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I promise you Lorenzo, there is no case which can be brought in court because of this comment.

Just tell me what is the violation for this comment?, " Religion flies you into buildings"?
and why is it offensive to Muslims?

I dont know where is the violation of religious rights  in the above mentioned comment?

Is this racial, sectorally, class offensive?

but under which violation is done with this comment, " Religion flies you into buildings"?

aduy,

that was meant for a joke.

I just notice guys, and please dont take any offense. There are people who just come in because of this thread.

Is it because chat services are disabled in call centers? that is why this became a chat- update forum of the Call Center Agent Murder Case?

I would like to invite you to other threads, maybe some are boring, but try to take a look, maybe there is one or two which fits your taste.


Salamat.

There are angels bran.  More than the human angels around us, who make us laugh and smile, there are angels who protect us.

Like every pampered baby, we have nannies, and they are our angels.  That is how God loves us.

Let me share my part.

It is not easy to be alone in a foreign land like Germany.  And being alone on the streets is horrible.
I normally take public transportation since I do not have the resources to buy a car. 

I call God's angel everytime there is an imminent danger.  With full confidence that my guardian angel is with me,I safely just pass by drunk men, dark forests, etc.

Everytime Im alone walking on cold streets in Europe, I know that someone is with me, and he or she is my angel.

bakit kasi tayo nagbibisaya?

hahahah

Pips,

Bantay mo sa amerika, ingun sila ikiha kuno ka kung muingon ka ug

"Religion flies you into buildings?"

Civil case kuno ni!!!

Bel, bantay bantay ani. basin ma dakpan ka.  dili nalang ko muadto ug amerika kay presohon kuno mo comment ug ingun ani.

hahahahha

nice post kiams, very informational.

I have been a volunteer of WINGS ( Women Interacting for New Growth and Services) chaired by Atty. Myrna Trabajo Pagsuberon.

People, can I ask your permission to use you comments, views in my research?

This is still regarding my research on " Social Impact and Perceptions on Policies Protecting the Karst Landscape of Bohol, the Philippines" at the Technological University of Dortmund, Germany.


The online visual assessment survey is still running until the end of the month of March, 2009.

Please participate ( for those who have not).

Please click this link:


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Civil rights abuses? because of religion? is this a joke?  There is a freedom of speech and expression  and there is a doctrine of the separation of the church and of the state.  and where is the religious intolerance there?

let me talk to your friend, Civil law is a subject in Political Science in College and nothing reminds me of a civil case because of a comment on religion. 

Is there a civil case which can be filed because of this comment? " Religion flies you into buildings."
??

Each one of us has his or her own guardian angel.
Share with us, your personal encounters with Angels, how your day was saved , how youve experienced that someone protected you from probable danger, how you have retrieved lost data, how you managed to catch-up a flight.. etc..

Angels
source: wikipedia



Angels are usually viewed as emanations of a supreme divine being, sent to do the tasks of that being. Traditions vary as to whether angels have free will or are merely extensions of the supreme being's will. While the appearance of angels also varies, many views of angels give them a human shape.

The New Testament speaks frequently of angels (for example, angels giving messages to Mary, Joseph, and the shepherds; angels ministering to Christ after his temptation in the wilderness, an angel visiting Christ in his agony, angels at the tomb of the risen Christ, the angels who liberate the Apostles Peter and Paul from prison), but makes only two references to "archangels": Michael in Jude 1:9 and I Thessalonians 4:16, where the "voice of an archangel" will be heard at the return of Christ.

The Protestant Bible provides names for two archangels: Michael and Gabriel. In the Book of Tobit of the Catholic Bible, a third name, Raphael; sometimes Uriel or Phanuel is given as a fourth.

Eastern Orthodox Tradition mentions "thousands of archangels"[6] but venerates only seven of them by name.[7] Uriel is included, and the other three are most often named Selaphiel, Jegudiel, and Barachiel (an eighth, Jeremiel, is sometimes included as archangel).[8] The Orthodox Church celebrates the Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the Other Bodiless Powers on November 8 of the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar (for those churches which follow the Julian Calendar, November 8 falls on November 21 of the modern Gregorian Calendar). Other feast days of the Archangels include the Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel on March 26 (April , and the Miracle of the Archangel Michael at Colossae on September 6 (September 19). In addition, every Monday throughout the year is dedicated to the Angels, with special mention being made in the church hymns of Michael and Gabriel. In Orthodox iconography, each angel has a symbolic representation:[8]
Russian icon of the Archangel Jegudiel.

