September 24, 2006

While the US has been funding more arms purchase to beef up their local proxy, they are also busy looking for alternatives aside from Gloria only to neutralize the growing national democratic struggles.

The trajectory in maintaining an illegitimate government as in the case of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s is to slash more money from the government to fund its coercive arm, the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Days ago defense secretary Atty. Avelino Cruz, during the hearing of the House appropriations committee said the AFP needs P 30.9 B to attain a strategic victory against communist guerillas by year 2010. The amount represents the bulk of the P 49.3 B proposed by the defense department in 2007. This is P 2.45 B or 8.61 percent higher compared to the 2006 budget. It has the appetite to fund arms purchase in truth more than half of it goes to their pockets. Rather than pursuing peace, through peace negotiations with the NDF, these fascist has the temerity to announce to the public that the people’s money through taxes will be put to use by them to kill more people, more Filipinos. How can Gloria say no when she is at the mercy of them. Her nose is tied now having quid pro quo relations. The generals shout more funds for them, more funds to “crush the communist”? Everybody knows military solution is not he solution. They have to look our history, since time immemorial when US imperialism had installed puppets in government from the time of Emilio Aguinaldo to the present. The call of the militarist syndicate in Arroyo’s illegitimate government now wants the congress to be their accomplice in huge legal racketeering. Gloria’s fascist moves are taking a strong momentum and are eating her up. Her roadside show trip going to Europe was a shame to her with all Filipino immigrants calling for her to resign and had exposed her as the master mind butcher, next to her field butcher, the retired General Jovito Palparan. Her field butcher goes around the capital district of Manila bringing along company sized marines in trucks just to attend hearings courtesy of GMA’s protection. After praising her butcher she, has asked him to sit in the Security Council to cover his butt. Seems all of them is covering their butts now given the strong and intense condemnation coming from international institutions, groups and Filipino communities. Lies upon lies being repeated also have made themselves stupid. Further arming her coercive machinery indicates she is heading for a bloody confrontation. Politically she is further isolated. What is holding her now is her two immediate shield, one, the Mello commission and two, the Task Force Usig which were made inorder to deflect political unmasking and condemnation of her policies. But sure these shield s will not last long. Their deflecting mode has many errors, many holes that the only way her fascist generals can counter political attacks is gathering many skulls in cemeteries and put them in remote places, claim to the public that they discovered mass graves, whipping communist hysteria. But this claim by the military has long been debunked. Telling lies upon lies does not not help her. Sooner her only way out is to jump out of Malacanangs window, happily with no one to catch her, not even Mike Arroyo her husband or the small fly who thinks he is the carabao, Mike Defensor. She has to find ways now. One observable statement she did lately was flirting with Bush. She had quickly claimed the US should step in Thailand last week with the coup de etat. While the US has been funding more arms purchase to beef up their local proxy, they are also busy looking for alternatives aside from Gloria only to neutralize the growing national democratic struggles.
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September 22, 2006

The revolutionization of press conferences in the Philippines

This is so amazing, Satur having an online press conference at Yehey.com the otherday in time of the commemoration of Martial Law. I am reposting this article written by Hector Bryant. Bryan is staffwriter of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility and associate editor of the CMFR publication Philippine Journalism Review Reports. I am linking my blog to Tonyo's, probably the person behind the revolutionization of doing press conferences in the Philippines.

Satur Ocampo goes online chatting
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Posted: Thursday, September 21, 2006
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Earlier today, I was in a very interesting and lively online press conference remembering the 34th anniversary of Martial Law in the Philippines. It was my first time to be in an online press conference – and I'm glad that it happened today, when we are commemorating the infamous Proclamation 1081 issued by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos on this date 34 years ago.

On September 21, 1972, former president Ferdinand Marcos placed the country under martial law. Even though he officially lifted January 17, 1981, the former dictator continued to rule the country until People Power 1 toppled him from power in 1986.

House Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo was the guest in the conference, a good choice for the occasion. "Ka Satur" (as he is more popularly known) was a militant and communist rebel during the Marcos dictatorship. According to his profile in Bayan Muna's website, he was among the revolutionaries who founded the National Democratic Front in 1973, which "sought to unite various anti-dictatorship forces." This former journalist was later arrested by the dictatorship, tortured and detained for the next nine years. He was able to escape in 1985 and rejoined the underground revolutionary movement.

