Thanks Obama

Kaya huwag kalimutang batiin si Obama bago ibaba ang telepono.  Kumustahin niyo na rin si Michelle.

Australian spies secretly monitor phone calls in the Philippines: Edward Snowden disclosure

"Australian spies are helping the United States secretly monitor telephone calls across the Philippines, leaked US intelligence documents reveal. 

According to top secret US National Security Agency documents disclosed by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, Australia's electronic spy agency, the Australian Signals Directorate supports a top secret NSA intelligence collection program codenamed MYSTIC, which harvests telecommunications "metadata" – in several countries, including the Philippines. "

Media bias

Sa MGB ngayon, nabalita na nagrereklamo si Delfin Lee na may bias ang media.  Sa akin lang, kung magtatago ka ng isang taon para matakasan ang mga paratang sa iyo sa korte, nawalan ka na ng karapatang magreklamo ng bias sa media.

Sa pagtatago mo pa lang konklusyon na ng ordinaryong tao may ginawa kang kasalanan.

Hated Headline

I hate headlines like this

'By the grace of God we missed our flight to China'

Yes, god made you miss your flight, isn't that nice, what a joker that god guy,  he didn't let the other 200 people who died miss their flight too.

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Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will -  Gramsci
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Doronila's attempt to revise Philippine history

In his column today, Amado Doronila criticizes PNOY for revising the EDSA revolt's history by incorporating the events prior to Enrile and Ramos's attempted coup.

Speaking in Cebu, the President said it was in that city, not in Manila, where the struggle to restore democracy began its “first chapter.”

Doronila characterizes this statement as

"This assertion downgraded the importance of the events at Edsa triggered by the military uprising against the Marcos regime, followed by the civilian mass movement that backed then defense minister Juan Ponce Enrile and then vice chief of staff Fidel Ramos in their breakaway from Marcos, knocking down the latter’s main pillar of support. In other words, the military revolt served as the catalyst of the people power revolution, starting the collapse of the repressive dictatorship that ruled the country for 14 years."

I can't see how he can reach this conclusion,  PNOY was relating how his mother after the COMELEC announced that Marcos won the snap elections went to Cebu to start the civil disobedience movement against the dictatorship.  Cebu was selected because the opposition regarded it as being the most pro opposition province. 

He then followed up with this bizarre paragraph.

Where was Cory Aquino, the President’s mother and leader of the emasculated political opposition, when the turmoil sparked by the military broke out? She was in Cebu, far away from the center of action in military camps at Edsa (Camp Aguinaldo, headquarters of the defense department, and Camp Crame, headquarters of the Philippine Constabulary led by Ramos). She had sought refuge in a religious safe house in Cebu, while the rebel forces and the loyalist segment of the Armed Forces led by Gen. Fabian Ver were locked in a standoff, in the struggle to take control of the Feb. 22-25 revolution, as civilians mobilized by the call of Cardinal Jaime Sin to go to the streets to protect the beleaguered rebel forces flooded Edsa to confront tanks and armored vehicles sent by Ver to storm Camp Crame.

He asked where was Cory Aquino when the coup attempt started.  The paragraph implies that Cory Aquino fled to Cebu after the start of the coup attempt.  When she was in Cebu all that time.  Ramos and Enrile did not inform her that they will be attempting a coup and their initial objective was not to install her as the President of the Philippines. 

His rant then gets weirder

In his revisionist speech in Cebu, Mr. Aquino said: “Those at Edsa were not the only ones who joined the revolt, right? There are those in Cebu, Davao and so many [other] places.” It’s about time we recognized that Edsa people power involved the struggle of Filipinos all over the country, “not just [those] in Metro Manila,” he told reporters.

How can this statement be revisionist.  Is Doronila saying that Filipinos in Cebu, Davao and other places did not support the EDSA revolt in Manila?

Then there is this statement

The shift of the venue of the Edsa anniversary celebration to Cebu marked an attempt by the President to emphasize Cory’s role in mobilizing mass protests in unseating Marcos. This interpretation ignores and downgrades the military’s role in unseating Marcos. The speech had no reference to the military as one of the key players of the uprising. It, however, refocused on Cory’s role in Cebu, while the military was hogging  the stage in the struggle for control of the revolt between the Enrile-Ramos forces and the loyalist forces.  Cory’s refuge in Cebu completely sidelined her from center of the action at Edsa.

Maybe its an attempt by  PNOY to emphasize the role of other Filipinos and provinces in the EDSA revolt.  Maybe it's an attempt to manage traffic in Manila since there are simultaneous road constructions going on. 

And then there is the concluding statement

The credit for this supremacy belongs to the people who filled Edsa to end the dictatorship. We owe them for the restoration of democracy, not the Aquino family.

How can he reach this conclusion when he quotes PNOY earlier in his column saying that

“Those at Edsa were not the only ones who joined the revolt, right? There are those in Cebu, Davao and so many [other] places.”

Wow.  Did he even read what he was writing?

Inuman (Drinking)

So, I've thought  KDrama depiction of Korean alcohol consumption was a exagerated, then I read this story

South Koreans drink twice as much liquor as Russians and more than four times as much as Americans

Galing sa Booksale

Di ko pa alam kung maganda, di ko pa nasisimulan pero nakaka intriga yung title

Wala lang

Deniece

Ma disappoint naman ako kung di niya kapatid si Denephew.

The Hobbit

Naisip ko lang na kung pareahas ang haba ng 3 pelikula sa The Hobbit trilogy ni Peter Jackson, mukhang mas mabilis matatapos ng isang tao na basahin ang orihinal na libro kesa i-marathon yung 3 pelikula.

Grocery

Nag grocery ako kahapon at itong aleng ito ang nasa unahan ko. Halos 2,000 pesos yung binili niya tapos tig 5 pesos ang binayad.  Sa pagbilang pa lang ng pera ang tagal na, tapos ayaw pang maniwala sa bilang nung mga kahera kaya nag double check pa.

Kung wala sana siyang ibang pera puedeng pagbigyan, pero may hawak siyang tig 500 pesos.  Puede namang sa banko na lang siya nagpapapalit ng buo para mawala yung barya niya, hindi pa siya nakaabala ng tao.