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500 million was allocated for access to clean water but that is just 150 bigger than the p200m chairman ben abalos offered to chairman romulo neri as bribe in the zte scandal that too is just equal to the p500m fertilizer scam of jokjok bolante she said she had allocated p3 billion to so that the ombudsman can go after the thieves in government very wisely done indeed madame president i almost forgot you are not under the jurisdiction of the ombudsman how much did you spend to prevent congress from impeaching you gma also boasted that her administration has exceeded its targets year after year in the last 7 years in distributing lands under agrarian reform true but that is only because your administration targets only 100 000 each year compared to the targets of previous administrations which exceeded yours by targetting only a mere 100 000 hectares annually for the last 7 years you succeeded in delaying land distribution and that is the reason why the termination of the agrarian reform fund has overtaken the agrarian reform implementation and is now in limbo should the farmers thank you for bringing them into this quagmire the state of the nation address is an opportunity for the president to share with the nation in general and the two houses of congress in particular on the directions that the executive wishes to lead the country into it is supposed to guide the legislative branch of government as to the priorities of the present administration so that they too can prioritize legislation to that direction yes madame president you can paint the state of the nation address whichever way you want in your administration it is not what your public pronouncements that matter to congress and your government but how much pork barrel you release for them to make them follow your lead in today s philippines madame president it not not what you publicly declare that matters to congress but what you wish to hide from the public for the congress of the philippines the political crisis that you have led us into is a big money making machine that is the real state of the nation filed under politics tagged sona 2008 7 comments instant noodles para sa sona ni gloria posted on hulyo 28 2008 by s3lv0 instant noodles flavorful cheap but nutrition wise empty have become the staple food for millions of filipinos this summarizes the economic achievement of the arroyo administration this also symbolizes the failure of the government s anti poverty programs hontiveros said according to the i nquirer net that is how akbayan representative risa hontiveros baraquel describes what she expects of the state of the nation address sona the gloria macapagal arroyo will deliver today at the joint session of the house of representatives and the senate if i remember right this is gloria s 8th sona since she was catapulted into power after edsa ii and her fourth sona since being declared winner of the 2004 presidential elections with the help of the great mathematician mr virgilio hello garci garcillano and his ilk in the comelec i do not think risa was referring to the lifeless delivery of gloria s sona or any other speech for that matter when she likened the sona to instant noodles but the lack of substance when we listen to gloria deliver her sona and all the claims she makes one cannot help but wonder if she is talking about the state of the philippines and not some fictional country there are a few things i remember from the last year s sona her mentioning of the opening of jollibee in basilan as proof of economic growth in the province the litany of successes and many of them personal successes of individual filipinos si ganun nanalo sa ganitong award sa ganitong bansa si ganito nanalo sa ganung contest sa ganireng bansa etc as proof that the country is doing well but these are the least of her sona s faults what i find alarming is that she can be very blatant and shameless in her sona i remember her thanking general palparan for his defense of democracy and human rights i remember too that she made special mention of the significance of the cyber corridor which we later on learned meant the zte deal i do not know what boasts gloria will make in this afternoon s sona but i am sure she will boast she will find a way to devalue the crises our country is facing and inflate the value of her government s subsidies for the poor she will find a way to put the blame on the skyrocketing of the oil prices and exalt her government s remedies for the poor she will find a way to deflate the gravity of the food crisis and extol her dole outs for the poor she will find a way to hide the billions that she and her cabal are stealing from the country s coffers and magnify the significance of the evat which is wringing the people dry expect gloria to scrape every scrap of good news to cover the rottenness of her administration expect gloria bring every props she can carry to congress to extol her performance but in the end it will be very difficult to convince the hungry yes expect her sona to be flavorful and colorful but bereft of substance and bankrupt in the truth yakisona nga eh filed under politics tagged akbayan gloria arroyo sona 11 comments swimming against the current posted on hulyo 22 2008 by s3lv0 from out of the dust bins of the house of representatives the reproductive health bill authored by rep edcel lagman and 48 other members of the house of representatives was thrown into the center stage by the very strong and vocal opposition from no less than the catholic bishops conference of the philippines the bill was condemned as if it were the carved from the horns of the devil himself bishops all over the country including the handful i admire and respect issued pastoral statements and mobilized the faithful against it from out of the storage bins of oblivion the repro health bill has become a pariah that congressmen and women who will seek re election in 2010 a little more than a year from now will not touch with a ten foot pole the president has given in to the pressures of the catholic church co authors have withdrawn and apologized to the church with so much anger and condemnation that resulted in so much fear the last nail had sealed the bills coffin rest in peace reproductive health bill what saddens me is not really that the bill suffered a sudden death this is not the first time that it has died every beginning of a new congress a reproductive health bill is filed and every congress the bill is killed again what saddens me is not that it died but how it was killed the catholic church simply branded the bill as promoting abortion that was the death sentence it has been explained time and again that nowhere in the bill can you find a promotion of abortion but on this issue the church leaders will only listen to themselves what saddens me is the fact that the issues surrounding the need for a reproductive health bill to be enacted poverty high population growth lack of access to health care and affordable medicines widespread ignorance about reproductive health were never raised the death of the bill has left these issues and concerns unanswered and not addressed what saddens me is that the church has merely used its coercive force to kill the bill and no debate on the merits and the issues ensued i stand in awe at the power and clout that the church is displaying nowadays i just wished they have used the same power influence and clout to push for the passage of