Ka Satur was also the spokesperson of the National Democratic Front during the 1986 peace talks between the government and the group. Today's event was his first online press conference.

Ka Satur is glad that technology has now allowed him and others to express their feelings, something which is not available during Martial Law. "The feeling is great that we have a medium through which we can communicate freely and fast," he said. Since the mainstream press during the dictatorship was curtailed and regulated, he and his other fellow activists "took recourse to an alternative underground press to assert our freedom of expression."

"I welcome this new medium," Ka Satur added, "since it affords me a chance to reach others I may not normally be able to reach." Technology, according to him, has made it easier and faster for him to communicate with constituents, allies, and friends here and abroad.

Although he acknowledged the role new technologies play in helping him and others to communicate faster and easier to the public, Ka Satur also said that the mainstream media has become more accessible to the Left. "The tit-for-tat with our political adversaries," Ka Satur explained, "is livelier with the wider media coverage."

He also talked other issues as well, among them, the possibility of having a military takeover in the Philippines after what happened to Thailand. According to Ka Satur, the Philippines has a different political dynamics and historical experience from Thailand. "But what must be noted that the problems that plagued Thaksin were the same as those that beleaguered Gloria M. Arroyo – issue of legitimacy, corruption, political repression." He added however that a military resolution of these issues is not the way, adding that the military played a big role in Arroyo's sins against the people.

He also reacted to the non-appearance of Ret. Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan before the Melo Commission. Dubbed by the leftists as "Berdugo ng Mindoro," Palparan was accused of being behind the killings of numerous political activists in the country.

"Palaparan's non-appearance before the Melo commission may reflect a hesitation on his part about his status," Ka Satur said. "Is he now a private citizen called to account for misdeeds as military offficer, or is he waiting for that promised new position in the government which he can continue to use as cover for his irresponsible statements that both the AFP and the President encouraged him to make against his perceived 'enemies of the state'?"

When I asked him if People Power can really still be considered an option given the fact that most Filipinos seemed to have become weary of it, he said: "People power remains a possibility, given the unresolved political, economic and social crisis. I do not share the view that the people have grown weary of protest actions."

Added Ka Satur: "We just have to work harder in mobilizing the people against the continuing acts of repression, including political killings, attributable to those in power."

He was also asked if he's running for senator in next year's elections. "The encouragement for me to run for senator has persisted since my first term in the House" including offers of campaign funds, he said. "However, I am personally inclined not to run, especially because of the high cost of campaigning that my party and I cannot afford."

Ka Satur also said that Bayan Muna is against the charter change plan led by Arroyo and House Speaker Jose de Venecia. "As per the plan the shift to a unicameral parliament will not solve the bane of traditional politics – the dominance of political dynasties and political parties that are mere cliques of trapos," he said.

The last question came from respected Filipina writer Ninotchka Rosca, who is based in the United States. She asked what Filipinos who are abroad can do regarding the alleged political repression in the country. According to Ka Satur, the condemnation and pressure from abroad has prodded Arroyo to act on the killings. That shows that the Filipinos' presence and vigilance abroad has spurred the pressure on the Philippine government to "take a decisive step to stop the killings."

Joey Alarilla, a contributing editor for INQ7.net, was among the journalists who had attended the conference. Like what he had written in his blog, I also think that the conference showed that technology can help political leaders reach out to their constituents. "What makes this online press conference particularly significant is that it's another example of how technology can be used to encourage political discourse and safeguard freedom of expression," Alarilla wrote. "It's particularly apt considering that Martial Law" sought to curtail these freedoms."

I couldn't agree more. In fact, in an article I wrote for the May 2006 issue of the PJR Reports about a recent Manila conference on free expression in cyberspace, I noted the attempts to stifle free expression in Asian cyberspace, even here in the Philippines.

"There is a new arena in the fight for freedom of expression," I wrote. "This is cyberspace, a new zone where a conflict rages between those who promote free expression and those who seek to restrict it." For my article "Governments seek to control 'citizen media': Cyberspace: The new combat zone," click here.

