Historical Ignorance

I don't usually post on topics outside of the Philippines but this is wow.

Right-wing group mapping Jerusalem businesses that employ Arabs 

"a project called Hebrew Labor, whose goal is "to warn the public" against buying from businesses that employ Arabs."

mirroring Nazi attacks against Jewish businesses.

via reddit

Madaming magagalit sa COA

 Return Christmas, midyear bonuses, COA tells Cebu port employees

"The Commission on Audit may sound like Scrooge, demanding that Cebu Ports Authority (CPA) employees refund P31.79 million of the Christmas and mid-year bonuses they received in the past two years, but the COA says it has good reason for seeking the return of the perks.

The COA said the mid-year and year-end benefits and gift checks that CPA employees received in 2009 and 2010 were unauthorized and violated the law prescribing the annual Christmas bonus to government officials, or Republic Act No. 6686."

 Lalo na kung ipagbabawal nila yung ganitong klase ng bonus sa lahat ng government agencies.

You shall not bear false witness

Magmimisa yung mga anti-RH advocate, dahil banal sila, kaya ok lang magsinungaling.

"The anti-RH advocates tried to bully their way into the camp by setting up tents at the gate for a thanksgiving mass they were planning. When the SB Park officer asked who owned the tents, anti-RH advocates lied and said they didn’t know. The SB park officer was later surprised to see that an anti-RH mass was already set up inside the tents.

When asked about whether they had a permit to do the thanksgiving mass, anti-RH advocates, led by Rizalito David, said that they did have a permit. It was later found out that all they had was an endorsement letter, revealing that the anti-RH advocates lied once again."

Call to boycott PAL

Support PAL Employees and Families

Put pressure on PAL to open negotiations with PALEA to end the labor dispute

 Do not fly PAL and AirPhil until the PALEA’s demand for employees to return to their regular jobs are met.

5 Reasons to Boycott PAL and AirPhil

1 Corporate greed: PAL retrenched 2,600 employees despite earning more than PhP 3 billion last year. For every PAL employee turned into a contractual in the service providers, Lucio Tan and PAL earn PhP 4 million for the next ten years or more than PhP 10 billion for all 2,600 employees affected. Lucio Tan is the second richest Pinoy but wants to get even wealthier via contractualization.

2 Union busting: PALEA has sacrificed for the last 13 years with the suspension in collective bargaining negotiations, from which PAL has benefited by an early exit from rehabilitation. But when negotiations were due to start in 2009, PAL announced the outsourcing plan which resulted in the terminated of 70% of PALEA’s membership and 60% of its leadership.

3 Human rights violations: PALEA members protesting the outsourcing plan last September 27 were forcibly evicted from Terminal 2 and other PAL offices leading to injuries to employees including women who were bodily taken out by PAL security guards. Further, two attempts have been made to violently disperse the PALEA protest camp. The latest daybreak attack led to injuries to seven PALEA members and the arrest of one of the hired goons who confessed to been paid by management.

4 Labor code violations: The latest among the many violations of the Labor Code by PAL and Lucio Tan exposed during the labor dispute is that the supposed independent service providers Sky Logistics and Sky Kitchen are actually illegal labor-only contractors. These dummy companies do not have its own equipment and depend upon facilities of PAL such as the In-Flight Center.

5 Safety and service compromised: Untrained and overworked scabs are now operating PAL flights resulting in numerous complaints by passengers over delays, disruptions and deterioration in service. Long lines at check-in counters and food in lunch boxes are some obvious examples. Further, unlicensed and inexperienced trainees working the ground handling are a flight risk.

If Lucio Tan succeeds in contractualization at PAL,

our jobs are next.

Ang laban ng PALEA ay laban ng lahat!

Defend Job Security at PAL. Promote Regular Jobs for All.

GMA and the right to travel

Personally, naniniwala ako na talagang may karapatan ang bawat Pilipino na lumabas ng bansa kung gusto niya.  Kung tinanong ako sa isyu kay GMA, sasa got ako ng oo, payagan niyo silang umalis, lalo na at wala namang kaso laban sa kanya.  Pero nakita ko itong sinulat nung isang kaibigan ko sa Facebook at nakakakumbinsi,  o baka naman gusto ko lang talagang makumbinsi dahil gusto ko na malitis ang kaso ni GMA sa mga inihahabla sa kanya.

"What is it so hard to understand with the principle that the right to travel is not absolute?

This is not a new issue with the Supreme Court. Primary cases are PCGG and DOLE where the Court allowed these agencies to prevent travel of mere suspects in PCGG cases and OFWs going to banned countries.

What is so hard to spell out for you people that the right to travel abroad is the least of all rights, and is different from domestic travel which is more unrestrained. If the right to travel is so sacrosanct and absolute, let us not have passports, as passports are the single government instrument which regulate and more often than not restrain our international travel. Hindi ka lang bigyan ng passport ng DFA eh hindi ka na makakatravel. And under the passport law, DFA can cancel your passport under certain grounds, no different from grounds laid down under DOJ Circular 41 which simply states that once you are under the compulsory processes of a government agency and required to be present before it, such as in a preliminary investigation or legislative inquiry, whether as a witness or respondent, you have an obligation to appear, and when you use your right to travel abroad to escape this obligation, the State has a right to restrain that right until the fulfillment of your obligation to the State.

Hindi ka naman pinapakulong eh, pinapanagut ka lang sa obligasyon mo at habang hindi mo nagagampanan ang obligasyon mo, eh hindi ka muna pwedeng bumiyahe kung saan wala ng power of compulsion ang estado sa iyo. What is so hard to understand about that? Susunod nyan hindi na natin maiintindihan kung bakit kailangan natin magbayad ng tax."

Proud Tatay

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Atlas Shrugged...

Where self-sacrifice is considered immoral.

 "Harmon Kaslow, CEO of Atlas Productions and Producer of the film stated “As we all well know, the ideas brought to life in Atlas Shrugged are entirely antithetical to the idea of ‘self-sacrifice’ as a virtue. Atlas is quite literally a story about the dangers of self-sacrifice. The error was an unfortunate one and fans of Ayn Rand and Atlas have every right to be upset... and we have every intention of making it right.""

via reddit and Flavorwire

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