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Archangel’s letter to H.E. Ban Ki-moon

November 1, 2009 Leave a comment

Archangel wrote the below communiqué to u.n. as part of the agenda for the HMES 2010:

October 31, 2009

HIS EXCELLENCY
BAN KI-MOON
Secretary General
United Nations

Dear Mr. Secretary General:

Greetings!

Every 5th of June since 1972 is commemorated by the United Nations as the World Environment Day.

In 2010-2011, scientists report that there will be a solar maximum that has not occurred since fifty years ago as reported in this article from Science@NASA:

Click here to view the entire contents…

This dream is a long time coming. The advocacy to make mapping available to poor and developing countries somehow will become the new paradigm. This is what archangel calls as a shift in whole policy regimes, from those of nation states to that of combines.

Good job his team is doing!  And kudos to His Excellency Hilario Davide  and the other leaders as shown in this item from today’s Philippine Star for championing our firm and determined call to transform PAGASA into a space agency or in this case, for a particular instituion of government’ to have a stronger capability to engage in brisker data communications (satellite) or to source more information from outer space.

We might be moving in the right direction…  Everyone of us is invited to take part in this positive move that is gathering good momentum…

The Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change

October 24, 2009 1 comment

The Philippines’ Government just signed the Republic Act 9729 called Climate Change Act of 2009.  It will create an autonomous policy making body attached to the Office of the President to be called Climate Change Commission to coordinate programs of the government and represent the country in international climate change conferences according to the  article from website GMANews.TV on October 23, 2009 also posted in this site in full.

The Philippines just signed the Republic Act 9729 called Climate Change Act of 2009.  It will create an autonomous policy making body attached to the Office of the President to be called Climate Change Commission to coordinate programs of the government and represent the country in international climate change conferences according to the  article from website GMANews.TV on October 23, 2009 also posted in this site in full.

According to GMANews.TV, the signing of said law comes before the Denmark conference in December “when global leaders are expected to approve a new climate change treaty that will chart the world’s carbon emissions future after the first commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.”

There are 41 days remaining until the Copenhagen Conference under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in December 7-18, 2009.

Ultimately, world leaders will need to find a final solution to the deterioration of the atmosphere, particularly the earth’s ozone.  Meanwhile, countries need to agree to stop destroying it.

2010 Summit on Risk Mapping in Manila

October 11, 2009 13 comments

We encourage the Philippine Government, Asian Governments, combines like the United Nations, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, to support this milestone activity from the remainder of 2009 up to 2010.

ANNUAL ECOLOGY CRISIS CONFERENCE

The Resource Recovery Movement will hold the first 2010 Hazards Mapping and Environment Summit (Eco 2010 Summit) in Manila, Philippines.

This is ultimately borne about by the tremendous changing of the Philippine landscape and those of other countries in the Pacific Rim in the last few decades.

All efforts towards risk mapping in relation to calamities and disasters in the past should now take into consideration the great shifts and transformations in land mass, the enormous amount of rainfall brought about by Climate Change and many new factors that were heretofore not factored into national and sub-national planning by governments as well as even by business establishments and non-government organizations.

Click this link to sign up: Join Resource Recovery Movement!

The 2010 Hazard Mapping and Environmental Summit (HMES) is intended to develop better approaches to mapping risks and dangers to communities in the Philippines and other countries with tropical climates.

It takes a cue from the recent experience in China, Indonesia and the Philippines, notwithstanding the previous experiences in Thailand, Bangladesh, Pakistan where scores of people died due to unforeseen occurrences during the incidence of a natural disaster: earthquake, typhoon, tsunami and other calamities.

The databasing, mapping and full coordination of efforts towards use and sharing of a full function GIS on hazards, volcanoes, water, flood, forests in the Philippines and Asia, vulnerability areas, liquefaction potential, crisis and hot spots is long due because of the long-running phenomenon of Climate Change in the planet. This is also significant in that the Philippines, among other countries, lies in the Pacific Rim of Fire where a large number of earthquake faults lie.

