingdom (government) dry.
This is the time for Scavengers, Foragers, Thieves, Looters and Humiliators, Castigators, Vengadores, Executioners, Murderers, Throne Grabbers. It is the time of the Mad and ill-intentioned people working for the Nobles and Lords will turn against their Masters.
Take the case of the Philippine Air Lines, just last month, 25 pilots of the airline resigned! The pilots left nary a clue as to what they were about to do. The mass exodus of the most important manpower segment of an airline caused serious flight cancellations and passenger backlogs.
This was nothing to their employees’ union that even rejoiced over the hardships their employer, the Philippine Air Lines had to go through. The tremendous amount of money spent by precision companies like airlines, have been thrown down the drain by the pilots. PAL spends millions of pesos for the training and mastery of just one single pilot.
Surely, the airlines will post heavy losses over this action of its own people. But that is a bitter pill that the airline has to swallow on its own. Something as painful as that cannot be borne by devious Small Men.
True to form, the reign of the Small Men will wreak havoc in the Kingdom. With them traipsing around the Realm, everything will go haywire. When there are Troubles, expect the governance of the Small Men to become doubly strong, albeit unwieldy but forceful and strong!
We can expect more Troubles for companies already having disputes with Small Men under their payroll. Certainly, PAL will get more blows, backstabbing, batting and suffer embarrassment from the Small Men.
What it can do is to prepare for the worst, because the Small Men have their backing in the highest places. Whether PAL likes it or not, the Season of the Small Men now overshadows the Great Man and his Loyal Nobles and subjects.
This will ultimately mean, that if PAL is not braced to accept the hits and double whammies it will be getting from the Small Men, it will surely be shocked by what is about to happen.
Right now the entire country is in a state of shock and stupefaction. When this will wear off, will be the Time that the Small Men are prepared to make their get-away, bringing to their secret hideouts all the Loot and Valuables their Thievery and Criminal acts have produced.
Then the world turns full circle and the Great Men will reign again for their appointed tenure in the great Scheme of Things.
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November 14, 2011 at 6:41 am (Corruption, GRP MILF Peace Process, Indigeneous Peoples, Judiciary, Manny Pacquiao, Peace Initiatives, Peace Process, Politics, Reform, Revolution, Supreme Court, Terror, Terrorism, United States, War, Warfare)
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Malacañang should not take too much offense on the statement of Manny Pacquiao’s trainor, American national Freddie Roach who said over television that his ward The Pacman is essentially more popular than President Pnoy. That quote was invariably just both hype and existential.
Instead, the Palace can focus its attention upon the people on the ground. Take the Mindanao observer interviewed almost a fortnight ago over ABC News Australia. The observer’s comments are instructive. On the question about how he sizes up the renewed hostilities in Mindanao today, the observer’s curt reply was: “President Aquino cannot solve the conflict”.
Just like the past presidents of the Republic before him he is inadequate. He said, that Aquino’s own mother, the late Pres. Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, who was much, more more popular and powerful as Head of State – coming just after a Revolution that toppled an autocrat, thought that she could bind the nation together by holding out open arms to Nur Misuari and Jose Maria Sison, making friends with rebels left and right and forgetting about and neglecting the armed forces, the members of the entire gamut of the security apparatus, who were fighting for the country with blood, sweat and tears.
Her national security adviser was asked to draft written orders to slash and burn about seventy percent of the budget for all military and security, intelligence forces. The act of cutting the fund to our armed services was actually done, when it was finally legal for the late lady president to sign the draft orders.
Subsequently, the late Mrs. Aquino failed in the quest to consolidate her hold on the country. She could not unify the nation neither heal the wounds that kept opening up one after the other, making it ripe on the part of the uniformed services for armed adventurism to smolder.
Now listen to what follows in the observer’s statement: The true power in Mindanao is wielded by the agglomeration of fiefdoms – economic, political and those who flaunt power through the barrel of the gun.
These are the power vortices, he said that prevent the resolution of the conflict because for as long as the turmoil exists, these power centers exercise control over the resources of the island. These are much, much more powerful than the elected head of state and of course, the government of this Republic.
