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MARAWI PROTEST. Some 3,000 Muslim militants from Marawi City and Lanao del Sur province burn the Israeli and Ameri-can flags at Plaza Cabili, Barangay Banggolo, Monday morning. This is to protest the production and showing of a film that “vandalized” and “discriminated” the Islam religion. Photo by Richel V. Umel
By AL JACINTORegional editor-Zamboanga
COTABATO City––Hun-dreds of angry Muslims protesting the film “Inno-cence of Muslims” burned American flags at a huge
‘Innocence of Muslims’ protests reach Southern Philippines
ANGRY MUSLIMS BURN US FLAGS in Marawi City in Lanao del Sur province in protest to the film “In-nocence of Muslims.” Photo by Al Jacinto
rally on Monday in the southern Philippine city of Marawi.
The violence was trig-gered by the film which mocked Islam. It a lso sparked riots and protests in Yemen, Libya and Egypt
and could spread to other Middle Easter countries, according to the Filipino migrants group called Mi-grante-Middle East.
Filipino Muslims have denounced the film. And others threatened to kill
f i l m m a k e r E g y pt i a n -American Nakoula Basseley Nakoula who is believed behind the “Innocence of Muslims,” and used the name Sam Becile as the film’s director.
The rally attracted more
than 300 people in Marawi, but there were no reports of attacks on US interest in the province where Ameri-can forces maintain small contingent training Filipino troops in anti-terrorism.
The country’s largest
Muslim rebel group, Moro Islamic Liberation Front, has appealed to Muslims not to resort to violence.
“We cannot address vio-lence with violence. Islam is peace and a peaceful protest
By DOUG BERNARDVOANEWS.COM
ONCE AGAIN, the world is learning the hard way that in the tinderbox of religion and politics, the Internet can be gasoline.
Last week’s shocking attack on a US consulate in Benghazi, and the subse-quent killing of US Ambas-sador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other US embassy personnel, has left the world a more confused and angry place.
For the moment, protests that began in Egypt are spreading to US embassies around the world; all seem-ingly over a 14 minute video that claims to be excerpts from a film called “The In-nocence of Muslims.”
Fingers of blame are being pointed in all sorts of directions; among them are those aimed squarely at the Internet and social networking sites for host-ing clips of the “movie” that has hurt and angered
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so many Muslims, and then speeding its spread through social media.
It’s just a fact of life now that, given the right mo-ment, a bit of video that has languished in obscu-rity for months can rocket through the web to millions of people within an hour or two––hardly enough time to even know what it is or where it came from, let alone what it means.
Yet the Internet is also helping to answer those questions, however slowly it’s coming. And much of what people thought they knew about “Innocence of Muslims” simply isn’t true at all.
The producer, a man who called himself Sam Bacile, is apparently Nakoula Bas-seley Nakoula, a bank fraud convict who has used at least a dozen false IDs in the past.
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To advance the farm operations among the residents of Li-bona and Baungon, Bukidnon, the DA-10 has recently given the towns 1 unit each of P 2.06 million-worth of 4WD farm tractor as full grant.
THE Department of Agricul-ture – Regional Field Office 10 (DA-10) through the Agri-Pinoy Corn Program recently awarded two (2) units of four-wheel drive farm tractor totaling to P 4.12 million, one each to the municipalities of Li-bona and Baungon, in the province of Bukidnon. This was officially turned-over through the initiative of Congressman Jesus Em-manuel M. Paras, 1st district of Bukidnon.
The materialized projects run on a 90 horsepower-engine with canopy, trailing harrow, disc plow and trailer equipped with complete tools.
Aware that the province has been recently tested by typhoon Sendong, Con-gressman Paras said that he
2 units farm tractor granted to Bukidnonwas compelled to pour out support to the said towns in order for them to reach their full agricultural potential.
The two (2) units 4WD farm tractor is projected to serve a total of 30 barangays, in which corn, cassava, ba-nana, sweet potato, fruits and vegetables, bamboo crafts, abaca and among others thrive.
With the DA’s newly-in-stalled projects in Bukidnon, DA-10 Regional Executive Director Lealyn A. Ramos is expectant that the local gov-ernment units would muster efforts to allow more of the municipalities’ populace in improving the efficiency of their farm operations, and subsequently, augment their income. This, she added, is aligned with the agricul-ture department’s marching
order of achieving food security and self-sufficiency.
Also noting that the towns have been former recipients of the DA’s inter-ventions, DA-10 Regional Technical Director for Op-erations Engr. Roxana H. Hojas is hopeful that they will show the same com-mitment similar to their previously received projects from the agency. “Kalipay lang namo ang makahatag og dugang serbisyo,” she went on to express.
Accepting the projects in behalf of the farmer-bene-ficiaries are Libona Mayor Leonardo Genesis T. Cal-ingasan and Baungon Vice Mayor Enriqueto E. Beja. In whom, they’ve uttered their utmost commendation to the DA and Congressman Paras for serving as instru-
ments in the realization of projects.
In addition, they’ve both conveyed their optimism that many small-scaled farmers would maximize the use of the lately acquired farm equipment, despite that the availment of its service would entail minimal fees on the farmers’ part.
To guarantee sustain-ability in utilizing the farm tractor, the key officials have also explained that the ser-vice fee would be set aside for its maintenance cost and payment to its operators.
Furthermore, they’ve ar-ticulated their appreciation to the DA and Congress-man Paras in recognizing the essential needs for the promotion and develop-ment of the agricultural sector in their respective
municipalities. Other than the farmer-
beneficiaries, prominent figures present during the turn-over ceremony are Ernesto A. Calingasan, Chief Executive Assistant IV; Fernando P. Ibarita, Sangguniang Bayan Chair
on the Committee of Agri-culture; Edmundo R. Descal-lar, Municipal Agriculturist (Libona); Janel C. Redondo, OIC – Municipal Agricul-turist; and Emmanuel L. Bacarro, Sr. Administrative Assistant III (Baungon). Joanne L. Olson, DA-10
SYMBOLIC TURN-OVER OF KEY OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE 2 UNITS FARM TRACTOR TO BUKIDNON. The towns of Baungon and Libona, in the province of Bukidnon accept and assume full responsibility of the recently awarded 4WD farm tractor from the DA-10 through their key officials. Left photo (L-R) shows Baungon Vice Mayor Beja, 1st district Bukidnon Congressman Paras, DA-10 RED Ramos and DA-10 RTD for Operations Engr. Hojas during the turn-over ceremony at the Municipal Multi-Purpose Training Center at Imbatug, Baungon, Bukidnon. Right photo (L-R) shows Baungon Chief Executive Assistant IV Calingasan, RTD Hojas, Congressman Paras, Baungon Mayor Calingasan and other officials during the turn-over ceremony at the New Municipal Building at Libona, Bukidnon.
DAVAO CITY Agriculture Office chief Leonardo Avila III is eyeing to develop bam-boo as a lucrative industry in the city and eventually in the rest of Davao Region.
He said aside from being a potential source of income, bamboo also has ecological benefits as it minimizes soil erosion and stabilizes river banks.
Having this in mind, Avila looked at China’s strat-egy in boosting its bamboo industry as role model and guide.
Speaking at a press conference Monday, Avila said during a recent visit to China, he learned how the Chinese government planned, supported, and developed Moso (bamboo species in China) to become one of its economic drivers.
