Would You Trust These Two? Prospero Nograles and Luis Villafuerte this week both relinquished their posts as heads of their respective parties to pave the way for the merging of Kampi and Lakas. Citing preparations for the 2010 elections, they also claim that Cha-Cha is dead. But knowing how these two operate, would you take their word as gospel truth. If you ask me, I’d rather trust a snake than these two.

How many times have these two said anything truthful? As far as I can remember, zilch, nada, never. I’m sure they’re doing the dirty work of pushing the Cha-Cha one way or another. Just to be on the safe side, Gloria has been globetrotting, most probably to try and hide her loot. She’s using the plight of the starving, jobless Filipinos to spirit away her ill-gotten wealth. Perhaps she’s staying away from Europe as the EU have very strict laws against dirty money.

So the cat is out of the bag, Lakas and Kampi are consolidationg their forces, perhaps to resurrect a KBL-like party should they succeed in amending the constitution. They’re trying to create a monopoly of sorts to ensure that they would still enjoy the perks that come with their ass-licking loyalty to the soon-to-be illegitimate prime minister. Look hard at these pictures and tell me with all honesty that these two have any shred of sincerity in them. Would you entrust the future of your children in faces like these? Like I said, I’m better off with the snake. (by schumey.blogspot.com)

Group of activists and moralists joined the Pitao family in bringing their daughter to rest in peace. ( March 14,2009) But, it seems  Rebelyn’s soul is not yet resting as her clan shout and seek justice for such barbaric act. The NPA is still blaming the Arm Forces of the Philippines. This writer also symphatize to the Rebelyn’s Pitao and I am with these individuals who seek JUSTICE for REBELYN!

The friendship ends. The peace negotiation would probably turn to trash. The death of Kumander Parago’s daughter, Rebelyn Pitao would be calling for change. Not for peace but for more bloody NPA attacks.

Mayor Rodrigo Duterte stated on  his local show aired on ABS-CBN (Gikan sa Masa, Para sa Masa) that he promised to solve the problem by giving justice to Parago’s daughter after his wife, Evangeline Pitao blamed the Arm Forces of the Philippines of the said killing. NPA forces also blamed the military even the AFP denied their involvement.

Rebelyn Pitao, daughter of a high-ranking commander of the New People’s Army in Southern Mindanao, was abducted along her way home 6:30 am, March 6,2009. Twenty Four hours after, her body found floating in an irrigation canal in Carmen Davao del Norte with an object inserted to her private parts.

Mayor spoke for justice to it and told NPA to not think that it was AFPs act of vengeance. However, by principle, NPA continue blames the civil government behind the case.

For now, everything is uncertain. For this writer, everyone must be cautious for we do not know how will this end. Through war? Or, another life would be sacrificed again. The people Davao are trusting Mayor to solve it as soon as possible before the group of Parago strike. (Parago picture courtesy of davaotoday.com)

Watch the final day of the liberator Ninoy Aquino. In the video you will hear somebody giving cue to the killer to shoot ninoy. Well, it was his fate. He needed to die so that filipinos will be awaken and enlivened people’s power!

Excerpt from DAVAOTODAY.COM

Dennis Cuesta used to anchor the hard hitting primetime radio program “Straight to the Point” over DXMD – General Santos. Apart from tackling corruption on air, he also heard out complaints from residents. Among the latest issues he tackled were complaints of maltreatment against a car company, where he was asked to testify for the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG).

Cuesta fought for his life at the intensive care unit of the St. Elizabeth Hospital in General Santos City for almost five days after he was shot at around 4:30 p.m. near the Gaisano mall of General Santos city on Monday.

He left seven children and his wife.

Cuesta used to anchor the hard hitting primetime radio program “Straight to the Point” over DXMD – General Santos. Apart from tackling corruption on air, he also heard out complaints from residents. Among the latest issues he tackled were complaints of maltreatment against a car company, where he was asked to testify for the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG).

He also tackled an alleged water contamination incident involving a private water system owned by a barangay official.

Cuesta just alighted from a multicab after a trip from Glan, Sarangani, where RMN held a promotional activity, when he was shot by unidentified men.

Former broadcaster Bobby Flores, who was with him, said he and Cuesta were walking along the national highway when he heard gunshots.

He saw Cuesta just slumped beside him, crying for help because his head hurt. Flores said motorists and bystanders avoided them but a tricycle driver came along and helped him bring Cuesta to the hospital.

Flores, however, suffered from a mild stroke in the hospital after police interrogated him. He also said that Cuesta has been receiving threats weeks before he was killed.

The National Union of Journalists of the Philippine- Davao Chapter (NUJP-Davao) condemns the killing of Cuesta as the latest attack on press freedom, another manifestation that the culture of impunity reigns in our midst.