    * Michael in the Hebrew language means "Who is like unto God?" or "Who is equal to God?" St. Michael has been depicted from earliest Christian times as a commander, who holds in his right hand a spear with which he attacks Lucifer, Satan, and in his left hand a green palm branch. At the top of the spear there is a linen ribbon with a red cross. The Archangel Michael is especially considered to be the Guardian of the Orthodox Faith and a fighter against heresies.
    * Gabriel means "Man of God" or "Might of God". He is the herald of the mysteries of God, especially the Incarnation of God and all other mysteries related to it. He is depicted as follows: In his right hand, he holds a lantern with a lighted taper inside, and in his left hand, a mirror of green jasper. The mirror signifies the wisdom of God as a hidden mystery.
    * Raphael means "God's healing" or "God the Healer" (Tobit 3:17, 12:15). Raphael is depicted leading Tobit (who is carrying a fish caught in the Tigris) with his right hand, and holding a physician's alabaster jar in his left hand.
    * Uriel means "Fire of God", or "Light of God" (III Esdras 3:1, 5:20). He is depicted holding a sword against the Persians in his right hand, and a fiery flame in his left.
    * Selaphiel means "Intercessor of God" (III Esdras 5:16). He is depicted with his face and eyes lowered, holding his hands on his bosom in prayer.
    * Jegudiel means "Glorifier of God". He is depicted bearing a golden wreath in his right hand and a triple-thonged whip in his left hand.
    * Barachiel means "Blessing of God". He is depicted holding a white rose in his hand against his breast.
    * (Jeremiel means "God's exaltation". He is venerated as an inspirer and awakener of exalted thoughts that raise a person toward God (III Ezra 4:36). As an eighth, he is sometimes included as archangel.)

Some Protestants view Michael as the sole archangel, as the only one explicitly described as such in the Protestant canon of the Bible.[9] (Jude 1:9) In their view, Gabriel is never called 'archangel' in the Gospels. According to Origen, verse 1:9 of Jude is an insertion that led to the writing of The Assumption of Moses.
Angelic Council (Ангелскй Собор). Orthodox icon of the seven archangels. From left to right: Jegudiel, Gabriel, Selaphiel, Michael, Uriel, Raphael, Barachiel. Beneath the mandorla of Christ Emmanuel are representations of Cherubim (blue) and Seraphim (red).

The edition of the Bible used by Protestants, which excludes the Apocrypha, never mentions a "Raphael" and he is therefore not recognized by many of them. Raphael, however, is mentioned in the Book of Tobit, one of the deuterocanonical books. In the story, Raphael comes to the aid of Tobit, healing him of blindness, and his son Tobias, driving away a demon that would have killed him. Raphael also plays an important role in the Book of Enoch.

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Michael is one of the names Jesus has in heaven.[10] In this view, Michael is the first and greatest of all God's creatures, the chief messenger of Jehovah that takes the lead in vindicating God's sovereignty, sanctifying God's name, fighting the forces of Satan and protecting God's people on earth. (Revelation 12:7; 19:14,16• Daniel 12:1) This belief is held because of the prominence Michael has among the heavenly sons of God in the Bible, the similarity of Michael’s and Jesus’ mission and the connection of Jesus with the archangelic office in 1 Thessalonians 4:16, where it is said: "Because the Lord himself will descend from Heaven with a commanding call, with an archangel's voice." Taking also into account that the Bible refers to one archangel only using a definite article (Jude 9), Jehovah's witnesses have concluded that Michael and Jesus are one and the same.[11]

A similar opinion is held by certain Protestants, such as Seventh-day Adventists,[12] the Baptist evangelist Charles Spurgeon[13] and the Presbyterian Commentary author Matthew Henry,[14] who believe that the Archangel Michael is not an angel but is instead, the divine Son of God. In this view "archangel" means "head of the angels" rather than "head angel," and is a title similar to "Prince or Leader of the host." (Daniel 8:11) While not all Baptists hold to this view, Seventh-day Adventists generally do.

[edit] In Islam

In Islam, the named archangels include:

• Gabriel (or Jibraaiyl or Jibril or Jibrail in Arabic). Gabriel is the Archangel responsible for revealing the Qur'an to Muhammad. Gabriel is known as the angel who communicates with the Prophets. He is mentioned specifically by name and as the Holy Spirit in the Qur'an.

