Arroyo lifts state of emergency

her knee jerk presidency strikes again.. hehehe.. alam na nya kasing daming kumokontra sa creeping martial law nila.. at saka yung palpak nilang testing sa tribune drew even strong condemnation from foreign media.. just goes to show how this reactive president reacts.. but ei all the same.. nice to know that the state of emergency was lifted.. now we wait.. baka me shadow state of emergency pa din dyan..

NOW THAT THE STATE OF NATIONAL EMEGENCY WAS LIFTED BY THE HYPOCRITE, LET’S WAIT AND SEE WHAT THE SUPREME COURT WILL DO ON THE SCHEDULE ORAL ARGUMENT REGARDING THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE PROCLAIMATION.

For as long as Arroyo glues herself to power by all means, fair and foul, there will always be movements and plans to oust her. She is the alpha and omega of all these plans, actions and movements. It is co-terminous with her in power and they will not die down. They will only change in styles, hues and color for as long as she occupies the presidency she does not deserve in the first place. It’s as simple as that really. So she’ll just have to brace for the harvest that her immoral actions have sown. It’s action-reaction thing. It’s numbers game at the end. Who will prevail… right or wrong? Which numbers will increase… the anti or pro?

The writings on the wall are getting clearer. Those against Arroyo are increasing in numbers and maybe in the coming weeks the number will grow in leaps and bounds. Those against are generally acting in accordance with honest beliefs, passions and principles (we write and march out of principles, no other consideration) while those chanting for her are moved by the narrow considerations of money and self-interests (they’ll be there for as long as Gloria can grease them). Man is by nature good and he can discern if something is wrong. Unfortunately, Gloria’s corruption is too transparent and arrogant and naturally courts everyone’s attention. Everytime she speaks, she just antagonizes people (it’s her gift) and people don’t believe her. It is true also of Bunye who was already caught red-handed with his foot in his mouth during the Garci tape when he acted with blind loyalty and stupidity but of course Gloria kept him there (with all the side opportunities to make money from government projects never mind if he looks a fool already to everyone) to buy his silence. It is also becoming true of Mike Defensor whose habitual lying and sugarcoating for Gloria has burned red already (What is in money that can change a man in so short a time- he is becoming a shame now to the glorious history of his Alpha Sigma fraternity who always espouses the noble ideals of truth and justice). Gloria will ultimately run out of credible spokespersons just like Marcos but it will not take as long as Marcos (thanks to modern technology which cut short timelines for ousting a corupt leader). Emergency or no emergency then, Gloria’s end is just a matter of time.

Gloria can never have genuine peace of mind. That’s the price for her immorality in the last elections and her gross corruption in office.

It’s good she lifted the state of emergency, now that is over warrantless arrests should stop, intimidations, harrassments and abuses of her critics should tone down or stop completely.

The economy maybe doing well but at the expense of what? Human rights violations? Suppression of press freedom? Corruption?

It also misses the whole point from the very beginning, it’s not the economy, it’s her legitimacy as President is in question not the exchange rate or prices of LPGs.

I can’t believe people can tolerate a lier, a cheat and and a thief in just to get the stock market to rise; just goest to show what we value now in our society.

pen,

“alam na nya kasing daming kumokontra sa creeping martial law nila.. at saka yung palpak nilang testing sa tribune drew even strong condemnation from foreign media..”

looks like that wasn’t the trigger to lift 1017…

from an inq7.net story:

“Biazon said that Arroyo decided to lift the proclamation following a meeting with US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Christopher Hill.

Hill had said that Washington welcomed Arroyo’s “desire to lift the state of national emergency as soon as possible, and I understand from her statement that in fact the government is reviewing that position.”

Biazon said Arroyo apparently lifted the proclamation due to Washington’s sentiments and not because of the people’s calls for its lifting.”

they should’ve told her to “cut, and cut cleanly” instead, but being bush’s poster girl in asia, well…

Altogether we have to cooperate each other for the good of or country. There are lots of leftest in our country especially those who are in the Senate like Niazon who always make an issue against the government i dont know if he does for the country and im sure for his common good. Same as with the Senate President Drilon, the TRAITOR of the people of the Philippines who is running after the position which i am pretty sure that he will lose if he runs again in the future elections. These kind of persons should be taken out they might just a risk for the future of our country. GOD BLESS…

[...] While they were holding the rally, Arroyo announced the lifting of the state of emergency, assuring the public that peace and order has been restored.   [...]

Good.

This is a possitive development. Siguro naman wala na silang ipapa-aresto ng walang warrant of arrest. Pwede ng maglakas loob ulit ang mga nasa oposisyon at mga melitanteng grupo para kontrahin si Gloria. One year na ba? Pwede na ulit mag file ng impeachment complaint.. Wag naman.

The lifting of Proclamation 1017 means Arroyo now admits na wala naman talagang emergency. Nataranta lang sya last week kasi baka malaglag daw sya sa kinauupuan nya. Ngayong relax na sya ulit, although kapit-tuko pa rin sa pwesto, pwede na ngang i-lift ang State of National Emergency.

Just goes to show why the oral arguments were moved to March, the SC must have been told 1017 shall be lifted this weekend, thereby making the petitions moot and academic.
Wonder what they will do against the abuses the administration did during the 1017. Btw, the lifting of 1017 does not mean that the harassments, and human rights violations this administration is known for will stop. I hope the Supreme Court has enough balls to punish the Arroyo administration for daring to mock the constitution they have promised to protect. I believe this is the right time for Puno to show us that he is the right man for the job and not the sitting Chief Justice who Arroyo installed.

Asus, na lift na nga eh andami ny paring sinabing kung anu ano. Noong naka declare, nag chorus kayo ng “ilift yan!” “ilift yan!” , ” illegall yan!”! Noong na lift naman reklamo na naman kayo kaagad na bakit inalis naman kaagad. You fools, akala nyo naman hindi namin alam na that you a are just putting Mrs Arroyo in a “damn if you do and damn if you dont situation” . And you have been always like that..