NUJP said the killing only shows the failure of authorities in prosecuting and punishing criminals. The group demands a thorough and immediate solution to Cuesta’s shooting.

NUJP General Santos city called Cuesta’s killing an “act of barbarism” in a place known for its “tight security” and “high police visibility due to past incidence of bomb attacks and unsolved vigilante-style killings.”

“What is so appalling is the seeming boldness and brazen manner the attack was staged, showing no fear or not even a bit of respect for the authorities,” the statement from NUJP-General Santos said. “This is not the first time that a broadcaster in General Santos was harmed. There is a long list already.”

“For the nth time, we call on the police and other government authorities to perform to the fullest their sworn duties of protecting the people,” the NUJP statement said. “We challenge the police to act with swiftness and determination in arresting the perpetrators. We call upon our media colleagues to stay united and be more vigilant as we stand for our rights and defend press freedom.” (davaotoday.com)

Stranded passengers sleep after the most destructive earthquake China has experienced.

The 7.9-magnitude quake devastated a region of small cities and towns set amid steep hills north of Sichuan’s provincial capital of Chengdu. Striking in midafternoon, it emptied office buildings across the country in Beijing and could be felt as far away as Vietnam.

Snippets from state media and photos posted on the Internet underscored the immense scale of the devastation. In the town of Juyuan, south of the epicenter, a three-story high school collapsed, burying as many as 900 students and killing at least 50, the official Xinhua news agency said. Photos showed people using cranes, mechanical hoists and their hands to remove slabs of concrete and steel.

Buried teenagers struggled to break free from the rubble, “while others were crying out for help,” Xinhua said. Families waited in the rain near the wreckage as rescuers wrote the names of the dead on a blackboard, Xinhua said.

Parents of the dead students built makeshift religious altars at the site, resting the corpses on any available piece of plywood or cardboard, and burning paper money and incense in a traditional honor for their child in the afterlife, according to NPR’s Melissa Block.

The earthquake hit one of the last homes of the giant panda at the Wolong Nature Reserve and panda breeding center, in Wenchuan county, which remained out of contact, Xinhua said.

In Chengdu, it crashed telephone networks and hours later left parts of the city of 10 million in darkness.

“We can’t get to sleep. We’re afraid of the earthquake. We’re afraid of all the shaking,” said 52-year-old factory worker Huang Ju, who took her ailing, elderly mother out of the Jinjiang District People’s Hospital. Outside, Huang sat in a wheelchair wrapped in blankets while her mother, who was ill, slept in a hospital bed next to her.

Xinhua reported 8,533 people died in Sichuan alone and 216 others in three other provinces and the mega-city of Chongqing.

Worst affected were four counties including the quake’s epicenter in Wenchuan, 60 miles northwest of Chengdu. Landslides left roads impassable Tuesday, causing the government to order soldiers into the area on foot, state television said, and heavy rain prevented four military helicopters from landing.

Wenchuan’s Communist Party secretary appealed for air drops of tents, food and medicine. “We also need medical workers to save the injured people here,” Xinhua quoted Wang Bin as telling other officials who reached him by phone.

To the east, in Beichuan county, 80 percent of the buildings fell, and 10,000 people were injured, aside from 3,000 to 5,000 dead, Xinhua said. State media said two chemical plants in an industrial zone of the city of Shifang collapsed, burying hundreds of people and spilling more than 80 tons of toxic liquid ammonia.

Though slow to release information at first, the government and its state media ramped up quickly. Nearly 20,000 soldiers, police and reservists were sent to the disaster area.

Disasters always pose a test for the communist government, whose mandate rests heavily on maintaining order, delivering economic growth, and providing relief in emergencies.

Pressure for a rapid response was particularly intense this year, with the government already grappling with public discontent over high inflation and a widespread uprising among Tibetans in western China while trying to prepare for the Aug. 8-24 Beijing Olympics.

“I am particularly saddened by the number of students and children affected by this tragedy,” President Bush said in a statement.

International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge sent his condolences to President Hu Jintao, adding: “The Olympic Movement is at your side, especially during these difficult moments. Our thoughts are with you.”

Premier Wen Jiabao, a geologist by training, called the quake “a major geological disaster,” and traveled to the disaster area to oversee rescue and relief operations.

“Hang on a bit longer. The troops are rescuing you,” Wen shouted to people buried in the Traditional Medicine Hospital in the city of Dujiangyan, on the road to Wenchuan, in comments broadcast by CCTV.

“As long as there was a slightest hope, we should make our effort a hundred times and we will never relax,” he said outside the collapsed school in Juyuan.

The quake was the deadliest since one in 1976 in the city of Tangshan near Beijing that killed 240,000 — although some reports say as many as 655,000 perished — the most devastating in modern history. A 1933 quake near where Monday’s struck killed at least 9,000, according to geologists.