• Michael (Mikail or Mikaaiyl in Arabic). Michael is often depicted as the Archangel of mercy who is responsible for bringing rain and thunder to Earth.

• Raphael (Israfil or Israafiyl). According to the Hadith, Israfil is the Angel responsible for signaling the coming of Judgment Day by blowing a horn and sending out a Blast of Truth. It translates in Hebrew as Raphael.

• Angel of Death, who is responsible for parting the spirit of the human from the body at the time of departure from this earthly realm. The Qur'an never uses this name, referring instead to Malak al-Maut (which translates directly as Angel of Death). The spirit is removed from the body from the same point it entered, via the Latifa located between the eyebrows, known as the Khafi, or the Hidden.

Quote from: Macky Ferniz on March 04, 2009, 07:45:19 AM
Naa ni 7 Demons associated with 7 Sins. Like Mamon Love for Money, Lucifer for Envy, Satan for Pride, nakalimot na ko sa uban. Dapat kuno mag perform ug exurcism in latin para manglupad ning mga 7 Demons.

Akong pangitaon akong librito ug exurcism nga nilatin. Apan naay warning adto nga dapat trained professional or Bishop lang ang puede nga mo perform kay basin mapildi sa gahum sa Demons. Kung ang priest nga nag perform nakasala ug mortal sin ug wala mag bag-o, makahatag noon kuno ug kusog sa Devil instead nga muhawa.

here it is:
In 1589, Peter Binsfeld paired each of the deadly sins with a demon, who tempted people by means of the associated sin. According to Binsfeld's classification of demons, the pairings are as follows:[citation needed]

    * Lucifer: Pride
    * Mammon: Greed
    * Asmodeus: Lust
    * Leviathan: Envy
    * Beelzebub: Gluttony
    * Satan/Amon: Wrath
    * Belphegor: Sloth

There are also other demons who invoke sin, for instance Lilith and her offspring, the incubi and succubi, invoke lust. The succubi sleep with men in order to impregnate themselves, so that they can spawn demons. The incubi sleep with women to lead them astray and to impregnate them with demon spawn

source:wikipedia

I am a teacher.

oo.. gamay nalang mga german ganahan manganak kay mahadluk sa responsibilities or dili gyud ganahan ug responsibilities

dili ko army aduy. abu sayaf ko.. hahah. ayaw biya mo katoo ha. basin naay intelligence diri.

pero sa germany bali.

mas dako ang male pride. mas sila ang palugit lugit.  bisan makatype na sila ug babae ang mga german, dili mo duol. bugnaw ug simod.

di ba sir lay?

hala bag o ron. crab mentality english speaking people. hahahhaha.

moot kaayo ni si datu.

so naa say kasag panghuna huna, binisayang sinultian nga mga tawo.

crab mentality has nothing to do with language.  it is a social behavior which is manifested through envy ( putting people down) to reach the top.

pangutan a imung mama.
inga na

aron ma, ikaw kuno nakaingun nakasala si papa, kay imo kuno siyang gitintal.
(mu ingun imung mama, gi ahak nimo dong, imung papa ang ing taban nako.)
hahaha..

ang duda nako, mananangal si datu.

basin diay tood no? mao natakdan ang mga pinoy, tungod naka inom sa dugo ni legaspi.
mao naay mananangal.

hahahha

Until there will be safer ways to keep  nuclear power plants, it will pose a danger to the people living within its proximity.

myth man kuno ang genesis.  hebrew literature na siya.
walay adan ug eva. symbolism man na siya.

anyway, imo man nang huna huna.  i hope, musugot imung asawa ana.

nag sugod na sad tag ka macho diri.

Feminine pride is like this.
1. magpa gukod gukod sa laki kay babaye lagu kuno siya. (Bisan dili gwapa)
2. Padili dili.  Pasumangil, dili ganahan, unya ganahan diay.
3. feeling gwapa

did I say something about manintal?  are you refering to my post?

Quote from: LanggamTamsi2 on March 05, 2009, 05:14:02 PM
sapoton
kugihan ug
kusog manombag

ako ate dili man ko manombag, pusilon dayun.. way pangutana pangutana..
joke joke joke

Filipino women have high sense of feminine pride which results to hypocrisy.

