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Not too long ago I told my wife to throw away his Smart SIM card because we are shifting to Globe. It is just too bad that she cannot just do it because she is in Saudi Arabia and cannot get any Globe SIM, as for me I just postponed my decision because if I have to text her using a Globe SIM it would be an added burden to our already strained budget. Today notwithstanding, I am throwing away my Smart SIM and just maybe scrimp on my other needs. Mr. de Quiros wrote in one of his columns about some people who would insist that what we need today are people who have the intellect as would a CEO need in order to effectively run our country. Now with the revelations of Senator Lacson and the confirmation of Mr. Yuchengco himself, I should say there goes your CEO. To those elitest who continue to insist that we need only intellectuals to run the country, may I remind you that since the birth of our republic we have been run by the intellectuals you are referrring to but look where we are now? Is it not that the only great Presidents we have were the ones with the least education and relatively speaking, am referring to Tita Cory and President Magsaysay. With the present state of the country I would happily go for somebody from Payatas, with my apologies to them, who I can trust for sincerity than for somebody from Makati with impeccable credentials who is greedy. Unfortunatley, CEOs are a greedy lot. They give no quarters and they take no prisoners. And the manner by which they run their business would make scruples a completely strange word. Let us consider for example our insurgency problem. Now you would ask what is the relation? It simply is not true that insurgency is due to the leftists among us as Mr. Palparan would want us to believe. The truth is insurgency will never die because of the continued support it is getting from business and politicians alike. That politicians give to insurgents should not really come as a surprise. They give because they want to buy security. As for businesses, well they also give for the same reason and to avoid from being harassed. Did it not occur to anybody to ask why the cellsites of Globe is almost regularly being bombed by insurgents while those of Smart were not even touched? I am not sure what Smart is doing to avoid being bombed but I am sure of one thing, Globe obviously does not give in to the extortion demands of the insurgents. And for their patriotism, actually it is for this reason alone which made me decide earlier to shift to Globe, coupled with the scandal besetting Smart, I finally decided to shift to Globe immediately. This is my modest contribution for sanity in society.

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I agree with what Mr. de Quiros said about Teodoro winning the elections nxt year. The Filipino counterpart of Smartmatic tried to withdraw from the deal. He must have known something about the plans of some people and would not want to have anything to do with it. However he was prevailed upon by Comelec. The syndicates at Comelec are intact and they grow stronger election after election, must be a very productive enterprise. Poor Comelec Chairman Melo, he has no inkling he is taken in for the most exciting ride of his life. What would Smartmatic do if say, I will offer them double the value of the contract they got from the project to ensure that my candidate will win? If I were they, I will grab the offer and go whistling directly to some bank in any of the also corrupt countries in South America. It is where the one who supposedly broker the PLDT deal during Pres. Estrada's term learned his ropes on how to earn some real quick change by the way. The saddest part is people will not give a hoot. EDSA 1 and 2 succeeded because the Malacanang occupiers then were human enough not to opt for a bloody confrontation. With the devil now occupying Malacanang, I am not optimistic.

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It is a shame that every time a tragedy struck, almost always we resort to finger pointing and lay the blame on other people's doorstep. It is time that we take responsibility. In the front page of yesterday's issue of the Inquirer was the news about people seething with anger, I reckon maybe it will do us good if we start taking the blame ourselves. Every time we blame the government, is it not that we should be blaming ourselves instead? After all we are the ones who elected them to office. The character of the people we put into office is merely a reflection of our own. Of course you are going to tell me that you voted for Fernando Poe Jr. as I did for Raul Roco so that we are not to be blamed but is it not that we did nothing when news about the cheating in the 2004 election broke out? In Ukraine, when a presidential candidate tried to cheat his way into winning their own presidential election at about the same year we had ours, people took to the streets and did not leave until their Supreme Court overturned the results. Here, many were even disdainful of the few who risk their lives to voice their opposition to cheating. Of course, why should we care when everybody cheats anyway. So enough of this finger pointing and instead let us resolve that for the rest of our lives we collectively commit to stop throwing garbage everywhere while at the same time try to rehabilitate our denuded forests by planting at least one tree a week. Above all, let us be responsible in choosing our leaders because I am afraid that after the last speck of mud had been wiped off we will again go our usual merry ways and continue to elect the same leaders who we seethe with anger right now. And soon enough we will find out that no deluge will ever again cause us so much misery. There are actually only two things that we did which brought us into this miserable state and these are our blatant disregard of the basic lesson we learned from grade school about cleanliness, and most importantly, our apathy.

