BLACK MANDARIN

I don't understand why they hate me . . . . .

tumulong lang naman ako kay Noynoy . . .

why do they call me the Black Mandarin . . .. ?

Ikaw naman, parang hindi mo alam!!! Ikaw naman ang nagdidikta kay Noynoy di ba? Basta PERA, ikaw di ba???

SILA LANG ANG MASAGANA, SAMANTALANG KAMI, WALANG MGA TRABAHO

DARATING ang PANAHON, PAPATAYIN NA KAYO NG MGA TAO. AT HINDI SQUATTER ANG PAPATAY SA INYO. 

KAMI ANG PAPATAY SA INYO. KAMING MGA COLLEGE GRADUATES!

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WORM’S EYEVIEW: Why discourage assembly or curtail autonomy?

By Manny Valdehuesa on March 24 2014 12:13 am

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/23 March) — There will be “synchronized” Barangay Assembly meetings nationwide on Saturday, March 29.

It’s unclear how synchronized assemblies promote autonomy or local governance, but it is routine practice now although it has no palpable effect on governing efficiency or proficiency.

In any case, consider these thoughts as you prepare for this week’s assembly.

If you limit the way people exercise discretion, a right, or an entitlement, you dampen creativity
or initiative, encourage laziness or dependency, and discourage autonomy or resourcefulness.

This is what the President unwittingly did when he issued Proclamation No. 260 in September 2011. Through it he decreed that barangays assemble only twice yearly — once on the last Saturday of March and again on the second Sunday of October.

The proclamation attracted little or no attention; not even from Congress. No pork or perks or DAP, I guess. But it was a radical move. It ran counter to Sec. 397 of Republic Act 7160 (the Local Government Code) which states: “The Barangay Assembly shall meet at least twice a year….” which certainly means it may meet more than two times or as often as it wishes.

P-Noy amended the law and no one in Congress gave a hoot!

In his proclamation the phrase “AT LEAST” somehow transmogrified to mean “AT MOST”—which of course was wrong. Compounding the wrong, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) directed all the 42,000+ barangays of the nation to comply with it year after year. So it subsists to this day and no one seems concerned.

Limiting People Power

What happens now to the right of citizens to convene their Barangay Assembly—which, although admittedly still dysfunctional, is their parliament and legislative governing body?

Composed as it is of all voting residents, this Assembly has superior authority over all officials and units of the barangay government. After all, it’s literally a CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY! And it has right to convene at any time, as many times as it wishes. But the President says otherwise.

Through Proclamation No. 260 he drastically limits the community’s capability to meet and address local governance issues. Too bad for autonomy and the principle of subsidiarity.

Perhaps it doesn’t occur to the President, or no one tells him, that this Assembly is our local parliament, that it has power to straighten out policy or programs through initiative, as well as power to discipline any official through recall. Powerful!

It also doesn’t seem to strike the President that delimiting or reducing the frequency of barangay deliberations violates the need for free and open exchange of ideas at the grassroots. Does he know that this also constricts the democratic space and strengthens the hand of trapo oligarchs who seek to monopolize or manipulate local governance.

Awaken, Not Deaden, Citizen Initiative!

Someone should tell him that in issuing the Proclamation, he was in violation thrice over: 1) he unilaterally changed the law (Sec. 397 of R.A. 71600) without benefit of congressional action or concurrence; 2) he curtailed the right of citizens to exercise their sovereign right to assemble and engage in deliberative conversations as often as they wish; and 3) he hinders the formation of the popular will on how the local government should proceed with its business (usually expressed in resolutions or declarations after copious debate, discussion, or exchange).

All this was brought home to me during the aftermath of Typhoon Sendong in Cagayan de Oro over three years ago.

Because more than one-third of the city’s barangays were badly punished by Sendong, I thought that it would help the victims greatly if the survivors throughout the city could assemble and regroup. They could then take stock of the damage, the dead, and the missing. But as it happened, they were loath to assemble because they were told that they had already done so two months earlier (in October).

When the DILG Secretary visited the city, our movement suggested that he authorize the Barangay Assemblies to convene so the affected ones could do stock-taking and plan their recovery while the less affected ones could discuss how to marshal their resources to help victims.