Sabi nga ni Benign0 ‘ Ang pinoy nga naman…!

Ayan! E di lumabas ang tunay na kulay ni Rego. Fools pala ha. I read your post in Blog #691 and I am putting one in there now.

Teka, anong failed prediction? Wasn’t everybody saying for months that the b_tch was planning to declare Martial Law? That the Tribune was saying as early as last year that DOJ’s Gonzales had been drafting a proclamation to takeover utilities and private businesses? Gonzales himself confirmed this. Buking di da?

We all know by now that the only reason Martial Law was declared last week was because of GMA’s paranoia that the EDSA celebrations might produce the numbers that might convince the uniformed officers and men in the neighboring camps to do a Reyes and declare withdrawal of support. I call it Martial Law, not State of Emergency, because IT IS MARTIAL LAW! Or even a worse version of it because this one bypasses congressional approval, rego, I mean, ergo, bypassing constitutional requirements. I do not need to remind you that the words of 1017 were lifted verbatim off Marcos’ 1081 except for, of course, “martial law”. Martial Law, called by any other name just stinks as foul.

Nobody believes the fiction that the Magdalo soldiers are linking with the reds. Or do you? Certainly not Gringo, their idol, who staged all coup attempts against Cory because her cabinet has been infiltrated by communists, ending with Joker Arroyo being sacked as executive secretary as a compromise. I dare anyone to allow Lt. San Juan to speak the truth regarding his arrest. The gov’t impostor of San Juan wasn’t even told to stop calling radio stations after his arrest.

The only semblance of military restiveness was that Danny Lim and Querubin tried to talk to their superiors to complain about their men’s morale. If you call that a coup, then it’s your right to fool yourself.

It’s not my fault that people don’t buy everything the palace jesters are peddling, in fact people believe in the opposite. It’s called distrust. That’s human nature. Of course, that is the reaction you expect when liars talk. The walls are up automatically the moment they open their mouths.

MALACAÑANG will ask the Supreme Court to dismiss all petitions questioning the legality of Presidential Proclamation 1017, saying it is moot and academic after the proclamation was lifted yesterday, chief presidential legal counsel Eduardo Nachura said.

“We expect the cases would be dismissed,” he said.

Nachura said they would file their petition next week.

THE ABOVE WAS THE REASON WHY THE SUPREME COURT LAP DOGS SCHEDULED THE ORAL ARGUMENT ON TUESDAY TO ALLOW MALACANANG TO FILE A DISMISSAL PETITION BY MONDAY.

tTLL ME IF AM WRONG

You’re right yahitsmhe. We have a hopeless Supreme Court filled with Gloria stooges. I won’t be surprised if these useless justices advised Gloria to lift 1017 before the oral arguments so they can just dismiss the case for being moot and academic. In our history, we have the worst Supreme Court today and one not worthy of the slightest respect. An honest lawyer friend in fact has stopped practising since 2001 when the Supreme Court justices started bastardizing the constitutional and justice system just to remain in power.

To Jonathan, pls stop barking like Gloria’s let loose crazy dog. Gloria, for what she has done to Democracy and the truth and the people’s money is the root cause why people are getting their acts together and uniting just to remove her and establish a good government. That’s the only natural reaction to an evil leader.

Halu there mga pipol!
just want to ask sa lahat ng mga taong gustong magpabagsak o patalsikin ang kasalukuyang administration… cno po ba ang gusto nyong ipalit kay Ate Glo pagmapatalsik po cya sa kanyang katungkulan ngayon?

dieduins, the ligitimate president who was elected overshelmingly by the people is still alive!!!

Did I Answered your question?

the only way to put bach democracy in the phiippines is to re instate the legitimate president who was unseated unconstituttinally.

One reason that most of the elites don’t wamt estrada to be their president is that he’s under graqduate they can’t accept an undergraduate alleviate the life of the filipino people.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was all smiles yesterday as she announced the lifting of Proclamation 1017. As I watched her, I was reminded of former President Ferdinand Marcos as he announced in 1981 the “lifting” of Martial Law and the proclamation of a “New Republic.”

Marcos’ was, of course, a farcical one. Theatrics. I can still recall that even after the supposed lifting of Martial Law, human rights violations continued to be committed in the cities and the countrysides. Countless lives were lost because of widespread “salvagings”. Worse, millions of Filipinos wallowed in abject poverty. (Actually, until now.)

Today, after GMA anounced the lifting of 1017, several sectors met it with skepticism, especially because Justice Secretary Raul Gonzales said that despite the lifting of the state of national emergency … monitoring of the media would continue.

“I have here tapes and disks, which are being transcribed. I want to know what have been said actually,” Gonzalez said, noting that the DoJ wanted to see if there was anything seditious in the commentaries or if the coverage favored the destabilizers.

Gonzalez added that one thing he learned from Proclamation 1017 was that even the “most rebellious media were intimidated by the proclamation and [as a result] had begun to reexamine their policies.”

This may be the reason why the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines immediately called on the media to remain vigilant.

The road to a Society most of us here are trying to Visualize is a long and winding, and full of potholes and getting there is not as simple as trying to oust the present government without presenting to the people what will be the alternative form, who’s going to lead it, what will be the guarantee that it will not be as bad or worse than the present one. The reason why all this expected People Power and call for people support during the past few weeks never materialized because the people who are supposed to be benefited by this change of government are now skeptical for they always become the victims at the receiving end. Most of them will stay put and wait it out. They had tried it a few times and look what have they got? The Only people that benefit from all their troubles are the same people who go around in circle, taking their turns at the till.