“China was able to plan, study, do research on its bamboo, that’s why its bam-boo contributes 15 percent of its Gross Domestic Prod-uct,” Avila said, adding that China’s bamboo industry helped improve the coun-
Davao City agriculturist cites bamboo industry’s economic, environmental benefits
try’s economy.He said doing the same
strategy is possible for Davao City’s bamboo.
“There is a big possibility to adopt similar strategies in Davao City because it has a huge potential for bamboo industry. What we need is research,“ he pointed out.
He said he will include bamboo in the city’s list of priority agriculture products
and industry, conduct an inventory to determine how big are the areas planted to bamboo in the city and to know what bamboo species are being grown in the city.
Bamboo has a variety of economic uses such as for handicraft and furniture; farm implements; fishpen, fish cages and other fish-ing gears; banana props; musical instruments; pulp
and paper; and house con-struction.
Aside from these, young shoots of some species are edible, Avila said.
He noted bamboo shoots are currently being exported to Japan, making bamboo production a potential source of income for agro-forestry farmers.
Avila is looking at the vast banana plantations in Davao Region as a potential local market for bamboo.
Bamboo poles are widely used in banana plantations. With an estimated 100,000 hectares of banana planta-tion in Davao Region, the demand for bamboo of the banana plantations alone is already a big potential market.
Recent report said there are 12 genera, consisting of 49 species of bamboos that are growing in the Philip-pines - 30 erect species and 19 climbing species. Nine erect bamboo species are presently utilized by indus-tries for various purposes. philippine news agency
SCIENCE CITY OF MUNOZ, Nueva Ecija––The Phil-ippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) is asking for students to become infomediaries as a way to help upland farmers gain access to information on rice farming.
PhilRice researcher Jaime A. Manalo IV said the mobilization of the youth to search information, online and offline, would be a big help for upland farmers to acquire new technologies on farming.
“We believe that the high school students can be tapped as facilitators of knowledge sharing, he said, adding that the school should serve as the nucleus of agricultural extension as this is a point of convergence for the farmers’ children.
He said the strategy would also help ease the burden
PhilRice calls for infomediaries for upland farmers
AGRARIAN REFORM is not only land distribution, but a continuing effort to improve the lives of past, present, and future farmer-beneficiaries of the agrarian reform program.
With this statement, Agrarian Reform Secre-tary Virgilio delos Reyes belied reports that about
No mass lay-off, DAR chief says
7,000 to 9,000 employees of his department would be given walking papers as soon as the land distri-bution component of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) expires on June 30, 2014.
The post-2014 scenario is still being crafted by
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OF MALAYBALAY
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Republic of the PhilippinesProvince of Bukidnon
CITY OF MALAYBALAY* * *
Office of the Sangguniang Panlungsod
EXCERPT FROM THE MINUTES OF THE 21ST REGULAR SESSION FOR CY 2012 OF THE FIFTH SANGGUNIANG PANLUNGSOD OF THE CITY OF MALAYBALAY, BUKIDNON, HELD AT THE SP SESSION HALL ON JULY 17, 2012.
PRESENT: Hon. City Vice Mayor Victor P. Aldeguer, Presiding Officer Hon. City Councilor Jay Warren R. Pabillaran Hon. City Councilor Lorenzo L. Dinlayan, Jr. Hon. City Councilor Melchor P. Maramara Hon. City Councilor Fernando O. Melendez Hon. City Councilor George D. Damasco, Sr. Hon. City Councilor Mya Analene D. Rosos-Tenorio Hon. City Councilor Tita Perla E. Rubio Hon. City Councilor Anthony Canuto G. Barroso Hon. City Councilor Jose Medardo M. Estaniel Hon. City Councilor Mishel Caren S. Castilla Hon. City Councilor Benjamin S. Omao, Sr. ABSENT : Hon. City Councilor Roland F. Deticio (Official Business) Hon. City Councilor Bob T. Casanova (Official Business) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
ORDINANCE NO. 750Series of 2012
Sponsored by: Hon. Mya Analene D. Rosos-Tenorio
AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING ALL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES/OFFICES AND PRIVATE ESTABLISHMENTS AND IN-STITUTIONS IN THE CITY OF MALAYBALAY TO ESTABLISH BREASTFEEDING CORNER/ROOM IN THEIR OFFICE/ESTABLISHMENT/INSTITUTION AND PROVIDING THE MECHANISM FOR ENFORCEMENT AND PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS THEREOF
Be it ordained by the Sangguniang Panlungsod of the City of Malaybalay, in session assembled, that:
ARTICLE I-DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES AND POLICIES
SECTION 1. The Philippines is committed to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals No. 1 on reducing hunger and poverty with a measure on reducing child mortality by two thirds by 2015.
SECTION 2. The World Health Organization’s experts have identified breastfeeding as the most cost-effective measure to prevent infant and young child deaths.
SECTION 3. The Department of Health’s National Policy on Infant and Young Child feeding and the Nutritional Guideline of the Philippines (NGP) recommended the following:
a. Breastfeeding initiated within one (1) hour after birth;b. Exclusive breastfeeding for the first six (6) months of life;c. Continue breastfeeding up to two (2) years and beyond with the introduction of safe, affordable
and appropriate complementary food.
SECTION 4. Republic Act No. 10028, an Act expanding the promotion of breastfeeding, amending Republic Act No. 7600, otherwise known as “An Act providing incentives to all government and private health institutions with rooming-in and breastfeeding practices and for other purposes; thus, otherwise known as the Expanded Promotion of Breastfeeding Act of 2009, requires all private and public institutions, medical and non-medical, to set up lactation facilities in the workplace with appropriate lactation program to allow employees to express their milk that would ensure optimum health and proper nutrition of their infants.
SECTION 5. Memorandum Circular No. 2011-54 from the Department of Interior and Local Government emphasizes the implementation and monitoring of the National Policy on Breastfeeding and setting-up of workplace lactation program.
SECTION 6. Breastfeeding is a gender-related concern and should be incorporated in the GAD Plan of all government and private agencies and offices.
ARTICLE II-SCOPE AND COVERAGE
SECTION 7. Scope. This Ordinance shall apply to all government offices and private establishments and institutions operating within the territorial jurisdiction of the City of Malaybalay.
SECTION 8. Facility. It shall be the duty of the employer to provide a breastfeeding room in their office/establishment to allow mothers to either breastfeed their babies whom they bring to work or express their breast milk for giving to infant upon reaching their home. And to allow mothers/customers who visit an office or establishment to breastfeed their babies with the use of the said facility.
SECTION 9. Minimum Requirement. The breastfeeding room shall be private and comfortable to ensure that the health and safety of mothers and their babies are observed. Appropriate breast milk storage, handwashing facility, table and comfortable chairs shall be provided by the employer.
The minimum requirement provided on the setting up of a “Mother-Baby Friendly Workplace” shall be observed. Proper use and maintenance of the facility shall also be observed at all times. The use of the breastfeeding facility shall be free of charge.
ARTICLE III-MECHANISM FOR ENFORCEMENT
SECTION 10. Compliance with this ordinance shall be a requirement for the granting and/or renewal of business licenses and permits. For this purpose, the office of the City Treasurer shall deny new and/or renewal applications for business licenses and permits without the following: a. Certification by the Malaybalay City Health Office on the compliance with this ordinance.
SECTION 11. The City Health Office is hereby authorized to conduct regular visitation and inspection of the breast-feeding room to ensure faithful compliance of this ordinance.