To my consternation, the request was denied on the spot. They had already convened twice before Sendong, he said. I explained in vain that that was before and we were now in an emergency, that in any case the law does not limit the number of times a Barangay Assembly can meet, and that the bottom line should be to let the barangaynons decide because it’s their Assembly after all.

All I got for an answer was a look that said, “Mas marunong ka pa sa akin!” as he turned to leave. Beside him at the time was DSWD Secretary Dinky Soliman who could only shrug and flash her signature smile.

In any case, it struck me that the very agency charged with empowering people by promoting the spirit of autonomy or self-governance was preventing the exercise of initiative in victimized communities. I was clearly one of the affected people, and so was the Gising Barangay Movement, but we were ignored! It made me wonder if the attitude reflected the President’s, because it certainly didn’t lift my enthusiasm or that of the people around me.

(MindaViews is the opinion section of MindaViews. Manny Valdehuesa is former UNESCO regional director for Asia-Pacific, secretary-general of Southeast Asian Publishers Association, director at Development Academy of the Philippines, member of Philippine Mission to the United Nations, vice chair of Local Government Academy, member of the Cory Government’s Peace Panel, and PPI-UNICEF awardee for outstanding columnist. You may email him at  valdehuesa@gmail.com)

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RECOMMENDATIONS

What the new President of the Philippines must do:

1.   Cheapen the electricity – Open the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant. Prohibit “Oligarchs and Big Corporate People” from owning/operating the Plant. Instead, create a law that would make the BNPP a public company, then put EVERY FILIPINO CITIZEN as STOCKHOLDER of the BNPP Corporation. All Citizens must be given an account number and passbook at a government bank and all profits being incurred by the BNPP from servicing CORPORATIONS, MALLS AND INDUSTRIAL CENTERS, owned by OLIGARCHS shall inure to the benefit of all the common man. Wala pong BLUE-CHIP-BLUE CHIP dito. Make the profits available for everybody. Why not? Sila na lang ba ang pwede kumita???

2.   ABOLISH Contractualization of Labor, especially-  ng SM- Sobrang abuso na ang SM Corporation. Obligate them to regularize at least 75% of all their contractuals after 6 months. What the SM is doing right now is abuse of human dignity and labor. STOP CONTRACTUALIZATION.

3.   ASSIST people, farmers, laborers, fishermen, planters, skilled personnel or even professional groups establish profit-based cooperatives like agri-business cooperatives, rural banking or even mining cooperatives. Instead of just waiting for the submission of complete paperwork from the common tao, the GOVERNMENT must PRO ACTIVELY ASSIST the people earn money!!! Huwag itago sa common TAO ang mga paraan kung papaano kumita ng pera. Kulang ang ginagawa ng TRC at TESDA. Dapat hanggang grassroots ang efforts nila. With all the MONEY IN THE GOVERNMENT, it is too impossible for the government not to generate employment and economic opportunities.

4.   PROMOTE ALL FILIPINO PRODUCTS. Huwag patayin ang sariling atin. Mandate TV and Radio Advertising to at least 60% of the products advertised are purely FILIPINO-made. Nagiging dumping ground na tayo ng mga foreign products kaya ang dami na sa atin ang nagkakasakit ng cancer, skin diseases, viruses or even high blood. We should help local and small time capitalists.

5.   Reforestation -  the government should embark on massive reforestation, PRONTO!!! Nauubos na mga puno natin sa logging. Sa Quezon nalang, halos ubos na mga century trees. Inubos na ng mga Angara.

6.   Promote Food Security – assist and help the farmers, fishermen, fruit growers, livestock keepers and contract farming industry. STOP BUILDING MALLS AND GROCERIES!!! Let us patronize our public markets and our agricultural industry.

7.   Promote the HERBAL medicine industry. This is cheap, healthy and readily available. Because if people are encouraged to be proactive in the health keeping, they will spend less and less on modern medicine. They will become more dependent on themselves and less dependent on Doctors. Health is a personal responsibility.