I am re-printing this piece for a better and intelligent appreciation on why GMA must go:

Poor Little Rich President
(We have admired Yoly Ong for a long time. As President of Campaigns and Grey, a multi-award winning communications firm born in 1986, she and Marilyn Villapando (another lady we admire) as well as their crack team have proven that you don’t have to “sell out” to do excellent work. Their friendship empowers us.

Folks in the PR and advertising business normally keep themselves in the background, preferring their work to represent them. It was therefore a surprise to receive an email from Yoly last night, as well as her license to reprint it. To us, it is a beautiful letter, simply written but powerful and full of the pent-up emotion many of us in this protest movement feel. It contains all that we believe is true in black and white and so, we proudly share it:)

WHY GMA MUST GO

Like the rest of the ABC+ ECO classes, I figured we should just ignore GMA and go about our lives. After all, there’s no acceptable alternative on the horizon. Better the devil we know than the one we don’t, right?

I even said she was most likely the real winner in the 2004 elections. After all she had the incumbent’s advantage. She spent billions of pesos for her campaign. The P800M fertilizer fund and P500M health insurance budgets were diverted to buy votes. Then to ensure a convincing victory she topped it off with Garci. You see, the little woman vowed she would get a lead of at least 1M votes over FPJ. That way, even if the Opposition cheats, she would have a buffer. Her other ambition was to get more votes than Erap, partly to thumb her nose up at him and his loyalists. Mostly so she would feel the love of the people because in truth everything she did was really for love.

She wasn’t always a cheat and a liar. In fact there was one moment of epiphany when she actually had the decency to say she wasn’t going to run because she was such a polarizing and divisive personality. Alas the Holy Spirit left too soon. And her broken promise became yet another one of many more to come.

Since the Hyatt 10 resigned, the dark side has completely taken over. Like the votes she bought, she systematically bribed cronies and critics alike. When position and money didn’t work, fear and intimidation was the alternative mode of persuasion. Instead of capable men and women, she filled up critical government positions with loyalists whose self-interest hinged on preserving her own.

And so she has slowly corrupted everyone and everything she has touched. The military. The judiciary. The businessmen. The church. The police. If the soldiers are restless— give them a house and an increase. If media cannot be co-opted, threaten them with PP1017. It’s actually PP1081 all over again. Arrest all who speak out against her. Commies or Professors, it doesn’t matter. You’re invited for questioning if you’re not for her.

Now she wants the charter changed in order to perpetuate herself. Using tried and tested methods she tried to use No-EL to suborn Congress.

Can you imagine the damage she can wreak till 2010 and beyond? All this while the First Gentleman amasses a fortune from all government deals and the son smuggles racehorses and God knows what else.

But who will replace her? Even Noli has been persuaded to remain loyally supportive. All trapos are the same. We replaced an incompetent plunderer with a diabolical one. What’s to assure us it won’t be from “the pot to the fire” again?

And with this unanswered question we go about our own business. Irritated at the inconvenience caused by street protests. Disdainful of Cory, Hyatt 10, Civil Society and the whole sanctimonious lot for trying to get us back to the streets and pricking our conscience. We couldn’t possibly link arms with Ping Lacson and Jinggoy and God help us, the Reds! Why even Winnie Monsod said so! And she’s credible isn’t she? She even wonders what the fuss is about a state of emergency!

Hold on a second. We are now questioning even the basis of democracy. Has the little despot insidiously corrupted us without our knowing it? We are actually making excuses to help her stay in power, even if we don’t really like her and we all know she and her husband are corrupt beyond belief.

We close our eyes to the horde that surrounds her. One adviser operates big time illegal logging. Another “owns” the entire pier and the multi-million smuggling operations that go with it.

Now with PP1017, we have another reason to pay no heed to politics. After all we don’t want to be invited for questioning, do we? In fact, we don’t want to be questioned by anyone. We’ve put our conscience on sleep mode.

What is the life span of a tyrant? History will tell us that they will reign while good men do nothing. But one thing is sure: A leader who does not possess the “friendship” of the people CANNOT lead. Even Machiavelli knew that. Well Madam, you will go down in history as the most UNLOVED president this country ever had. Poor Little Rich President!

I am going back to the streets and anywhere else where I can shout my disgust in the most powerful way I know how. GMA has to know that there are some Filipinos who cannot be bought or frightened.

bumanat na naman si little chicken jonah. nagpalabas lang kamo ng statement si joma nilink mo na na kasama sa incredible coup/conspiracy theory. eh lahat naman ng klaseng pagpapatalsik sa gobyerno suportado ni joma at ng ndf. at kung di ka ba naman talaga simpleton pati yung napabalitang times magazine reporter na nakawitness sa plano kuno kinagat mo rin kaagad without using your pea-sized brain. hello! kung ako ba coup plotter mag-iimbita pa ba ako ng reporter na magrerecord sa gagawin ko? esep-esep. pag magsalita ka mukhang napakarami mong alam tungkol sa mga matitinding conspiracy laban sa idolo mo pero tinatanong kita ng simpleng kasong kinasasangkutan ni cong. beltran bakit siya kinulong di mo masagot at sabi mo lang militar lang nakaalam kung ano man yun. tapos eto ka na naman sa mga generalizations mo. sinama mo na lahat ng kalaban ni glue-ria sa sabwatan. may pa-apathetic silent majority ka pang sinasabi eh yang bunganga mo bumubula na sa kadedepensa sa amo nyo. magpakatotoo ka na kasi. kung kaming mga kontra-arrovo ay inaakusahan nyo na walang ginawang mabuti ang idolo nyo na kapanipaniwala at katanggap-tanggap sa amin, kayo din naman lahat ng nababasa nyo or narereport na propaganda ng idolo nyo kagat rin kayo kaagad (sagpang pa nga eh) at sasabihin nyo factual truth na yun.

Nakakaawa at nakakahawa, Yan si gloria.