Monday’s quake occurred on a fault where South Asia pushes against the Eurasian land mass, smashing the Sichuan plain into mountains leading to the Tibetan highlands — near communities that held sometimes violent protests of Chinese rule in mid-March.

Much of the area has been closed to foreign media and travelers since then, compounding the difficulties of getting information. Roads north from Chengdu to the disaster area were sealed off early Tuesday to all but emergency convoys.

In Chengdu, the region’s commercial center, the airport closed for seven hours, reopening only for emergency and a few outbound flights. A major railway line to the northeast was ruptured, stranding about 10,000 passengers, Xinhua said. Although most of the power had been restored by nightfall, phone and Internet service was spotty and some neighborhoods remained without power and water.

Nervous residents spent the night outside, some playing cards or heading to the suburbs. State media, citing the Sichuan seismology bureau, reported 313 aftershocks.

“Traffic jams, no running water, power outs, everyone sitting in the streets, patients evacuated from hospitals sitting outside and waiting,” said Ronen Medzini, an Israeli student in Chengdu, via text message.

When it hit shortly before 2:30 p.m., the quake rumbled for nearly three minutes, witnesses said, driving people into the streets in panic.

“It was really scary to be on the 26th floor in something like that,” said Tom Weller, a 49-year-old American oil and gas consultant staying at the Holiday Inn. “You had to hold on to something like that or you’d fall over. It shook for so long and so violently, you wondered how long the building would be able to stand this.”

While most buildings in the city held up, those in the countryside tumbled. On the outskirts of Chongqing, a school collapsed, killing at least five people. Residents said teachers kept the children inside, thinking it was safer.

The city of Mianyang ordered all able-bodied males under 50 to take water and tools and walk or drive to Beichuan, where most of the buildings had collapsed.

State TV broadcast tips for anyone trapped in the earthquake. “If you’re buried, keep calm and conserve your energy. Seek water and food, and wait patiently for rescue,” CCTV said.

Although initially measured at 7.8 magnitude, the U.S. Geological Survey later revised its assessment of the quake to 7.9. Its depth — about six miles below the surface, according to the USGS — gave the tremor such wide impact, geologists said.

The earthquake also rattled buildings in Beijing, 930 miles to the north, causing evacuations of office towers. People ran screaming into the streets in other cities, where many residents said they had never felt an earthquake.

In Beijing, where hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors are expected for the Olympics, stadiums, arenas and other venues for the games were undamaged.

Li Jiulin, a top engineer on the 91,000-seat National Stadium — known as the Bird’s Nest and the jewel of the Olympics — was conducting a site inspection when the quake struck. He told reporters the building was designed to withstand a 8.0 quake.

“The Olympic venues were not affected by the earthquake,” said Sun Weide, a spokesman for the Beijing organizing committee. “We considered earthquakes when building those venues.”

Some 660 miles to the east in Anhui province, chandeliers swayed in the lobby of the Buckingham Palace Hotel. “We’ve never felt anything like this our whole lives,” said a hotel employee surnamed Zhu.

The massive Three Gorges dam, the world’s largest about 350 miles to the east of the epicenter, was not affected, according to the information office of State Council Three Gorges Construction Committee. The area around the enormous dam remains increasingly precarious as rising waters in the reservoir have led to landslides.

Premier Wen, after arriving in Chengdu, traveled to Dujiangyan, near the collapsed high school. On his plane, he appealed for people to rally together.

“This is an especially challenging task,” state TV showed Wen saying, reading from a statement. “In the face of the disaster, what’s most important is calmness, confidence, courage and powerful command.”

Isang malaking tagumpay ng Pilipinas nung pinalayas sa kapangyarihan ang diktadoryang Marcos. Sa buong akala ng karamihan, mabubuo na ang isang matatag na bansa sa kamay ng isang matatag na gobyerno. Nung EDSA 1 makikita at madadama ang pagsasanib ng buong lakas ng sambayanang pilipino. Sina Cory, Ramos at Erap ay umupo bilang pangulo ng bansa subalit ang pagiging isang mahina na bayan ay nangingibabaw pa rin. Nang si ERAP ay naging halimaw at naging gahaman, bumalik ang lakas ng sambayanan at sinipa siya sa pwesto. Pumalit si GMA na syang sentro ngayon ng mga pag aalsa. Isang babaeng presidente na may sapat na kapangyarihan. Pilit man pina pa alis subalit hati ang mga pilipino. Ang oposisyon ay bumubwelta na upang patalsikin si Arroyo. Ngunit pano nila mapapatalsik kung ang bawat isa sa kanila ay may mga sariling hangarin kung si GMA ay mapapatalsik. Ang bawat isa sa kanila ay may layuning papalitan si Arroyo na balang araw sila sila rin ang mag aaway na sya namang magiging suliranin  ng bansa.

