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Saturday, July 26, 2008

Ang Krudo at Pilipinas... Bow!

Ito ay isang pinabuod at random points tungkol sa kaganapan ng krudo, akonomiya nito at lagay ng pamumuhay ng nakararaming mamamayan ng Pilipinas.

  • GMA= P40 a day of survival. (siya kaya?... at ang tanong na ito ay para sa nakararami, kayo ba mabubuhay ang buong pamilya ninyo ng P40 sa isang araw? common sense naman, oh!)
  • Petron- (1993) State-owned corp. sold 40% to Arabian- American Oil Company (ARAMCO) + 20% was sold to the initial public offering (IPO).
  • International monopoly capital (monopoly of oil deregulation by Giant countries). Kinikita nila sa Pilipinas: P15-16 Million a day (papaano pa kung isasama mo pa ang iba pang mga bansa?)
  • Super profit ng CEO ng Shell- take home pay $15 Million a week.
  • Real Costs: Exploration cost 7%, Production Cost 15%, Royalties (OPEC) 9% and TNC Profits 69%: 39% profits and 30% speculation (so OPEC 9% is not the issue)
  • GMA's Contribution: Expanded Value Added Tax (E-VAT)- P5.5 MIllion earned from VAT per day in oil
  • GMA government collects P7/ hour of petroleum products as VAT.

Friday, July 25, 2008

Pila- Balde

Anu-ano ba ang pinipilahan ng mga mamamayan ng mga nasabing bansa? (compare and contrast)

  • Japan- iphone
  • China- commemorative money of incoming Beijing Olympics
  • Philippines- NFA Rice

..ikaw na lang ang humusga!

Online Filipinos

  • 3.7 M internet users
  • 3.3 M read blogs
  • 2.3 M bloggers
  • 2.2 M upload videos
  • 3.6 M watch videos online
  • 3.14 M upload photos
  • 2.3 M downloaded a podcast

Ramdam ang Kaunlaran?

Government Policy For Agriculture

  • Fake Agrarian Reform (CARP)
  • "Food Security" through import liberalization (not production)
  • Philippines= World's 2nd Biggest Importer of Rice
  • Land use conversion, crop conversion
  • withdrawal of subsidies and state support (irrigation, research and extension service, etc.)

Result: Agriculture Decline

Structural Roots

  • Land monopolized by a few (while 70% of peasants are landless)
  • trading (of produce and inputs) monopolized by comprador- landlords in the rural areas
  • Global markets for inputs monopolized by agrochem TNCs
  • Export markets dominated by TNC traders

and GMA's Response: Buy political support through

  • severely inadequate subsidies: P11-15 Million that will not go to the neediest: NCR has the lowest poverty incidence in the country but 50% of GMA's "subsidies" are to be distributed in the NCR (where her approval ratings are the lowest).
  • Meant to legitimize VAT collection: "Katas ng VAT"= source of corruption: * Fertilizer scam: Fertilizer fund for Metro Manila Farmers? and so many other unresolve cases of graft under GMA.

SUMMARY:

  • Economic dominance of foreign monopoly capital
  • Tiny local elite composed of big landlords and businessmen
  • domination and exploitation is made worse by policies of neoliberal globalization.
  • administrative predator practices.

...notes from thr forum about the possibilities of 2008 SONA of GMA at Little Theater, UP Manila

Kasaysayan ng SONA ni Pangulong Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo

  • 2001 SONA- "SONA of Hope" (Bangkang Papel Background)
  • 2002 SONA- "A Strong Republic"
  • 2003 SONA- "Rage A War" against all the problems and anomalies of Philippine Society
  • 2005 SONA- "I Am Sorry!" (CHA-CHA and Hello Garci Scandal)
  • 2006 SONA- "Super Regions and the Economy"
  • 2007 SONA- "The Booming Economy (?)"
  • 2008 SONA- "Ramdam Ang Kaunlaran" o "Katas ng E- Vat"?

*7th SONA, this coming July 28- Monday

Thursday, July 24, 2008

The Dancing Philippine Airforce Students

Is it really a Silent Drill or to create a mockery among themselves?

A dance gag video perhaps...

I checked the other countries' military Silent Drills and After drills like in Korea and United States of America through the YouTube, And it is poles apart from what I saw in the video. Korea and America's Silent Drills are serious, gallant and well-thought-of compared to the Philippine Airforce Students' "wing flopping" and "Michael Jackson signature" dance routine. And I think Philippine Airforce Students' after drill does looks like the Bilibid Prison' YouTube dance craze!