Nakakaawa:

when CNN announced that gloria, lifted PP1017, I move to ANC. There I saw her cute little face, di maitago ng make-up ang eyebugs at nanganngalumata, mukhang kulang sa tulog, nasa-id na yata ang brandy sa palasyo, di kasi maka-deliver dahil sa dami ng container vans sa paligid. Ang tao daw na di makatulog ay sobrang bigat ng
problema, lalo na kung ang problema ay sariling gawa nya.

Nakakahawa :

Tingnan nyo na lang si mike defensor, bunye, ermita,lomibao, nadagdagan pa ni senga, and the latest shocking to me is a certain councilor miles , grabe I watched him at ANC defending their actions at the Manila Hotel, using government funds. Batang-bata subali’t
napakatrapo na ang dating. susmaryosep, pwede ba kayong mga damatan, dont’ prostitute the young politicians.

Palagay ko, “NAKAKAAWA” yung iba diyan na sa kanilang katandaan ay walang pinagkatandaan. Ano kayang moralidad at prinsipyo meron kayo? Ganyan nga, yan ang itutro niyo sa mga anak ninyo, turuan niyong maging sinungaling, mandaraya at magnanakaw. Turuan niyo silang maging makasarili at madamot, na huwag intindihin ang mga kumakalam na sikmura sa paligid nila. Turuan niyo silang isantabi ang pakikipag kapwa-tao, turuan niyo silang maging bulag, pipi at mga bingi. Yan tama nga yan, yan ang ituro niyong asal sa mga anak at magiging anak ninyo. Darating ang araw na pagsisisihan niyo kung bakit ‘di niyo pinalaki ng tama ang inyong mga anak. Baka naman yan din ang palaki ng inyong mga magulang sa inyo. Nakakawa kayo talaga….

Oklang yan sakin, sigurado ko ‘di kita makikita sa langit. ‘Di ko lang alam kung ano ang isasagot mo sa Diyos pag tinanong ka niya kung anong ginawa mo sa buhay mo. ‘Sensiya ka na kung nakanti kita. Mahirap pag “GUILTY”, walang ibang masagot kungdi huwag silang pakialaman. Asahan mo na ‘di ko na ikaw pag-aaksayahan ng panahon na sagutin kung ano man ang isasagot mo sakin. I’ve said my piece and you have too.

Scud_75, bravo…di ka nag-iisa… i just enjoyed reading the exchange of opinions here,, yan ang 1017 na kinatakutan nila,,, na sabi Martial Law…. Heloooooo. Tanuging nyo si Winnie Monsod,,, napanood nyo ba Debate last Thurs… dont tell me Monsod is another tuta ni Gloria… Helooooo again. si Mareng Wennie? tuta ni Gloria ??? hello 100x. Makinig naman kayo, close minded kasi eh… tuloy, halatang natulala sina Honteveros, Escudero at sinong isang guest? sa opinion ni winnie the monsod…. 1017 is not matial law… say ni winnie, alam nyo bal what was it like during the martial law??? mali yata equation nyo… nagyon lift na nga,,,sila pa rin ang tama… well oo nga pala, Righteous nag sila…again i say… inner self examination naman tayo… yan ang tunay na makapagbabago sa ating bansa, kung gusto nilang mag blame na lang ng blame na lng ang blame ng iba,,, ok lang, hwag lang mag coup, huwag lang magulo, business as usual baga para naman uunlad tayo kahit konti…

simon,
mabutit alam mo ang definition ng apathetic. Kami yon and nakakarami sa bansa. Apathetic kami sa mga layunin ninyo na patalsikin si Gloria. Hindi nangangahulugan na suportado namin siya. Hindi kami nakikialam dahil karapatan ninyo yon – up to a certain point. Ngayon, violent takeover na ang gusto ninyo. Sinasama niyo pa ang pulahan sa plano ninyo. Aber, ano ang gusto mong gagawin namin. Pababayaan namin kayo. Hell no! Kabuhayan na namin ang tinatarget ninyo. Kaya bago kayo magtagumpay kikilos na kami laban sa layunin ninyo. Your group is going to far on this one, can’t you see?

Jonathan,

Mabuti nilabas mo na ang tunay mong kulay… kulay ni Gloria! Stop fooling yourself that you are of the apathetic majority. The more you fool others the more foolish you become. Kasi YOU ARE A PATHETIC SYCOPHANTIC ONE-EYED USELESS PIECE OF tissue! You belong to the TOILET BOWL of living relicS with no mind of THEIR own… no sensibility but the instinct of a one-cell amoeba! Payong Kapuso lang – WAKE UP FROM YOUR SORRY STATE OF EXISTENCE. Regain your honor and dignity while there is still time. Use your brain wisely. Matalino ka pa naman sana kaso nagpapagamit ka and sells your precious soul in the process. Para ka na ring walang pinag aralan. Sayang ka! Baka hindi pa alam ni Gloria na nagpapakababa ka dahil sa kanya. Dapat ipaalam mo para you can be properly compensated gaya ni Mike Defensor, Bunye, Lomibao, Gonzales, Pichay, Atienza, etc. Sila nagpakaloko for Gloria for the right millions of pesos. Seriously, this is my advice… Price yourself right and if you get the right price Congratulations at least nag iisip ka and I won’t lump you with all the other nincompoops who are dying for a corrupt cheater (Gloria Magnanakaw cum Mandaraya) for a miniscule sum of pesos. So Jonathen, when you’re alone in your solitude…ponder.. Are you properly compensated because you are not fighting for some ideals and principles.. You’re just being a mercenary and a soldier.

pres. gloria arroyo is the president of malacañang not people of the repulic of the philippines.

scud_75
anong batas pinagsasabi mo jan! gumising ka nman!! pati batas nga ng political party binabalahura nila eh… kung sino nga yong dapat magpatupad ng batas sila yong unang di tumotupad… kung me pamilya kayo maawa nman kayo sa mga anak nyo at magiging apo!! magsigising kayo….

yahitsmhe,

ano pa pwede mong ibato sakin..nakinabang kay gloria, tuta ni gloria, apathetic, mahimbing ang tulog, walng pakialam, bayaran ng gobyerno, pakawala ng malakanyang..etc.