Atheists are most often than not pragmatic, utilitarian thinkers.  I do not have any problem with them at all.  I respect their way of thinking.  There are even more atheists who have better relations with other people, who are more generous and understanding than most of the Christians that I know.

dili man ko matanda aduy, dili man ko mayaman, ambot lang kanus -a ko m.....y

cleansing pa siya.  then lami pa kaayo akong kalibang, walay bara.

pareha lang sa mga tawo nga ganahan ug gira.  Kung naa ganiy gera, wala ang ginoo ana, kay ang gira puro demonyo ang naa.

Quote from: Lorenzo on March 05, 2009, 09:26:35 AM
Ben,

The church that I attend back home in New Jersey has a growing Filipino membership. Ug mo adto ko sa mass, clear kaayo gusto mo canta jud ang Pinoy members. When the liturgical worship songs begin, maka hear jud ko kinsay pinoy or not kay very 'into the song' jud sila. lingaw baya. I can't help but get motivated to sing louder pood. hahaha!

Kining mga pinoy--ug mo adto sa simbahan, mo pour out jud ni sila ilang problema ug ilang gugma sa Ginoo sa Langit.

Very humbling kaayo to observe it.

pero split level Christianity.  Inig uli sa balay sigeg pamalikas, sige away sa asawa, sigeg pamagi . libakera, hinawayun.

ang eraserheads ( naa na sad silay concert pero sayang wala ko sa pinas) ing ingun, "banal na aso, santong kabayo"

mas daghan pa kong kaila, walay simba simba, pero mas maayo pag binuhatan.

wala inoon ko migamit ana oi kay dili man sad ko ap apon. pero ang bunga sa kapayas nag suway suway kog hid hid sa akong nawung. kanang hinog na kaayo. wala may epekto. maayo pa kan-on nalang

cite the source.
wikipedia?

si datu, nahubog sa datu puti, tamis asim datu puti.

maldita, maldito, maldita

Try to research why the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant was closed.  You will find better answers.

10.00 am diri sa germany teh. wala koy klasse ron mao ang gi atupag tubag bohol, kay na bong na kog kaa tubang mga german.

lawsuits? under which grounds? and where would they file it, in sharia courts? hahha

are sharia courts honored in the states?  pardon my ignorance, maybe it is honored. haha

asa ra man si datu puti.

There are two concepts of landscape perception here;

appreciation of the landscape based on its natural setting

appreciation of the landscape based on development intervention ( presence of concrete infrastructures etc.)

sa pag mapping sa chocolate hills, ang sagbayan peak is a part of it.

sa mga german, naay saugsage nga made of blood, gitawag na nila ug blutwurst,
lami kaayo. lood huna huna on, but lami.

hani bay eninglis ug dugos nay?

hahaha. mamoot ko nimo datu oi. bisan lami i kaon ug tawo karon, kinilaw, way suka suka,

ang akong gikaon kay corned beef. mao man madali dali, buntag pa man sad diri unya kape.

gi adobo siya nimo kung, gisagulan nimo ug suka, toyo, ahos, paminta. mura gud ga adobo ug baboy..

pero lami kaayo ang pasayan kung  sagulan ug itlog. tempura or calamares (dli ko sure ani nga term)

pero  the best kung tunu an, then sagulan nimo ug sili, pa mad on ang tuno..

kalami sa hipon te, gi unsa nimo, gi adobo?

karon datu, gusto ko mukaon ug tawo.. tungod sa ka lagot.. joke joke joke

ate,

wala ko kahibaw, eskaya man diay ka..

hehehhe.. wala pa ka mo work?

yes, she is married to Ryan Macalandag. you know reg?

Regina Estorba, a faculty member of the CAS Department of HNU conducted an ethnographic study of the Eskaya Tribes which was entitled" Scribbling the Voice of the Tende".  A tende is term for an Eskayan woman.  You can access this research at KINA-ADMAN research publication of HNU.
Reg is currently finishing her Masters degree in Gender Studies at  ISS Netherlands.

Cultural communities must be integrated to the mainstream society to avoid perpetual isolation which caused their stagnation and poverty.  Xenophobic people tend to fear, that such integration would cause the fading of their culture when apparently it doesnt.

Cultural heritage must likewise be equally protected not by old school "protectionist" means but by process of cultural participation and exchange.  The best way to protect them is not by means of isolating them, depriving them of technology, education and other basic services.  It is by recognizing them as part of our community, with very distinct cultural characteristics.

