“Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security” - Benjamin Franklin
Friday, February 11, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
If Today's Events Lead to the Anti-Terror bill... See what it is all about...
The following is verbatim copy of The Anti-terror law also known as “The Human Security Act of 2007″. You can also download The Human Security Act of 2007 in PDF format.
This law, Republic Act No. 9372, defines terrorism as acts of sowing and creating a condition of widespread and extraordinary fear and panic among the populace, in order to coerce the government to give to an unlawful demand. It prescribes imprisonment of up to 40 years for violators.
Many of those who are opposed to the law point to the lack of human rights under the Arroyo regime and say that this law will further the Arroyo Administration’s push to suppress government transparency through media, activism, and free speech.
Republic of the Philippines
CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES
THIRTEENTH CONGRESS
Third Regular Session
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9372
AN ACT
TO SECURE THE STATE AND PROTECT OUR PEOPLE FROM TERRORISM
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:
Monday, February 7, 2011
Suicide or Murder?
Former Sec. Angelo Reyes commits Suicide
Ex-Energy Chief shoots self in front of mother's grave, dies at Quirino Hospital
By MANILA BULLETIN ONLINE
February 8, 2011, 9:03am
MANILA, Philippines - Former Energy Chief Angelo Reyes was reportedly shot in the chest. Reyes was rushed to the Quirino Hospital in Quezon City and reports have it that he died at around 8:30 a.m. He was 66. He is survived by his wife and 5 children.
UPDATE: Reyes was reported to have committed suicide. According to the EPD, Reyes visited his mother's grave at the Loyola Memorial Park in Marikina City where he shot himself on the spot.
A preliminary showed that Reyes had bullet wound in the heart.
As per the Quirino Hospital sources, they tried to revive Reyes for 45 minutes before declaring him as expired.
Complete news story to follow later.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Global Warming Caused by Us?
The Kyoto Protocol is a protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or FCCC), aimed at fighting global warming. The UNFCCC is an international environmental treaty with the goal of achieving "stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would preventdangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system."[1]
The view that human activities are likely responsible for most of the observed increase in global mean temperature ("global warming") since the mid-20th century is an accurate reflection of current scientific thinking (NRC, 2001, p. 3,[7] 2008, p. 2).[8] Human-induced warming of the climate is expected to continue
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Why do we have price hikes?
Link (URL): Date: Thu, 2011-01-06 MANILA, Philippines—The start of 2011 seems to bode ill for Filipinos as bread and public road transport—from jeepney and bus to taxi and light rail transit rides— are expected to cost more. Bakers on Wednesday said bread prices would go up in the coming weeks if prices of flour and sugar did not go down soon. In Lapu-Lapu City, where Gardenia Bakeries Philippines Inc. inaugurated a plant Wednesday, its president said a bread-price increase was imminent because bakers had yet to pass on to consumers the increase in flour and sugar prices from late last year. |
Friday, February 4, 2011
Debt Republic of the Phillipines
Philippine debt hits P4.42-T as of end-Oct
abs-cbnNEWS.com
Posted at 01/18/2010 6:53 PM | Updated as of 01/18/2010 9:48 PM
MANILA, Philippines - The national government's outstanding debt inched up as of October due to higher local borrowings and a weaker peso, the Bureau of Treasury said Monday.
Total debt reached P4.42 trillion for the first 10 months of 2009, up 2% from the P4.34 trillion recorded as of end-September. Local debt, which accounted for 55% of the total, was slightly up at P2.45 trillion.
The government has secured a large portion of its foreign debt needs this year after it sold $1.5 billion worth of dollar bonds early this month. It was the first sovereign debt issue in Asia for 2010.
The government also plans to use part of a $1-billion global bond sale in October to finance its 2010 budget deficit, which is seen to reach P293 billion or 3.5% of gross domestic product (GDP).
Earlier, the government said the country's budget shortfall likely reached P290 billion or 3.7% of GDP last year. With a report from Reuters
Total debt reached P4.42 trillion for the first 10 months of 2009, up 2% from the P4.34 trillion recorded as of end-September. Local debt, which accounted for 55% of the total, was slightly up at P2.45 trillion.
The government has secured a large portion of its foreign debt needs this year after it sold $1.5 billion worth of dollar bonds early this month. It was the first sovereign debt issue in Asia for 2010.
The government also plans to use part of a $1-billion global bond sale in October to finance its 2010 budget deficit, which is seen to reach P293 billion or 3.5% of gross domestic product (GDP).
Earlier, the government said the country's budget shortfall likely reached P290 billion or 3.7% of GDP last year. With a report from Reuters
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Getting the Truth out To the Filipino People
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
-Albert Camus
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. Revelations 13
The Truth is hidden from the eyes of the World. Without the Truth Freedom will not exist and Tyranny will flourish. Search for the TRUTH and BE FREE. Be a beacon for the Light of Truth.
God help us all....
-Albert Camus
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. Revelations 13
The Truth is hidden from the eyes of the World. Without the Truth Freedom will not exist and Tyranny will flourish. Search for the TRUTH and BE FREE. Be a beacon for the Light of Truth.
God help us all....
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