The most important value of the conference is to determine the plan and the cost of implementing such a plan to make the Philippines and other participating nations safer from increasingly hazardous calamities.

Note: The organizers reserve the right to make minor changes in the Conference details prior to the actual Event.

HMES 2010 Organizers


NOYPF

September 14, 2009 Leave a comment

check out this site NoyPF and find a lot of applications tuned to the pinoy milieu! great site!

this site, is made only in the Philippines!

Will Noynoy not fold up?

September 10, 2009 15 comments

Noynoy declared he is running for president. Carie says, he is not fit. Mar withdrew from the presidential race but Noynoy said today he offered the Vice President slot to Mar.

What happens next? The show of force at Club Filipino was quite formidable. Better if they could convert that into votes. But kulelat the Noynoy. And he might continue to be so.

This means there is really no Cory magic after all. So will he stay or fold up later? We don’t know and have not yet talked to our friends supporting Noynoy. But FVR? He always works major magic, anytime, anywhere. Read the full content of Carie’s post also here…

Who’s at fault in the C-130 Crash?

August 28, 2008 1 comment

The Philippine Coast Guard swallowed a big marble and wrote a final report that Sulpicio Lines is to blame for the sinking of Princess of the Stars. That’s all very neat, Sirs and Mesdames. Now it’s the Air Force’s turn to be on the roast: who is to be faulted for the crash of the C-130?

 

I look at government and the propensity of people within and without it to make a load of money from public coffers. Their frenzied drive to filch much needed funds. And they can’t buy new airplanes for the Air Force. They can’t even buy a radar for Davao? (I remember the overprice of the Gokongweis on I think a Marubeni radar purchase or something that led to the demise of a really good Undersecretary of DOTC Pelagio Battung, Jr. just because the Usec disagreed with the tremendous overprice and wanted to spill the beans! The Gokongweis literally ate up Battung! He was kicked out and wholly demolished through the expert demolition services of a PR outfit that was paid by the Gokongweis a whopping P50-M!) They can’t even agree to build the National Transport Safety Board up to this time. Who is to blame? Is it really that early to conclude now? I wish it were as simple as the investigation of the crash site; they can’t even pull up the bodies in the crash as in the sunk Sulpicio vessel… oh this poor country of ours…  is… shit!

Terminator: Fighting the Overwhelming Trash Feeder maChineS

June 29, 2008 Leave a comment

 

 

Bringing Back A Sense of Decency

 

 

 

 

The crazy sonofabitch has this to say:

 

There is tremendous filth pervading in the information environment.  For whatever it is worth, a lot of people led by the veritably shameless and cheap media from Metro Manila to the Regions and Provinces are wallowing in uncouth, trash language without necessarily any noble sense of purpose.  Sheer neglect of the need for decency and civility drives people to vulgarize, demean and bastardize events, people, objects.  As if the country isn’t in any more trouble than the suffering experienced by victims of the typhoon called Frank, the Sulpicio faux pas of sending off Princess of the Stars to stormy high seas (if that isn’t genocide I really don’t know what is) and by now contemplating how not like other victims reaching back to the 1980s to pay them for their sorry situations, the rice and oil crisis, the deterioration of the global environment, the conflicts in the South that are being fanned once more by hawks from in and out of the government, the rebellion of the communists, the killing frenzy of the persons that reject to eat the Jose Ma. Sison mold, the unfair unemployment and grinding poverty of so many Filipinos.

 

The least of all the ways is to trivialize for instance the tight and busy schedule of a United States Standard Bearer to let make it mean and be construed as the negative sentiment or attitude of a country against the Filipino people or the future President towards the chief executive of the Philippines.

 

Or the sorrowful and wrongful death of hundreds of passengers of the ill-fated MV Princess of the Stars of the shipping company Sulpicio Lines.

 

Among many other things larger than life like the Writ of Habeas Data, Writ of Amparo, etc.