Ka Satur's press conference was said to be the first in a series of online press conferences by Yehey.com, a Philippine portal. Thanks to Bayan Muna media officer Tonyo for inviting me to the press conference. Many thanks to colleagues Venus and Don for "helping" me in the chat.

Ka Satur's photo from Kilusan.net. The screenshot of the chat earlier came from Alarilla's blog. ###
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Broadening struggles inside the belly of the beast

Yesterday was the commemoration of Martial Law in the Philippines. For most Filipinos Martial Law years were the dark years of Marcos tyrannical rule. Martial law had affected peoples lives, some went to the US to evade arrests, some went to the hills and joined the peasants army, some stayed in the cities and secretly organized themselves and the middle class, some even had named their children such as ML or anything that has to do with their struggle. When I was small growing in a church, I saw secret meets conducted in churches. Talking were done in whispering mode, not to loud enough in fear that others may hear them. Meetings in neighborhoods were cautiously done. I remembered a meeting one time when they have to play the radio so that their neighbors will not hear them. In grade four four, I remembered seeing a coffin in the church, a body of a salvaged victim dumped in the river, his throat cut by Marcos military. The memories were gruesome. Gruesome was seeing a salvaged person lying in the roadside when we, my dad and my brothers were jogging early in the morning in my grandparents place during one summer in Calamba Misamis Occidental.

In college I heard a lot of news whereby students who opted to join the peasants in the countrysides who were captured where tortured to death, or the likes of Satur Ocampo and many more who were tortured but have survived the horrible experience.

Today, under Macapagal Arroyo’s regime the situation have worsened. She is no different from Marcos and is even far worse. She has her death squads roving around the country.. She controls a gangster of generals in the security council that secures her rule. She is prolonging her rule by instructing her military to run amock while she enriches her family with kickbacks of people’s money. She of course does not deserve a single iota of respect with her hands full of blood.

 She cheated her way to the top to become a president. A fake president, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo have used peoples money for her past election bid. Unpopular as she is her obsession is snarled by following the dictates of her gangster generals. Likened to a dog she is now at the mercy of being bitten. Caging them does not matter now. In would in fact lead to a scenario wherein she’ll be ultimately caged, a coup, the same thing as what had just happened in Thailand few days ago. Her Generals know too much of her, her deep secrets.

I had a class yesterday at Berkeley. It was a polity class about the UCC. I opted not to attend that class to be present in that rally in front of the US consulate with all Fil-Ams condemning the ongoing political killings in the Philippines. I was asked to say a prayer by my friend Terry, so I did. My prayer though was ready made since the person who wrote it did not make in that march rally. But the prayer was beautifully made. It was a prayer of condemnation and confrontation, invoking the scriptures in the Bible. It did captured the general theme and captivated the moment of hoping , of finding justice and achieving freedom back home.

I brought my family with me, my three kids . That was their first time to see a militant rally with Fil-Am youths. I took a lot of pictures, pictures from different angles. It was awesome to see the youths speak against martial law and also condemning the continued killings in the Philippines. Aside from attending in that gathering, I got to demonstrate to my wife that I can now drive to San Francisco. However still, due to the lack of parking space around the city, a got a parking penalty which was 60 dollars. But still I was happy to see a lot of faces in the rally.
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September 12, 2006

An obviously old media trick asking the butcher General to have his dogs around during his retirement rites

