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hopeless_race : Lets not just focus sa mga malversation of funds, sa mga overpricing..ating pagtuunan ng atensyon ang diskarte ng mga politiko na umuutang ng bilyon bilyon sa gobyerno."Small time" ang ibang pamamaraan ng pangungurakot kumpara sa pag-utang sa gobyerno ng bilyon na tunay ngang masasabing "pinaka big-time" at wala pang sabit.
hopeless_race : Mukhang tikom ang bibig ng lahat pagdating sa diskarte ng mga politiko sa pagutang ng mga bilyon bilyon sa gobyerno na tinatakbuhan. Itong pamamaraan na ito ang tunay na kumakain ng malaking porsyento ng ating national budget batay na din sa sinasabi ng world bank.
hopeless_race : Pakisilip naman po ang mga utang ni Villar sa BSP, ang mga utang nila RAMON JACINTO, RONNIE ZAMORA, JOE DE VENECIA at madami pang ibang mga pulitiko. Iilan lamang yan sa mga nababanggit sa balita na may mga malalaking utang sa gobyerno.
hopeless_race : Nagmimistulang "small time" lamang ang malversation of funds kumpara sa laki ng kinakamal ng mga umuutang sa gobyerno. At ito ay malinaw na natatakbuhan dahil hindi nga naman pwede makulong ang may-ari ng kumpanya sa pagkaka-utang lamang. Tunay na mga tuso at magagaling sa batas itong mga politiko natin. Masasabi ko na malamang lahat ng mga politiko ganito ang diskarte...wala pang kulong.
hopeless_race : PCIJ pkitingnan naman po ang mga gaya ni Villar na my malaking utang sa Gobyerno pero tinatakbuhan. Magtatayo ng kumpanya at uutang ng bilyon bilyon sa gobyerno ng walang balak bayaran. Tunay ngang walang nakukulong sa utang...ito ang prinsipyo ginagamit ng mga politiko ntin kaya nakakapagtaka kung san napupunta ang daang bilyong pera ng gobyerno.
hopeless_race : Sana itreat naman po ng media ang hacienda luisita at mendiola massacre na parang MAGUINADANAO MASSACRE. Ipublicized ang mga katotohanan at ipakita sa tao ang karumaldumal na pinaggagawa sa mga farmers dun. Untouchable po ba sila cory at danding at hindi magawang batikusin ng media about these two massacres?
hopeless_race : Kapag napaguusapan ang mendiola at hacienda luisita massacre ay parang walang nangyari at parang hindi big deal. Anu po ba ang pinagkaiba ng dalawang nabanggit na massacre sa maguindanao massacre?
hopeless_race : Its sad that we pinoys are blind to the fact of what had happened in mendiola and hacienda luisita. Ang tanong..bakit ang media ay hindi manlang matackle ang ganitong usapin? Takot ba sila kay cory at danding?
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Burma in tatters

Posted by: Alecks P. Pabico | May 6, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Filed under: Cross Border, Image Galleries, In the News

THE PCIJ’s Tita Valderama was among five journalists from Southeast Asia who were able to enter Myanmar (still Burma to pro-democracy groups) from Bangkok on tourist visas for five days last week from May 1 to 5. They happened to be in Yangon (Rangoon) a day before, and two days after, the “killer” cyclone wrought so much damage and disaster.

By Monday night, the death toll was reported to have climbed to at least 10,000, even as the former capital is now littered with fallen trees and electric posts. Several houses and hospitals lost roofs while thousands, or maybe millions, of poor people in about 30 coastal villages have been rendered homeless.

Below are images Tita surreptitiously took using her digital camera, an act that was not without its dangers given that the military government does not allow foreign journalists to enter the country.

Read her first-person account of the tragedy.

See also op-ed piece of Roby Alampay, SEAPA executive director.

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“There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past”. (Indira Gandhi).

Unfortunately, Myanmar or Burma, like the poor country of ours, has no “great moments in the past” to relish on and ligthen her present despair.

jcc wrote on May 6, 2008 - 10:34 pm | Visit Link

Aid workers are denied of Visa by the military Junta in Ragoon. I hope that the ruling military Junta should realized the immediacy of the situation. It is vital that its people should have accessed into international aide offered by other countries. They should not be selective with regard to this. Foreign aide should all be allowed because this is what people of Burma badly needed this time.

The ruling government of Burma is obsessed with power and would most like do whatever is possible to cling to its power at the expense of its people. The regulation of international aide evidently shows this paranoia within the Burmese ruling military junta.

nbernabe wrote on May 10, 2008 - 10:05 am | Visit Link

JCC,

Burma’s rich history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Burma

The Philippines’ rich history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Philippines

Read up before trying to come up with one logical fallacy after the other just to espouse your bitter world-view.

jojo wrote on May 11, 2008 - 1:29 pm | Visit Link

The most you read are propaganda. History is written by the victors and therefore a propaganda for victors. Both countries were led by duplicitous politicians and military leaders (during Marcos, by the martial law apparatus).

One spark of heroism in the past in these two countries do not make an argument that both have illustrious past worthy of recollections to lighten up their present-day despair.

If you think that the P.I. is great, fine. Others like me think that we have yet to achieve greatness!!!

jcc wrote on May 12, 2008 - 10:26 pm | Visit Link