September 25, 2007

Groundwork and precedence - K.I.

From deflector mode to total insulation. This is what I see no how Gloria is handling the scandals in her government. Now she had sent her emissaries to negotiate for Erap pardon making a ground work for a precedence to happen. Her act is an act of loving herself more than Erap. She knows after she’s out of office she’ll be hunted by law suits questioning their conjugal corruption just like the latest ZTE-NBN deal.

Now that Gloria decided to leave Mr. Neri for the Senate inquiry instead of bringing him with her US entourage, Gloria is now vulnerable of being ousted, that if Neri will speak the truth. Bishops critical of Gloria is encouraging him to speak for himself on the bribery issues and many more. Let see that on Wednesday.

The coercive machinery representative of Gloria, the military have asked the congress to approve their billion budget fund while being questioned that they haven’t paid millions in debt to electric cooperatives. Representative Valdez lamented that because of national security, even when military camps cannot pay they are not allowed to disconnect their lines.

Part of the deflector mode of Gloria is to create a special group that will handle the dealing with China, in short create a specialized group so compartmentalization of other dealings will be possible. Sounds innovative in getting away with being pinned down and exposed.
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September 23, 2007

Gloria on a deflector mode - K.I.

GMA suspended the ZTE-NBN deal today, however had not cancelled it. GMA did this to preempt the escalation of people's anger against her and her fascist regime. Suspending the deal meant insulating herself of political attacks from the people. In suspending the deal, she puts on hold political pressures, investigation against her and his husband. She though forgets the fact that by putting it on hold she is now accumulating pressure just like a pressure cooker does. One, she is courting ZTE to act on its accord, that against her. ZTE of course wants to get the millions of dollars they funneled to GMA's clique. Pressured, GMA now instructs his apologist in media to spin the idea that suspension is good and the the deal is not cancelled. To give a booster, these apologists are openly praising Mendoza, their front line man of well defending themselves in the Senate. We will hear more of this in the coming days.
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September 20, 2007

Gloria no way out - K.I.

Now it seems that Gloria is taking the pressure from US officials who are assigned to handle her. She is on the limelight especially after the Senate hearing on extrajudicial killings in Washington D.C. last march when Senator Barbara Boxer had scolded a representative of the state department on East Asian Affairs to take a close monitor on graft and corruption in the Philippines. The senator well noted in that inquiry identifying the Philippines as one of the most corrupt country in the world.

Today Gloria heeded such latent pressure asking her cabinet officials to attend the Senate inquiry. She is now containing negative images of her and his husband after Joey De Venecia III singled his husband out as the "mystery man"closing the ZTE- NBN deal. As far as I can see, she is now acting to either appease her US handlers or put scapegoats on the frontline as early as now. She also has to contend with ZTE representatives arriving in the Philippines. These ZTE reps are probably trying to make sure they get the deal on track given they already have distributed money just to close this deal . The worst scenario in the coming days is for her dirty tricks people like Norberto Gonzales, and her top military lapdogs to instigate bombings in the south, use the MILF or Abu Sayyaf issues to divert people's attention from the main issue embattling her. As expected they are now floating stories such as "new plots to ouster GMA" and "recruitment of military", "new coup" attemptsand many more. Let us see and hear their script in public if these are convincing enough. On the helm we are expecting, squid operators like Bunye his top spin doctor and all the rest including Ermita and Esperon to throw white lies for the public to believe.

Here is a short backgrounder of this anomalous ZTE- NBN deal. The footprints of suspects stops inside  the bedroom of the President in Malacanang.
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September 18, 2007

ZTE deal and US prodding - K.I.

Now the “Tirador” husband of Gloria is exposed—Mike Arroyo. He is the led person that made sure that the NBN project is given to ZTE. This controversy seems not surprising and is expected. Senator Lacson's statement last week in print said that Gloria and administration got million of dollars in cash , cash advances from ZTE. These cash advances where purportedly used in the last senatorial and congressional elections aside of getting their kickbacks. When Joey de Venecia was told to “back off” by no other than the mystery man Mike Arroyo in one of their meetings trying to settle a backdoor arrangement, is a humiliating experience.

