Is Dr. Jose Rizal, whose death we remember today, established by law as a our National Hero

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Philippines  December 30, 2013

From Philstar

From Inquirer - Jose Rizal joins list of Nick Joaquin's dubious heroes

From Philstar - Why Co became Mercado became Rizal
His father's surname is Mercado.  Why is he being called Dr. Jose Rizal?

"His father Francisco Engracio/ Mercado then married to Teodora Alonso) opted to use the Spanish surname Ricial (meaning greenfields) after a Gov Claveria decreed that Chinese immigrants and mestizo adopt a Spanish surname.  Due confusion, they adopted Rizal Mercado as his surnname.  Jose dropped Mercado when his brother Paciano was placed under surveillance due to his link with martyred priest Gumborza)

Today is the 117th death  anniversary of Dr. Jose Rizal, whom our country venerate as our national hero.  But no Philippine law has established that fact.  Not even with an executive order.

Dr. Jose Rizal, who was executed on December 30, 1896 by Spaniards at Luneta for allegedly inciting the Filipinos has been long remembered as our national hero.  But no such law or proclamation declaring such has been passed.

Only five Philippine icons have been declared  officially as "national"

Sec Petilla's dare to restore electricity by Christmas was bound to fail; thus he must resign

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Philippines  |  December 30, 2013

 

Sec Petilla sets resignation in motion

From Rappler - Sec Carlos Jericho Petilla will resign if there is no power in  Leyte by Christmas.
Check  - There is no power yet in Leyte from NGC

In our MBA class, I solicited comments regarding the plan of DOE sec to have Luzon and Visayas grid interconnected by December 8, 2013.  Sec Petilla warned MM consumers of possible power shortage in Luzon grid, so they must save 100 mW to cover the Visayas demand.

The student who is nearly to be one of the Senior Manager of a local distribution company commented that the promise is in the unrealistic territory because there are about 500 transmission tower that were damaged.  He doubts whether NGC has the capacity (financial) or capability to restore the fallen/damaged tower given the self imposed deadline by the Secretary.

So out of delicadeza the poor secretary must eat his hat, and swallow his pride,  and keep his word out of delicadeza.

In our self mastery, we are warned to be careful of what we say because they soon become our destiny and they will haunt us.  When our words come home to roost;

Maybe out of hubris, many people like the Emperor who wore no clothes are blinded by psychophants , fail to see reality and thus make bad decisions.  Or had to make lofty statements for political reasons

  So sorry sir.  A promise is a promise

 

The IRS is Obama's hand puppet. (others call it attack dog). are you next on his get-even list?

Do you agree with this report?
 


USA is reportedly very active in spying on its citizens due to the Patriots Act.  NSA collects phone records, phone conversations, and even remittances of US citizens to and from foreign countries through Western Union.  It is reportedly tapping into telephone conversations of EU heads of state (like Chancellor Merkel Germany)  Pres Obama reportedly denies knowledge of the activities of its intelligence agencies.

How about IRS?

What happenned to Pres Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan case by US Atty. General.  And the Republicans who were investigated by IRS?









Find out more how IRS has been made an attack dog by Dems

Mayor Binay's Convoy stopped at Dasma, what really happenned?

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Philippines  |  December 19, 2013

 

From Rappler  12.19.2013

ANC showed earlier this evening a CCTV that showed a convoy being stopped at a subdivision gate.  The guards did not raise the bar.  There was a man who went out of the car, whom the narrator said was Mayor Binay.

The story later said that the man identified himself as the Mayor of Makati.  The Makati police allegedly came to the rescue and pacified eased the situation  With the Mayor was the sister.  Senator Nancy Binay.  The incident happened last November 30 and is just being reported lately

The detention of the SG by Makati police was denied.  And the owner of the Security Agency Ram Antonio said that there were lapses on the part of the SG who were supposed to give special privilege to three VIP:  Pres of Phil, VP of the Phil (the father of the Mayor) and the Mayor of the City.

So was it a case of power trip of the mayor, who could have exited through another gate, or SG misunderstanding the order to them?

The social media criticized Binay for being arrogant today  December 19, 2013

Are you Juan of them?

That is why dynasties should really be banned.  Feeling monarchy and pamilya:  kanila Pinas.  What Pinay este Binay wants, Binay gets done.  

Executive to the hilt.  A Mayor must have balls, and not be timid.  He has balls.


"MANILA, Philippines – Was it a case of power tripping or security guards failing to follow protocol?
Makati Mayor Junjun Binay allegedly ordered the arrest of 3 security personnel from the posh Dasmariñas Village in Makati after his 4-car convoy was not allowed to exit through one of its gates on November 30."
But Binay spokesman Joey Salgado called the report "false and downright malicious."