BATANGAS, Philippines--The Mandayan Class 2009 of the Fernando Air Base Air Education and Training Command Center dances to upbeat songs after performing the formal silent drill. Video taken by INQUIRER.net online videographer Janie Christine Octia.

taken from http://www.inquirer.net/vdo/player.php?vid=1229

Elehiya para kay Renato Constantino

Tutulaan kita ng tulang malumbay,
Tula ng hinagpis at panghihinayang:
Kaming inulila ng iyong paglisan
Nagpapasalamat at kami'y dinalaw.

Lahat ng akda mo tungkol sa lipunan,
ilaw na nagbukas sa daming pintuan,
Ang pinasok nami'y bulwagan ng araw,
Sumanib sa amin ang kaliwanagan.

Tutulaan kita ng tulang mapayapa,
Tulang kikilala sa iyong adhika
Na ang kasaysayan ay mula sa ibaba
Ay maisasalaysay ng mga naaba.

Itong sambayanang itinanikala,
Binigyan ng dila't pinagpagsalita,
Kanilang himagsik at mithiing paglaya,
Binigyan ng puwang ng diwa mo't katha.

Tutulaan kita ng tulang maalab,
Tulang nagbabaga, tulang nagniningas,
Aking itatanghal anmg plumang pangahas
Na nagbigay talim sa pamamahayag.

Ang lipunan nati'y tinistis mong ganap,
Anino at tabing ay iyong nilaslas,
Piyudal at kolonyal sabay itinambad,
Kamalayan nami'y pinapaglagablab.

Ngayong nalulumbay ang sambayanan,
Pamanang liwanang iinagt-ingatan,
aariing dupil ng giting at tapang,
Gagawing sandata sa pakkilaban.

Kaming pinalaya ng kaliwanagang
Dulot ng diwa mong katimyas-timyasan,
Uusigin namin ang kinabukasan,
At tutuluaan ka ng tulang palaban.

galing sa aklat ni Bienvenido Lumbera na POETIKA/POLITIKA: Tinipong mga Tula

From UNITY to Presidential Cabinet

Ang mga miyembro ng Team UNITY na natalo sa nakaraang eleksyon....

  • Ralph Recto- NEDA
  • Prospiro Pichay- OWWA
  • Tito Sotto- Dangerous Drugs Board
  • Mike Defensor- Head of the Task Force on the opening of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport’s Terminal 3.

...ngayo'y mga Presidential appointee na sa mga importanteng posisyon sa gabinete.

source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080724-150335/Arroyo-names-Ralph-Recto-NEDA-chief

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

GASOLINA

Buong Pilipinas na ata ang umaangal dahil sa di matigil na pagtaas ng presyo ng gasolina lalo na ng pambansang krudo, "ang diesel". Pero bago po tayo magreklamo, alamin po munanatin ang puno't- dulo ng problemang ito:
1. Sabi ng mga Social Scientist, Political Scientists at ng mga Ekonomista, World Crisis daw ang nangyayari!

Dahil sa patuloy na pagbagsak ng ekonomiya ng Amerika na isa sa mga malaking exporter ng krudo sa mundo, legal na nagmamay-ari at may pananagutan sa salaping dolyar (world currency lang naman din!) na siyang pangunahing apektado sa patuloy na paglubog ng Amerika kaya apektado ang lagay o exportation ng krudo at presyo nito, Kaya tiyak din at walang palya apektado tayo!

2. Sabi (nanaman) ng mga Social Scientist, Political Scientists at ng mga Ekonomista, World Order ito, Mal- Adjustment kung baga!

Salamat sa Bansang Tsina (China), India at iba pang mga bansa sa ating kontinenteng Asya (Asia) na ngayon mas kilala sa tawag na (politically correct term) "Developing Countries" o mga bansang patuloy o mabilis ang pag-unlad na siyang nakadagdag sa kunsyumo ng daigdig sa langis o krudo; Mga 90% lang naman ang nadagdag sa kunsyumo dahil sa kanila.

Kapag mas malaki ang kunsyumo o demand ng bawat bansa, at sa bawat bansa ay ng bawat indibidwal, kinakailangan na mapantayan din ng mga exporter o ng supply ang nasabing demand sa krudo or else tulad ng kaganapan ngayon krisis ang ating haharapin. Hello!? buong mundo po kaya ng involve dito.