There are a lot of cultural communities which have been "modernized" in their way of living but still retained their cultural identity. Best examples of which are the Jews.
An important note, I have taught in Ateneo de Davao, and I had Bagobo, Maranao students.  They have still maintained their cultural identity despite modernization.

hahahahah..

dracula ko.. hahahhahha..

tungod sa dugo dugo

Let the course of History repeat itself. On Feb. 19, 2009. Sen. Francisco Pangilinan filed a Senate resolution urging President Gloria Arroyo to “revisit the provisions of the VFA and accordingly exercise our right to terminate the agreement considering that supervening events have rendered the VFA as unconstitutional.”

At least three other senatorsâ€"Joker Arroyo, Miriam Defensor Santiago and Francis Escuderoâ€"have expressed support for the abrogation of the VFA, while Senators Rodolfo Biazon and Pia Cayetano were for its suspension. Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and Sen. Panfilo Lacson have asked for more time to review the provisions of the treaty.

This is funny macky, because Guam and Puerto Rico were recognized as real territories of the US, and why the Philippines not?

If we were able to scrap the US-Base Agreement before, we will be able to scrap VFA.

you were talking about friendship. one of the most important requirement of friendship is respect.  The american government does not respect Philippine laws by allowing Daniel Smith to be detained in the american embassy?

Im not talking about the litigation because our courts have given justice to the victim.

Women, Violence, and the Reinvolvement of the U.S. Military in the Philippines
Human Rights Dialogue 2.10 (Fall 2003): "Violence Against Women"
Jane A. Margold
   
       
   

November 19, 2003
Read a response to this article by Jennifer Butler. Use the link in the right sidebar.

To most of the world, the issue of U.S. military tenure in the Philippines receded when the Philippine congress refused to renew its military base agreement with the U.S. in 1991. Yet, only seven years later, a Visiting Forces Agreement was signed that allowed U.S. military personnel access to 22 ports and bases. It was a return to the abuses that women’s rights activists had long struggled against: the conscription of young girls and women from poor families into prostitution; a growth in criminality, narcotics, and alcoholism in the communities near the bases; the trafficking of Filipinas and their global devaluation as low-paid workers and servile brides.

In the Philippines historically, violence against women has correlated with high levels of militarization by foreign troops. Currently, two long-standing domestic armed conflicts, together with the U.S. military presence, have contributed to an extreme level of militarization that represents not only a heightened role for the armed forces in government, but also a lack of effective checks on its expenditures and reach.

Studies published during the 1990s by Filipino, Australian, American, Vietnamese, and other scholars provide considerable documentation of the brutalities toward women that resulted from the type of large-scale, institutionalized prostitution that existed in the Philippines until 1991, when the U.S. vacated its largest military installation outside North America. Between the Vietnam War era and 1991, Filipinas were subjected to many forms of dehumanization and violence at the hands of U.S. soldiers, including rape, battery, widespread abandonment of the Amerasian children they fathered, and a legacy of sexually-transmitted disease. At Olongapo and Angeles cities, where two American bases were located, live sex shows had been banned at the height of U.S. occupation, but women’s performances involving bodily contortions with objectsâ€"which were equally demeaningâ€"were still taking place. In both of the largest base cities, a popular form of entertainment for military men was “foxy boxing,” in which the female participants were forced to fight each other until they drew blood or showed bruises. Without demonstrable injuries, they were not paid, according to a 1995 book published by a scholarly press, Madonnas and Martyrs: Militarism and Violence in the Philippines, by the Australian scholar Anne-Marie Hilsdon. While it might be argued that the women involved in prostitution, as well as the mail-order bride industry, are not always helpless victims, Philippine women’s rights advocates maintain that poor women of developing countries do not choose sex work but, with no other option for economic survival, are forced into it. Once caught up in prostitution, women exercise almost no control over the poor pay, abusive conditions, social stigma, and other risks they face.

These deeply rooted problems, which scarcely had time to abate during the ten-year hiatus in U.S. military involvement in the Philippines, are now worsening under today’s return of American forces and the strengthening of the Philippine military’s power with assistance from the United States. Following September 11, when President Bush declared the Philippines America’s “second front” in the war against terrorism, several thousand U.S. troops have been deployed to the country. This return of military forces means an increase in the domestic and cross-border sale of Filipinas. For example, in Zamboanga City, where most military personnel are based, local rights activists estimate that 2,000 women are now caught up in prostitution, in contrast to almost none before the new deployment Estimates from the International Organization of Migration indicate that over the last year and a half, the rate of recruitment for prostitution has risen six-fold, if the domestic transport of women is added to the trafficking of Filipinas to Okinawa and South Korea to serve U.S. troops.