22 dead as Don Mariano bus falls off skyway near Bicutan

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Rizal Philippines   |   December 16,2013

 

From ANC Yahoo

It is indeed sad that it is just 9 days before Christmas and 22 people died in a very bizarre accident  which again involved Don Mariano bus.  I rode on that bus last Monday from Estrella to EDSA crossing.  In front of EDSA Central, a Don Mariano bus rear ended another bus causing massive traffic jam.  My experience with that bus ride was hair raising.   It was as if there were no other vehicles on the road. 

The bus fell off on closed van and the rescuers had difficult time extracting the injured. The bus was on its way to Pacita complex.

The accident paralyzed the traffic in the area.

A suspension order will be served, effective for 30 days for 3 of the 78 buses of Don Mariano

What the traffic enforcers doing to enforce traffic rules?  Maybe they turn the other way around as Don Mariano bus violates the speed limit, safe driving because..... (Guess....)

If the traffic enforcers were faithful doing their job, would this have happened?

Was the driver drunk or high on drugs, or simply reckless?

 

What was JE request to COA head?

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December 16, 2013

I happened to go on plane travel yesterday and was seated beside the lady from COA.  Our conversation veered towards PDAF, the senators and solons involved, and JE.  I asked her what did JE request their head in  a phone conversation.  Well she said, JE requested for replacement resident auditor for City Hall (where the father  is the mayor).  This was denied by the lady head of COA.

Now you know

Tax collection efforts will lose traction because of DAP and PDAF

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Philippines December 10, 2013



Our friends remarked and they are under BIR tax audit, that voluntary willful payment of taxes would have been the order of the day were it not for the PDAF and DAP events.  It would have been tuwid na daan and many would be willing to pay their taxes promptly and faithfully.  But not after PDAF.  With the wanton wastage of the taxpayers money, with the plunder and stealing that is going on at the highest level (without the PNoys knowledge) we cant expect belligerence or revolt on the part of the taxpayers.   Their agressiveness in  tax collection should be matched with care and diligence how that money must be spent

What are needed for relief and rescue operations? What must the disaster units invest in?

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Rizal Philippine  December 10, 2013

 

As we discuss the Supertyphoon Yolanda aftermath with our business partners who just arrived from abroad, several equipment need to be acquired by our disaster, relief and rescue operations.  We should be beyond transport, health, extraction, rescue  equipment: (that is what you call solution after next) We move towards rehabilation:

1.  At the disaster level, we need:  Instant Network (Huawei has this available technology VFIN)  Communication must be restored immediately.

2.  Power generators (maybe we go solar for cheap and fuel less power source;  fuel becomes scarce during disaster)

3.  Water filtration plant.  I have been told that there are portable emergency water treatment plants:  from brackish to clean (about $80,000) or salt to fresh ($100,000)Their units run on solar power.

From Firstwater Inc

Operation smile will provide shelter repair kits for Leyte typhoon victims; so has Habitat for Humanity

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Tiendesitas, Pasig City, December 10, 2013

 

I had a business meeting with our Joint Venture Partners and one of them, Dr  James is a cosmetic surgeon, and is member of operation smile.org.   (As you know, they operate free on children with cleft chin worldwide for free, so that they can smile again) They will be donating $100,000 for the Supertyphoon Yolanda victims.  They are now doing away with relief packs, water rice. the usual food and relief donation.

They thought, Dr. James thought that they will be donating housing kit, each worth P10,000 be shipped from Cebu. What the people need now is shelter.  The $100,000 will be good for about 400 housing kits (that is what the Melinda Gates foundation did for the Habagat victims in our place)

Providing sheleter repair kits - from CNN

ShelterBox was already in the Philippines providing shelter after the 7.2 earthquake that hit Bohol on October 15. They are now expanding their operations to provide tents and essential equipment for families left homeless after Typhoon Haiyan. You can support their work in the Philippines either online or by calling 1-941-907-6036.

Habitat for Humanity is providing shelter repair kits to help survivors rebuild their damaged homes. You can support this work by donating from the Philippines to their Re-Build Philippines Fund or from the U.S. by contributing to their Disaster Response Fund. You can also make a donation by phone at 1-800-HABITAT.

Habitat for Humanity has allready provided 5,000 shelter repair kits in the supetyphoon Yolanda damaged areas. It plans to distribute 30,000 more. More than a million lost their homes from the supertyphoon  The kits contain plywood, lumber, galvanized iron sheets, a hammer, a saw and nails. In addition to distributing the kits, Habitat provides training on safe building practices. The shelter repair kits fast track rehabilitation and recovery of typhoon victims by giving them hope - by having restored their homes instead of living in tents or barracks (Obama?)

