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Philippine Politics::Manifesto For Positive Campaigning | Filipino Voices

Of all the candidates I believe Gibo wins the person I’d love to hang out in a coffee shop with!

Manifesto For Positive Campaigning
January 27th, 2010 by Paula Nocon
We, the supporters, volunteers and friends of former Defense Secretary Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro, vow to uphold the principles of POSITIVE CAMPAIGNING this election season. These principles shall unite us and guide us through this adventure that has brought us all together, inspire us throughout this journey, and lead us to victory.
We recognize, we believe, we affirm:
– that we have chosen our CANDIDATE because he represents what is best and excellent in all of us, because he champions our greatness rather than our mediocrity, because he is a visionary of means and not just a dreamer of ends, because we recognize the potential in him just as we recognize the potential in ourselves;
– that our VOTE is sacred. We do not take our vote for granted, for we are aware that millions around the world do not enjoy the privilege of electing their own leaders, and therefore do not have a say in mapping out their own destiny. Our vote ennobles us, reminds us that we can choose, we can decide and we can exercise our freedom to evolve our democracy to greater heights, as we give our full support to leaders who can serve the highest ideals of democracy;
– that this is a CAMPAIGN that does not stop with our candidate, nor does it end on Election Day. It is a deeper movement, a paradigm shift, that calls for the raising of awareness of every Filipino, the enlightenment of our entire race, so that we may pull ourselves out of a culture seeped in negativity and divisiveness, and enjoy the benefits of higher consciousness;
– that we align with POSITIVITY rather than negativity. We focus on our country’s innate wealth, rather than endemic poverty; we choose to be balanced, rather than extreme; we see opportunities in every problem; we are constructive and not destructive; we would rather defend than attack; we do not manipulate or persuade, but we educate; we do not struggle, but we strive; we see the long view rather than the immediate. We choose our words carefully, because through thought, act, deed and speech we convey our compassion, our sincerity and our tolerance, and our capacity to heal our wounded nation;
– that we are in this endeavor because we love our COUNTRY, and we are eager to find our true place in the world. Our sense of country is not limited to just our islands, but to the Filipinos found in every corner of the globe, for the influence of the Filipino is actually planetary. Our sense of “what is Filipino” goes beyond region, dialect and citizenship, and deeper into what we can do for our country, more than what it can do for us, what we can do for the world, than what the world can do for us;
– that the ENVIRONMENT is the most pressing underlying factor behind the exigency of our present cause; that we are the Green Team; that we support Life and never exploit Life; that we shall always consider the preservation of our natural resources, the cleanliness of our surroundings, and the love of Nature in every exercise of our campaign, for it is our positive mindset which is needed to save our planet from irreversible destruction;
– that GOD, or a Higher Power, inspires us in all these things; that the victory of a President is not just prescribed by the number of votes garnered or the efficiency of his campaign, but by the guiding hand of destiny and invisible forces we cannot fully explain; and so we fully align ourselves with this Power, which is embodied in Truth, in Justice, and in Peace, because this is what prevails, and we shall, absolutely, prevail.
SO HELP US GOD.
via Manifesto For Positive Campaigning | Filipino Voices.

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Better Class of Politician::Villar ‘deeply hurt’ by Enrile’s ‘false story’ – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

Because I always try to be impartial!!!

Villar ‘deeply hurt’ by Enrile’s ‘false story’
By Maila Ager
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 21:20:00 01/26/2010
MANILA, Philippines—Senator Manny Villar has strongly denied offering help to Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile in exchange of any favors as the C-5 road controversy brews again at the upper chamber.
“I was not asking for any help and not offering anything. No help was asked and none was given,” Villar said in a statement Tuesday.
He said there was no need to ask help from Enrile because “I was confident that the documents, the records, the witnesses, and the rules will prove that the C-5 road project was not double-funded, overpriced or rerouted.”
via Villar ‘deeply hurt’ by Enrile’s ‘false story’ – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos.

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'Avatar' becomes highest-grossing movie

The “King of the World” bets the house and wins again!!!!