 

That’s a total lot of crap.  Led by the ABS CBN announcers Anthony Tae Ber Na, and Jiri Ba jo Ah, corina Sanchoz, TuRd PAY Long, not very surprising indeed.  If the Tribune and Newsbreak or their allied media partners contribute to the same debate, so much more to be expected.  The cretins deserve not be called media anyhow.  High paid as they might be, but they don’t even merit an iota of credit nor respect.

 

Not necessarily by being authoritative about it, they’re  still supposed to be historical testifiers.  But even the concept of “witness” in our day and time no longer means anything anymore.  Thanks to them and creatures like Joey Perez Perez, son of a namesake masque man and himself masquerading as another persona and also known as Mr. Back Off!

 

It is literally akin to people’s demented thinking that makes them forget to brush their teeth for seven hundred days (that is slightly more than one year), or get a change of underwear for a consecutive one thousand two hundred hours (the exact equivalent of fifty solar calendar days).

 

 

Otherwise, if they feel like there is nothing dignified and gracious to do, they make rubbish and worthless soiled manure out of the institution of the presidency.

 

In a foreign country we all know about, the Secret Service would have killed PingPing Lacson, Jomboy Madrigal, Cory Cojuangco Aquino and her coterie of rebel third sex mafiosos / mafiosas, a long time ago.

 

Two full years before the late Fernando Poe Jr. ran for President, Madam Luisa Pimentel Ejercito and others met his representative(s) Miss Susan Roces and an attorney in Subic, Zambales.  Madam Luisa a/k/a Loyloy, was categorically given the condition by FPJ through representative(s), that he will only run for President if the opposition political party represented by Madam Loyloy and husband Erap, if their side will unconditionally promise and wholeheartedly abide thereby that there will be no rallies, mudslinging, planting of bad blood by the opposition against the administration party.

 

Indeed, that was very naive of FPJ to ask of the opposition who had a plot called NO DEAL!  To make President Gloria run, perchance to win, and then to destroy her credibility later and not let her sit as the elected President.  Instead, FPJ will be made to sit as President, win or lose Gloria.  The problem of course was the overconfidence of the opposition they could pull their stunt off!  But they failed miserably and FPJ did not get to sit as President but fell into his coffin and grave instead.  Sa sama ng loob.

 

The institution of the presidency has been a piece of filthy rag ever since.

 

Of the more recent time, let us look, perchance not really too kindly, at the very wonderful terms the uncivilized loutish boorish unrefined anti-people cretins have been spewing from their dirty mouths and mouthpieces particularly on prime time television, in the newspapers, over radio, in interpersonal talks, in chismis at cafés, everywhere practically:

 

* bangkay

* naagnas na bangkay

* rotten bodies

* rotten corpses

* kinain ang laman

* kinain ng isda

* cadaver

* biktima

* sulpicio (please stop saying bad words!!!)

* patay

* patay ni edward go

* patay ni go sioc so

* lumobo na bangkay

* mabahong bangkay

* smelling corpses

* putol na katawan

* lumulutang na body parts

* pinarte parte na katawan

* kinain na mukha – di na makilala

* nilamon ng pating

* hubad na bangkay

* gutay-gutay na bangkay

* lumulutang labas na ang tinae

* may butas butas ang katawan

* bangkay lapnos ang mga balat

* patay naghiwa-hiwalay na ang laman

* bawal kumain ng isda na kumain ng mga bangkay

* di na matiis ang mabahong amoy ng bangkay

* ubod ng baho ng mga patay

* obnoxious smell of the dead bodies

 

and a hundred million of other malodorous terms.

 

And all their vulgar announcements simply, quaintly coincide with our lunch, meryenda, supper or dinner.  How very kind and thoughtful of these people!  They really are totally concerned for all of our welfare and our aching need for information!  Thank the Lord God in Heaven for them!

 

What has happened to our sensibilities?  With all these crude, coarse and instrusive language as well as videos invading our senses, what do these creatures want to happen to us?

 

It is not merely that they are out to trivialize our concepts and notions, to vulgarize our existence, and bastardize the information environment.  At the end of the day, we do not only lose our sensitivity and decency.  We shall have turned and become like these sick and ugly laman lupas that we never dreamt of being at any period in our lifetimes.