I am quite sure Joey must have fumed mad about it afterwards. Information wise, Joey owns and operates a broadband service. His broadband operates mainly in Metro Manila. It has its main relay apparatus set on the top of Petron Mega Plaza in Makati, in Binondo and Ortigas. ( a triad ) It had been operating for quite some time before I left the Philippines in 2004. He gets most of his business from big companies through turn key installation of their services with property owners and building management outfits. To be honest his technical point person is a close friend of mine.

Joey's coming out to testify in front of the senate is understandable. Last week, US Ambassador Kristie Kenney wrote a strong worded letter to GMA on government transparency on its government business transactions. (Pressures are felt by career diplomats who are Republican appointees amid Democratic party domination in the US Congress. ) I remembered right, when I was at the Senate hearing sponsored by the Foreign Relations Committee under Senator Barbara Boxer- D, in Washington last March 2007 on extra-judicial killings in the Philippines, the Senator made it clear to the representative to the state department on East Asian affairs Mr. Eric G. John Deputy which was present in that inquiry, that the US Senate is serious in evaluating aid programs amid the report of rampant graft and corruption in the Philippines. It seems Joey has US backing. Probably his principals that did not won the bidding must have been US nationals with strong government links. I am sure they were caught flatfooted. The unexpected outcome with the coming out of Joey had now pressured Gloria. Their finger prints are everywhere. With public pressure ZTE now wants to get their money back. You can never be sure that ZTE now is trying hard to feed informations to the public only to pressure these swindlers to give their money back. Mike Arroyo keeps flying outside the country o pascify ZTE while on the otherhand her wife had to quickly contain the issue. She had barred her officials not to attend Senate investigation and to divert political attack against them she had fielded scapegoats or pawns early as now. In this controversy it is quite interesting to identify her lined sacrificial lambs. Can you identify them?
.... this is bureaucrat capitalism.!
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September 15, 2007

Talking about Open source, increasing Wifi signal, free online movies and documentaries - K.I.

Now let me talk about some techies here. My My Korean friend last month gave me a good URL for free movies and documentaries called http://tv-links.co.uk/. He said he got the information from a member of his youth group in church. At anyrate I did checked the link and it worked. Now I am seeing good movies without going the rental video shop. The documentaries are good too. You can see a docomentary of Ernesto "Che" Guevarra, Fidel Castro or a movie about Hugo Chavez Revolution Will Not Be Televised.

The other day I went to see to a place where there was wifi signal. I got just two bars, however there is actually a technique to trick the modem so you can get so much signal as you want by using your cellphone and a piece of T1 wire. See the procedure and demo.

Just updated my new wireless signal. I hope to increase the throughput by increasing the antennae. However I did some research I can get more signal in terms of radius by using some modified coffee can plus wrapped in tin foil. Acutally got this idea from a book at Nobles and Barnes.

It was good to hear and see that the CPU had their activity in UP promoting open source and free software. My brother used to install a server here in my house using apache plus SUSE Linux. Though technically servers are a no for cable providers. I had one when I use it to host some websites back home. However I had to cut it given the sophistication of ISP's now a days.

By the way there is a good documentary movie about this open source versus proprietary softwares. Visit this link to watch it and give some feedbacks here.

