A terrorist oganization forces a superpower to close 21 consulates

You cannot defeat the United States directly in a military war. With its vast arsenal of advanced fighter jets, ships and nuclear powered submarines, no lunatic country dare start a war with the USA.

Yet we have a terrorist organization Al Qaeda successfully forcing the US to close 21 consulates around the world and issue a travel alert for American citizens! see the links:


foxnews:http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/03/rep-peter-king-says-al-qaeda-threat-is-very-specific-as-us-issues-travel-alert

and
http://www.thestate.com/2013/08/02/2897275/us-travel-alert-comes-amid-al.html


First of all the consulates are all located in Muslim countries!Here is a case where a a minority Islamic terrorist organization have succeeded in terrorizing Muslim countries where the majority of the population do not support its dangerous aims and goals.

As a start of solving thie terrorism problem, we should never sympathize with Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. Next Muslim countries should reign in religious leaders teaching hate and death to Israel.

Jurors should respect the justice system, re Trayvon Martin case

We have a juror, named as Juror B29, and interviewed by ABC saying she feels she owes an apology to Trayvon Martin's parents. Source :usatoday.com

This juror needs a crash lesson in the legal system. Imperfect it may be, but jurors are bound not to bring DISREPUTE to the whole jury's majority decision. We feel that this Juror B29 just wants attention, or just wants a way out for her MINORITY position against the whole jurys decision that Zimmerman was innocent. What this B29 juror wants is to try Zimmerman repeatedly until found guilty of killing Trayvon Martin. What a perversion!

Will the government revoke the licenses of Water Utility companies?

These two companies, Maynilad and Manila Water, would be hounded out of their concession areas if the following happened abroad:

1. Passing the income tax payments to consumers to the tune P15.5 billion pesos![ref 1]
   
2. Passing the cost of donations to consumers.[Ref 2]
   
3. Other charges reportedly charge to consumers as part of basic charge:
   Travel expenses, advertisements, training expenses and office equipment [Ref 2]
   

It is clear that these two concessionaires have enriched themselves illegally at the expense of the Philippine Republic. It is high time that their profits be taken away from them, officers banned from travel abroad and guilty parties, including MWSS personnel charged, and imprisoned.We suggest that the licenses of both companies be revoked. Let us see what president Aquino, he of Daang Matuwid promise, can do with these recent developments.

In reaction to this, a church worker said (with permission) ANG KAPAL NG MUKS NG MAYNILAD AT MANILA WATER - GRABE!!!

It was discovered by the MWSS Regulatory Office's extensive audit of the two concessionaires, that Maynilad (owned and run by the Lopez' Group of Companies) and Manila Water (owned by the Ayalas) passed on to their customers (that's us, the consuming public) their corporate income tax.

Not yet contented with this irregularity and unscrupulous business activity, Maynilad and Manila Water still passed on to their customers their Donations, Advertisements, Travel Expenses, and Representation Allowance(s). This kind of business operations is unconscionable - it is unjust, oppressive and exploitative!!!

References:

[1] http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/437635/probe-sought-into-maynilad-manila-water-p15-5b-pass-on-charges

[2] http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/315655/news/metromanila/water-companies-passed-on-additional-charges-to-consumers-report

The deafening silence on the effects of depleted uranium and white phosphorus munitions on Iraq children

I saw the grotesque photos of birth defects to the children of Iraq and I am amazed that nothing is found in the mainstream press. I hope that an organization will take up the cudgels in exposing and assigning blame and demanding just compensation for the nightmares the supposed depleted uranium munitions from US military operations has given these poor children.

Here is just ONE photo of the supposed effects of depleted uranium (there is still a nonzero dose of radiation!)and white phosphorus.

Src: http://cavnews.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/iraqi-birth-defects-worse-than-hiroshima/

Worse or ore disturbing images can be viewed from vice.com: Karlos Zurutuza on Iraq unfolding medical nightmare

More research on this!

July 5, 2013.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium claims that some photos were of deformed babies born
in the Soviet Union! The article also claims that groups against nuclear power and weapons are behind this scare of the effects of depeleted uranium.

A Marcos loyalist lament: the Philippines (A fooled Nation)?

I saw this through a Facebook page. I do not necessarily agree with the author, I only want to air his opinion. Tha author of this piece has a first name of Bryan. A thought provoking piece.

I’m actually studying International Trade Law and Economics here at Busan National University South Korea. My Professor once said that one of the economic models of East Asia as well as the South during the post war era particularly in the 1960’s are based on Japan and the Philippines. He added that the Philippines is one of the richest nations next to Japan in that time and also once envied. Having said all these I was actually proud and happy seeing all my classmates of other nationalities looked at me with smiles on their faces.

But, what struck me the most is when my professor asked me, WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR COUNTRY? I couldn’t answer back. From this, I saw the sudden shift of emotions in the class. I went home having this in mind. I was quite puzzled of what really happened.