 

However, if you then try to point out how sick, dirty, these monsters and ogres are punishing us with their garbage and diseased brains, they fight back and shout we know nothing!  They behave like high and mighty, erudite and demure at the same time!  During the recent hearing of an inquiry – investigation  board into the cause of the MV Princess of the Stars tragedy, Mr. Edward Go said that he does not in any way have a copy of the most latest directive of the Philippine Coast Guard that prohibits shipping lines from making send-off decisions pertaining to their maritime vessels until they are given the say-so and particularly during inclement weather conditions.  Is he lying or is he lying?

 

The new directive was issued recently, dated 2007.  Go said all he has is a copy of a 1998 directive from the government maritime authorities.  That is 11 years ago!  Considering that as the earth spins, new developments happen even by the minute, by the hour, by the day, by the week and month, what Go was saying is patently unbelievable!!!  That maritime agencies will take 11 or more years to change instructions to shipping companies, is outrageously incredible!!!

 

Then that proves, they are on to something.  It is so deep that we lowly mortals do not have a friggin inkling of the damage they are wreaking upon us all until we’ll get tired and start praying that they’ll all go away into the spirit world.  There is an agenda to all these and we are helplessly in the dark.  Imagine a presidential state visit to the US and about seven hundred helpless people are murdered by Sulpicio?  Who are the Gos anyway but relatives of Gokongwei or members of the Gokongwei extended family?  Aren’t the Gokongweis fighting the government so they can put their own choice in the post of President?  Look at Robinson’s and its banks, they haven’t been robbed and held up.  But RCBC, SM, Banco de Oro, even government banks, government agencies – including National Food Authority (Jesus!!!), have been targeted and heavily, really heavily hit by robbery hold-up syndicates.

 

And we are talking about smelling and rotting carcasses to deaden our brains.

 

I believe it does not have to take a Sulpicio nor a typhoon Frank nor a rice and oil crisis nor unemployment, poverty and severe hunger for the blasted purveyors of this deadening of our senses and killing of our inherent goodness and decency to join the spirit world.  No, not at all.  These creatures could all go to heaven or hell for all we care but they do really have to go.

 

All these unhealthy dirty junk of our anti-people creatures should stop.  But it will take a really solid, united and simultaneous action.  And it will not necessarily be quaint action.  Like we can boycott ABS-CBN and Tribune, as well as all their allied media outlets.  We might also as well boycott Sulpicio.  I strongly endorse and will campaign here for that without batting an eyelash!

 

Let us by our own little ways, do concerted action to prevent, prohibit, stop these people from trivializing and vulgarizing everything so as to reduce our sense of decency and sensibilities.

 

Let us make them feel their own share of the pain they are causing us.  ABS CBN is not only oppressing us through the media.  Remember that it is shrinking us physically and spiritually by their stranglehold over Meralco and in turn Meralco’s stranglehold over every one of us.

 

Humanity has a long way to go and we do not need these cretins for taking away our inherent passions, feelings, humaneness by making us desensitized and callous, hardhearted and stone cold ruthless non-humans.

 

Frankly and honestly, if I have to just be terribly indecent about the thing, I’d just gladly cut off all the heads of these laman lupas and suffer neither guilt nor remorse afterwards.  At least a world free of these mongrels and diseased animals is enormously more bearable than suffering under them.

 

 

 

Kudos, Sec. Mendoza; the poor Coast Guard

June 24, 2008 2 comments

The DOTC ordered the grounding of Sulpicio Lines floating marine assets.

Congratulations for that.  Wow!  As we were saying about two days ago, the seaworthiness of the assets of shipping companies need to be thoroughly checked.  But the best manner to handle this is to form a safety agency as they are doing in the rest of the world.

The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) is being blamed  as the ultimate perpetrator of the killing of the victims of the tragedy.  Perchance, so too is Sulpicio Lines.

Why the PCG?  Because, well, not because the huge and supposedly luxurious MV Princess of the  Stars is a quarter of a century old since many ships can still sail long after they have lived for fifty years or half a century.