This revelation is not new. Douglas McArthur’s father (Arthur), a brigadier general assigned to Mindanao in the early 20th century, may have realized the nascent rise of the phenomenon called guerilla warfare. The .45-caliber Colt pistol was invented to stop suicidal amucks dead on their tracks. But guerilla warfare morphed into the fourth generation warfare, terrorism, now a global problem.
Going back to Pres. Pnoy’s dilemma, the Philippine Chief Executive should perhaps be more serious and down-to-earth in his pursuit of peace.
On the other hand, his idealism and the brave advocacy of good governance, that is taking much of the government’s time, talent and resources is slowly evaporating in the midst of the corrosive effects of corruption surrounding his government.
Go to any national agency and you will not find a worker who will tell you that his bosses are spanking pure and clean. Every single one of them are out to make big bucks while in office and sometimes, their actions cannot be fully kept from public knowledge. So the smaller ones down the line will follow the same dynamics guiding his own superiors.
The franchise to illegally make money using one’s position in government ttrickles down to the grassroots. Try doing business in any municipality and you will see what I mean – you will have to go through the gauntlet of corrupt schemes and mechanics it is like passing through the eye of a needle.
If you are lucky enough to pass muster the various local government units, you will end up several tens of thousands or even many millions poorer. That is why foreigners literally abandoned the Philippines as their investment haven because of WHOLESALE corruption. Unbridled, unstoppable, coming from the top down to the bottom.
Have you been to the premier district in the country lately? In Ermita, Manila? The police precinct just in front of the United States Embassy Chancery is manned by policemen wearing sando and beach sandals. Visit their precinct quarters and you will see fifty fighting cocks kept in a gallinera. And listen to their talk about the latest events that brought in dirty money. To think that, “What the Manila Police District does, the entire Philippine National Police follows.” It is such as shame.
Even in the country’s court of last resort, the Supreme Court, the cases are not argued in chambers but discussed in private places in five star hotels or wherever the talks could be kept the least harried and tense. If you try to follow up very keenly on a case with the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court, they will refer you to an official who is traditionally authorized to take the reasons for the court to favor your case. Guess who that official is?
These are challenges facing our beloved President. The question hangs above our heads, will the guy not really be up to it or can he still be able to hack it? We hope and pray for the latter.
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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, state-of-the-art disaster assessment and assistance coo, state-of-the-art disaster monitoring, Typhoon Ondoy, United Nations, United States, World Bank)
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, first date, Male Brain, McMaster University, Men's Brain, University of California at Irvine)
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, peace talks, Philippines, Politics, Tribal People, Tribes)
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 (artificial War, Enemies of Peace Pact, GRP-MILF Peace Negotiations, Indigenous Peoples, Induced War, Mindanao, Politics, Terrorism, Tribal, 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)
Tags: Abrahamic Origin, Abrahamic Tradition, Aeta, Agta, Al Hajj Murad, Antonino, Arab lineage in Mindanao, Arabic semen, Banawe Rice Terraces, Bangsamoro Homeland, Bangsamoro Juridical Entity, Brunei, Chinese, Christian, Climaco, conversion to Islam, Creating Afghanistan in Mindanao, DEL MONTE Pineapple, DOLE Pineapple, Dumagat, Egyptians in Mindanao, Fabian, Filipino, Guingona, Higaonon, Homestead, Homobono Adaza Sr., Ibaloy, Ifugao, Igorot, Ilocanos, Indian, Iranians in Mindanao, Iraqis in Mindanao, Islam, Itawis, Japanese, Korean, Land of Promise, Lapu Lapu, Lobregat, Luzon, Maguindanao, Maguindanao Royalty, Maguindanao Sultanate, Manobo, Maranao, Maranao Royalty, Maranao Sultanate, Middle East, MidEasterners, Migration from Luzon, Migration from Visayas, Migration to Mindanao, Muslim, Noralyn Mustafa, Paganism to Islam, Peace Process, Piñol, Piñols, Pimentel, Reassessing Opposition to Peace Talks, Rice Terraces, Salamat Hashim, Spain, Spaniards, Sulu Sultanate, Tausug, Tausug Royalty, Terrorism, Visayas, Warrior Lawyer's Blog, Yakkan, Yemenis in Mindanao, Zambaleños
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.
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Noralyn Mustafa, To Be or Not To Be Bangsamoro, Philippine Daily Inquirer
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