God bless their souls and many thanks.  May you believe more in what Andrew Carnegie once said

(For other businessmen, Andrew Carnegie, a steel magnate and one of the early millionaires in US said that "one of the biggest disgrace is to die with plenty of money"

 

Who does not lie? Everybody lies?

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Rizal, Philippines  | December 8, 2013

Let us pause for a while it is the feast of Immaculate Concepcion

 From neurological and psycholigical studies, we cant
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From Self development blog

We read in the news:   Napoles is not telling the truth;   MDS is accusing JPE of being a liar.  And yet, she does not seem to be transparent about her car.   Senators accuse CSC Corona of lying, and yet, are they not lying about PDAF?

Senators lie, Presidents lie,  everybody lies.

Find out from Nat Geo Brain games, why everybody tends to routinely  lie.  It easier to accept this way that we humans lie as a matter of course and survival. Species employ deception to survive.   This site may even lie.  People in the internet lie, and post scams

Saudization Law now in effect; thousands of Pinoys being repatriated;

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Philippines, December 7, 2013

 
Bulk of workers at KSA are not Arabs but Filipinos 28%


From Rappler

From Inquirer - Saudization

All good things must come to an end.  Before OFWs thought that jobs in KSA will be forever.  But as they say in a song, "Nothing good gonna last forever"  And the jobs in KSA is expected to dry up, now that demand for oil is on the decline.  Signs that things are not so good in Saudi:   unemployment  is high (9%), Saudi is going solar to save on their oil production for export 

Thus the Saudization is expected.  Saudis  cannot depend on foreign labor forever.  KSA is for Arabs and expatriates will have their time end.  Saudization finally took effect November 3, 2013, after long period of extensions to give time for workers to regularize their documents.  The law mandates that KSA residents must now be employees of over 300,000 companies located in KSA, as KSA faces huge unemployment problem

The bigger problem is the illegals in KSA.  Those who abandoned the original labor contract in effect are illegals.  Filipinos who went there and found out that the job offers here in RP is different from the actual contract abroad, quit, and work for others.  They in effect violated, not the Arabs the labor and other agreements and must face imprisonment.   They could have resigned.  But they did not.  And so they face punishment from the host country

The Commission on Overseas Filipino Workers made an estimate of 1,27 million in KSA, with 108,000 considered as irregular or undocumented.  ASec Raul Hernandez of DFA, said that 4,302 Filipinos in Saudi have been repatriated;   and issued travel docs to 9,000 others.   Some l,500 have voluntarity signified their intention of going home and awaiting their travel documents

 

 

 

 

What? Solving their problem with another problem? How....?

From Newsmax


Democrat Polis' Solution: Legalize Immigrants to Fix Obamacare

From God father politics - Polis is rather bizarre



It does not seem to be a sound solution;  may be full of sound.  I used to have great admiration  for Dems and Americans.  Today, I doubt whether they still have that admiration. Take a look at the idea of Rep. Jared Polis, a Democrat on immigration law and Obamacare and their relevance to one another.

Polis wants to legalize illegals so that can be covered by Healthcare, so that the burden is not passed to taxpaying, with health insurance US citizens

One of the biggest problem of USA is burgeoning debt and federal expenses which does not seem to have any end in sight.  And now Polis wants to ad some more weight to sink their government?

Excerpt from the Newsmax article.

"The Times cited a Congressional Budget Office report showing the Senate immigration bill, offering legalization for current illegals and expanding legal immigration, could cost $82.3 billion in the next decade, increasing Obamacare subsidies for new legal immigrants.

Those who are in the country illegally would not be able to enter the Obamacare system for a decade after they obtain green cards under current law."

A Gang of 8 Senate measure was passed in Senate to legalize illegal immigrants but was stalled in US Congress

CIA spying on international finance and monetary system?

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CIA Collecting Records of International Money Transfers

From Wall St. Journal online

From Leaksource blog

The current accusations of various govt:    spying  by US seems to be gathering confirmation as true.  Why is Barack Obama, a democrat allowing this?  He does not know this?  What happens to command responsibility?

CIA seems to be using the same law, the Patriot Act that NSA uses in tapping phone and internet records, in monitoring records of Western Union on wire transfers (to track funding of terrorists?)

That is there is a group of Civil Libertarians who are activitists vs this kind of govt curtailment of US liberties.

Well CIA could always invoke national security in monitoring money transfers.  Is this legal or constitutional, moral?
 


 

Sen Santiago attacks Sen Enrile personally; calls him various names; a counter attack to JPE

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Rizal  Philippines  |  December 4, 2013

 From Rappler by Ayee Macaraig | December 4, 2013


 

Sen Myriam Defensor Santiago, who was accompanied by sister, and husband delivered a privileged speech at the Senate today and mentioned the following (aside from being a liar and being guilty of 7 crimes)
1. architect of martial law (true)

2.  mastermind of PDAF;

3.  behind gambling and smuggling at Port Irene in Cagayan (hmmm friends and students hinted this to be correct)

4.  womanizer  (of his chief of staff) had special relations with another top level personality, and even had relations with the domestic help;

What do you think of this speech?