Not because the MV Princess of the Stars had gone from one owner to another, then another, then another and so on then  Sulpicio Lines grabbed it.  And it was probably deemed junk by then.  And they had a mighty bargain that they possibly held a five-week-long party to celebrate their tremendous steal!!!

Not because the managers of Sulpicio are terrible idiots at running their shipping company that they allowed the MV Doña Paz to sail into a disaster that ate up the lives of thousands of passengers.

Not because the metallic underside of MV Princess of the Stars was so  weak that it had to give during the storm when the ship allegedly sumadsad sa bato (for goodness sake, why does Sulpicio send out low quality amphibian boats that can’t withstand rocks?) and the makina ay tumigil.  Wow!

That’s both unforeseen, fortuitous event and mechanical error.  Just the type for insurance companies to pay for when the source of the accident is not human error — as in that of Sulpicio’s.

So now it’s accident (nabutas ang bakal) +  fortuitous event — typhoon Frank, pumasok ang tubig + mechanical accident (namatay ang makina).

Equals = insurance claims of nearly a hundred million dollars from insurers and underwriters.

And add to the equation, the poverty of PCG for which reason, Sulpicio sonofabitches fucking shits gave alms to their weary palms.

Someone said, the PCG is so poor that even their diesel is always up for sale.  When the President and the higher ups say:  ”Hoy, habulin ninyo ang Abo Suyya!”  ”Mga totoy, hulihin ang mga pirata!” “Oy, ano, intersepin niyo ang mga illegal fishing boats!” “Daliiii!”  ”Ano ba!?!&%$#”  ”Kilos na!!!”

The PCG will allegedly only very demurely quip:

“Ay Maaam, Siiir, ay surreee po, wala tayo krudu!!!)

So, Sulpicio knowing, and feeling compassion, gave alms to the Coast Guard.  And Coast Guard supposedly feeling the crunch, accepted the beggar’s relief cash.  Possibly some relief goods too.

Sulpicio probably knew there was a disaster-in-waiting.  They gave out relief cash and goods in advance.

So now, Sulpicio Lines, cannot and can never be blamed.  They have to be the final heroes here, when they open their eyes after taking the insurance and  see that they have bodies to bury and money to pay to the surviving kin of all the (fucking, why did they have to be) dead.

Only in the Philippines.  Only in the Philippines.

The poor are always at the receiving end of bad Justice systems.  So the poor Coast Guard has to pay for the crime.

The PCG Commander, Adm. Tamayo has to go, just because he is penniless and powerless.  And his people are so dirt  poor and hungry that they’re crawling on their belies just to move.

Meanwhile, in the rest of the country, the weather is now improving with a little touch of dark clouds and a teeny weeny stormy condition approaching.  The poor Philippine Coast Guard will no longer have to take the alms of shipping company Sulpicio.  Their boss, Sec. Mendoza grounded the alms givers.

Tsk!  Tsk!  Kawawa naman!

May mga pamilya pa naman ang mga kosgard!  Kawawa talaga sila!

Kawawa din ang mga nalunod at namatay at mga pamilya!

Dahil sa kanila, may mga yayaman sa lagay at insurance!!! At dahil nagpakamatay sila, aba’y ala silang suwerti. Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!

Sincerely, Madam Arroyo should read this…

June 23, 2008 1 comment

Dear Madam President:

 

 

MV Princess of the Stars’ sinking is a terrific tragedy.  It is another point scored against government in the subject of safety.  You have every right to be angry at the incident.  A law has already been passed providing for the creation of the National Transport Safety Board (NTSB) out of an original proposal to former President Fidel V.  Ramos for establishing a Philippine Safety Council by Executive Order (EO).  Instead of putting out an EO due to the need for the creation of a new office, legislation was sought by former Pres.  Ramos.  Congress complied and before the end of his tenure as President, the NTSB law was passed.