FINAL PROVISIONS
SECTION 12. Penalties. Any person, natural or judicial, found guilty of violating any of the provisions hereof shall be imposed a fine of One thousand (P1,000.00) Pesos for the First Offense, Three Thousand (P3,000.00) Pesos for the Second Offense and Five Thousand (P5,000.00) Pesos for the Third Offense.
SECTION 13. Separability Clause. Should any provision hereof be declared unconstitutional or ultra vires, the others not so declared shall remain in full force an effect.
SECTION 14. Repealing Clause. All other provisions of existing ordinances, resolutions and executive issuances inconsistent with this ordinance are hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly.
SECTION 15. Effectivity. This ordinance shall take effect fifteen days after the same has been published in a news-paper of general circulation in Malaybalay City.
ENACTED. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance is true.
(Sgd.) SEMPORIANA A. PAREDES Sangguniang Panlungsod Secretary APPROVED, JULY 17, 2012:
(Sgd.) VICTOR P. ALDEGUER City Vice Mayor Presiding Officer
APPROVED:
(Sgd.) IGNACIO W. ZUBIRI City MayorMDN: Sept 5, 12 & 19, 2012
LOS Angeles––A group of Filipino American hospital employees in California have won in a case of na-tional origin discrimination and harassment, the Asian Pacific American Legal Cen-ter (APALC) announced here Monday.
The settlement is the largest for a workplace lan-guage discrimination case both in the U.S. west coast and the country’s healthcare service. It is also the largest language rights settlement ever secured by APALC.
The landmark victory was achieved by APALC, a member of the Asian Ameri-can Center for Advancing Justice and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of 69 Filipino Ameri-can hospital employees who were subject to national origin discrimination and
Filipino-American group win apartheid case in California
harassment when the hos-pital singled them out for enforcement of an unlawful English only policy in vio-lation of federal and state law. The Delano Regional Medical Center (DRMC), a hospital in California’s Central Valley, agreed to settle the case by paying the victims a total of 975,000 dollars.
“We believe DRMC en-forced an overly restrictive English only policy against its Filipino American em-ployees and created a work-place environment that was hostile toward them,” said Laboni Hoq, litigation di-rector at APALC.
“This settlement will send a strong message to employers that it is illegal to target workers based on their national origin and will hopefully encour-age more Asian American
and immigrant workers to speak out when their rights are violated, like our brave clients did,” Hoq added.
The lawsuit alleged that the hospital’s selective and discriminatory enforcement of the policy created an in-tolerable work environment for Filipino staff, who were monitored and chastised by supervisors and co-workers who constantly told them to speak English, ridiculed their accents, and humili-ated them in front of their fellow employees.
The hospital allegedly failed to take adequate mea-sures to stop or prevent Filipino employees from being harassed, even after more than 100 Filipino employees complained about discrimination and harassment in a petition they submitted to DRMC management.
SUPREME Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes P. Aranal Sereno has approved the release of fringe benefits for all officials and employees of the Judiciary.
Under the law, a Chief Justice is allowed to grant fringe benefits to court officials and employees of the Judiciary “to help them overcome the present economic difficulties, to boost their morale and to further their commitment and dedication to their jobs.”
Likewise, following the tradition, a new Chief Justice is also allowed to grant a one-time financial assistance to employees on the occasion of his or her appointment.
Based on Memorandum Orders 29-2012 and 29-A-2012, justices, officials and personnel of the SC, Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) will receive P15,000 each, while justices, officials and
personnel of the Court of Appeals (CA), Sandiganbayan and Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) will receive P10,000 each.
The funds will be taken from the Fiscal Management and Budget Office (FMBO) of the SC and the PET’s Fiscal Autonomy Account.
Meanwhile, judges, officials and em-ployees of the lower courts will receive P7,000 each. The funds for these will be sourced from the lower court’s fiscal au-tonomy account. The FBMO has already certified the availability of funds for the financial assistance.
Under the SC’s implementing guide-lines, those who have worked for the Judiciary for at least four months as of Aug. 31, 2012 will receive the amount in full while those who worked less than four months will receive an amount on a pro-rated basis.
Cash benefits for all officials and workers of the judiciary released
WHILE CONDEMNING VIOLENCE AND TER-RORISM AROUND THE WORLD, Western Samar Rep. Mel Senen Sarmiento today said the Philippine Government should take all the necessary steps to insulate the country from similar violence now hap-pening in Libya where a US envoy was killed in a rocket attack.
Sarmiento was react-ing to reports that the US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, was killed when gunmen at-tacked and burned the US consulate in the east-ern city of Benghazi, the center of uprising against
Solon wants MTRCB to safeguard PHL against films,documentaries offensive to Islam, other religion
former strongman Moam-mar Khadaffy in 2011.
The violence report-edly erupted following the showing of a US-made f i lm which r iot-ing militants denounced as insulting the Prophet Mohammad.
“We have to prevent such kind of violence pro-voked by transgressions against religious beliefs. In this case involving our Muslim brothers ,” Sarmiento said.
Sarmiento is urging the government, especially the Movies and Television Review and Classif ica-tion Board (MTRCB), to strictly monitor incoming
films or any documenta-ries that may ignite reli-gious violence.
“We have also our Fili-pino Muslim brothers to protect against religious intrusions,” he said.
R e p o r t s s a i d t h a t clips of the film called “Mohammad, Prophet of Muslims,” had been cir-culating for weeks before the latest violent protests resulted to the attack on the US consulate, killing the American envoy and a consulate official.
Libyan deputy prime minister Mustafa Abu Sha-gour, like President Barack Obama, condemned the killing of the US diplomat.
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THINK a minute.Have you ever pre-
tended to be something you’re not?
Maybe you did it to im-press or please somebody. But the longer we act like someone we’re not, the better we get at it.
We can even get so good at it that we actually fool ourselves and forget who we really are!
It’s sad that the more we hide our real self the more lonely and unsure of ourselves we become.
What mask do you sometimes wear? What kind of person do you pretend to be?
Do you act strong and tough, so people won’t know that ins ide you sometimes feel weak, even afraid? Or do you wear the mask that says you’re a good religious person,
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Wearing masks
even though in your heart you know you’re dishon-est and sometimes lie or cheat other people of their money.
Maybe you wear the funny joker and life-of-the-party mask. You feel like you always need to make a joke of everything so others will laugh and not know how lonely and unhappy you really are inside.
There are many people who get drunk or take drugs because they’re tired
of wearing their mask. And it’s only after some drugs or drinks that they feel free to take their mask off and stop acting like something they’re not.
Some of them are actu-ally desperate and lonely. They’re looking for real love and acceptance, in spite of the bad things they’ve done and who they really are inside.
But it doesn’t matter what you’ve done, you can never shock Jesus Christ. With Him you can be your
real self.The person you really
are under your mask. Real Christians will love and accept you, even though they may not approve of everything you do.
They won’t be shocked by anything you’ve done because some of them used to do those things too, before Jesus forgave them and gave them the power to change.
So won’t you be hon-est with yourself and ask Jesus to forgive you for your past wrongs.
Jesus will accept you just the way you are, but He won’t leave you that way.
He will also free and help you to start changing to reach your potential and become the person He created you to be.
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Falling in a political snake pit
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EVERYONE is now keenly watching the political weather in the country. Unlike the usual daily general weather condition, the political weather changes all the time in most part of the country. These changes in political atmosphere are things that make politics exciting and unpredictable. Misamis Oriental is not an exception.