Among rights activists in the Philippines, GABRIELA, the largest coalition of progressive women’s organizations and institutions in the country, has been a leader in the struggle against what it defines as three, closely-connected obstacles to Filipinas’ rights and welfare: U.S. troops’ lack of accountability for abuses against women; the Philippine government’s tolerance of its own military’s transgressions; and its failure to implement the human rights mechanisms set in place during the Aquino administration. The latter include constitutional guarantees of democratic freedoms, a national Commission on Human Rights, and an office of the Ombudsperson. The Commission’s inability to charge anyone despite the evidence amassed by GABRIELA affiliates has led the women activists to abandon the Commission as a tool and instead push for change by publicizing the troubling human rights record with respect to women of successive administrations.

A key challenge for GABRIELA is the status of impunity of American military personnel. A clause in the Visiting Forces Agreement makes it impossible to hold U.S. troops accountable to a foreign country for crimes committed on its soil, including violence against women. In 2003, the U.S. also required and received assurances from 43 nations, including the Philippines, that its military personnel were exempt from prosecution under the International Criminal Court, which has recognized sexual abuse, forced prostitution, and rape as war crimes. In response to this setback, GABRIELA is organizing a campaign to pressure Filipino politicians to renegotiate the agreement, arguing, in explicit human rights language, that the exemption invites violence against women while leaving them without the right to redress grievances, due process, or equal protection under the law. GABRIELA advocates are also documenting U.S. troop actions that are considered crimes under Philippine law and demanding that, in the case of violence against women, jurisdiction be given to Filipino courts.

One signal success, following GABRIELA’s almost 20-year campaign against sex trafficking, is the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003, which was drafted and strongly promoted by GABRIELA chairwoman Lisa Maza, a congresswoman since 2001. The Act affirms the Philippine state’s commitment to protect the dignity and individual rights of women and men, as specified in the international conventions and human rights instruments to which the Philippines is a signatory. The legislation, which is notable for its sanctions against military personnel, police and foreigners engaged in trafficking or patronizing the sex trade, is the product of years of protests and advocacy aimed at protecting Filipinas and Filipino youth from military prostitution, mail-order-bride rackets and sex tourism. The struggle against U.S. “reoccupation” (as women’s groups see it) has been couched as much in terms of national sovereignty as in terms of women’s basic rights to lead lives free of the violence linked to the presence of foreign troops. Yet, passage of the Act is seen by GABRIELA and its allies primarily as a victory in the effort to secure broader rights in the criminal justice system for the underprivileged and marginalzed sectors of Philippine society, the majority of whom are women and children. Viewed as the result of a joint effort by women’s groups that include not only GABRIELA but the Coalition Against the Trafficking of Women, the Third World Movement Against the Exploitation of Women, Sibol, Batis, Buklod and others, the Anti-Trafficking law also received a critical push toward passage from a committee of 100 legislators, church leaders, media stars, women artists and others formed by GABRIELA during its four-year-old international Purple Rose Campaign against trafficking.

Resort to a discourse of human rights has also been crucial in another problematic arena: deflecting the Philippine military’s attempts to characterize GABRIELA as a movement to overthrow the state. Amidst the post 9/11 rhetoric of terror and stepped-up military assistance from the U.S., the setbacks have been considerable. Dissidents on the left, including GABRIELA members, continue to be labeled Communist and targeted for assassination. Five GABRIELA activists, for example, have been murdered over the past year in highly-militarized rural areas, apparently for openly speaking out against the Philippine armed forces and advocating women’s human rights.

Yet alliance members believe that the toll would be higher if not for the domestic and international support they have mobilized by exposing the arrests, imprisonments, and other brutalities endured by their members for upholding their commitment to protect and expand Filipinas’ democratic rights. Appeals to women’s groups in other countries have kept pressure on the Philippine state to consider its image in the international community as a country concerned with its women’s freedoms and safety. But in the aftermath of 9/11, as new funding from the U.S. reinvigorates the Philippine military and U.S. troops are deployed in the southern islands, women’s rights advocates are working once again to prevent the domestic armed forces from abusing women as a means of intimidating the population. At the same time, they are opposing government policies of allowing sexual access to Filipinas in exchange for U.S. foreign financial and military assistance.

