Philippine news

Our lovely President Gloria calls for a New World Order...brags that the Philippines has a carbon footprint of 1.6 tons...
Ah yes, isn't poverty wonderful?

Oh yes, she adds: No loans please, send money.
Guess it's easier to divert the usual 20 percent if it's cash.
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As for greenhouse gas: It's the rice fields stupid
Using the IPCC guidelines, Yan and his colleagues estimated that the methane emissions of Philippine rice fields is 744,000 metric tons or 744 Gigagrams (Gg), which, they said,
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Evil does exist:
MANILA, Philippines - A man who admits to have worked as a child assassin for the powerful Ampatuan clan based in Maguindanao province came forward with "shocking" testimony of mass murders carried out by young boys in the service of the Ampatuan family.
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and ManilaBulletin headlines say Junior was attacked "by an angry mob".
ABS CBN merely says he was "harassed" and "photos thrown into his face" by angry journalists.
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Mayon hasn't had "the big one" yet, so farmers are sneaking back to work on their fields and care for their animals.

and now there is a new business: Disaster tourism.