--- On Fri, 10/23/09, valentin bonite wrote:
From: valentin bonite Subject: To: feedback@inquirer.com.phDate: Friday, October 23, 2009, 6:03 PM
Hurray! An outstanding act of statesmanship, declares Mr. Gabriel Claudio of the announcement made by Mr. Ronnie Puno on his withdrawal from his planned run for the Vice Presidency. Indeed it was a laudable act, no less noble than the earlier withdrawal of Senator Mar Roxas from the presidential race except for the fact that Mr. Puno will have a hard time convincing Senator Santiago that he withdrew for some patriotic reasons he declared on national television. If the estimation of Senator Santiago of the person of Mr. Puno is to be believed, the act could actually be a trojan horse. The GMA administration cannot anymore be certain that they still have the likes of General Esperon to ensure that the military can be depended upon to ensure their candidate's victory in 2010. Now they are turning on the PNP to do the job for them. And who could be a better person than Mr. Puno to be at the helm to ensure that everything works according to plan. I pray this administraion will realize that there is a limit to their folly.

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Date: Friday, October 23, 2009, 9:49 AM


Watching, reading the news, and listening to so called experts, the ordinary person would possibly think that the end of the world is near. It is exasperating to note that media and the supposed to be responsible people have become alarmists which is quite irresponsible on their part. PAGASA for instance should stop telling people over TV that all natural occurences nowadays are caused by global warming without taking any effort to explain to the viewers his basis for saying so. There's also this person from Oxfam who declared on TV, when asked about the heavy amount of rainful brought about by typhoon Ondoy, that global warming is to blame because as temperature rises, so much water evaporates into the atmosphere thus the heavy rainful. Maybe I am mistaken but my basic science told me that the warmer the temperature, the fewer the clouds are in the atmosphere which explains why there are fewer rainfall in summer. Global warming obviously is fueled by the fact that it was taken by the liberal media as the gospel truth. Let us however take a few steps back in time. Just thirty years ago or thereabouts, the same liberal media in the US screamed in their headlines that the ice age is coming and that we must do something immediately. Now they are saying that we must do something right away because the earth is warming. The problem here is that they will not tell you that the earth's temperature has not actually risen a bit in a decade and that winter is even becoming colder. What is actually indisputable as far as our situation is concerned is the fact that floods are brought about by the denudation of our forests. It has become the single biggest reason for the losses we suffer everytime there's a typhoon and not the wind's gustiness. In fact as far as our province of Surigao del Norte is concerned the strongest typhoon recorded to have brought total destruction to our province happened in 1964 and was repeated in 1984. Since then, by God's grace, we are spared by any similar calamity yet we are not spared from flooding and I should say we really deserved it because of the unabated illegal logging in our province. Last night a news anchor on prime time news loudly proclaimed that places up north are battered by giant waves but looking at the footages accompanying his declaration clearly showed a different story. How irresponsible! I wonder what other natural clamity can the liberal media conjure up next. May I make a simple request to the media, the next time you talk about global warming, please make sure that you quote the really knowledgeable and not anybody from PAGASA who you would even sometimes blame for faulty forecasting. Above all please strive to present the side of scientists who debunked the stories of those who spread the story about global warming. Do not be like Al Gore, and most advocates to the idea, who even after having been awarded the Nobel peace prize and earned a hundred million dollars for his efforts, still refused to be challenged on climate change.

Why Insurgency in the Philippines persists?

The communist insurgency is already more than thirty years old in the Philippines. It has outlived even most communist governments except for the few remaining ones, such as those existing in North Korea, China, and Cuba. The government, especially the military, blame it on the many leftist organizations, the so called leftists blame it on the government, while the rest simply do not care unless it affects them directly. So why indeed does insurgency in the Philippine persists?

The so called "butcher", retired General now Congressman Palparan, is always quick to point to the leftists as the reason for the unending insurgency. Maybe it would help Mr. Palparan to realize that the biggest reason, and thus the biggest enemy, are actually his new colleagues and fellow members of congress, the countless other corrupt politicians who directly support the insurgents in many variety of ways, and the greedy businessmen who care for nothing but their bottomlines. Even if the so called leftists would right now all go up the mountains, they will certainly not last a week without financial and other logistical support from anybody especially our corrupt politicians and greedy businessmen. Congressmen, except for the few who come from insurgency free districts, regularly provide financial and logistical support to insurgents to buy security, and by logistics I mean military hardware, while the local politicians regularly allot a portion of their intelligence funds to support the insurgents which should have better use if given instead to support the military. Businessmen for their part simply give so they will be left unmolested by the insurgents. Regardless of any justification that they will try to put forward, there is just no justification for their support to the insurgents, ever. They simply do not have the fortitude to stand up against the insurgents. And boy were they so proud of this connection! The problem is compounded by the growing apathy of the people. People simply do not bother anymore how many of our heroic soldiers die everyday fighting to preserve and defend our freedoms. I firmly believe that the reason why many so called abusive soldiers behave as they do is the fact that they really felt unappreciated. Unless each one of us should start getting positively involved, it saddens me to think that resolution to this long standing problem is still a long, long way off.