Is this what friendship is all about?
A convicted rapist of a filipina, is now detained at the american embassy, neglecting the order of the Philippine highcourt. An insult to our own Sovereignty.

Until territorial disputes are settled in legal forum, the claim to the kalayaan groups does not have any force and effect.

Although nuclear weapons were removed from Okinawa in the early 1970s, this was not simply in response to the conditions for reverting the island to Japanese sovereignty, but was undertaken as part of a much larger U.S. withdrawal of forward-deployed tactical nuclear weapons from East Asia in response to increasing concerns over the vulnerability of these weapons to terrorist attacks. (The newly declassified documents confirm for the first time that U.S. land-based nuclear weapons were removed from Taiwan and the Philippines in 1974 and 1976, respectively, although naval nuclear weapons subsequently continued to enter both countries aboard warships. Previous Nautilus Institute research has provided the first official account of how nuclear weapons were removed from South Korea in 1991.)

Christensen, Hans, US Nuclear Policy.

Important to note  are Articles 1 and 2
Article I. The parties undertake as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations, to settle any international disputes in which they may be involved by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security and justice are not endangered and to refrain in their international relation from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations.

Article II. In order more effectively to achieve the objective of this Treaty, the Parties separately and jointly by self-help and mutual aid will maintain and develop their individual and collective capacity to resist armed attack.


The legal implication of such is that the treaty can only be applicable when the Philippines is armed attacked.

If we do the offensive, the treaty does not have any teeth.  This would violate Article 1 of the same treaty.

As what have been proposed in the previous thread, the Philippines could not invoke the provisions of the Treaty, when we do the offensive.

This is because you have mentioned Philippine "immunity" under the American Nuclear Umbrella, which in fact is unconstitutional in the Philippines.

Our 1987 Constitution [Art. II, Sec. 8] provides: "The Philippines, consistent with the national interest, adopts and pursues a policy of freedom from nuclear weapons in its territory."

Now, what are you talking about nuclear umbrella when it is even unconstitutional in the Philippines?

The Philippines is americas strategic pet, not an ally.

If they treated us like friends, they should have considered the Philippines, not as a protectorate during the American occupation, but a territory, where our people should have enjoyed rights and privileges similar to the citizens of america.

They should not have exploited our natural resources, under the Parity Rights Agreement in 1947.

Their soldiers should not have abuse their power in  their US bases.

If they acknowledge our sovereignty as a nation, they should have turned over Corporal Smith (who was convicted of rape in the Philippine courts, decision upheld by the Supreme Court of the Philippines) to the Philippine authorities.  Crimes are territorial in nature.  The american embassy should not be the place of Smith detention.  The embassy is an extension of their territory.

Paris Hilton said "Every woman should have three pets in their homes, a mink in the closet, a jaguar in the garage, and a jackass who pays it all"

Marjorie Evasco, feminist poet, Chair, literature department, De la Salle University.
Metro Bank Outstanding Teacher Awardee.

sa pinas

masuko dili agdahun..
bisan dili siya gusto mukaon, mag pa-agda kay respeto.

ironic, kay kung agdahun unya dili mukaon ang giagda
insulto nasad..  hahahahha

kalami sa tuna with kalamansi

Monday, March 2. 2009
English vs mother tongue as a medium of instruction
(Following is the transcript of the segment "Analysis by Winnie Monsod" which aired on News on Q on Jan. 26, 2009. Prof. Winnie Monsod is the resident analyst of News on Q which airs weeknights at 9:30 p.m. on Q Channel 11.)

Before we discuss the so-called Gullas bill or the proposed act strengthening and enhancing the use of English as a medium of instruction, let's get a backgrounder on the state of education in the Philippines.

For every 100 children that start grade one in our country, only 65 will reach Grade 6, the others having dropped out along the way (with 18 of the dropouts occurring between Grade 1 and Grade 2). What this means is that even before these children are 12 years old, more than one third of them are essentially condemned to poverty.

That is not all. The net enrollment ratios have been steadily decreasing between 2003 and 2007, and for the Philippines, that has gone down from 90.3% to 83.2%.