For instance, Congressman Pedro Unabia, a.k.a. Peter, of Misamis Orien-tal’s first district in the province’s east coast, sudden departure from Padayon Pilipino made ripples in the political circle. It is of public knowledge and the electorates know that Padayon was instrumental in Unabia winning the Congress seat in the 2010 local elections.
There were reports that Unabia joined the adminis-tration’s Liberal Party on condition that Gingoog City Mayor Ruthie Guingona withdraw plans to contest the Congressional post in the province east coast in next year’s mid-term elections. Perhaps, the report holds water since the Guingonas’ are mum on the issue.
Earlier, reports had it that Ruthie, mother of Sen. Teofisto Guingona, III, (LP), planned to run for Congress next year. Unabia must have been threatened with that report that when the Guingona’s offered the deal, he has no choice but accept it. What remained in the minds of Unabia was political survival. However, Unabia might have missed looking deeply into the deal. Whether the Guingonas’ were sincere, some political observers think otherwise. There are insinuations that the Guingonas are not giving up Misamis Oriental that easy.
Now, talks in the political corner persists that Ruthie Guingona is definitely running for Congress for some good reasons. This unlikely scenario might take shape to force Unabia to run for Governor. In a sense, Unabia would be running against Cong. Bambi Emano, of Padayon Pilipino. The point is, the Guingonas want to push Unabia to the wall. In the end, Unabia is left politically deserted.
The idea of Guingona abandoning Unabia is not new in politics. The Guingonas’ had already carved a niche in politics for decades while Unabia is still neophyte. The Guingona would do everything to protect and secure their slot in local politics. Unabia has yet to develop a strong political base, leaders and followers before he could claim success in politics. Winning a first term in Congress is not an assurance of becoming politically formidable. Unabia has fallen in a political snake pit.
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LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “…`And they will go out and look on the dead bod-ies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind’...” (Isaiah 66:24, the Holy Bible).
-ooo-11 YEAR-OLD GIRL
S TA B S FAT H E R T O DEATH: The story of an 11-year old girl from Argao, Cebu, stabbing to death her own father in reaction to the father’s beating the girl’s mother and cutting off the mother’s foot with a hacksaw is heart-rending enough, but the lack of re-morse in the girl for what she did to her father is more mind-blowing.
According to police in-vestigators who took the girl into their custody, the child did not even cry after learning that her father
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died after she stabbed him. Rather, she was more con-cerned about the safety of her mother, on the thought that her future and that of her equally-young siblings would be a lot better if the mother were alive, and the unruly father dead.
Maybe we cannot blame the girl for this thought, for news reports say that the father would often beat the mother in front of their children, on account of the mother being jealous of the father’s relentless woman-izing. And maybe we should really blame the dead father for his unworthy conduct.
But then, this leads us to the question: why are all these happening to our country now?
-ooo-F I L I P I N O S N O W
THINK ONLY OF THEM-SELVES: The problem seems to be that more and more Filipinos now think about nothing more other than their own interests. What is important now to many of us is our own selves---how we can push our own welfare, how we can satisfy our desires, how we can put one over the other fellow, just so we can achieve what we want.
We can see these in our everyday lives. On the road, we can see that drivers and motorists would often cut one another, take the counter-flow and overtake others who are patiently waiting in their lanes, just to be in front of a traffic queue and therefore drive away ahead.
In many public and pri-vate offices, no one wants to attend to people who have transactions to complete, without the usual grease money being given. In our families and inside our own homes, no one wants to do household chores anymore, leaving it to whoever would be minded to do them.
-ooo-G E N E R A T I O N S
GROWING UP WITH-OUT GOD: Why is this happening? Reasons upon reasons will be advanced by the learned and the experts, but I think that this is
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“ONE for you, two for me” this is how it is done! The difference with this fairy tale is that; it is no longer one!
This practice made popular with this mythical character that stood for the poor and the less fortunate proved to be our hero the world over. Our morals and our values stood for what was right and what was justified.
Ironically Robin, the thief was moralized over the century to be the “do-gooder” rather than the rebel who renounced his leaders.
Like many a fairy tale, our values were established by what is correct regardless of the odds that faced them.
Sadly, it is no longer the case today. Our leaders especially those sitting in power with the mandates given them by the electorate have corrupted this ideal POLITICIANS | page 9
from its spirit.The Robin Hood notion of steal from the rich and
give to the poor is but a myth. In reality it is to steel from government and give to the poor which shouldn’t be all that bad except for the calculations which have likewise changed.
It is one for you and two for me, and by this we mean two for me and one for you being the rich replaced by the government coffers that to begin with are the people’s money anyway.
What is even more alarming is the Robin Hoods of today paste their photos all over the country stating it is they who give to the poor by stealing from the poor.
The practice of handing out cash directly to the poor is the practice today. What is baffling is how these politi-cians are able to account for funds they have stolen to give to their constituents.
Sure cash advances given to the people is not by
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StatementStatementTHE SUCCESSFUL passage through the legislative mill and their immediate sign-ing into law by President Benigno S. Aquino III of bills affecting the media and their fundamental task of gathering and disseminat-ing information, among them the Data Privacy Act (Republic Act 10173) last August, and the Cybercrime Prevention Act (RA 10175) this September, suggests how restrictive rather than expansive is the mindset of the country’s legislators, and of Mr. Aquino himself when it comes to enshrining in the law those principles—ac-countability and transpar-ency, press freedom and free expression, etc.—to which he has repeatedly declared he is committed.
RA 10173 and 10175 breezed through both houses of Congress within months after they had been introduced in 2011, and ap-parently were in no danger of being vetoed once they reached Mr. Aquino’s desk.
The Data Privacy Act, among other provisions, pe-nalizes those in government who release information of a personal nature, which seems a reasonable enough restriction in behalf of the right to privacy—until one recalls that information on the personal lives of government officials often has a bearing on their per-
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formance as public servants accountable to the citizenry, and is therefore among the legitimate concerns of the news media.
The Cybercrime Pre-vention Act, meanwhile, incorporates the 82-year old libel law in the Revised Penal Code (RPC) in including libel among the crimes that may be committed through the use of computers.
Under the provisions of the RPC on libel, the penalty for violators is imprison-ment of six months for every count of libel committed. Libel as a criminal offense has been used by past ad-ministrations as well as local officials today to harass and intimidate journalists.
The outstanding example of its use against journalists was the filing by Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo of 11 libel suits against 46 journal-ists during the disputed presidency of his wife Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. And yet Congress has through the decades ignored the demand from journalists and human rights groups for the decriminalization of libel.
Compare the speed with which RA 10173 and RA 10175 were passed—in both instances with only perfunc-tory public hearings—with
the difficulties Congress is having with passing a Freedom of Information Act (FOI), and with Mr. Aquino’s by now obvious aversion to it.
And yet certain honor-able members of Congress have not been miserly with their lip service to the al-leged need for an FOI.
As for Mr. Aquino, since he became President he has stopped talking about the need for one, after pledging during the 2010 campaign for the Presidency that he was all for it in behalf of transparency and as a means of insuring government accountability.
The bottom line, appar-ently, is that neither Con-gress nor Mr. Aquino want an FOI act passed, period.
The passage of the Cy-bercrime Prevention Act also suggests among other possibilities that both Con-gress and Mr. Aquino have chosen to ignore the 2011 declaration of the United Nations Human Rights Committee that the Phil-ippine libel law is excessive because it penalizes viola-tors with imprisonment, contrary to the human rights protocols to which the Philippines is a signa-tory, and therefore must at least be reviewed towards decriminalizing libel.