8.    Open the communications industry to foreign investors. Sobra na ang SMART at GLOBE. Imagine, 1 Peso per text??? Grabe, greedy talaga! And not to mention, they’re intrusion into your private number by way of ADS and announcements. They are using your number to promote their businesses. They’re killing the hen that lays the golden egg. Or increase the police powers of the NTC to regulate the cost of calls and texts.

9.   COMPEL THE BIR to collect IMMEDIATELY from TAX EVADERS like LUCIO TAN etc!!! We need the MONEY TO JUMPSTART THE ECONOMY. And we need it NOW!!!

10.                     Deregulate the price of Oil. Bring back the OPSF.

11.                     Reduce the prices of basic commodities. Ano pa nga ba?

12.                     Reduce TAXES. You are reducing the Filipino people and especially the middle class to SLAVERY. Abolish unnecessary taxes or fees like the Homeowner tax. We are virtually left with NOTHING!!! Wala na kaming pera ibabayad!!!

13.                     Build more public hospitals. This country needs it. Maraming mahirap at maraming naghihirap. We should not deny our impoverished brothers the needed healthcare. GAGO na ang susunod na PRESIDENTE kung mga CASIQUE pa rin ang tutulungan niya!

14.                     Reform the SSS, Philhealth and GSIS. Reduce contributions, reduce overexposure of investments and increase benefits of the common tao!!!

15.                     Remove the name NINOY AQUINO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (NAIA), revert back to MIAA. Noynoy’s family don’t own our airports.

16.                     Penalize the Filipino movie industry. PURO RACKET, LOVE TEAM AT DRAMA ang ipinapakita, WALANG VALUES NA ITINUTURO SA MGA BATA! Si Cesar Montano, Peque Gallaga at Raymond Red lang ang MAGALING. karamihan, GAGO!

17.                     Once and for all, this government should make an ALL OUT WAR SA NEW PEOPLE’S ARMY! ORAS NA PARA LIPULIN ANG MGA BANDIDONG ITO. Hirap na ang mga tao sa pakikisama sa mga punyetang ito!

18.                     DISTRIBUTE HACIENDA LUISITA PRONTO!

19.                     EXPEL THE ELITE AND GREEDY JESUITS OR THE SOCIETY OF JESUS. THEY USE THE ATENEO SYSTEM TO INTERVENE IN GOVERNMENT POLICIES, BENEFITTING JESUITIC INTERESTS. EXPEL THEM.

20.                     CREATE MORE PARKS AND ZOOS FOR PEOPLE. Encourage sustainable development.

21.                     INCREASE THE SALARIES OF LABORERS AND GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES.

22.                     PROVIDE SMALL CAPITAL FOR SMALL ENTREPRENEURS. .

23.                     Reform our Educational processes. Masyadong foreign ang approach. Besides, we buy too many books na di naman kailangan ng bata.

24.                     Encourage the values of RESPECT and RESPONSIBILITY in our Communities.

25.                     Cultivate the Deuterium and Natural Gas for the benefit of the common tao. They should be the stockholders and not the Ayalas, Cojuangcos, Sys, Yuchengcos, Del Rosarios etc.

26.                     Reduce TV commercials during certain periods at evenings.

DAP na naman!

Ay de Poooota!

2 Billion Pesos worth of Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) allocated for Paniqi, Tarlac for infrastructure???

Putang-ina naman o! 

Papaano na ang mga Yolanda victims???

Papaano na ang Mindanao brownouts at energy shortage???

Papaano na ang Meralco power shortage issues???

Putang-ina ka Aquinong GAGO ka! 

Nagpapasasa kayo sa pawis ng taongbayan!

Sana tapunan ng Granada ang bahay ninyo sa Times Street! 

Mga Putang-ina kayo!

SINUNGALING AT ISANG ANAK NG PUTA!!!

                            BOY SALSAL

                      BOY SINUNGALING

PEOPLE WILL OVERTHROW THIS FUCKING PRESIDENT!!!