When I was looking at the pictures of General Palparan in a turn over rites or retirement rites, I saw that this was consciously managed. In the case of Clinton’s before battling to win over people to his side politically, his managers had always asked him to bring with him a dog. So I usually saw Clinton’s pictures specially photos around the white house with a dog around. Having pictures taken with a dog around humanizes one’s image. No doubt about that. That is a trick usually done by PR managers for photo ops especially when clients mage are not perceived well, in the case of Palparan, a ruthless and heartless butcher. This courts the heart of people. Thus I was not surprise when the media projected him with a dog, trying to counter Palparan’s butcher image to a lover of small animals- dogs. Then the media banner goes, “the softside of Palparan”. But what is wrong with this? Two things. First, this is an obvious media manipulation or a trick if you will to further deceive the people. At the backdrop in truth, Macapagal Arroyo’s existence now is closely entangled with Palparan’s image and that; she had all taken measures to repackage him, through media manipulation. The increasing role of military in her regime have furthered entangled her to follow what the trajectory is, going out rightly fascist. This of course is not in contradiction with her interest. GMA is least bothered by these as all she wants is really to maintain herself in power, nevertheless by continuously feeding her fascist generals. Lately, I noticed that all press releases of Malacanang has been so programmed and well strategized of course with Bunye on top. Before she left for Europe, her PR people had taken an offensive move, a move to file court case against Jose Maria Sison, Luis Jalandoni and the leaders of the progressive mass movement, repeating the old line of accusation that was proven false long time ago. This was staged to put a carpet insulator for GMA’s visit in Europe. I saw how this lunatic man, Mr. Norberto Gonzales took to the hilt to twist facts and repeatedly said in media lies upon repeated lies. In the case of Palparan, GMA had to quickly instruct her PR handlers to hang the General and immediately issue as press release for the public learning that in Europe a strong sway of public opinion is happening taking a head on political collusion that will further isolate her. Feeling the brunt of accusations she had all parried them by activating her two rerouting default programs or two political shield, one the Task for Usig and two, her new invented political shield, the Melo commission. When pressed how she will address human rights issues those two are her quick defaults saying, all are taken cared by them. While she runs around in Europe meeting top officials of governments, back home her military general remained adamant and arrogant. Yesterday summoned by a committee in Congress investigating the human rights abuses, those generals snubbed the session and opted to send spies to take pictures of people testifying, families of victims. The committee decided though to put those sent spies in house arrests. Battling to neutralize political isolation, GMA have asked her point person handling media to issue quickly press releases stating: “Palparan’s appointment has not yet been finalized” when in fact GMA had openly heaped praises with Ermita in the security council was quick to issue a statement that they in the security council is happy to accommodate the butcher general in their council after he retires. Now allies are divided. One side does not bother the butcher to be taken in the security council, the other side is taking prudent advise not to immediately take the butcher general in until he clears himself of the accusations. Now we will see how these things will go in terms of alignments amid the intensification of anti-fascist campaigns of the people’s movement, domestically and internationally.
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September 10, 2006

Challenges of Building Bridges

Note: This sermon was delivered at Mill Valley CA, USA, Aug. 13, 2006

Text for which the semon was based

1 Kings 19:4-8

The reaction sets in and Elijah, threatened by Jezebel, loses his nerve and flees south through the Judahite territory, where he sleeps the sleep of utter exhaustion. He is aroused by an angel and is given supernatural food, in the strength of which he continues his journey to Horeb, the ancient home of the dessert faith. There he hears the voice of God, receives new encouragement, and accepts from God a new policy, which he proceeds to put into practice. In this text Elijah was in the cave mood. He came to a cave, and lodges there. Both his mind and heart had gone into hiding. He was still free from Ahab and Jezebel, but he was a prisoner of himself. He had shut the sunlight out of his mind. He had drawn the shutters of his heart. Elijah needed enlargement of nature as well as of outlook. He had slumped into smallness of soul, where he was victimizing himself by a vindictive spirit. Fretted by the injustice upon him, he had lost generosity of judgment and magnanimity of spirit. The reading is from First Kings chapter 19 verses 4 to 8.

4 while he himself went a day's journey into the desert. He came to a broom tree, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. "I have had enough, Lord ," he said. "Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors." 5 Then he lay down under the tree and fell asleep. All at once an angel touched him and said, "Get up and eat." 6 He looked around, and there by his head was a cake of bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then lay down again. 7 The angel of the Lord came back a second time and touched him and said, "Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you." 8 So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.


John 6:35; 41-51

Jesus asserts himself and convicts hearers of their lack of spiritual vision. The Jews questioned his assertion as everybody knows his parents. Jesus deprecates this sort of literal interpretation and takes up again the thread of discourse. Eternal life is the possession only of those who have passed beyond reliance upon physical senses into the experience of spiritual perception and faith. Life in that higher sphere is sustained by spiritual food, unlike the manna which lasted but for a day and was food merely for perishable bodies. The living bread from heaven is no other than the very life of Jesus given up that life may be given to the world. The reading is from John, chapter 6 verses 35 then 41 to 51.