Either that , or the authors of the bills, and
Mr. Aquino himself, are unfamiliar with both the UNHRC declaration, as well as with the long-standing demand to decriminalize libel in order to put an end to the use of the libel law to intimidate and silence journalists.
Apparently there is little hope that libel will ever be decriminalized, RA 10175 having in effect further strengthened it by widening its application.
Finally, a word of cau-tion. RA 10175 is the first law affecting communica-tion through cyberspace that has been passed in this country since the eCom-merce Act of 2000.
Prior to its passage, the Philippines had been dis-tinguished among its Asian neighbors for the absence of regulatory legislation affecting the Internet.
It can signal the opening of the floodgates of Internet regulation that will affect Filipino netizens, given the restrictive mindset of the country’s leaders.
It is a distinct possibility to which journalists and bloggers, ordinary citizen and anyone committed to free expression through whatever medium, should be alert, and must be prepared to combat.
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MARAWI City––Some 100 soldiers and CAFGUs of the 51st Infantry (Fuerte Uno) Battalion, Philippine Army, underwent an orientation-workshop on “rido” or family feud and conflict management, September 9 this year.
Lt. Col. Ceasar Marlon M. Yadao, the battalion com-mander, said the one-day activity was conducted, in partnership with the Reconciliatory Initiatives for De-velopment Opportunities (RIDO) Inc. and the Depart-ment for International Development (DFID), through the Asia Foundation.
“It was aimed at raising the awareness of our soldiers on the causes of clan wars, principles and approaches of rido resolution and traditional conflict mediation,” said Lt. Col. Yadao.
The soldier-participants were also given practical ex-ercises involving their personal experiences in resolving conflicts within their respective families, the community and the Philippine Army itself.
Lt. Col. Yadao expressed optimism that with the non-government organizations around, such as the RIDO Inc., and the constant dialogues with stakehold-ers, whatever conflict among families can be resolved in peaceful manner.
The 51st Infantry (Fuerte Uno) Battalion is based in Malabang town, Lanao del Sur. (51st IB/EOR/APB-PIA10/asf)
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ZAMBOANGA City - OIC Governor Mujiv S. Hata-man of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mind-anao (ARM), steadfast in his commitment to uplift the lives of his people, has entered into agreement with Basilan Province for the implementation of the DSWD-ARMM Stimulus Fund Program (SFP).
SFP is a modified shelter assistance, with the Habi-tat for Humanity; cash-for-work; supplementary feeding program; day care center construction; and sustainable livelihood proj-ects, all amounting to more than P134 million.
Yesterday, Governor Hataman signed a Mem-orandum of Agreement
Stimulus Fund Program MOA inked
(MOA), with officials of DSWD-ARMM, headed by OIC Vice Governor and Concurrent Regional Sec-retary Hadja Bainon Karon and Basilan LGUs, led by Governor Jum Akbar.
“Gusto ni Presidente na ma-fast-track ang im-plementation at magiging sustainable ang projects. That’s why all stakeholders are here. Malaking bagay ito sa development at sa pag-angat ng buhay ng ating mga kababayan,” Hataman said.
In the same event, the 55th Engineering Con-struction Brigade turned over 38 day care centers to DSWD ARMM, as part of the stimulus package for the school children of Basilan. (RGAA Go/asf)
CAMP Evangelista, Cagay-an de Oro City –The 4th Civil-Military Operations Battalion of 4th Infantry “DIAMOND” Division has lectured Cultural Sensitivity to students of the Restruc-tured Reenlistment Training at the NCO Clubhouse, yesterday morning.
The activity was aimed at making the soldiers aware
THE Department of En-vironment and Natural Resource (DENR) as an active partner and partici-pant of the International Coastal Clean-up (ICC), is announcing that the schedule of the 27th Inter-national Coastal Clean-up has been moved to October 06, 2012.
The date of the activity which is regularly held on the third Saturday of September each year was moved due to the volume and consistency of waste
International coastal clean-up,climate change consciousness week
brought in our coastal ar-eas by the recent typhoon “Habagat”.
The local theme of the 27th International Coastal Clean-up (ICC) is “Bayani-han para sa sa Karagatan”.
The Philippines has been a major participant in the ICC generating 5000 volunteers in Metro Manila alone in last year’s ICC.
Partners, include vari-ous government agencies, academe, civic organiza-tions and civil society.
The change of schedule
for the ICC is to ensure the safety and health of the volunteers from water transmissible diseases and debris that could harm the volunteers.
In another develop-ment, Presidential Procla-mation No. 1667 declared November 19-25 of every year as the Global Warm-ing and Climate Change Consciousness Week.
Proclamation no. 1667 aims to create awareness on global warming and climate change through
broad and intensive In-formation Education and Communication (IEC) and seek to secure the collective cooperation of all citizens and include the collective efforts of the private and the public sectors.
The Department of En-vironment and Natural Re-sources -10 (DENR-10) will be actively supporting the observance of the Climate Change Consciousness Week and ask the public to also observe and support this endeavor.
4ID develops culturally-sensitive soldiersBy LT. COL. EUGENIO JULIO C. OSIAS
of the different ways of life, beliefs, customs and tradi-tions of a particular group of people within the 4ID area of responsibility.
A total of 107 RRT stu-dents have attended the activity and learned the vari-ous ways on how to mingle with the locals, without necessarily violating their unwritten rules.
During the occasion, Brigadier General Romeo L Gapuz, 4ID acting com-mander, said “your soldiers of today always make them-selves aware of the unwritten rules of the people they will be dealing with, a practice that aims to establish good relationship with the people they serve.”
He further said, “we
assure the public that the soldiers will always adhere to the customs and tradi-tions of different groups of people.”
He encouraged all sol-diers to use whatever they have learned, “as this will make your dealings with our people trouble-free and will make your job easier.” (EJCO IV/asf)
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By BEN D. ARCHERegional editor-Davao
DAVAO City––The Metro Davao Medical and Re-search Center has widened its services by opening its Health and Wellness Center and Ancillary Department in JP Laurel Avenue here recently.
Dr. Yvette Yanco-Tan, the center’s medical direc-tor said the idea of setting up a medical facility came after the dengue outbreak in 2010. She said they aimed to provide Davao residents best medical as-sistance.
With the opening of additional services, Tan said at least 2,000 work ap-plicants swarmed the center to avail job vacancies.
Davao medical facility unveils new expansion
The hospital has 152 bedrooms with multi-level parking space which can accommodate around 80 cars at a time.
This is the only medical facility in the city having a ramp extending from the ground floor up to the 8th floor that could give convenience to differently-abled patients.
“It is a hospital that gives “healthcare with a heart,” Tan said.
“Medical health care has always been a concern not only in Davao but also the rest of the country. The facility will provide an additional choice, as well as to attend to the needs of the growing population of the city in terms of health care,” she added.
By BEN D. ARCHERegional editor-Davao
DAVAO City––The Com-mission on Higher Educa-tion (CHED) in Region 11 has transferred to its new office building inside the compound of the University of Southeastern Philippines (USEP) in Barrio Obrero here.
CHED chief Patricia Licuanan graced the bless-ings of the new building recently together with the top school officials from private tertiary institutions, and state universities and colleges in the region.
After years of occupy-ing a rented office, CHED Davao finally entered into a 25-year agreement for the use of the 500 sq. meter property owned by USEP.
Licuanan said the new home will help improve CHED’s services in order to
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achieve its goal in becoming a performing agency.