3. E- Vat daw ay dapat tanggalin sabi ni manong drayber ng taxi na nakaaway ko noong nakaraang linggo dahil sa kapwa niya tsuper ng taxi na namimili ng pasahero at nangongontrata, at ayun ipinagsigawan pa na dapat daw makulong na si Gloria para matigil na daw ang kahirapan! (Puwede ba yun? at mawawala nga ba ang kahirapan pag nakulong na ang lola mo?)

Ayon sa aking pagkakaintindi mula sa mga topakin kong mga propesor ang isyu (issue) ng E- Vat o mismo ang konseptong ito ay isang usapang teknikal! Ang E- Vat daw ay "simplified" tax na dati ay ang mga sandamakmak at patung-patong na taxes (o mga tax) na binabayaran ng bawat mamamayang Pilipino.
(tama po ba? kung mali paki-corrent na lamang po ako.)

Mga Balita ukol sa gasolina:

  • 6,000 na sasakyan bawat araw ang nawala sa mga kalsada o hindi na binibiyahe dahil nga sa isyu ng gasolina.
  • Na ang inaangal nating P 57. something- something ay walang binatbat sa presyo ng gasolina na binabayaran ng mga taga- Norway, partikular sa Oslo, na may halagang 14.23 Kroener (1.78 Euros, 2.82 Dollars) o sa sarili nating salapi ang katumbas ng nasabing presyo ng diesel sa Oslo, Norway ay P 125. 36. Partida isa ang Norway sa pinakamayamang bansa sa daigdig at ang nakakagulnatang ay ito, Pang- 5 sila sa mga pinakamalaking bansa na exporter ng krudo sa buong mundo.
Sa madaling salita, rational ang walang humpay na reklamo ng mga pilipino dahil sa taas ng presyo ng krudo kung ang pagbabasihan natin ay ang "hirap na kalagayan" nila sa buhay, pero dapat din naman kahit papaano ay magmukhang residente din tayo ng daigdig- magpakapormal, mukhang mga taong may pinag-aralan o kung may papalag pa.. mga taong may modo tulad ng ibang bansa na kumikilos bilang isang bansa at individually (ang kanilang mga mamamayan) para sa kanilang ikabubuhay at hindi putak ng putak na wala namang nangyayari kundi nagpapatalsik lang ng laway sa ere.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Random Facts:

MARAMI KA PANG KAKAINING NFA RICE.


habang ako ay naghahanap sa internet ng bagong lay out para sa aking Friendster account, nakakita ako sa di ko na matandaang website ng isang payak, pulos itim na lay out na ang tanging disenyo o nakasulat ay ang pangungusap na ito... Ang nasabing lay out ay ang kasalukuyang lay out ng aking Friendster.



An Appeal to the Filipino Masses

This is my entreaty to the people, to my fellow Filipino people

Let us all fight for the following battles our country is facing right now:

To fight the injustices and promote equality.

To fight for a cause without hidden agendas.

To fight for the unity of our country despite of color, culture and religion differences

To fight against corruption and depravity not only in the government but in every institutions as well.

To fight for freedom because it has not been totally won, for there are those who want to take away what has been won.

To fight against poverty, for too little have too much and too much have too little.

To fight for true knowledge not the indoctrination called, "educational system".

For if we kept ourselves under the shadow of ignorance, truth will be quoted as ‘impossible’ for eternity.

So each generation has its own fight, fight that needs to be fought to keep what has already been gained.

But do not stop there and keep fighting for what has not been obtained.

We fight so hard for survival, by capitalizing on each other,

Maybe because we live in a capitalistic society, where we watch Corporations and Giant Institutions capitalize on each other and on us, and watch the government do the same thing.

We need to fight for proper health care that should be provided to everyone regardless of financial status.

We should all work for the preservation of life rather than its destruction.

Let us all bring back to Life what we have fought 20 years from now, what the whole world watched and lot of countries have gain their inspiration for.

Just A scratch thought....

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Imoralidad... Kahirapan... Bobong Edukasyon... Ligaw Na Kabataan... Pilipinas

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MARKA NG KAHIRAPAN

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BATANG KILLER FOR HIRE

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ILLEGAL CHILD BOXING

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KULELAT

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12-0?

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KALAM

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