Avila and Lavina Oppose JPEPA
The Japan Philippine Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) has been ratified by the Senate without much dissent. And two Davao City councilors are up in arms against it. First district counciloors Leo Avila III and Peter Laviña have criticized the ratification of JPEPA and have expressed their disappointment over senators who were absent during the ratification. Avila argues that the agreement is beneficial only to the Japan and would be the Philippines at a disadvantage.
Blog Action Day 2008 takes on POVERTY
This year, bloggers are enjoined to discuss and be part of the revolution. October 15, 2008 is this year’s Blog Action Day. The topic is “Poverty,” what it and what can be done:
Lessons from Myanmar
contributed by Ryan Maboloc
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo should be happy that the most insensitive and the most stupid government in the world exists not in the Philippines but in Myanmar.
The decision of the military junta in a country of 47 million impoverished people defies all laws of logic. It renders the meaning of human dignity useless and buries the hope of the Burmese people more than a thousand miles beneath the core of the earth.
While tens of thousands are dead and a million people are homeless and are at-risk of losing their lives from diseases, the junta chose to continue with holding a constitutional referendum, which reports say guarantees a quarter of parliamentary seats to the military. “It is not important”, claims one man, who says that he is more concerned about where he will get his next meal.
Delayed Reaction
Al Qaeda leader Bin Laden has issued a warning that there will be a “reckoning” as a reaction to the publication of cartoons featuring Mohammad on a Danish newspaper.
Free Burma
All human beings deserve to be free.
Keith Olberman shares
Keith Olberman of NBC comments on Bill Clinton‘s Fox News interview:
Bill Clinton did what almost none of us have done in five years.
He has spoken the truth about 9/11, and the current presidential administration.
Philippines Abstains in Signing the Resolution Condemning Israel’s Attacks on Lebanon
According to an article in Sunstar Davao (September 3, 2006), the Philippines has abstained from signing the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Resolution which condemns Israel’s attacks on Lebanon. After all that the Filipinos in Lebanon went through, the country chooses not to take sides??? Is our government not willing to stand up for its citizens? Not willing to stand up for humanity? A great injustice has happened to countless people in Lebanon, including Filipinos, and yet we choose not to condemn what has happened? What do we stand for?
28 years old from Davao City, blogging since 2004. :)
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