 

However, I remember with grave sadness Congress and DOTC complaining that after the law was enacted Ms. Emilia Boncodin told them in a letter sending back the manuscript of the enacted law, that sorry, government has no money.  That is patent bull shit, Madam President.  Boncodin meant that DBM had nothing to spare to support a new agency such as a safety agency.  Ms. Boncodin had it all wrong.  She has so much money in the banks, in real estates, in houses and lands named after her relatives, in shares of stocks of blue chip PSE listed corporations, and in many other places who knows where!

 

Boncodin merely stopped short of telling Congress and the Executive Branch: don’t fuck with DBM because it is mine!  Don’t even salivate after DBM money because it is mine alone to dispense!!!  Shit!!!

 

 

(Above, photo of shit ugly Miss Emilia/Emily Boncodin, adoptive daughter of Madam Cory Aquino.  Golden Gown sold by Syracuse.)

 

For the love of God, during her (Boncodin’s) time, she even demands cash or checks just before releasing funds to a payee (contractor, supplier) of the government via the DBM and her take runs to millions up to a high of hundreds of millions or even more!  And she won’t release the money unless she gets her suitcase- or boxfull of money, a cheque or even a post-dated cheque (PDC), the bitch!  Garapal, Madam President!  Masyadong garapal, that Boncodin!

 

And then she and her fellow thieves who banded together in the group called HYATT 10 (Dinky Soliman, Mely Nicolas, King Deles, etc.  who got at the very least 100 million each from the Peace Bonds Super Scam) had the nerve to say they were resigning from a corrupt government.  Their group HYATT 10 came to be known as Black and White Movement (BnW) — that high and mighty group doing its best to moralize the country to their own brand of stupid morality.  Again much later they became the Former Senior Government Officials (FSGO) — the same stupid corrupt maniacs by another name.  Now they say they are the BUSINA! The shits, Madam President, the wretched of our society.

 

Boncodin (not to mention her fellow thieves), is / are to blame for many of our poor people’s, of all our citizens’ woes.  DBM’s word is like God’s Law.  What DBM says, sticks.  When DBM speaks, all the Cabinet and all the Legislators, all the Judiciary trembles.  The MV Princess of the Stars would never have happened if DBM did not torpedo the law and acted on it so its intent will be actualized.

 

But selfish interests prevail over humane compassion and respect for life and property.  Self-aggrandizement comes first before the universally recognized concept of not letting non-land worthy, unseaworthy and non-airworthy assets be allowed to embark from their stations.

 

This is notwithstanding that said assets should also not be allowed to set off in very inclement weather conditions.  So that none nor nothing will blamed if a mishap takes places.

 

Therefore Madam President, whether or not Ms. Boncodin will be put in jail for superlative performance of corruption in government during her time from a simple Director, Assistant or Under Secretary then Secretary, it is most respectfully prayed, albeit begged that you finally take the final steps towards operationalizing the NTSB.

 

From a moral standpoint, the MV Princess of the Stars tragedy is not just accidental deaths of the innocent, hapless casualties! It is a deliberate mass murder of helpless victims just because of that overwhelming determination to amass a hideously humongous amount of dirty wealth!!!

 

It will be feather in your cap and I grant that you’ll be remembered for a long time for advocating safety more than the other presidents had ever done!  At least FVR will be cited for possibly certifying the proposed safety bill as urgent, if that ever happened.  But it will be to your credit that the law finally became a reality!

 

Remember,  you have always said you respect the Rule of Law.  Well, let’s give the Law its due.  Godspeed!

 

More power to you and may you have a successful trip outside of the country!

 

Sincerely yours,

 

Girbaudz

 

 

 

 

If Anwar could read this…

June 9, 2008 Leave a comment

Dato’ Seri Anwar bin Ibrahim, all-time favorite political figure of Malaysia was in the Philippines reportedly for two days.  From his itenerary he was to attend a forum at RCBC on Islam and Peace.  From the media, we are told that he met first with former president Fidel Valdez Ramos together with his spouse MP Wan Azizah wan Ismail, then he went to No. 1 Polk St., Greenhills for a dinner hosted by Erap for him and Desperate Housewives star and Jon Stewart’s slut, Cory Aquino.