Sabihin mo nang lahat na gusto mong sabihin..but sorry to disappoint you my friend, i dont feel any guilt of your accusation. kaya sa iba mo na lang ibaling, or you can always try calling me names. cool lang ako jan.

[...] DESPITE the lifting of the state of emergency, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) reiterated in a circular issued on March 3, 2006 that broadcast stations should not air materials which "tend to propose/incite treason, rebellion, sedition, or pose a clear and present danger to the State." [...]

May tama si Scud… No, hindi sa utak ang ibig kong sabihin. Pwede namang mag-move on habang may imbestigasyon kaya dapat ituloy ang pag-gawa ng batas. Yun lang naman pala ang problema ni Scud. Natatakot rin siyang mawalan trabaho gaya ng maraming kakampi ng mini-dictator.

Pero teka, ang TRABAHO ng kongreso ay ayon sa giya ng liderato ng dalawang kapulungan. Kung ano ang ipatutupad ng mga pinuno ng mga komite, siyang susundin ng lahat, kasama ang oposisyon. Practically all congressional committees are headed by administration legislators in both houses. You do not have to be a rocket scientist to understand that all actions and inactions of the legislative are therefore official actions of the administration. I still need to see the House pass this year’s P1.05 Trillion (wow!) budget. Another kagarapalan, courtesy of Gloria’s pachyderms, which makes it easier for Malacañang to bypass all limitations and constraints since a formal budget was intentionally not enacted. Mas madaling paikutan ang mga nagbabantay sa pera natin dahil walang may alam kung saan gagamitin ng magnanakaw mong idol. They haven’t done anything so far except to pass an incremental budget for the salary increase for the gov’t employees. What? An addendum to a yet inexistent entity that is the budget? And they are spending all resources from taxes paid by you and me to draft a constitution that will ensure Gloria achieves her ambition to become president-for- life with powers even Marcos would wish he had.

Yes, Scud, we will move on…from one scandal to the next and you can be sure our Senator-friends will be performing legislative duties, which requires fact-finding investigations that shall form the basis of new laws. And as expected, the guilty ones, and those who tolerate or encourage them will continue to invoke EO464.

NAKAKASAWA NANG MAGPALIWANAG. Hindi naman yata naiintindihan. May tama nga siguro.

yahitsmhe said,
March 4, 2006 @ 2:57 pm

dieduins, the ligitimate president who was elected overshelmingly by the people is still alive!!!

Did I Answered your question?

the only way to put bach democracy in the phiippines is to re instate the legitimate president who was unseated unconstituttinally.

One reason that most of the elites don’t wamt estrada to be their president is that he’s under graqduate they can’t accept an undergraduate alleviate the life of the filipino people.
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sa pandak nalang ako kung si pilantud naman ibabalik….
kaya nga hindi ma sell ang gusto ninyo sa public eh.. wla kayung solusyong.. estrada can go hell.. as much as you want GMA out and even shoot her on sight.. pareho din kami, pag makita ko lang yang estrada dito sa teritoryo ko, boses lang ninya ang wlang patid..

coldfeet,
isa ka rin ba sa tinamaan?

jr_lad,

i may be a bystander o neutral today, but i was not and will never be a bystander all my life.

In my own little ways, i think i’ve done my part para sa ikabubuti ng bansa natin. I was a commisioned officer back there, with a rank of Ensign sa National Mapping and Resource Information Authority ( NAMRIA – http://www.namria.gov.ph) . Although admitedly, pirmado ni GMA at ni Avelino Cruz ang papel ko, at may kaalaman din sa GPS gamit sa pang eespiya.. kailanman di ako nagpagamit sa kahit kaninong pulitiko at maipagmamalaki ko lang, wala akong binulsa kahit singko mula sa kaban ng bayan. Gaya nyo,alam ko rin kung gano kalawak ang “corruption” sa gobyerno, ang prinsipyo ko lang “kung ano ang di pagkakaunawaan sa loob ng bahay sa isang pamilya, hayaan ang pamilya ang magresolba” dinadaan ko sa grievance committee na di na kailangan ipaalam pa sa media. At kahit na duda ako na kumukubra ng kickback o lagay ang mga senior officers ko sa bawat litro ng diesel na kinakarga sa barko namin..tahimik lang ako at nagbabantay kung wala akong matibay na ebidensya. Talaga lang na kahit vigilant tayo, mauutak na rin sila. Hindi ko kayang sirain ang institusyon na pinagsisilbihan ko dala lang ng haka haka o pagdududa. Marami pang matitinong junior officers sa serbisyo, may kanya kanya lang talagang paraan. Habang nagaaklas ang Magdalo group sa Oakwood, nandun kami sa Spartly Island at nagsusurvey sa Kalayaan Group of Island para sa claim natin sa UN. Habang nakikipagbakbakan ang mga “combatant soldiers” sa mga kalaban, nandun kami sa Real, Quezon nag susukat ng bundok ng magkaron ng landslide.

Sa desisyon ko naman manatiling tahimik at nagmamasid na nasa ibang bayan. Sa totoo lang, di madaling desisyon ang bitiwan ang pagiging opisyal at pagiging lisensyadong Civil, Geodetic at Sanitary Enginner para lang makipagsapalaran sa Canada na di man lang kumikilala sa edukasyon, propesyon at lisensya galing sa ibang bansa. In short, “back to zero” dito.