Yolanda victims set deadline for Aquino to heed their plea

Manila Standard

By Marvin T. Modelo | Feb. 02, 2014 at 12:01am

The Alliance of Typhoon Yolanda Victims (ABBAT) set a deadline on the Aquino administration to grant their petition for 40,000 cash relief and abolition of the ‘no-build zone’ policy on or before February 14.
ABBAT community leader Patrick Escalona rejected rehab czar Panfilo  Lacson’s option to provide construction materials instead in lieu of the 40,000 cash relief originally meant for daily subsistence of every family. He said the amount is too small to replace the rehabilitation program of the government.
 Sister Edita Eslopor  vowed that they will stage a series of protest rallies until the government heeds their call.
“The massive number of people is proof of their intense discontent over Mr. Aquino’s criminal negligence and utter incompetence in looking after the welfare of the people. This is just the first of a series of protests that will fill the streets of major cities across the country to express our indignation at the Aquino administration,” Eslopor said.
Exactly a week  ago when more than  10 thousand Yolanda survivors from Leyte and Samar staged a protest march in the streets of this city  to express their indignation against the inaction of the national government  on the plight  of the victims of the super typhoon, Malacanang  has yet to act on their demands.
Yolanda survivors under the banner of People Surge laid out specific demands  such as provision and sustenance of food aid, until necessary, to aid full recovery  while source of livelihood  does not stabilize and an immediate provision of P40,000 cash relief for every family   devastated by Yolanda,  during the rally  considered as one of the biggest protest action in the country directed against the Aquino  administration.
According to Dr. Efleda Bautista, a storm survivor herself and current executive vice chairperson of People Surge, instead of directly addressing the problems presented by the Yolanda victims, Presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda belittled the series of protests as mere “concerted effort of a few to convince the public that most of our countrymen are dissatisfied with the way the national government  respond to the catastrophe.”
“He  (Lacierda) believes in the very good rating of the president. He is convinced that Yolanda survivors are happy towards P-Noy’s rehab efforts.” Bautista said.
Bautista lambasted  Lacierda’s statement    saying, “The Aquino administration is pathetic for being a die-hard defender of a bogus survey even after survivors from Eastern Visayas—the worst hit region by the typhoon—have spoken of their real condition.”
“With no sense of urgency to respond to ‘Yolanda’ survivors’ demands, this government is victimizing us [‘Yolanda’ victims] all over again,” Bautista lamented.
Eslopor, a Benedictine nun and Chairperson of People Surge, insisted that the Aquino government must have consulted the victims at the onset of any rehab effort.
She said that at the rate by which government implements policies like the ‘no-build zone’, not going through any real consultation among major stakeholders who are the victims, Aquino’s rehab plan is going somewhere else, certainly not towards genuine recovery of typhoon victims.
In another development, two opposition lawmakers on Saturday renewed their appeal for action from the Aquino administration on the plight of the survivors of typhoon Yolanda, saying that the urging from the Catholic Church would also be a ‘voice from Heaven’ that must be heeded.
Gabriela party-list Rep. Luz Ilagan of the Makabayan Bloc and Abakada party-list Jonathan dela Cruz, member of the Independent Minority Bloc in the House of Representatives headed by Leyte Rep. Ferdinand Martin Romualdez, said that the   administration has all the resources needed by the victims, and that every needed assistance for them is possible if only it has the political will to do such .
“Definitely, it’s the Voice of God urging those in power to heed the crisis of a people who suffered from such devastation who continue to suffer from the vagaries of politics,” Dela Cruz told the Manila Standard.
His statement came after Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines president Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas appealed to the government as well as  donor-groups to listen to the Yolanda victims and not just provide them with relief or shelter without considering their needs.
Ilagan lamented that the victims are still waiting for government action on them.
Ilagan said that the urging of Villegas is “not only the ‘voice of God’ but also the voice of common sense and good governance.”
She criticized the Aquino government for lacking a comprehensive plan for the victims and survivors of natural calamities.
“Victims cannot rely on relief forever. After relief is the rehabilitation phase to allow the people to return to normalcy as early as possible.  Government’s action or the lack of it gauged by the speed and effectiveness of transition from relief to rehabilitation to rebuild—Obviously, the Aquino administration is short on this,” Ilagan said as she recalled the government’s inaction on the victims of super typhoon Pablo in December 2012 as well as of Zamboanga siege in September 2013. With Maricel Cruz