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Totoo, nakakalungkot.
Here's more ...
The Washington Times. [Commentary] . Richard Halloran 10/14/2009.
In an East Asia that is generally experiencing political and economic progress
from Seoul to Singapore, the Philippines stands out as a running sore that
seems to have no cure.
The Asia Foundation, the nongovernmental organization seeking to stimulate
development, has reported that the southern Philippines "suffers from poor
infrastructure, poverty, and violence that has claimed more than 120,000 lives
in the last four decades" of civil strife, terror and insurgencies, and crime
that goes unchecked.
A retired U.S. military officer with long experience in Asia said that "the
fundamental problem in the Philippines is that the Philippine government has
not figured out how to help the people, to pick up the garbage and to educate
the children."
An American civilian official agreed, saying a "failure in governance"
was the basic cause of the misery in the Philippines. He pointed to "the
feudal society in the Philippines" and contended that "until that is changed,
the problems will continue to be unresolved."
>From all accounts, Philippine and foreign, corruption is pervasive throughout
>the archipelago. Renaud Meyer, a representative of the United Nations
>Development Program in Manila, was quoted in the Philippine press earlier this
>year as saying corruption "is a primary obstacle in the effective delivery of
>public services and fulfillment of basic rights."
He predicted it would get worse. "These are challenging times for all of us in
our fight against corruption, especially in the next two years," Mr. Meyer
said. "For one, we are in the midst of an impending international economic
crisis, which is affecting both developed and developing economies. Second,
2010 is election period in the Philippines. "
The central government in Manila has
appeared hapless in the face of repeated natural disasters in recent months.
The Philippine archipelago, which form the eastern rim of the South China Sea,
not only have experienced a breakdown in basic law and order; the country
provides a haven and training site for terrorists and insurgents to move into
the rest of Southeast Asia. They travel from the southern Philippines along
island chains through the Sulu and Celebes seas into Malaysia, Indonesia and
beyond.
In the Philippines itself, the terrorists of the Abu Sayyaf, Jemaah Islamiya,
and the Rajah Solaiman Movement, plus the communist New People's Army, operate
with near impunity. A contingent of U.S. special operations forces, usually
numbering 600 troops, has been assisting the Armed Forces of the Philippines
(AFP) for about seven years in the southern Philippines but with little visible
success.
"The AFP," said a longtime Philippine hand, "are glad to have other people do
their fighting.."
A U.S. State Department report four years ago asserted, "The major, and
disturbing, trend in the Philippines has been the growing cooperation among the
Islamist terrorist organizations operating in the country: Jemaah Islamiya, the
Abu Sayyaf Group, and the Rajah Sulaiman Movement." The latter comprises
Christian converts to Islam, which allows them to pass undetected in other
parts of the Philippines.
In a similar report in the spring, the department said Philippine troops, with
the intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance help of U.S. forces,
"continued to marginalize the remaining numbers" of the Islamic terrorists. But
the report said the 5,000-strong New People's Army "continued to disrupt public
security and business operations with intermittent attacks" on communications
and transportation everywhere.
Late last month, two American soldiers were killed in the southern Philippines
by a roadside bomb
believed to have been planted by terrorists linked to al Qaeda. The Associated
Press said they were the first American troops to die in an attack in the
Philippines in seven years. The U.S. Embassy said they were on a resupply
mission for a school construction project on the island of Jolo.
An obvious and disturbing question: Were their deaths an omen of things to
come?
Richard Halloran is a freelance writer and former New York Times correspondent
based in Honolulu.
Another Washington Times Article about the Philippines
The World Bank issued a report years ago about the biggest cause of the endemic
poverty and lack of progress: Corruption on BOTH ENDS of the government revenue
and disbursement system. on the revenue side, the BIR collects less that fifty
percent of maximum possible collections. The customs function is world famous
for its corruption, taking in probably even a lower percentage of total
possible receipts. On the disbursement side, funds that go to public works,
education and national defense are stripped of "commissions" and "bribess" to
grease the palms of government officials. Hence the roads are flood systems are
in a state of disrepair, police are not paid enough and public school children
have to wallow in the midst of substandard facilities and materials.