Di bale bro, apat pa sa ka-batch kong mga junior officers ang naiwan jan na kabaligtaran ng paniniwala ko pero totoong makabayan. Mga 1st placers ng Geodetic Engineering Board Exam yun galing UP Diliman, wag din lang sana mapirata sa ibang bansa.

Oo nga..

Para sa mga tumutuya pa rin, let’s move on make progress for this country.

At para sa mga tumataya pa rin.. sa lotto… 1017 nga pala ang nanalo as 2-digit noong March 3, the same day na na-lift ang PP1017..

Yeh right!! lets go!! keep moving!! let’s moved on for the worst..

Your just another weak leader. Using “emergency powers” is just a temporary fix for now. What will you do next time? Close the press!! Jail everyone that has a different opinion from you!!!

[...] Even after the lifting of the state of emergency on March 3, the petition said, the respondents "have continued their efforts to muzzle and gag the press." [...]

jonathan,

1. budget deficit is down. expected 2008 or earlier we will have a balanced budget. – we could have had a budget surplus a long time ago if pork barrel funds were never allocated
2. tax collections are up. – but lucio tan and other big-time evaders have yet to pay their taxes
3. value of peso is going up. – because of OFW remittances
4. stock market is very vibrant. attracting hot money. several ipos are scheduled this year.
5. domestic companies are making money. – at the expense of low wages and benefits, an increasing underemployment and unemployment
6. big ticket investments from mining cos., the hanjin ship building yard, tourism facilities, etc.. – due to exemptions like tax holidays, foreign ownership and so forth
7. increase flow in tourist traffic to the country. – but the average noypi still can’t afford to go touring himself
8. call centers and bpos are hiring at fast rate. – jobs which require college degrees in a country where barely 1 out of 10 finishes
9. real estate and construction boom. condos and office buildings are being built left and right. – which are priced out of the range of the average pinoy
10. with bigger tax take, government are earmarking salary increase for govt workers, and increasing the budget for education, healthcare, and infrastructure. – which generally have little effect because the increase in budgets only correspond to the increase in operating expenses, little if anything left for new projects, improvements.

now let me tell you the bad news:
- destabilizers are working doubly hard to make sure our momentum is stopped.

** the momentum being:
- increases in prices of basic goods and services without commensurate wage increases
- increase in unemployment and underemployment rates
- decrease in local employment opportunities, and if Sec Sto. Tomas has her way, those abroad as well
- decrease in the number of kids able to finish college, much less high school
- decrease in the quality of basic and secondary education
- increase in the efforts to silence the media
- increase in administration spending taxpayers’ money to appease political allies
- decrease in the trustworthiness of elected officials

some momentum.

Prestine said: “There are lots of leftest in our country especially those who are in the Senate like Biazon.” — Biazon a leftist? cripes. the man was a Marine. didn’t you know that?

tongue in, anew: “It’s not my fault that people don’t buy everything the palace jesters are peddling, in fact people believe in the opposite. It’s called distrust.” — hey, tongue, you mind calling them something other than “jesters”? jesters make jokes, GMA’s cohorts ARE jokes. heh heh

comment of jester to jonathan,

1. budget deficit is down. expected 2008 or earlier we will have a balanced budget. – we could have had a budget surplus a long time ago if pork barrel funds were never allocated…..(
yah right.. mas malaki nga pork barrel kay estrada kasi dalawa sila…pero siguro kulang pa yun sa kanila.. mga gahaman kasi..)

2. tax collections are up. – but lucio tan and other big-time evaders have yet to pay their taxes.. (yah right.. lucio tan evidence is long gone.. the moment that erap become president and haydee yorac was out in pcgg, all the evidence was gone, not a trace of paper..)

3. value of peso is going up. – because of OFW remittances
4. stock market is very vibrant. attracting hot money. several ipos are scheduled this year.
5. domestic companies are making money. – at the expense of low wages and benefits, an increasing underemployment and unemployment..(study ka sana economics… it has always been the rich who enjoy first the fruit of economic growth….)

6. big ticket investments from mining cos., the hanjin ship building yard, tourism facilities, etc.. – due to exemptions like tax holidays, foreign ownership and so forth… (buti pa independent nalang kami taga mindano. malaki sana tax makukuha namin kung dito ang mga headoffice ng mga pabrika.. malaki ang tax ng makati kahit na kunting office area lang occupy ng HQ ng mga pabrika..)
7. increase flow in tourist traffic to the country. – but the average noypi still can’t afford to go touring himself
8. call centers and bpos are hiring at fast rate. – jobs which require college degrees in a country where barely 1 out of 10 finishes
9. real estate and construction boom. condos and office buildings are being built left and right. – which are priced out of the range of the average pinoy
10. with bigger tax take, government are earmarking salary increase for govt workers, and increasing the budget for education, healthcare, and infrastructure. – which generally have little effect because the increase in budgets only correspond to the increase in operating expenses, little if anything left for new projects, improvements. ( pag wlang increase reklamo, pag may increase reklamo.. ano bah)

now let me tell you the bad news:
- destabilizers are working doubly hard to make sure our momentum is stopped.

** the momentum being:
- increases in prices of basic goods and services without commensurate wage increases
- increase in unemployment and underemployment rates
- decrease in local employment opportunities, and if Sec Sto. Tomas has her way, those abroad as well
- decrease in the number of kids able to finish college, much less high school
- decrease in the quality of basic and secondary education
- increase in the efforts to silence the media
- increase in administration spending taxpayers’ money to appease political allies
- decrease in the trustworthiness of elected officials

some momentum.

Prestine said: “There are lots of leftest in our country especially those who are in the Senate like Biazon.” — Biazon a leftist? cripes. the man was a Marine. didn’t you know that?