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September 14, 2007

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's security adviser Secretary Norberto “Sira-Ulo” Gonzales is now concocting stories that the NPA will retaliate

While Jose Maria Sison had got out of jail, the fascist security adviser of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's Secretary Norberto “Sira-Ulo” Gonzales is now concocting stories that the NPA will retaliate. Now, it seems that this guy and through his US advisers convertly working with him are planning something. I hope he does not do the desperate, that is to sacrifice their witnesses Joy Kintanar and Veronica Tabara only to cook up a scenario that will further be a precedent to attack the NDF and demonize its leaders. With treachery, Gloria and operators, the likes of Norberto Gonzales operates like a mafia. One, Mr. Gonzales is an outright psychopath liar who loves to follow a Machiavellian way of doing politics. I would not be surprised when one day we Filipinos will wake up and again hear news in mainstream print and broadcast media that their witnesses were killed purportedly by NPA’s. Inorder to prove his point, through made-up, Mr. Gonzales keeps on repeating his lies like Goebel, Hitler's dreaded propagandist during the second world war. Gonzales does not mind to insult Filipinos who can just see what he and Gloria and all the rest their bunch of corrupt officials in government are doing. For the record, the revolutionary movement is a just movement. It does not do what reactionaries do. The revolutionary movement represented by the NDF is a people’s movement. It takes armed rebellion as the primary form of struggle just to insure that people revolutionary gains are not dissipated, that such as political, economic and social gains are well protected and well insured that it will be carried to the fullest until victory, when poor masses will have a say gainst the dictatorship of the few turning it around to a a dictorship of the majority. It had to protect itself against reactionary attacks now! It has to defend itself against reactionary attacks whereby the power of the biglandlords in the rural areas as well as compradors are slowly decapitated given the rate of land redistribution in the rural areas implemented by the people themselves. Of course these reactionaries, the big comprador landlords and compradors have to contend with revolutionary organs of power be it during elections and even after. In short the very social base of US imperialism which it gets its power is quite eroding fast amid the growing upswell of the revolutionary movement, wave by wave expanding their leadership and influence among the masses and encircling the cities. The release of Jose Maria Sison is indeed a big slap to Gloria's operators like Norberto. Being an observer of what is happening in the Philippines, there is now a need for Filipinos all around the world to continuesly press for peace talks. However when Gloria’s government becomes the hindrance trying to make the people capitulate to their agenda and using back stabbing campaigns like putting the chief consultant to of the NDF in jail, I think it is just important for people to focus their energies in ousting her. As aptly said by Joema, Gloria is an infant evil. I think we should not wait for this evil to become a full blown one. Everybody now should join to expose and oppose GMA's corruption and fascist campaign for her to maintain self in power. She had just told everbody that the ZTE broadband deal with China is done deal amid congressional and senate exposy.

Statement on My Release from Detention
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison

13 September 2007

Friends, Warmest greetings!

I am deeply pleased and thankful that the Rechtsbank has decided to release me from detention. You cannot imagine how happy I am. It is extremely painful and humiliating to be subjected to solitary confinement and tough interrogation under overheated lamps. The ordeal is acute because I am innocent of the false and politically-motivated charge leveled against me.

I have nothing to do with any murder. This is against my moral and political principles. I am a teacher by profession who loves the exchange of ideas towards common understanding and practical cooperation. I have long devoted myself to the advocacy of human rights and work for a just peace in the Philippines. I cannot go into the facts and arguments concerning my case. It is my lawyer Michiel Pestman who is competent to give you the information that you need.

Consequent to the release order of the Rechtsbank, I gain some confidence in the Dutch legal system. I have the opportunity to prove my innocence and continue to benefit from fair play. I feel somehow vindicated in choosing The Netherlands as my place of refuge from persecution in the Philippines. I also wish to thank the Dutch, Filipino and other peoples for their solidarity and support.

I will stay in the Netherlands with my wife and my two children who are already independent. I will conduct my legal defense and further clear my name. I will continue to exercise my freedom to speak and other democratic rights. I will continue to work for national freedom, human rights, social justice and an enduring, because just, peace in the Philippines.

I will continue to abide by the laws of the Dutch state and further develop solidarity with the Dutch people whose friendship and kindness I have enjoyed for more than 20 years. Thank you.#



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