Other Asian countries where corruption exists can afford these peccadiloes
because they possess natural resources like petroleumm which compensates for
the "withdrawal" of funds from the public system. The Philippines has also not
made it past the import substitution phase and is unable to feed its own people
with its agricultural output. It can thank the oligarchies that have dominated
the sugar, coconut and lumber industries over the past fifty years; oligarchies
whose main objective was to enrich their families, maintain private armies and
withold revenues from the government. Worse, these oligarchies operate as
countries within a country, hundreds of miles from Manila with citizens so
attached to the teats of the robber barons that they don't care a whit about
who is in political power, just as long as the agricultural powers that be
provide them with their daily substinence. Presidential elections are a Metro
Manila fashion fad, the rest of the 80% of the country does not care because
they feel that whoever sits in Malacanang will not make their lives any better.
And they are right.
There
is no cure for this problem unless one hundred million palms descend from the
heavens and slap every citizen on the side of the head as a wake up call. The
political powers that be will remain there for the rest of time, regenerating
descendants who will serve to continue their forbears' efforts. Martial law
would have been good, but BEEN THERE DONE THAT. Filipinos can just sit back and
wait for the next natural disaster where they again will be ill prepared due to
lack of civil infrastructure. Sit back and pray.
From: May Almoro <maga0...@yahoo. com>
To: mclp_st...@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Thu, November 5, 2009 8:39:54 PM
Subject: Re: [MCLP_Staff] SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD BANK
Grabe to a.. how could they???
--- On Thu, 11/5/09, mfemadamba <mfemada...@yahoo. com> wrote:
From: mfemadamba <mfemada...@yahoo. com>
Subject: [MCLP_Staff] SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD BANK
To: mclp_st...@yahoogro ups.com
Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 5:19 AM
Subject: Shocking News From The World BAnk
This is a forwarded message:
The Financial Analyst of World Bank would like to inform each and everyone of
you that the present currency exchange rate of US Dollar to Peso is actually $1
= P52. Your government is manipulating the exchange rate for some years now. It
is very much improbable and impossible that the Philippine Peso is appreciating
compare to Euro, British Pound, Rials, and any other foreign currency. Even
your ASEAN neighboring countries are suffering from the Global Crisis.
Singapore , a developed country is affected by depreciation of their currency
what more of your country?
We admire you for your hard work but we also pity you for having such a very
corrupt government that is taking advantage of your hard earned money.
The ARROYO ADMINISTRATION is blatantly milking each and every OFW's all over
the world of billions of pesos for its own greedy, selfish ends.
Investigations reveal that this milked money from OFWs will be spent to BRIBE
not only PGMA's pet CROCODILES in CONGRESS but some in the SENATE as well for
her to PERPETUATE IN POWER BEYOND 2010. The rest would be deposited to the
family's SECRET ACCOUNT in Switzerland .
Another money-making scheme is the LOTTERY DRAWS. Filipinos should be aware
that all LOTTO DRAWS are orchestrated, and big money goes to the two sons of
the lady president. Recent example is the SUPER LOTTO 6/49 draw, where
supposedly two individuals from Luzon won. Do you know WHO these individuals
are? It's Mikey and Datu, who else? One might ask how can the draw be rigged
when it is being televised in front of millions of viewers. The answer is
simple. As you all know, all bet combinations are being entered into PCSO's
main data base as it is on-line, therefore, it is easy to determine which
combinations were NOT betted upon. If they want to raise big money, no winners
will be
declared until the JACKPOT reaches sky-high because they could dictate the
outcome at will. When it's "HARVEST TIME", viola, there would be "winner or
winners" and the process repeats all over again. One might ask how this is
being done. One insider told our investigators that actually the "DRAWN BALLS",
six balls to be exact, are the only set which could fit into the transparent
tube which sucks the balls up. All others are slightly bigger than the diameter
of the tube which could not be distinguished by the viewers, therefore, there's
no way they could be drawn! You Filipinos are being skinned alive, fried in
your own fat and lard by your own government. Do you ever wonder why
president-elect BARACK OBAMA, avoids your president like a stinking leper?
-World Bank-
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