“Avatar”; becomes highest-grossing movie
Reuters | 01/27/2010 7:14 AM
LOS ANGELES – Sci-fi spectacular “Avatar” has surpassed “Titanic” to become the highest-grossing movie worldwide, distributor 20th Century Fox said on Tuesday.
The worldwide total for the James Cameron movie stands at $1.859 billion after Monday's sales, beating the $1.843 billion haul racked up by “Titanic” in 1997-1998, said Greg Brilliant, spokesman for the News Corp-owned studio.
The data are not adjusted for inflation.
via ‘Avatar’ becomes highest-grossing movie | ABS-CBN News Online Beta.

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rePost:: – Obama’s Credibility Gap – NYTimes.com

Just wishing that Obama isn’t being like this because he is obsessed with a second term. He should watch the first half of season one of The West Wing. Let Bartlett be Bartlett. Be the best president he can be, not obsess about being a one term president. People are hurting because of the weak job market, no universal healthcare, and the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the worsening conditions in Haiti. We need hope back!!!!!

Mr. Obama may be personally very appealing, but he has positioned himself all over the political map: the anti-Iraq war candidate who escalated the war in Afghanistan; the opponent of health insurance mandates who made a mandate to buy insurance the centerpiece of his plan; the president who stocked his administration with Wall Street insiders and went to the mat for the banks and big corporations, but who is now trying to present himself as a born-again populist.
Mr. Obama is in danger of being perceived as someone whose rhetoric, however skillful, cannot always be trusted. He is creating a credibility gap for himself, and if it widens much more he won’t be able to close it.
Mr. Obama’s campaign mantra was “change” and most of his supporters took that to mean that he would change the way business was done in Washington and that he would reverse the disastrous economic policies that favored mega-corporations and the very wealthy at the expense of the middle class and the poor.
via Op-Ed Columnist – Obama’s Credibility Gap – NYTimes.com.

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rePost::SoCal school district bans the dictionary Boing Boing

I usually erase the tags of the post I repost but the tags were funny. Fuck, these small minded people are starting to irritate me.

Cory Doctorow
POSTED AT 5:06 AM January 26, 2010
Action • betraying our duty to the next generation • bluenose • book • censorship • ignorant • kids • prig • ridiculous • seriously banning the dictionary wtf • socal • stiffnecked • stupid • tightassed • what the hell is wrong with you
SoCal school district bans the dictionary
Southern California's Menifee Union school district has banned the Merriam Webster's 10th edition from use in fourth and fifth grade classes, over this salacious definition of “oral sex”: “oral stimulation of the genitals”.
“It's hard to sit and read the dictionary, but we'll be looking to find other things of a graphic nature,” district spokeswoman Betti Cadmus told the paper.
via SoCal school district bans the dictionary Boing Boing.

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rePost::If Steve Jobs gave the State of the Union address Boing Boing

If only hope’s plan was something Steve Jobs would present. We know he doesn’t like presenting crap!!!!!

You know, it was just a year ago that we announced our economic plan for 2009. We said we were going to turn around the recession. We said we'd create jobs. And we said we'd do it in 12 months. What happened? We did it in three. It was the most successful period in the history of the United States. And 2010 is only going to be better. How awesome is that?
(APPLAUSE.)
How did we do it? Simple. We made a stimulus package. It had the most features of any package we've ever created—more jobs, more money, more everything. We could have stopped there. We could've said, Hey, that was great. Let's go do something else. But you know what? It wasn't enough. The American people deserve something even better and more revolutionary.
via If Steve Jobs gave the State of the Union address Boing Boing.

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rePost::DARPA Works on Reinventing all of Manufacturing Modelled on the Semiconductor Industry to Boost Economic Growth in the USA

This is actually a very worthy proposal.  I suspect that the company of the future would be the individual. As many others have pointed we may all just be free-agents in the future.

DARPA Works on Reinventing all of Manufacturing Modelled on the Semiconductor Industry to Boost Economic Growth in the USA
Popular Science reports – DARPA believes that replicating the semiconductor industry manufacturing model will enable other manufacturing sectors to experience similar economic booms.
Vertical integration has become inefficient, dragging creative companies down with costs associated with maintaining manufacturing facilities. “The seams between each stage of development; between design and prototyping, early production runs, limited, and large scale manufacturing … create extensive rework and are the source of production delays, surprises, and cost overruns,” Dugan said in her statements to PCAST.
The semiconductor industry, on the other hand, designs products and relies on semiconductor foundries to manufacture — even to prototype at the prototype stage — their products. These fabrication-less firms focus on innovating and leave the core manufacturing to the foundries, which distribute their costs across the products of many companies. The result is greater efficiency on both ends; designers focus on innovating and manufacturers are never idle waiting on the next big idea from upstairs.
via DARPA Works on Reinventing all of Manufacturing Modelled on the Semiconductor Industry to Boost Economic Growth in the USA.