“The building is a mile-stone for CHED in the re-gion,” Licuanan added.
CHED-11 education spe-cialist chief Edward Aquino, and the current OIC regional director said the new build-ing is spacious and a more conducive workplace.
The government spent some P27 million for the t hre e-s tore y bui ld ing sourced from the General Appropriations Act.
Occupying the first floor of the building is the ad-ministrative offices, the technical department in the second floor while the third floor serves as the function room which can accommodate at least 150 persons.
CHED spent about 14 years in a rented home in-side the Juna Subdivision in Matina this city.
LGU-FUNDED FIRE STATION. Fire Chief Inspector Franklin O. Ratunil, administrative officer of the Bureau of Fire Protec-tion in Region 10 (facing the camera), and Fire Chief Inspector Alan C. Cabot, provincial fire marshall of Bukidnon (back to camera), thank Lantapan Mayor Godofredo I. Balansag (left) for constructing a new municipal fire station out of LGU funds, worth P450,000. Photo taken before the blessing of said edifice, September 4. Photo by Engr. Noli dela Rita, BFP-10
By BEN D. ARCHERegional editor-Davao
DIGOS City––A resident physician proclaimed a man engaged in money lending dead on arrival at the hos-pital after he was gunned down by unidentified as-sailant while relaxing in his own backyard in Purok
Money lender shot dead inside his backyardNangka, Barangay San Jose this city the other day.
In a police report, the victim identified as Ro-del Elorza, 27, single, and resident of same place was shot twice by one of the killers who alighted from a motorcycle parked near his house.
The victim acquired two
gunshot wounds in the face and abdomen.
Suspects immediately fled to the direction of a nearby barangay.
N e a r b y r e s i d e n t s brought the victim to the hospital but died shortly before reaching Sunga Hospital.
Two empty shells of
a .45 caliber pistol were recovered by police in the crime scene.
Investigators believed that the victim’s business may have motivated crime. Follow-up investigation have been conducted to establish the real motive and to arrest the suspects culprits.
MAYOR Vicente Y. Emano, Vice Mayor Caesar Ian E. Acenas, city councilors, department heads and City Hall employees will be at F.S. Catanico on Thursday, Sept. 20, to deliver basic government services to constituents of the barangay.
During the outreach program, residents can avail of medical and dental services to be provided by teams from the City Health Office and J.R. Borja General Hospital and services provided by the City Veterinary Office and Agricultural Productivity Office.
Those needing permits and licenses can also secure these as the Office of the Building Official, City Treasurer and other concerned offices will be there to serve them.
Meanwhile, the City Social Welfare and Development Office will provide supplemental feeding and distribute packs of rice to poor families.
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THE House of Repre-sentatives has approved on second reading a prop osa l to fur ther amend Republic Act 9520, otherwise known as the Philippine Coop-erative Code of 2008, to strengthen the loan portfolio of coopera-tive banks by allowing fore ign investments thereby signif icantly improving its capacity to support economic endeavors in the coun-tryside.
The approved mea-sure, House Bill 6481, substituted House Bill 5989 authored by Reps. Jose Ping-ay and Cre-sente Paez (Party-list, COOP-NATCCO).
The bill’s plenary ap-
proval was endorsed by the House Committee on Cooperatives Develop-ment chaired by Rep. Ping-ay.
Ping-ay said the mea-sure aims to enhance the financial capacity of cooperative banks in providing loans with reasonable terms sup-porting the economic growth of its partners in the local communities.
Ping-ay added that the bill will provide link-age as the government’s retailer of funds in order to enhance the viability of cooperatives as an economic enterprise.
The bill allows for-eign cooperative or-ganizations to become a regular or associate member of cooperative banks.
The bill sets the max-imum limit for the quali-fied foreign cooperative investor at 40% of the voting shares for the cooperative bank.
The bi l l s eeks to exempt loans, credit accommodations and guarantees extended by the cooperative bank to its primary coop-erative members from the DOSRI l imits as provided in Section 36 of the General Bank-ing Act.
The measure also pro-vides for the strengthen-ing of the cooperative bank’s regulatory capital requirement by not de-ducting the loans, credit accommodations and guarantees extended by cooperative banks to its primary cooperative
members.It further encourages
local banking institu-tions, whether private or government to de-posit with the coopera-tive banks at least 25% of their total loanable funds under the Agri-Agra Reform Credit Act of 2000.
The bill also clari-fies the privileges and incentives of coopera-tive banks.
Co-authors of the measure are Reps. Isidro Lico (Party-list, Ating Koop), Isidro Ungab (3rd District , Davao City), George Arnaiz (2nd District, Negros O r i e n t a l ) , A g a p i t o Guanlao (Party-list, Bu-til) and Carlos Padilla (Lone District, Nueva Vizcaya).
House okays repealto cooperative code far as Ayala and Vitali
distr ic ts , Apolinario said.
The warning notices were an offshoot of in-spections done by a task force created to check on illegally-operating b u s i n e s s e s t a b l i s h -ments.
The t ask force i s composed of represen-tatives from the City Administrator’s Office, City Legal Office, City Treasurer’s Office, City Engineer’s Office and City Permits Division under the Office of the mayor among others.
Last June, the city government ordered the immediate closure of at least 30 business establishments to in-clude restaurants and internet cafes located in the city proper also for operating without business permits and other requirements.
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ZAMBOANGA City––The city government on Monday warned opera-tors of at least 30 busi-ness establishments in this southern port city to immediately comply with requirements or face sanctions that in-clude closure.
Assistant City Ad-ministrator Elmeir Apo-l inario said warning notices have been sent to businessmen giving them two weeks within which to comply with the requirements.
“Closure orders will follow after two weeks if they continue to op-erate without business permits ,” Apolinario said.
The erring business establishments include karaoke bars, internet cafes and dormitories operating within the seven-kilometer radius and those operating as
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THE local stocks ended Tuesday on the red while the peso traded sideways as investors remain at the sidelines given the negative developments overseas.
The composite index slid by 0.37 percent or 19.77 points to 5,331.13 points from the previous day’s 5,350.90 level.
Also, the all shares index contracted by 0.27 percent or 9.45 points to 3,543.30 points from Tuesday’s 3,552.75 points.
The mining and oil, and the property indices registered gains contrary to the rest of the sectoral indices namely the financials, industrial, holding firms and services, which all tracked the main index.
Value turn-over reached P6.58 billion
after 1.67 billion shares changed hands.Among the most active stocks are the
BPI, Metrobank, Ayala Land, PLDT, BDO, Alliance Global, SMIC, Ayala Corporation, EDC, and Security Bank.
Meanwhile, the local currency moved sideways after closing at 41.75 from Mon-day’s 41.61 finish.
It started the day at 41.70, a far cry from day-ago’s 41.33 opening level.
Its strongest trade for the day stood at 41.67 while weakest was at 41.78 resulting to an average of 41.72.
Volume of trade amounted to US$ 884.6 million, higher than the US$ 700.58 million. philippine news agency
Stocks, peso move sideways
By SULEIMAN WALI
US PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA filed a broad com-plaint against China with the World Trade Organiza-tion Monday, accusing the world’s largest automobile producer of billions in il-legal subsidies for exports of cars and car parts.
“Those subsidies directly harm working men and women on the assembly line in Ohio and Michigan and across the Midwest. It’s
Obama files trade case vs. Chinanot right; it’s against the rules; and we will not let it stand,” Obama said in Ohio, a critical battleground state in November’s presidential election and one of the na-tion’s largest automotive industry suppliers.
