Thursday, November 22, 2012

Cynical Philippine stories below the fold

Spin Spin Spin...
Most of these are local stories

NGO's call for Filipino candidates of 2013 to take up children's causes

who could be against putting food into the mouths of babes (to paraphrase Churchill).

But of course, if you check the small print you find:
Anna Lindenfors, Country Director of Save the Children in the Philippines..(complained)
“Almost half of the population in the Philippines are children. With a population growth rate of nearly 2% per year, not enough resources are made available to ensure their rights are realized,” she said.
Yes, it is not about children, it's about the RH bill to stop them from being born...
I am for voluntary programs to supply birth control, but the bill mandates coercion to both the health care workers (who can't opt out of prescribing them) and (in this hierarchical society people obey authority figures) pressuring those who want medical care to think if they don't agree they won't get treatment.

And why the stress on free contraception when one third of our moms deliver without a trained birth attendant, our local open ditch sewers that breed mosquitoes that spread Dengue fever are rarely cleaned our, and our clinics don't give free antibiotics to sick children?


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Pinoy novelist gets an award from an American literature magazine.

So is it about the nuns who risked their lives during the EDSA revolt against Marcos? Is it about a woman OFW worrying about her kids while working as a maid in Saudi and resisting sexual harassment by her employers? Is it about a local radio reporter trying to fight local corruption despite death threats?
Of course not.


Soliman “transforms herself from bookish rich girl to communist rebel”. A conflict arises when she questions her principles; is she really is committed to the communist movement or just to the man she falls in love with?
Yes, another novel about a spoiled narcissistic rich girl who finds salvation in leftist revolutions...no wonder the book is popular in the US.

Presumably the novel doesn't mention the NPA "recruited" child soldiers, killed innocent farmers, the dissadents in their party, or the many Chinoy businessmen who were kidnapped and murdered.

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Why there was no decent security in Benghazi: bureaucrats said that they didn't need it.

The State Department had security personnel available for use in Libya but had apparently created ROE (Rules of Engagement) for Libya that relied on Libyans to provide most of the security and to keep American security personnel to a minimum. Many State Department personnel who had served in the Middle East believed this was a major error but they were ignored, along with calls for security contractors (who can be brought in if you make enough fuss). 

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Iron Dome Spoils Hamas Surprise Attack

Reagan was right. I remember when he was ridiculed for funding the "Star Wars" anti missile system...but it hasn't stopped the left wing press in the US from saying Iron Dome had nothing to do with Reagan.

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What is it with Obama and hugs and touching female leaders?

He bows to the Chinese and Saudis, but feels up the PM of Thailand and Nobel Prize winning Syu Kee of Burma...

But of course he won't offend his Chinese masters by siding with the Philippines and VietNam in the Chinese  grab of the west Philippine sea.

nothing like a nice war against their small neighbors to distract the 100 million Chinese living in poverty from the government corruption...however, last time they tried in 1979, they won a Pyrrhic victory over Vietnam...




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There are at least 120 Philippine OFW in Gaza, but only a few want to leave.
So what's the problem? 

According to Del Rosario, Israel has guaranteed Filipinos safe passage out of Gaza, saying “they will treat Filipinos as they treat their own citizens concerning their welfare,” said Del Rosario.
The Embassy, however, reported that Hamas has blocked the open crossing that Israel established to allow foreigners out of the conflict zone. It charged Hamas of holding hostage foreigners who would like to flee the conflict.
however, the 41,000 OFW in Israel are not asking to leave because their employers let them into their bomb shelters when the missiles are near.
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The good news of the day: Hero dog Kabang is doing better after chemotherapy.
Kabang was first recognized internationally as the dog that heroically saved two young girls from being run over by leaping in the path of a speeding motorcycle.

Though the girls escaped unscathed, the hero dog paid a high price with her snout and upper jaw torn apart, exposing her throat to infection.

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