35 Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
41 At this the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven." 42 They said, "Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I came down from heaven'?" 43 "Stop grumbling among yourselves," Jesus answered.

44 "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me. 46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. 47 I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died. 50 But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."

Building Bridges (1Kings 19:4-8) (John 6:35;41-51) – ALM / 08.13.06


This is the day that the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. The text this morning echoes two themes. In I Kings, it talks about getting out of self. Of seeing the whole vision, of getting to face the challenges of God. In the case of Elijah, he cave himself in that cave praying to die, saying “ I have enough Lord, take my life”. He questioning God and was nearly to give up // amid the task God has given him.

On the second text in John , also tells us about Jesus, // Jesus presented in the story as the bread of life, the source of the inspiration, … “he who comes to him will never get hungry”. This story // was of course made after Jesus died, and all his followers had to invoke the incarnation of Jesus in building the early Christian communities.// These texts are relevantly important for us today. Important in the sense that this gives us, a glimpse how the prophets in the old testament wrestled against themselves and hearing God.// In the case of Jesus followers // Jesus was the main source of inspiration as they wrestle with his way as he was the way, practicing his is core mission of serving the
outcast, the poor, upholding the voice of God and people against injustice in their times.


This text is also familiar to us because in some point in our lives, we would sometimes question God. I for one during crisis times would question God. I sometimes would question my purpose here on earth. We have routinary lives. We wake up in the morning, eat, work, then in the afternoon go home, sleep, have some social life but still each day is the same process that takes place. I think that this is not living but merely existing. This hallowness inside us. This boredom that pushes us to question ourselves is also the same thing that Elijah has experienced. Question our existence. Is this all?. Is this life? So we have this desire to see beyond ourselves. We try to push ourselves harder in our daily lives. Work , work, or the other way around. Each of us handle situations differently. Marites is different from me and so we are different. We are diverse. We have diverse reactions too when confronted with life situation. Others opt to hide away from God. Probably cave in // just as Elijah did. Others, shut their ears and close their eyes. Others spend more time for themselves inorder to drown themselves. Others spend more time on the computer, on TV and many more. These are of course human reactions. God sees it. Seeing us // God would observe us. But God is good // for we are created in his image. While we are consumed in our own ways God takes the cudgels, God encourages us, makes his way to us, carry us as he loves us. In the case of Elijah for example he was encouraged to stand up. God gave him food, // asked him to eat in order to refresh his soul and not to cave in and shut himself literally in that cave. God gave him the wisdom, the vision. God challenged Elijah.


Elijah’s struggled for his part. He did not struggle against Jezebel; Elijah struggled against himself, battling with himself. He understood his smallness and limitation. He questioned himself. Yet God gave him refreshment, food. Thus we traveled 40 days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God. Likewise when Jesus asserted himself. He convicts his hearers of their lack of spiritual vision. The Jews of course questioned his assertion as everybody knows his parents. Jesus deprecates this sort of literal interpretation and takes the discourse // that eternal life is the possession only of those who have passed beyond reliance // upon physical senses into the experience of spiritual perception and faith. As life is beyond existing, beyond eating manna. As life is not only existing but living. Living out dreams. Of understanding of having wisdom and practicing it. It is appreciating the beauty of Gods creation. Of looking things beyond us.


So the theme for today’s reading revolved around two areas, / one, / that God encourages us amidst our weaknesses, and / two / that God works in Jesus, Jesus the incarnate giver of life, the bread of life.

This text reminds me of the ethos of Jesus and his ministry, and our ministry as well. In our smallness we sometimes do not hear God or see the wisdom and vision. We are a small church. But our smallness is a gift. The moment I stepped in this church hearing our pastor speak, I felt this was the church I was looking for. I never felt and seen a
church so passionately speak about Jesus message.

When your out there for so long // among the people in their struggles as I am doing organizing within the peasants in the rural areas. I never saw a church such as this. In my As the experience I have seen the tendency of churches , big ones to shift away from the core when they start to become so institutionalized. But this church is not. This church does not only exist but is a living church. When I did some revision in our church website, I saw a long list of outreach programs. We have a passionate and ministry towards the least of our brethren. And this I am so happy and grateful to see these things happen. We have diverse people around. We have volunteers to feed the hungry. We have example, James who is spend his time in Africa serving the marginalized. We have Jack and many more in the MOC that wants to change lives. The core theme of the text of Elijah’s experience, having to come out to see a vision has some
interconnection to building bridges. Jesus did built bridges. Bridges of hope, Bridges of reconciliation ,of love, of social
justice of peace and encouragement.