Obama’s challenger in the presidential election, Re-publican Mitt Romney, has repeatedly accused Obama of not being tough enough against China on trade.
Obama has accused Romney of shipping Ameri-
can jobs abroad during his tenure at Bain Capital, a multi-million-dollar private equity firm.
“You can’t stand up to China when all you’ve done is send them our jobs,” Obama said.
“You can talk a good game. But I like to walk the walk, not just talk the talk.”
Romney responded in a statement, saying that
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Nakoula, as Bacile, told the Wall Street Journal that he was an Israel real estate agent who had gone into hiding in the Middle East.
It turns out that Nakoula, whose identity has been confirmed by federal au-thorities, is a 55-year-old Egyptian-American who in 1997 was convicted of intent to manufacture meth-amphetamine.
He resides in Southern California and is said to be in his house, surrounded by a platoon of reporters.
The original casting call for “Innocence of Muslims” was for a film then titled “Desert Warrior” and billed as a “historical desert drama set in the Middle East.”
Its director is said by crew to have been beyond incompetent; its script
Protest...from page 1
is better that a violent protest to express disgust,” Von Al-Haq, a spokesman for the MILF which is cur-rently negotiating peace with Manila, told the Min-danao Examiner.
In Zamboanga City where the US military main-tains a base, local army commanders assured the safety of American forces.
“Forced protection is in-tegral to US forces activities in Mindanao. Even before the attack of their embassy (in Libya), they have been implementing strict secu-rity procedures to protect their soldiers, equipment and temporary facilities. They do not move around without their AFP and PNP counterparts and make the necessary coordination if they require additional se-curity,” said a statement released by the Western Mindanao Command.
John Leonard Montero-na, Migrante-Middle East regional coordinator, said Filipino workers abroad should stay vigilant amid the growing anti-US protests over the film.
“To emphasize the need to be safe and to secure our-selves from harm and violent acts, we strongly urge our fellow OFWs to stay clear of protesting crowds espe-cially near the diplomatic posts of the US and similar
Pinoys...from page 4
because generations and generations of Filipinos have grown up without be-ing taught that it is not only the self which is important but the nation as well.
And why did this hap-pen? Simply because most of us grew up as “rebels”, without being taught any-more that there is a God who will account for all the things that we did. In fact, no Filipino family talks about God anymore. No Filipino father or mother teaches their children any-more that one day we will all die, and then face God and make an accounting of ourselves.
With many of us not being taught about God---and with many of us not being taught to listen to God through His Bible, and not being taught to obey Him in His commands---it is no wonder that many of us have grown rebel-lious with criminal, and yes, Satanic and devilish, minds, capable of doing evil things. Indeed, hell with its fire and worms is waiting for many Filipinos.
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Politicians...from page 4
any way appropriated in any government budget allocation. How the Com-mission of Audit must be blind to this activity never identifying the cheats who give daily to the poor is questionable.
Unless you are not in the know, here are some simple facts about a regu-lar day in office to most politicians. People queue daily to ask monies from their politicians who they expect to retrieve funds for their requirements justified or otherwise. And should they not be able to extract funds because they are in dire need, they bounce back with their votes come elec-tion day.
While this is a fault of the masses, they neverthe-less drive these politicians who make magic to provide these funds for the needy. But are our politicians given this budget to appropriate cash directly to their chosen poor?
I think not, unless you are calling attention to the newfound CCT program which by the way has a semblance of controls and assessments. This is how bailiwicks are created and this is the reason it is per-ceived to be wasteful should you not field family to take over ones political position because you have already
changed daily but never had a word to say about Islam or the prophet.
Actors such as Cindy Lee Garcia say Bacile lied to them about the film’s intent––and then poorly dubbed over much of their original dialogue with in-flammatory dialogue (ana-lysts at On The Media have documented many of these clumsy dubs, and what the actors were actually saying.)
“Bacile” told the AP he raised $5 million dollars for the movie from Jewish donors, but anyone who has seen even 30 seconds of the shooting on YouTube can attest that it looks like it cost $5.
Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center doubts both the price tag and the involvement of any Jewish contributors.
He said: “The fact some-one out there ascribed this to Jews is classic anti-Semitic blood libel.”
Even calling it a movie feels like an untruth.
The Los Angeles Times reports that “Innocence” played just once earlier this year in a seedy theater on Hollywood Boulevard to an audience of less than 10.
“The acting was ama-teurish, the dialogue clunky and the costumes no better than those sold for Hallow-een,” wrote Phil Willon and Rebecca Keegan.
They’re being generous, judging by the two clips posted on July 2 by YouTube user “sambacile.”
As of Tuesday (Septem-ber 12), the video only had generated 55,000 views (ris-ing to 2,600,000 by Friday).
Although production values vary from nation to nation, its hard to imagine anyone connected to the web could view them as anything other than amateur nonsense.
“The movie is disgust-ing, offensive, and clearly intended for no other rea-son than to anger people,” wrote Libyan journalist Sarah Abdurrahman. “It is unfortunate that there were some out there who took the bait.”
In short, nearly every-thing about “Innocence” looks like a fraud, and one apparently designed solely to stir up as much hurt and
anger as possible. Mission accomplished.
The Internet undeniably has helped spread that out-rage with lightning speed to many more millions that might ever before have heard about it, much less actually viewed it.
However, the web is now also helping to shine a light on that fraud, and dispel as many of the rumors as possible, for those willing to listen.
As we’ve noted many times before, the Internet by itself is neither good nor evil; it merely amplifies the tendencies and qualities of those using it.
Next week, we hope to look deeper into the role and responsibilities of so-cial media in playing up, or knocking down events such as this.
establishments as targets of massive protests.”
“Once again, we strongly advised our fellow Filipinos in the Middle East to be respectful of the host gov-ernment state religion and their symbols,” Monterona said, adding that Filipinos abroad must refrain from maligning any religion and their prophets as what In-nocence of Muslims had disrespectfully conveyed.
“Our Muslim broth-ers won’t rise up in arms for nothing. Certainly, the movie Innocence of Mus-lims had done wrong or maliciously conveyed that is something protesting or even revolting courtesy of some war-monger US propagandists,” Monterona said in a statement to the Mindanao Examiner. (Min-danao Examiner)
invested into the poor.Now you tell me––is
this the way it will always be with our politics? To keep quite is to accept the fact and agree with it, to make noise and be a body politic is to do the right thing. Which one are you? FYI a deafening silence is unacceptable.
Trade...from page 6
Obama has waited too long to take action.
“I will not wait until the last months of my presi-dency to stand up to China, or do so only when votes are at stake,” he said.
While the trade case comes less than two months before the presidential elec-tion, it is nevertheless a sign of a greater willingness by Western governments to confront China, the New York Times reported.
According to Scott Paul, executive director of the Washington, DC-based American Alliance of Manu-facturing (AAM), the case is the culmination of more than two years’ information that shows a dramatic spike in increased and cheaper Chinese auto imports.
“Between 2009 and 2011, we’ve seen a 25 percent surge in Chinese auto im-ports in the U.S.—and it’s not because they can make them any better than us,” Paul said.
“These practices directly affect 1.5 million American workers who are employed in the automotive industry.”
Based on a study con-ducted by AAM, more than 400,000 jobs in the U.S. auto supply chain have been lost since 2000.
The organization partly blames this loss on China’s persistent violation of WTO rules.