(then tell that to the marines.. sabi nga nila.. those who can think.. fight!!!!)

jester-in-exile,
bottomline what you’re saying is “there is good news, only it could have been better”. well, good enough for me!
more good news:
almost all financial and market analysts have bullish outlook on the Philippines but all these financial and market analysts also forewarned that continuing political instability could hurt growth momentum. hmmm, just food for thought.

MitaMS, totoo po. Login ka sa http://www.PCSO.gov.ph
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Here’s my piece on the more recent posts:

What we are experiencing today is indeed some signs of economic growth. Most of factors for determining such growth are already number-listed several times above.

Sad to say, however, what we have is VERTICAL growth. I remember my high school days and here’s what my teacher told me about the difference between vertical and HORIZONTAL economic growth.

Let’s say I have 100 Pesos. Lucio Tan has 100 Million Pesos. Another guy named Juan has 10 Pesos. Another guy named Pedro has no money. Kunwari kaming apat lang populasyon ng Pilipinas. All in all, the four of us have a total of 100,000,110 Pesos.

If Lucio Tan earns an additional 10 Million Pesos, then the four of us will have a total of 110,000,110 Pesos. Wow, dumami ang suma-total ng pera naming apat. So technically, we have experienced an economic growth.

But on closer analysis, dumami nga ang suma-total ng pera namin pero di naman lumago ang earnings namin ni Juan. Si Pedro, wala pa ring pera. Kung baga, hindi lahat sa amin ang nakaramdam ng economic growth. If we maintain the same rate, the gap between the rich and poor widens. That’s what’s happening in our country right now. That is vertical economic growth.

On the other hand, let’s say kaming dalawa ni Juan ay nagkaroon ng karagdagang sweldo. Yung 100 Pesos ko, naging 200 Pesos. Yung 10 Pesos ni Juan, naging 100 Pesos. At si Pedro naman, nagkaroon ng trabaho, kumita din sya ng 50 Pesos. Si Lucio, regardless na kung ilan ang naidagdag nya sa kaban nya.. All in all, lumago ang pera naming apat. Tecnically also, we have experienced an economic growth. This time, it’s horizontal economic growth.

Compare the two. Which one is better?

Horizontal Economic growth, of course. Kaso, hindi po yan ang kasalukuyang nangyayari sa atin. Lumalago nga ang ekonomiya, pero marami pa rin ang walang trabaho. Yung mga may trabaho naman, marami ang hindi nabibigyan ng omento. Yung mga malalaking companya, sila ang nakikinabang.

Sa paanong paraan sila nakikinabang ng vertical growth? Ideally, lumalakas ang piso. Kung last week may utang silang USD1.00 sa mga foreign creditors, dapat sana 52 pesos ang ibabayad nila. Pero dahil sa pag lakas ng piso, 51.50 na lang ngayong ang kailangan nilang gastusin para dun. Kung ang local destributor ng isang imported na produkto ay dati gumagastos ng 52 pesos para sa pag-angkat ng isang productong worth USD1.00, ngayon 51.50 na lang ang gagastusin nya.. Di ba malaking pakinabang nila?

In other words, the economic growth that the Arroyo administration had been bragging about is not the one would lift the Filipino from poverty, but the one that will bring more riches to the rich, and give nothing to the poor. Hindi makamasa.

Nakatutok kasi sya sa palitan ng piso at dolyar. Sa totoo, marami pang mga statistics ang dapat nyang pagtuunan ng pansin.. Yung unemployment ang dapat nasa unahan..

Kahapon, sa unang hirit, sobrang pagmamalaki nya ng sinabi nyang ang mga guro ay magkakaroon ng dagdag na sahod. Good. Kung baga si Juan na may 10 Pesos ngayon ay magkakaroon na ng 100 pesos. Pero bakit wala siyang sinabi tungkol sa libo-libong mga education graduates na hanggang ngayon ay wala pa ring paaralang mapagtrabahuhan? (Primarily dahil kulang din tayo sa mga paaralan, but that is beside the point) Kung baga si Pedro na dati ay walang pera… ngayon wala pa ring pera.

So, nasaan ngayon ang katas ng pinagyayabang nilang economic growth? Nasa bulsa nilang mga mayayaman. Kasama po si PGMA dun. Lumalago ang ekonomiya natin dahil nilalagay ni PGMA ang sarili nya sa sapatos ng mga malalaking negosyante.. Pinapaboran nya ang mga negosyanteng pumapabor sa kanya, at hindi ang mahihirap.

Horizontal economic growth.. Bigyan trabaho ang mga walang trabaho.. Dagdagan ang sweldo ng mga may dati ng trabaho. Yan ang kailangang natin..

Kapag yan ang naibigay sa atin ni PGMA, saka lang ako papalakpak.

On vertical and horizontal economic growth of KA LANDO.

Though I am very much fascinated by your exemplification of these two types of economic growth, you have made it a point that horizontal economic growth is much favorable. However in my opinion the stakes are too high to take. Why? The answer is, AUSTERITY MEASURES.

No modern president can ever tackle the silent bug for our economic take-off not even GMA, whose propensity is with economics. Thats a fact. Want to know why? We have been cowed by these AUSTERITY MEASURES since the Marcos era. He left us with a $25 billion dollar loan, which up to now considered a hellhole we might not be able to get rid with.

By the way, Auterity Measures, to simplify are synonymous to TERMS and CONDITIONS when one is applying for a loan. In other words if you have a loan you are already dealing with a loan shark. IMF is our biggest loan shark that keeps haunting us. Some of thier AUSTERITY MEASURES are the following to, wit;

1. Active privatization of state-run industries.- leading to massive lay-offs with no social security provision and the loss of inefficient services to remote or poor areas.
2.Reducing government expenditure, by making public-sector lay-offs,
freezing salaries, and making cuts in health, education and social welfare services.
3. Currency devaluation and export promotion- leading to the soaring cost of imports, land use changed for cash crops, and reliance on international commodity markets.
4. Raising interest rates to tackle inflation- putting small companies out of business.
5. Removal of price controls- leading to rapid price rises for basic goods and services.

