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On Divisiveness and the Overseas Filipinos 2007-07-05 17:20:00 The article Sons and Daughters by Jose Ma. Montelibano in his Inquirer column Glimpses is almost accurate to a tee, good read for Overseas Filipinos. It has some minor points that he may have missed. I don’t blame him though for the slight inaccuracy since he wants to send a message to these fools’ errrr people that one of these days we may find the unattainable dream of “unity”. Overall I ...

WE OUGHT NOT TO FORGET! 2007-07-05 02:44:00 The clear and present danger sign is blinking all over again and this time; it seems accompanied by the anguished wailing of a woman in pain. No, I am not talking about a fire in the neighborhood but something worse than that. If my fear is right, what ever Abalos, Lintang Bedol and all that is wrong about the last election in Maguindanao had failed to do, selfish interests (as differentiated ...

Traydor! 2007-07-03 19:00:00 That is a strong Spanish word meaning traitor and with its adoption into the Pilipino dialects coupled with the repetitive experiences of a nation betrayed that word carries strong emotional weight. At this time that is the most apt word to describe Manny Villar, Chiz Escudero, Alan Peter Cayetano as well as all the other senators elect who won in the wake of strong opposition sentiment and ...

Crooks and scam artists and Ducky Paredes! 2007-07-03 01:00:00 The saga continues on the issue of Koko and Migz with Ducky Paredes responding to Gil Ramos Open Letter through his article titled: The Comelec is just doing its job. DUCKY PAREDES wrote: I have a letter from the Movement for a Free Philippines that tells me, among other things, "as a former colleague in the Movement for a Free Philippines which fought the Marcos dictatorship I was ...

The Maguindanao election result, an un bedolable Story 2007-07-02 02:39:00 Update 7/2/07 9:41 am Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Police Director Joel Goltiao said Bedol would be brought to a hotel near the Comelec central office, with 10 to 14 police guards, because he would not be needed by the Commission on Elections until Tuesday morning. When ask why he was billeted in a hotel instead of jail Goltiao replied he was not a CRIMINAL. HUH? And who will foot the ...

Cheating NOT Delicadeza..... 2007-07-02 02:06:00 Gil Ramos of Movement for Free Philippines Open Letter to Ducky Paredes article; Delicadeza: Who Has It? Who Does Not? published 7/2/07 Malaya. hi ducky, i think your comments on Nene and delicadeza are out of bounds. the issue is about cheating in these elections. by all accounts there are some elements who are hell bent on forcing a migz zubiri win even if he was not actually ...

Dr. Noel Chua: Victim of Southern Injustice 2007-06-30 19:50:00 PerryScope Perry Diaz On December 15, 2005, Dr. Noel Chua, a Filipino-American internal medicine specialist, walked into his home in St. Marys, Georgia and found the dead body of James Carter III, a 20-year old Caucasian man, on the floor of a bathroom. What happened after that incident had irreversibly damaged Dr. Chua’s unblemished reputation for the rest of his life. Dr. Chua and his ...

My Friend's Pussy is way BETTER...... 2007-06-29 16:37:00 I was surfing other blogs and I found Tess entry on her Prudence and Madness telling her readers to forget about men because pussies are better. Well I almost would like to agree but I think my friend’s pussy is way way better than her pussy, as a matter of fact this pussy has different characters. Someone sent me an email on this blog Martin and Dulcimer and maybe it’s time for me to show off ...

Men Raping Men 2007-06-28 18:30:00 A dangerous grim scenario facing male Overseas Filipino Workers a continuation of The Dangers Men Face in Unlikely Situations. How do we address this problem of men being assaulted by other men with the intent of rape? Rape among the same sex is what we hear inside of the prison cells but rape outside the confines of a cell? It appears that the victims and the aggressor are not gay seems to ...

The Dangers Men Face in Unlikely Situation 2007-06-27 14:00:00 We hear talks of horrific tales brought home by returning OFWs (Overseas Filipino Workers) of unimaginable dehumanizing treatment of exploitation and abuse they received from their employers. These range from contract violations, rape, sexual harassment, mysterious deaths, among others. Accordingly Migrante International reports that yearly, hundreds of thousand of Filipinos are reported to have ...

Children of Poverty in the Philippines 2007-06-20 16:00:00 A very moving painting of the last supper titled Hapag ng Pag-asa (Table of Hope) with dirty street children of poverty portrayed in a different light by Joey Velasco. A symbolical portrayal instead of the long robed apostles we see haunting images of street children tempered with scavenging in garbage dumps amidst the squalor of their surrounding. These are children of poverty exposed to the ... Children  Philippines

Raising Awarenes thru MyBlogLog Community Exchange 2007-06-18 03:11:00 I have not participated in blog memes as my blog is focused on politics and social realities in the Philippines. Blogs that joins memes obviously help build their traffic with an increase in readership and revenues as well. Since it has worked with bloggers for financial gain, duplicating what has worked with them will serve our purpose in raising awareness in bringing attention to bloggers the ...