Ang simbahang katoliko ay nahahati rin sa dalawang pwersa. May mga obispong pilit nananawagan sa mga maliliit na simbahan upang buhayin ang people power. Ang sigaw naman ng iba “Pagbabago sa sarili” (COMMUNAL ACT).

Saan ngayon lulugar ang mga tao? Madidiktahan ba ng simbahan ang mga tao? Susunod ba sa laban ang mga pilipino sa nais ng mga oposisyon na halatang may mga sariling agenda? Nasa tamang lugar at kaalaman ba ang mga bayarang militante? Naiintindahan ba ng mga kabataan pinoy ang mga isyung pinag aawayan sa senado? (ZTE). Mahihikayat kaya ni Jun Lozada ang sambayanan pilipino? Mapupuno kaya ang EDSA? Magaganap ba kaya ang EDSA III? Kung mapapatalsik na si GMA?Sino ang papalit? Saan pupulutin si Arroyo? Matatahimik kaya ang bayan? Makakaya kaya ng dasal ang pagbabago? Sa tingin nyo ba hindi lalaban ang maliit na GMA na yan? Sa tingin nyo ba mananahimik na ang Media?

Ang ibig sabihin ng People Power ay kapangyarihan ng buong pilipino na nagkakaisa para sa isang layunin mula sa ordinaryon tao,estudyante, negosyante sundalo at simbahan.Tanong, nagkakaisa ba tayo? Ngayong 2010, masasaksihan rin natin ang sinasabi naming “personal vested interest” ng nasa oposisyon.

Ang Rebel Media ay ANTI-ARROYO! ANTI ARROYO’s dark side. Kung kami ang tatanungin kung sino sino ang dapat kataying at burahin sa mundo, sila ay ang mga hayagang halimawa: ABALOS, MIKE ARROYO,MGA POLITIKONG NASA SIMBAHAN, MGA BINABAYARAN,MGA KRIMINAL AT DRUG LORDS, AT MGA AMBISYOSONG OPOSISYON NA NAGHAHANGAD NG KAPANGYARIHAN.

Ang sa amin lang patapusin si GMA hanggang 2010. Hindi naman ito matatapos. Hindi nagkakaisa ang sambayanang pilipino, ang lahat ay nagkasala, ang lahat ay masama.Matagal na ring patay ang hustisya sa bansa.

Ang 22nd anniversary ng EDSA dos ay panawagan ng pagkakaisa sa pagbabago hindi pagkakaisa para gatungan ang gulong tinatahak ngayon ng PILIPINAS.

     Sept 12 is the day equivalent to the 6 years of studying ERAP’s case and six years of treating him as still-special person. And that day, he was proven guilty in plunder case. That’s how slow our justice is! Very slow! Because ERAP is a millionaire person. If he is an ordinary devil, sureness, he will be judged without any ‘pasikot’. That is how the Phil. justice works! Very imbalance.

ERAP was guilty with the Jueting Protection and the BW scam but where is he now?At the TANAY rest house. Why did Sandigan Bayan allow such? We are not convicting but we are taking care of devils. Evils like ERAP must sacrifice as consequence to the billion worth of corrupted amount.Hundreds of filipinos are dying from poverty but the government is still feeding the cause of this poverty! Muntinlupa is not enough for this fat-dull president “Bartolina” will do! Look around us, beggars, taong grasa, street children etc are increasing. How pity! Monster like ERAP must not be treated as how powerful he is. JUCTICE must be imposed to him as how these usual criminals are convicted. Reclusion Perpetua?(in Muntinlupa or in TANAY?) We prefer LETHAL INJECTION!

Bilang isang Region XI Knights of Rizal Coordinator, masakit tingnan ang tulad nito na parang binasura na lang ang adhikain ng ating bayani. Sa isang paaralan ng New Sambog,Davao del Norte, nakatayo itong monyomentong tila inuubos na ng mga uwak. Uwak nga ba o ang mga walang paki na residente dito. Every public school is compulsary ordered to put up such Rizal monument handled with care and respect. But what happens? It is destroyed with vandalism as indication of disrespect and irresponsibility. Sana ay maunawaan ng mga namamahala ng eskwelahang iyan ang tunay na kahalagahan ng statwa ni Rizal habang hindi pa huli ang lahat. (The Knights of Rizal will be forced to do some legal action to all school for that case!)

(by Richard Lionheart)

Isa sa mga taga-Munisipyo namin ang nagprint ng mga ipinosts ko at ipinamahagi at ibinigay sa mga tao doon including the Mayor. That person is making the situation worst…Read the full story