Anwar is not loved by his former mentor — Dr. Mahathir Mohamad — Malaysia’s former Prime Minister-PM.  Some of the other incumbents and has-beens in Malaysia do not like Anwar.  No wonder they threw him in jail.

It is merely because, Anwar is open about cooperating, as needed, with the West, something that is abominable to many fundamentalist and self-declared nationalists and patriots of Malaysia.  The primary defense if you ask me, is that Anwar had to diplomatically deal with the rest of the world being the Malaysian emissary on finance and economic matters.  That was the job Mahathir originally gave him in the first place.  But as always, no one is able to please everybody all the time.  Human nature.

Anwar simply had no qualms about trying to please all fellow Malaysians, fellow Muslims and other creatures about the things he was doing for the good of Malaysia.  So that’s how he got into trouble.

Erap and Cory think they are Anwar’s closest friends.  Where does that leave the Lady by the Pasig?  Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo?  Not necessarily in the kankungan.   Not necessarily.

When he was younger, Anwar as an activist, travelled to the Philippines and sought refuge here among fellow intellectuals and activists.  Not surprising if Anwar will be well-acquainted with Nurijin Misuari popularly known as Nur, who was a protege of former activist Renato Constantino, the father of Carina Constantino David, wife of Randolph David.

Along with Nur Misuari, there were others with whom Anwar interacted with very deeply in the Philippines.  Among them was intellectual, Cesar A. Majul, foremost historian and deeply respected professor in the University of the Philippines and in the whole community of scholars, academicians and intellectuals.  Another was Majul’s own ward, Prof. Jalaluddin.  And possibly, currently Institute of Islamic Affairs Prof. (Ustadz) Julkipli Wadi, more or less a counterpart of Jalaluddin.

From the venerable Prof. Majul, Anwar learned to respect Jose Rizal, Apolinario Mabini and other Filipinos more than most pinoys could ever ever do.  In a way, Anwar volunteered himself as a student of the great Prof. Majul.

The present events in Malaysia are staggering, although they are peaceful and never tainted with threats of coups by paid-for nincompoop generals, colonels, majors, captains, lieutenants, sergeants and privates or even military deserters and very very brave non-military quislings, nor hyfalutin reform and armed revolution blackmailing threats by communists, nor the hostaging of the peace through a punitive wave of high crimes.

Anwar is riding the crest of the wave of these events.  Together with his spouse Dr. Azizah they are creating a more open, more democratic society out of our brother Malay nation.

Sen. Heherson Alvarez said so in his late-night interview with Anwar and Dr. Azizah that was possibly done at Dusit Hotel, in Makati, for TV station channel 4.  (At least that’s what the camera kept showing during the intermissions.)

Anwar’s political party recently harvested a huge victory during the recent parliament elections in Malaysia, taking about one third of the entire delegates of the Malaysian Parliament.  The United Malay Nationalist Organisation  or UMNO, has slowly lost its credibility and its coalesced political parties are in danger of switching to the side of Anwar.

From a very positive point of view, Anwar has arrived in Malaysian politics.  It would be regrettable however if he would be treated by the powers that be like the late Madame Bhutto, who had to go down by an assassin’s bullet.

I pray that the Malaysians will be decent enough to allow the waves of change to sweep over their country as peacefully as can be.  I will not fault Anwar for considering Erap and Cory as friends.  As persons, they must have shown kindness and goodness to Anwar, in one way or the other.  As politicians and professionals, there is nothing for me to say about a relationship between Erap – Cory and Anwar.  I doubt if they have anything good to contribute to the Malaysian peaceful revolution that could help.  If for no other reason, Anwar should not even touch Erap and Cory’s tainted politics with a ten-foot pole.

I will not pretend to be the blogging expert on demonology, but after all, even in Islam, there is Pazuzu, one of the arabic terms for Satan or Devil — also generically known as the jinn  or “genie” and Anwar must be wary of Erap and Cory’s Pazuzu.

Mabuhay! Future Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim!!! May your struggle in Malaysia bear fruit! May God be with You!!! May the Pazuzu not influence you in any way! We will all pray for your victory!!!

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