In 2009, the Obama administration extended emergency loans to U.S. automakers GM and Chrys-ler—a move that prevented the collapse of one of the biggest American industries.
According to Paul, that bailout was not a viola-tion of WTO rules and, in fact, offered tax credits to foreign-owned car compa-nies to conduct business in the United States.
“The Chinese auto in-
dustry is receiving illegal benefits through tax re-bates and targeted subsidies, which is a practice that is in direct violation of WTO rules that they’ve agreed to. This distorts the balance of trade throughout the world,” Paul said.
Despite the fact that it may take the WTO more than a year to reach a deci-sion in the subsidies viola-tion case, Paul said it still provides a warning to China.
“This puts them on no-tice that the international community is watching them. And I don’t think this will be the only case that comes out against them. I believe it’s just the tip of the iceberg.” (PNA/RIA Novosti)
Farmers...from page 2
of agricultural techni-cians to individually visit the upland rice farmers and help reduce cost in extension work.
Manalo also said the youth-as-infomediaries strategy sits well with the PhilRice Farmers’ Text Center (PFTC), a texting facility that answers all queries on rice farming and has 30,000 registered users.
At present, he said a similar strategy is now being tested in Aurora and in Tacurong City, Sultan Kudarat through the “Sagot ko ang Magulang ko,” a campaign that trains high school students to search rice farming information for their parents.
Lay-off...from page 2
the land management and the rural development agencies, particularly the DAR, Department of Agriculture (DA), the Depart-ment of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Land Registration Authority (LRA), in close coordination with the Depart-ment of Budget and Management (DBM). What is envisioned is a strategic and efficient set of re-configured agencies that deal with agricultural policy, social justice, land distribution, land manage-ment, and land registration. There are no concrete plans yet and this is still being discussed. The post-2014 will definitely consider the interests of all stakeholders, particularly the welfare of the employees.
“Definitely, there is no mass lay-off at the Department of Agrar-ian Reform (DAR),” Delos Reyes said.
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BusinessWeek Mindanao Publisher and head of Sudaria Group of Newspaper Mr. Dante Sudaria (fourth from left) strikes a pose with the pupils from Tablon Elementary School with Training Director for Broadcast Joe Felicilda (left) and Mrs. Rose Sudaria, Training Director for Print.
By ALLAN M. MEDIANTE, Executive Editor
EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM, writing or any other media skills does not happen overnight. In
some cases, innate talent and natural flair may be considered, but generally, it must come from education and ex-perience.
Media Center Exec. Director Allan M. Mediante gives his message to 46 participants of Basic Journalism from Bukidnon National High School, Malaybalay, Bukidnon State Univ., San Fernando NHS, Impasugong NHS, and Alae NHS last July 16, 2012.
Training Director for Broadcast Joe Felicilda delivering a lec-ture to pupils from various public schools in Cagayan de Oro City. The latest seminar on Radio Reporting was held at the BWM Media Center on September 9, 2012.
Mindanao Daily News editor in chief Ruel V. Pelone gave lec-tures on newswriting and layout to 46 participants of Basic Journalism from Bukidnon National High School, Malaybalay, Bukidnon State Univ., San Fernando NHS, Impasugong NHS, and Alae NHS at the Media Center.
Appreciating assign-ments as writers, report-ers and editors start at any given time. It could start with young minds, teenagers, the middle age group or even seniors. Love for writing, once ingrained in one’s self, never dies.
A journalist never grow old, it won’t even fade away like soldiers, and it would never die even if massacred. For a journalist is an im-mortal icon, not a mere flesh.
In this age of modern and hi-tech informa-tion, media indulgence has become a preoccu-pation by almost any-body. Journalism has ceased to be an elitist preoccupation of sorts because it has become the interest of the whole populace.
From a strict-watch-
dog genre, journalism has branched out into several information branches and advoca-cies. Thus, we now have civic, citizen, and com-munity journalism, en-vironmental and health journalism, government press organizations, and even military and rebel press corps.
Not to be outdone, the political machiner-ies have organized their own media bureaus.
The business com-munities too have in-stalled their own media departments.
All schools now have their own newspapers and magazines. Our planet have become a media world.
T h i s re a l i t y h a s prompted the Sudaria Group of Publications to establish “The Media Center.”
As part of its corpo-rate social responsibil-ity, BusinessWeek Min-danao, Mindanao Daily News, Mindanao Star Balita, Cagayan Times, and BWM Magazine, has started operation of the Media Center with trainings, semi-nars, and lectures on almost all journalistic persuasion, i.e. Broad-
cast journalism, Basic Journalism for Print and Radio, News writing, feature writing, edito-rial writing, lay-out and design, photography and photojournalism, video production, on-line publication and programming.
The Media Center has already held sev-eral press-conferences,
seminars with the Phil-ippine Press Institute, Basic Journalism series of lectures with work-shops for high school and elementary school campus writers, and radio and broadcast trainings for elementary pupils. Yes, we even start them young.
“We grow minds,” not only for young people
but even for adults. Edu-cation and learning on journalism is a continu-ing process.
The growing of the minds is an endless ca-pability-building task. It has become one of our social responsibility.
The BWM Media Center has its own pool of trainers, all seasoned journalists.
Media Center Exec. Director Allan M. Mediante gives his messageto 46 participants of Basic Journalism from Bukidnon NationalHigh School, Malaybalay, Bukidnon State Univ., San Fernando NHS, Impasugong NHS, and Alae NHS last July 16, 2012.
Training Director for Broadcast Joe Felicilda delivering a lec-ture to pupils from various public schools in Cagayan de Oro City. The latest seminar on Radio Reporting was held at theBWM Media Center on September 9, 2012.
Mindanao Daily News editor in chief Ruel V. Pelone gave lec-tures on newswriting and layout to 46 participants of BasicJournalism from Bukidnon National High School, Malaybalay, Bukidnon State Univ., San Fernando NHS, Impasugong NHS,and Alae NHS at the Media Center.
With Training Assistant Arjay S. Felicilda (standing le ), BWM Media Center CEO Dante M. Sudaria (standing 5th from right), Training Facilitator Joe del Puerto Felicilda (standing right) and Training Assistant Irene Domingo (seated right), the par cipants strike a pose during the Orienta on on Radio Broadcas ng, with Focus on Radio News Scriptwri ng, September 18, 2012 par- cipated by 17 government informa on offi cers from DAR 10 and 13, DA 10, DILG 10, CHR 10, DENR 10, DOST 10, COWD and
LGU Surigao del Norte.
Par cipants doing the structured learning exercise, led by Ms. Mary Jul Escalante (right), provincial informa on offi cer of Surigao del Norte.
Facilitator Joe del Puerto Felicilda explains, “The program anchor has no right, whatsoever, to draw any quarrel with the interviewee.”
BWM Media Center CEO Dante M. Sudaria thanking the par ci-pants for responding to the training invita on even as he urges them to translate whatever knowledge gained to their counter-parts in agencies they represent.
The Radio Broadcasting Orientation conducted by BusinessWeek Mindanao Advertising and Promo-tions Media Center on Septembr 18, 2012 would greatly help us in reaching out to our beneficiaries, especially in terms of information dissemination utilizing radio.” (P I O G E. M , DAR-A N )
“I have learned the many types and styles of writing for broadcast, which is so much different from writing for print. I’m now ready to apply what I have learned. Not only were we taught broadcast writing, but we were given lessons on what to do when we go on-air, either as guest or as program host.” (R I O T S B , D S T , R 10)