Then one day, my wife, a Korean national found a documentary about the late Pres. Marcos and his wife Imelda made by a Korean film company. He is actually very famous here in Korea and is known to be a great president.

In the documentary I saw a lot of things I couldn’t imagine happened during those days. I was surprised to see the prosperous and peaceful life the Filipinos back in those days were enjoying. I saw people wearing formal clothes (suits), a clean and magnificent city, happy people walking on the old streets of Manila, thriving communities and places everywhere and many more.

An interesting as well as quite controversial part of the documentary is the part wherein Bong Bong Marcos was interviewed. He was asked, the same question my professor asked me, WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS COUNTRY? He said, "My father loved and cared for this country a lot and my mother as well. While saying this, suddenly he paused with teary eyes and said, “We were betrayed by the Americans”. He believes that his father trusted them but they put him down. He also thinks that they used his mother’s (Imelda) lifestyle to further destroy their reputation. Though he admitted she is living an extravagant life, she also did a lot of accomplishments, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Philippine Heart Center, Lung Center of the Philippines, Kidney Institute of the Philippines, Nayong Pilipino; Philippine International Convention Center, Folk Arts Theater, and the Coconut Palace are all Imeldas' brainchildren. Nonetheless, all major social and public buildings and institutions in the country today were actually built during the Marcos’s reign.

What inspired me the most is the time when I heard the story of the late president of Korea Park Chung Hee who visited the Philippines once in the 1960’s. Mr. Marcos and Mr. Chung Hee were believed to be good friends. Pres. Chung Hee and Marcos once visited the Radial Road 8 now called North Luzon Expressway. I heard that Mr. Chung Hee literally cried on Mr. Marcos’ shoulder saying “ I wish my country would be just like the Philippines”. Right after he came back to Korea he started a plan to create expressways similar to what he saw in the Philippines to literally connect the cities all over Korea which were divided by tall mountains. He succeeded on doing this. And, it is said that this move is one of the keys of the Korean economic boom. Unluckily, he was assassinated. Some say that the Americans were behind the assassination.

I know Marcos cared for his country a lot that he wanted to put it on the map. He even bought properties at Wall Street at that time because he wanted the Philippines to be known and dominate the world market. He also initiated a group of powerful south East Asian nations (SEATO) and is believed to have been headed by the Philippines and some countries to strengthen their economic relations further which is also one of the models of economic integrations (G2, G3,G7, ASEAN, and so on) these days. Another international diplomatic accomplishment of Mr. Marcos was the joint effort of Japan and the Philippines to form the Asian Development Bank in 1966 with headquarter in Mandaluyong. Some say that it somewhat became just like the world bank of Asia and its sole purpose is to give foreign aid to poor countries at that time. Unfortunately, the Philippines is the one receiving aid nowadays.

For me, I think Marcos is the best president the Philippines ever had. During his time the economy was at its peak, unemployment was low, peso against the dollar was at its lowest, poverty rate is not that high (compared today), in short the Philippines was at its finest.

But, not until the West came to realize that the Philippines will grow strong and powerful as time goes. Some say they were afraid it will take over the Wall Street as it already started buying properties and putting up state owned investment firms on its soil. One, thing is for sure, that they should stop this. Then it all began. They had their plan of destroying Marcos’ reputation and putting him down using the media and some manipulated social and political entities whose dark aim is to privatize Mr Marcos' nationalistic legacies. The sad part is they succeeded.

And, the saddest part is, we were fooled as well.

A source of the above image is http://paulitics.wordpress.com/category/john-mccain/

What kind of airforce do we have?

We do not have modern F-16, F-15 or F-18 fighter jet planes, Instead we are still using propeller driven training planes like the Aermacchi_SF.260. What happened to the Armed Forces modernization drive?

We see that the Clarkfield air base conversion to an industrial estate is going strong. So where is the money suppossedly going to buy modern weapons for the Philippines military, and upgrading of the military structure, command and control and bases?

We are subjected to news of old OV-10 broncos crashing and killing our pilots. It is time that we stop being stupid. But first we have to get mad. For one thing, we are no match for China's powerful military.

American leaders talk so much! Stuxnet was an American cyberwarfare program!

We have a case of dangerous loose tongue in the American military. Nothing less than the former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General James Cartwright, is under investigation by the Justice Department for leaks on the industrial Stuxnet
computer virus which successfully destroyed centrifuges of Iranian nuclear facilities in 2010.

We do not know if Gen. Cartwright divulged information about Stuxnet to David Sanger, a correspondent of the New York Times, who use the material for his book "Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power."

Before we believed it was only Israel involved in creating the complex computer virus, now we know that it was a joint US and Israel program, with the US taking the initiative.

We cannot sympathize with the US if it complains that other nations are engaging in cyberwarfare or industrial espionage. This recent revelation on the Stuxnet worm is a blackeye for American security.