What do you think of Sen Enrile?

Of Sen Santiago?

Of our public sector leaders?

Maybe Sen Santiago counter attacked Sen Enrile on account of this portion of the privilege speech of JPE last 11/27/2013 for which Sen Myriam is particularly sensitive about:

"During the hearing of the Commission on Appointments on her confirmation as Secretary of Agrarian Reform, testing the suitability and qualifications of the nominee then, I asked her if she was ever under the care of a psychiatrist. She admitted that she was. She said that she was treated by a psychiatrist at the Makati Medical Center.
In the same Commission on Appointments committee deliberation, I asked her also what grade she got in her bar examination. She replied that she got 76%. That meant that she obtained low grades in all her bar subjects. In fact, I remember that she got a grade of 56% in Ethics, the easiest bar examination subject.


In that same Commission on Appointments committee deliberation, I asked about a white Toyota Celica sports car that the nominee then was said to be driving as her personal car when she was a judge in Quezon City. Toots Trinidad, a former PNB Vice President, owned that sports car. He shipped it back to the Philippines upon his return from the United States after his surgical operation for a brain tumor at the Standford University. That sports car disappeared from the compound of the Bureau of Customs when it arrived in the Port of Manila.


Toots Trinidad learned that his sports car was with a judge of Quezon City. Toots Trinidad asked then Judge Miriam Defensor Santiago to give the car back to him. She refused. I was told that she claimed that her husband, Narciso Yap Santiago of the Province of Tarlac, who was at that time employed in the Bureau of Customs, gave her that sports car as a birthday gift. Later on, I found out that the car was registered in her name in the Bureau of Land Transportation in the Province of Tarlac.
As a consequence of my opposition, and among other concerns taken into consideration, the Committee on Agrarian Reform of the Commission on Appointments voted to reject her appointment as Secretary of Agrarian Reform."
 

Jeepney drivers strike over continued unjust arrests

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Rizal Philippines  | December 2, 2013

 

From Inquirer News | December 2, 2013

The FEDOJAP, headed by Zenaida Maranan went on strike early this morning to protest the alleged "unreasonable apprehensions by traffic enforces in Manila"  Some 3000 to 4000 units were involved in the protest action.  She said that the protest will continue because she felt that Vice Mayor Isko Moreno does not have anything concrete to solve the issue.

Really, can the VM solve the problem.

It is Christmas time, and for the traffic enforcer, who does not get much anyway to arrest, and make hay while he may.  What else is new?  When the NPA still roamed freely, the Sparrow attacks had a way of stopping this banal act dead on its tracks.

But there should be a better way because the drivers are shooting themselves in the foot and hare hurting their customers;  damned if they do, damned if they dont.
 

Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) is indeed the moment of truth, the defining moment for the "Tuwid na Daan" of this regime!

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Rizal, Philippines  | December 2, 2013

 

The comments of Christianne  Amanpour of CNN to the President during their interview, post Yolanda typhoon crisis, still ring clearly in my ears " How your respond to this crisis, defines your Presidency"  as he was embarrassed by apparent grasp of reality on the ground.

As I got the other stories from somebody whose relatives were victims of the typhoon  (Inside story of the Typhoon Haiyan devastation)  there were several incidents that may not speak well of the rule of the national govt:

1,  The staging of relief distribution;

2.  The repacking of relief goods by the government agencies.

3.  The military commandeering the relief goods for personal use of disposition.

4.   The grandstanding of the Presidency with the LGU Mayor Alfred Romualdez

5.  The military men leading the civilian in commandeering private goods for personal use (the military were in bonnet as seen in TV and fully armed)

It is the time for compassion rather than greed.  How the people in the govt, representing the national government really really reflects zillions the values, the mores of the present govt, and whether the leadership now, has made a dent on how we run things here, especially during crisis.

 

A convenient way to donate to Typhoon Yolanda victims

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Rizal   Philippines  |  December 2, 2013

I just learned from an announcement in ANC that an online gift giving portal has reinvented itself to help generous individuals send donation to typhoon victims in Eastern Visayas.  I did not get the name correnctly but it should be www.regalo.com.ph   You can select packs of P200, P500, 1,000 and they will be delivered to the typhoon affected areas.

I think this is a better and secured way to donate.  Donating to a well known national NGO is not safe because the friend we talked to last November 30,2013 said that the NGO personnel have been known to :   1.  repack the gift packages,   2.  bring home the donation packages.  Whew.  I hope this hearsay is not true.  We sent our donation through the mass media companies spearheading the donation