And many more disadvantagious AUSTERITIES…

These is the very cumbersome external pressure our present president and forthcoming ones have to deal with silently. I think the president is doing her best to uplift us economically while most Filipinos are doing their very best to pull us down. If you think being a president is a walk in the park, then think again…

For those gloria-haters there if GMA is ousted who’s gonna seat the president’s throne? (no reply of a plain “good leader” thing..)

jonathan,

bottomline is, as what ka lando has pointed up, only the rich and not ordinary pinoys are benefiting from these so called “good news” that you have just enumerated. prices of commodities are still going up while the salary of an ordinary pinoy is being freezed (for AUSTERITY MEASURES imposed by the loan sharks as what bloddyass said). the price of oil is still up whereas prices in the world market is going down and while the peso is stronger (the price of refined oil now in the phils is almost the same with the US. does it mean taxes imposed are just the same?). and for the increase in tax collection, could it be because of the EVAT? as what scud here said, what you’ve mentioned are simply statistics that the govt. always likes to brag about but it’s really nothing to ordinary pinoys. as what ka lando said, what we need is horizontal economic growth.

as for the destabilizers, i think if glue-ria will just let the impeachment process works they will surely disappear and consequently, the economy will perform better.

yan ang hirap sa ating mga filipino, kahit di tama ok lang bast maka survive. Is trying to bring out the anomalies done by this administrtion a destailizing act? The senate is now branded by the palace as a wrecking crew. for me the senate are just rying to ferret out the truth. Why is it that the administration was afraid of these inquireis? Is it a sign of guilt?
cge tulongan natin sila para mabawi ung mga ginastos nila sa nakaraang election. ilang bilyon nga ba yon? Sila ang nakinabang tapos tayo ang mag hihirap. yang evat na yan! sabi nila di makaka apecto sa mga mahihirap? nasubokan nyo na ba mag grocery? magkanong evat ang napapatong sa bawat lata ng sardinas? ung mga sarisari stores, saan ba sila kumukuha ng kanilang paninda? sa mga malalaking groceries at supermarket. doon pa lang me evatna bawat bilihin, tapos sasabihin nila di daw apektado ang mahihirap.
if the philippines is realy experiencing economic growth, why not they put on paper for the people to know the real story. they keep on saying these good news but there’s no proof. tumaas daw ang peso? papano bumabagsak talaga ang US dollar. Puro na lang ba pambobola para makuha uli ang loob ng mga tao? kahit anong gawin ng administration. tainted pa rin ang pagging presidente ni GMA unless the imbestgigation of the supposed irregularities in the previous election pusshed true and the truth come out.
the problem for this administration is that they are tryingto avoid the real issue.

wala na siyang nagagawang maganda….

Good thning????? wat’s good with PGMA???

Jonathan, where do we start?

We can start by transforming this vertical economic growth horizontally. Sabi ko nga, and most of you will agree, jobs for the unemployed, wage increase for the ordinary workers, and in addition, progress to the countrysides, not just in urban areas.

Transformation begins when businesses gaining from the strengthening peso and stock market start sharing their profits to their emplyees from the lower ranks. They can do this by increasing wages, or by using their income to grow their companies, thereby producing more jobs. If they do this, then the credit is theirs, not PGMA’s. Furthermore, they can also share their income to the average Filipino by honestly paying their taxes, and hopefully, the goverment makes use of their tax collection for legitimate purposes.

That leads me to the next step. We can further grow our economy horizontally if funds intended for promoting progress in the countrysides are used to serve their purpose.

But according to previous reports, (read http://pcij.org/stories/2005/farmfunds.html ), somewhere between P750M and P3Billion intended for agricultural development was used to finance PGMAs 2004 election campaign.

If i understand it correctly, pera yun ng mga kababayan nating mahihirap na magbubukid. Take a portion of P3Billion. How many kilometers of farm-to-market roads and bridges could have been built out of it? It could have financed economic growth in the countrysides.

Take another portion of P3Billion. If they were able to generate such fund in 2004, then they can generated the same on a yearly basis. Now divide it by P10,000 average monthly salary, then divide again by 12 months per year. How many thousand jobs could have been generated out of it? How many thousand households could have been provided with the income that would allow them to get basic food, clothing, and shelter on a permanent basis?

That could have been the answer to the question of how do we start.

But that answer never materialized. Instead, the funds were used to payout some corrupt election officials, military generals, and several others to produce this arrogant president.

Yan ang rason kung bakit may mga kumakalaban kay PGMA. Yan ang rason kung bakit wala syang karapatang gumamit ng emergency powers para takutin at gipitin ang mga nagnanais syang mawala sa kinalalagyan nya. Dahil karapat-dapat syang mawala sa pwesto.

At sino ang ipapalit sa kanya? We’ll cross the bridge when we get there.

correction Jonatha! for what i’ve been reading from the papers, that fertilizer fund was released to make sure that she’ goin to win the election by hook or by crook. It was not really intended for the farmers. Just the pork barrel fund alone, this administration is using it to uscle support from the lower house.The Philippines is still lucky to have the upper chamber of the congress if not then what will happen to this country.

“Hello garci” scandal is history!
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/topofthehour.aspx?StoryId=32444

well, that’s what bunye said in response to noli de castro’s call that it’s time for glue-ria to address the allegations of electoral fraud.

i think you just got the answer to your call loka-loka. patigasan na lang talaga.

[...] On February 24, Arroyo placed the country under a state of national emergency, claiming that there was a leftist-rightist plot to topple her administration. A week after, the president lifted PP 1017, declaring that the alleged “conspiracy” has been successfully dealt with and that peace and order has been restored. [...]