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rePost:: » Philippines: “Renewable Marriage Bill”

This law is stupid, the problem is that there is no divorce law, or that annulment is too expensive. This law is wrong in so many levels.

A partylist group in the Philippines wants to introduce a law that would put a ten-year expiration date on marriage contracts. The unique proposal is the group’s answer to lengthy and expensive annulment proceedings in the country. The Catholic-dominated Philippines does not have a divorce law.
According to the group, the “Renewable Marriage Bill” would “spare incompatible couples the expense of lengthy legal proceedings before their marriages are annulled.” The group added that a marriage contract “should be just like a passport or driver’s license. If we are not interested to renew it, then it expires.”
More than 500,000 marriages are administered by the Catholic Church every year with less than 10 percent getting annulled and reported.
via Global Voices Online » Philippines: “Renewable Marriage Bill”.

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rePost::Obama Liquidates Himself – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com

Damn that was fast, bye bye hope!

Obama Liquidates Himself
A spending freeze? That’s the brilliant response of the Obama team to their first serious political setback?
It’s appalling on every level.
It’s bad economics, depressing demand when the economy is still suffering from mass unemployment. Jonathan Zasloff writes that Obama seems to have decided to fire Tim Geithner and replace him with “the rotting corpse of Andrew Mellon” (Mellon was Herbert Hoover’s Treasury Secretary, who according to Hoover told him to “liquidate the workers, liquidate the farmers, purge the rottenness”.)
It’s bad long-run fiscal policy, shifting attention away from the essential need to reform health care and focusing on small change instead.
And it’s a betrayal of everything Obama’s supporters thought they were working for. Just like that, Obama has embraced and validated the Republican world-view — and more specifically, he has embraced the policy ideas of the man he defeated in 2008. A correspondent writes, “I feel like an idiot for supporting this guy.”
Now, I still cling to a fantasy: maybe, just possibly, Obama is going to tie his spending freeze to something that would actually help the economy, like an employment tax credit. (No, trivial tax breaks don’t count). There has, however, been no hint of anything like that in the reports so far. Right now, this looks like pure disaster.
via Obama Liquidates Himself – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com.

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Better Class of Politicians Please::Villar tried to buy me off – Enrile – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

During the meeting, Enrile said, Villar expressed his request “for my help because he was concerned about the investigation.”
“He asserted that he had done nothing wrong and that Senator [Jamby] Madrigal's charges had no basis,” he said.
“I explained to him that since the complaint of Senator Madrigal has been referred to the Committee of the Whole and that the Supreme Court had not issued the temporary restraining order they sought, the hearing must proceed,” he further said.
Enrile said he then “very clearly” and “repeatedly advised” Villar to participate in the proceedings so he could present his case.
“Several times during that meeting, Senator Villar interjected: “Manong, baka naman may maitutulong ako sa inyo. Makakatulong naman ako kung may kailangan kayo [Manong, there might be something I can do to help you. I can help if there’s anything that you need],” Enrile said, recalling their conversation during the meeting.
“I chose to ignore these statements, feeling very uncomfortable. But I told him, Manny, gusto kitang tulungan [I want to help you]. What I can promise you is that I will be fair to you. I will not allow the hearings to go beyond the issues referred to the committee nor for it to be turned into a fishing expedition,” the Senate leader said.
When he repeated his offer, Enrile said he told Villar, “Manny, if I help you, don't worry walang kapalit yun [I ask for nothing in return].”
Enrile sponsored the Committee of the Whole report censuring Villar for allegedly making sure that his real estate company benefit from the right-of-way deals in the C-5 road project. The report has been signed by 12 senators, including Enrile.
via Villar tried to buy me off – Enrile – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos.