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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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guest_899 : congratulations to PCIJ, more power and God Bless !
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Automation pains and paper cranes

Posted by: Jaemark Tordecilla | September 11, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Filed under: General

by Rowena C. Paraan

ORIGAMI, the Japanese art of paper folding, is usually considered to be a pastime of young girls in pigtails. But blogger Marck Ronald Rimorin doesn’t care. While listening to lectures at a training workshop on covering elections currently being conducted by the PCIJ in Subic, Rimorin has been feverishly making one paper crane after another.

He says it’s because he is suffering from anxiety over the 2010 elections, which he fears will again be dishonest, unfair, and violent. “May magpapasabog na naman ng presinto, may mamamatay na naman na titser, madadaya na naman tayo (Precincts will be bombed, teachers may be killed again, and we will cheated once more),” he says.

And so Rimorin thought of making a thousand paper cranes. According to Japanese lore, anyone able to fold a thousand paper cranes will be granted a wish by the gods, and we’re assuming Rimorin is wishing for free, fair, and peaceful elections. Which also seems to be on the minds of the 16 journalists, bloggers, and campus writers participating in the workshop on “Covering Automated Elections and Campaign Finance.”

The second in an eight-part training seminar series conducted by PCIJ on election reporting — with support from the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) and the USAID – the four-day activity started Wednesday afternoon at the Subic Holiday Villas at Subic Bay Freeport. When PCIJ executive director and training facilitator Malou Mangahas posed the question, “What’s your biggest worry in the coming elections?” to the participants, the responses ranged from breaches of ethical journalism to the failure of automated polls.

The coming elections require a leap of faith, said John Bayarong of Subic Times. He warns of the possibility of people becoming disenchanted with the electoral system and resorting to other means should the 2010 polls be tainted.

“Masakit pag sumesemplang (It would hurt if it fails),” said Bayarong. ” E hindi lang ngayon ang eleksyon. Baka pag masakit, hindi na sila mag-participate uli. E eleksyon lang ang paraan ng pagpapalit ng leaders na hindi masakit. Pag lumabas ka sa eleksyon, masakit hindi lang sa indibidwal, kundi para sa buong bayan (That won’t be the only election we will have. If it doesn’t work, people may not want to participate in subsequent polls, and elections are the only way we get to change leaders with little pain. If we don’t do that through elections, it’s not only painful for the individual, but also for the entire country) .”

Dennis Jamito of Bombo Radyo who covers the Commission on Elections and defense beats, meanwhile worried that instead of the fully automated polls being effective, what would take place would be “automated cheating.”

For Lei Alviz of GMA 7, a faulty automation program would be even more prone to cheating but harder to detect, while John Roson of Bandera expressed fears of ending up with a president who would bring nothing but problems.

And then of course there was Rimorin, who has taken to making origami cranes. In many schools across the world, children are still told of the story of 10-year-old Sadako, who was two years old when Hiroshima was bombed during World War II. She later developed leukemia, and while in hospital, her best friend told her about the legend of the thousand paper cranes. Little Sadako thus began folding paper cranes, wishing to get well, but she passed away before she could make 1,000 of them. Her classmates later folded the 356 cranes she still lacked, and she was buried with a thousand of the paper birds.

There are about eight more months to the 2010 polls. As of Thursday afternoon, Rimorin had 32 paper cranes.

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