the carp reform and extension bill in congress i just wished that the church made a stand this strong against the corruption and the impunity that it has witnessed under the arroyo regime swimming against the current is difficult and painful once upon a time a man swam against the currents of his time he ended up hanging in glory on a cross he gives us hope swim filed under politics tagged catholic church cbcp reproductive health bill 2 comments if blogs have birthdays posted on hulyo 17 2008 by s3lv0 if blogs have birthdays mine celebrates its first one today a year ago on adee s 10th birthday i wrote my very first post and it was about him after 365 days 103 posts and 131 860 hits my blog has become what it is today one that suffers from constant hibernation erratic and and irregular posts it was not always like this this blog almost became synonymous with one of its controversial posts the mahaderang matapobre sa mga ofws who would forget ms malu fernandez almost one year after the article was posted the mahaderang matapobre still receives at least a dozen hits dailt for a time this blog covered controversial issues of the day the erap plunder case and the subsequent pardon the zte deal and the political crisis that ensued when it broke out and the sumilao farmers campaign i have not felt the passion for blogging for some months now maybe it is because for the past 7 months i have been focused on a couple of issues and have not really kept tab with the various events that have come to pass maybe i was just to lazy to write about things that interests me and share them online maybe i have grown more passionate about other forms of political expression that i almost forgot about the value of blogging i cannot promise this blog will regain the fiery passion that used to consume it i cannot even promise that it would recover from its present state of perpetual convalescence all i can promise is that the passion and idealism behind this blog will not fizzle out and die and while the fire within me burns this blog will continue to carry posts albeit irregularly that will express the heat of the embers burning within the author s heart happy birthday nomadic thoughts and may your journey continue on filed under my space 6 comments a feather on her bonnet posted on hulyo 15 2008 by s3lv0 today at the henry lee irwin theatre of the ateneo de manila university a special academic convocation will be held by the ateneo community to confer 5 traditional university awards to people of distinction i shall be a guest to this afternoon s affair i will not only be an ordinary guest i will be a proud guest for among today s honorees of the ateneo are special people who i hold dear this year s ozanam award will be conferred to the sumilao farmers and their lawyer atty arlene kaka bag ao i have written so much about the sumilao farmers and what they have accomplished both in this blog and in the press releases i have written for their campaign in the last 9 months or so so today i will not write about the sumilao farmers all throughout the long 13 years that the sumilao farmers struggled for their land one person have always been their constant companion she rarely shared the limelight with the farmers but she shared their miseries their worries their fears and their sacrifices for most of the last 13 years she was invisible to the eyes of the public a silent co traveler of the sumilao farmers i met atty kaka bag ao one rainy day in 1995 at the foot of mt banahaw in barangay consolacion sariaya quezon i was organizing a group of agrarian reform farmers there as part of my training in community organizing she was our resource person in one of our paralegal clinics with the farmers little did i know that one that rainy day in august 1995 i will come to know a friend who will touch my life immensely we met a couple of times more for paralegal sessions i ended my stint in quezon a couple of months later and returned to my work in mindanao a year later i learned that she has moved to cagayan de oro city to work for an ngo working with agrarian reform farmers we rarely met then until i got drawn into the hunger strike of the sumilao farmers in october 1997 by then she was already in the center of the sumilao campaign as their lawyer tactician sister daughter and friend to the farmers i rarely meet someone who can both challenge and question my ideas and opinions and build on them as she does i challenge and build on hers too our arguments during tactics sessions are animated and at times heated she inspires me like very few people do i have worked with kaka in several other cases in bukidnon but the sumilao has always been a special one working with kaka jun g nenen and several others on the sumilao case and other cases in bukidnon made me choose to work as an agrarian reform advocate in the sumilao case alone i have witnessed kaka s agonies and heartaches losing 2 beloved friends attys bob gana and caloy ollado to the cebu pacific flt 387 crash while they were on their way to sumilao losing a the sumilao case in the supreme court on a mere technicality and thus experiencing the worst of our pro rich judicial system kaka was also instrumental in making me decide to join akbayan a decision that made significant changes in my life somme of these changes made us drift away from each other for a number of years the 1 700 kilometer walk of the sumilao farmers late last year reunited me to the rest of the sumilao campaign team parang di kami nagkahiwalay ng mahahabang taon i got reunited with kaka and jun g and got to know people who have since become my friends jane marlon pi jemro bro javi bro ij tinx janjan aison soc and the people from ateneo osci if only san miguel corporation knew how our campaign plans were developed and evolved they would not have taken this collection of jologs seriously our huntahans and starbucks sessions spewed tactics that shook san miguel and brought it to the negotiation table the support of heavyweights like cardinal rosales bishop pabillo christian monsod fr danny huang made the settlement with the sumilao farmers compelling for the asian brewery giant by hindsight our ragtag team of jologs was a dream team of sorts our humor and laughter melt tiredness and weariness away our warm friendship made our daily pamorningan sessions not only tolerable but most of all something to enjoy and look forward to we were never a bunch of grim and determined cadres we were just a collection of friends who can find something humorous in the most serious of things kaka bag ao co honoree of the sumilao farmers in this year s ozanam award was the spirit that held us together i e she was the jologest of us all kaka kong mahal sana y wag kang mapapagal sana y wag kang magsawa sana y di ka mauubusan ng tawa always remember that the stars are brightest in nights that are darkest that the pangs of labor give birth to new life you taught me those things dear friend and i am just reminding you of the lessons you so lovingly and funnily taught me the sumilao victory the ozanam award are just a few feathers on your bonnet and by god you have enough feathers to make a good feather duster congratulations my dear filed under sumilao farmers tagged kaka bag ao ozanam award sumilao farmers 8 comments the mute shall speak and the deaf shall listen posted on hulyo 8 2008 by s3lv0 i am not talking about miracles nor am i talking in parables a few months ago when the sumilao farmers made their historical 1 700 kilo...