Building bridges is a tedious process as most engineers would agree. I remember when I was small together with my brother we would spend our summer in my aunts place. My aunt’s place was beside the sea and as a kid we love to spend so much time swimming at the back of her house.We had to travel to their place passing a rickety bridge made of coconut logs // crisscrossing a huge river. One summer, // that bridge was destroyed by a typhoon, though the typhoon has already left // we had to cross the river riding in a bamboo raft. // For a kid it was fun.// But what left an imprint in my mind was not riding in that raft but the image of a destroyed bridge. In the third world building a bridge
takes months and months to finish. It can even take years. Where machinery for building bridges
are scare // building one requires lots of people, lots of human labor.


Bridge building has to start from one side. Putting blocks, then foundation, then blocks until it reaches the other side. Jesus ministry then was started on one side to reach the other side. On start // he clearly laid out his mission and articulated the plight of the poor. - -- the other side!. He would have to travel in Galilee and spend time among the lowly and the outcast. He did start from one side! – the side of the poor. In our ministry, I think in our ministry it is but important to start articulate from one side as Jesus did. As a matter of fact this was not an easy task of Jesus. It was a way out of merely existing but of affirming life. // Of making a difference. This brought an ire to many, among the privileged, among the ruling elites. But Jesus did have a vision and practiced that. He built bridges and saw how far those bridges can go. How deep the foundations where. Just like bridges he had gone to far flung places culminating later his entry in Jerusalem and built deep relations among the poor for some time in the rural areas.


Building bridges just requires seeing the whole. Fitting things. For how can we fit things without seeing first the whole, even just in imaginary caricature we call vision. In fact in some instances Jesus struggles with himself , wrestling to see the whole picture. literally one has to sometimes climb a mountain to see the top view of things. Thus retreats are likely done in mountain tops wherein discernment is clear and reflections are seen in different angles.

As we are challenged to follow Jesus as the way, the bread of life, we are blessed here in this church.

We have all the venues to express our sense of living, reason to live to serve others. In the spirit of love and hope, of building bridges let us continue to share our life to others // continue to share more. So that fullness of life will more experienced where justice, peace and love will reign. In the spirit of love I hope let us nurture our community to build more brides with deep commitment, rooting ourselves to the foundation of Christ love, so we share that love to other. Let us learn from Elijah’s experience. Let us celebrate the bread of life. - Amen

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September 08, 2006

Now all these are insured that their bulldogs are way on top – General Palparan as a member of the Security Council, a council that secures Gloria’s business and political interests.

There you are, General Palparan at the Security Council. Some commentators would still want to see Gloria and Palparan as a separate entity, that is General Palparan is doing the killing out of his own initiative while Gloria is at the backdrop at the mercy of being criticized for Palparan's doing. But make no mistake, General Palparan is in fact Gloria’s rabid attack dog.  Gloria is the brain behind Palparan. They are both the same, and is in fact in tandem. What General Palparan does,  is approved by  Gloria. All plans areand guideline policies if there are any are planned way from the top. These killings start from the very top no doubt. It can be traced right infront at Gloria's office. Greed for power and money? Yes. The ruthlessness and brutality plus a combination of cunningness and  will is what Gloria is . Gloria is obsessed in  maintaining herself in power and enriching all her family. Look at the project at Naia. His husband is pulling the strings for their partners to come in. Look at the business deals at the back of the Gloria's office. With all the money collected it must now be worth billions. It would be no surprise that Cayetano had reported millions or billions of money stashed in banks abroad. It would be no surprise when his husband travels out secretly to oversee this looting. Mike's anger being accused, immediate filing of libel, covers it up. Her wife had opened more doors for them to make business and Mike is the sweeper that takes it all. Now all these are insured that their bulldogs are way on top – General Palparan now as a member of the Security Council, a council that secures Gloria’s business and political interests. Of course of Ermita, the lunatic Norberto Gonzales plus the the fly that thinks his the carabao.

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