Extermination
It was represented to me that the Filipino will not work; that even when willing he can not work adequately; that increase of wages merely enables him to enjoy more idleness, and that the introduction of Chinese labor would act as a stimulus and by competition compel him to work. I even met Americans (I am ashamed to say) who, in their impatience at the slow-going Filipino, struck him or abused him with violent language, and boldly declared that the only thing to do is to exterminate him like the American Indian, replace him by Chinese, and develop the country...
My professed friendship for the Filipinos and my indignation at such un-American conduct on the part of not a few of my fellowcountrymen compelled me to study this problem..." - David H. Doherty, 1904
"“This disturbing phenomenon of the girl-child being turned into substitute spouse has been happening in our country along with the feminization of labor migration,” CPU legal consultant, Atty. Katrina Legarda said, who noted that women now comprise70 percent of Filipino workers deployed abroad."
After experiencing heavy deployment of AFP troops, the peasants of Hacienda Luisita are bracing for the entry of US troops who would be conducting ‘trainings’ inside the hacienda.
"They needed to convict me. That is why they created that court to convict me. That special court--the first time a special court was created. And that court was created to convict me. In fact, when I was convicted, two [Sandiganbayan] justices were immediately promoted to the Supreme Court."
"Andres Bonifacio, also known as "May Pag-asa," was executed somewhere in the mountains of Maragondon in Cavite on May 10, 1897. As expected, however, the tenth of May recently came and passed with almost absolute silence on it as the death anniversary of the Gleat Plebeian. Actually, Bonifacio...""A closer reading of the texts of the writings of Bonifacio along with those of Rizal and other authors, is needed to enlighten the latter-day inadvertent executioners about the real underpinnings of the teachings of the Great Plebeian and... the Katipunan. For example, the blood compact which Bonifacio highlighted in the early part of his powerful manifesto and in the design of the Katipunan initiation rites is not to be found in Rizal's writings or in the Masonic ceremonies from which this was supposedly copied. Present-day groups around Mt. Banahaw, who trace their lineage to the spirit of the Katipunan are keeping alive a tradition that cannot be traced to European origins. One must first read Reynaldo Ileto's Ateneo-published Pasyon and Revolution before attempting to make any judgement on them or on Bonifacio's philosophy. But of course, it is more convenient to echo the ignorant teacher's perception and quickly shift our attention to other topics. "
"Every November 30, the Philippines celebrates Bonifacio Day to commemorate the birthday of the Father of Philippine Revolution, Andres Bonifacio y de Castro. The second foremost figure in the Southeast Asian country's pantheon of heroes, he is in fact regarded by Filipino...""Supremo of the Filipino Revolutionary Government
"Bonifacio, in fact, formed the first national government of the natives with the intent and vision that the Katipunan would govern the islands after any overthrow of Spanish colonial rule. ......Beyond being a secret militant organization, the Katipunan was a revolutionary government with a bureaucratic framework, own set of laws and founded on democratic and moral principles summed up under the KKK Cartilla or primer. Even the US Library of Congress record proves such to an extent: "the Katipunan insinuated itself into the community by setting up mutual aid societies and education for the poor." The same text points to how Bonifacio, with a 30,000-strong** KKK "proclaimed Filipino independence on August 23, 1896."***"
"I've lived through all four decades, including during the time of Ferdinand Marcos' dictatorship, but suicides due to poverty were little known of until the controversial presidency of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.""To say "mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa," is the least the more patriotic of the EDSA 2 conspirators and gullibles can do. But what good would a thousand sorry's do to the grieving, destitute families of Janeth and Mariannet and other poverty-related dead-by-suicide victims of Arroyo's administration?"
ON JULY 27, 2010, The Daily Tribune, [http://www.tribuneonline.org/], the online version of the feisty and defiant daily English-language Philippine publication, was cracked (hacked), with the website not showing and the page going instead to an apparently malware-infested site, electnate.com [Warni...
"So there, no less than the leader of the yellows says he does not like the newspaper and has decided to read it no more. In the light of published admission by the "President" that the same gives him "headaches," along with the suspicious... timing of its hacking, is it probable, therefore, that the yellows were behind the rather vicious cyber attack(s)? Well, they do have possible motive, and no question about capability. And the timing? Simply too perfect to be plain coincidental.
"It took some time before the communication team of Aquino III was able to put up the Office of the President website. Wonder if they tinkered first with the website of the headache-causing-to-the-"President" Daily Tribune...."
It's baffling how some inventions fail to achieve a tipping point. The hydraulic ram pump - which has been around for a couple of centuries. falls into this category. The Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation Inc. (AIDFI) is determined to see the ram pump finally come into its own. Using the....
Dutchman Auke Idzenga has been nominated for the World Challenge 2010 for an ingenious water pump. He developed the idea in the Philippines where he lives. The machine pumps clean water high up into t...
"Hydraulic ram pump
"He first became active in a trade union in the Philippines. The union set up the organisation AIDFI, Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation Inc, initially to support organic agriculture by applying simple technol...ogy which can be used anywhere.
""At technical college, I once worked on a hydraulic ram pump and it made a deep impression on me. When we set up AIDFI, I immediately remembered the pump. Backthen the pumps were made of concrete, but I tinkered around with it until it was perfect and could be used anywhere.""
"Manang Biday" is a popular Ilocano folk song. Interpreted by Raymunda Lucero. Audio from a vinyl phonograph recording ("Ilocana" -Raymunda Lucero, Villar Records, Mareco Inc.)
"I am doing this not only for myself but to the many other of my compatriots who experience this kind of neglect. My case is very simple, yet I did not get any assistance from the Consulate."
"As noted by the oppositors headed by a certain Genaro Lualhati and the pro-consumer Nasecore led by Pete Ilagan, this P0.41 increase being worked out under the ERC’s newly instituted tranching ...scheme called Performance Based Regulation (PBR) is no pittance at all, if one considers that for every one centavo increase in Meralco’s rate this translates into a gross revenue of P360 million per year based on its present annual sales of 36 billion kilowatt hours. Thus, that 40 centavo increase translates into a whooping P14.4 billion a year additional revenue for Meralco!"