The quality of that education is abysmal. Only 26% or a little over ¼ of 6th graders have a mastery of English, where mastery is defined as obtaining a score of 75% or higher in English, 31% of those students have a mastery of Math and 15% have a mastery of Science.

And if that is abysmal, that means the quality of high school education has to be the pits because only 7% of them have mastery in English. 16% have mastery in Math... 2% have mastery in Science.

Even college does not help: only 2 to 7% of college graduates who apply for positions in BPOs show English mastery, and even then, they have to undergo another three months of training to increase their competence.

This is where the Gullas bill comes in. The rationale of that bill is that if we want to have greater competence in English, and be in a position to take advantage, or compete in a globalized world, English must be used as the medium of instruction from Grade 3 onwards.

Now everyone will agree that we need greater competence in English to be competitive in a globalized world. But educators or those who have done education research will disagree that using English as the medium of instruction will accomplish that goal.
As a matter of fact, they point out that research findings are unequivocal, that to achieve greater mastery in English or Filipino, the most effective medium of instruction is in the child's mother tongue that is her first language or the language spoken at home.

Studies in country after country bear this out. Teaching in an official school language that is not the mother tongue is a major barrier in the child's learning.

In the Philippines, the experiment was conducted in Kalinga, where teachers use Kalinga to teach children from Grades 1 to 3 to read and write. It is also the medium of instruction for teaching other subjects, including Filipino and English.

Out of the 10 districts in the Kalinga division, the Lubuagan district topped the 2006 national achievement test Grade 3 reading test for both English and Filipino, with mean scores of 76.55% and 76.45 respectively, which indicates mastery. The Tinglayan district came in a far second, registered only 63.89% and 53.58%.

The Gullas bill has very good intentions. But, as they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

di ba ang dahon sa kapayas , tambal sa ap ap?

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naa may samin.. walay problema..
naa man si si belo ug si calayan?

naay solution tanan

Tungod man gud na storyang gira-gira.. sa amoa pa ni, storya ilawum dagat!

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viva thalia

nganung dili man bangus? tamarong? hahaha

There should be another thread for this.  We are out of topic.

Quote from: A Layman on March 05, 2009, 12:54:47 AM
Mao diay nga ang mga prosti tawagon sa atoa ug Tilapia kay makadaot man na diay. Sus Ginoo  tabangi intawon tong mga kalapating ngalakaw sa juta. Di makalupad!

tilapia diay tawag nila? wala ko kadungog aron

unsa kaha ni nga pain no?

bams, naa man sad blutwurst , meaning blood sausage di ba? unsa man nang blutwurz, unsa nga klasse sa liqour?

kartoffel salat ist ja lecker.

Are you a fish? joke joke joke.. hehehe..

What was his position upon the conception of the project?

Sensitive ta dapat diri, kay dili man ta personally kaila tanan.  Wala man ta kasinati sa batasan sa ubang tawo.

Bisan, friendly nga joke ra to, di ba. para nice ang flow sa forum. no side comments nalang.

False observation Macky.  There are shoes which aid speed.

You are being inconsistent macky.  You have mentioned on the other thread, that being fat is a flaw?

What do you imply by saying, our civilization has gone so far that we cannot appreciate Da vinci paintings?
A fish is caught by its mouth.

Fat and big could be offensive for others, even if it is meant for a joke.

and macky, what flaws to correct? is being big or fat a flaw?  now, it is clear that it was a personal attack.
We judge people based on physical appearance?

Better, stick to the topic. 

My respects.

unsa kahang gatasa gipa inom ni gov. nga himbing man kaayo pagkatulog ang talibon dam scam?

Ahh mao ba?  Maybe because he has similar characteristics with GMA.
Talibon dam and the likes..
Nice view. lol

Precious was serious in reporting what she had seen.  Making a joke out of it, by saying

" a big girl hiding behind the bayabas tree", is not nice.

Put your jokes in the right place and time, somebody might be offended.

Where is the coincidence?

War is declared by the president, mandated by the Philippine Congress.  A referendum is not needed.

You know how costly a referendum is? 

You for example, you do not even know that we do not claim the entire spratly islands, but a portion of it, called Kalayaan Islands.

Still misleading, inaccurate information.

There is malice in this thread.

uyyy... nagpa cute siya? hehehe.

It is alright.  Just remember, we must put our jokes in the right place.

This is not a funny joke.