Iran so far…

So much media attention on the elections of Iran.  A lot on the massive rallies, including security forces apparently shooting into the crowd, possibly killing one.

I don’t recall that much US media coverage on the rallies in the Philippines, the breaking up of opposition parties who oppose GMA, attacks on the Philippine Press, or even of the shooting and killing of “pro-reform” demonstrators.

While the world seemed concerned about the abduction of Americans in North Korea, hardly a peep about an American tortured by the Philippine government.

Oh US media…  you don’t even attempt to hide or conceal your bias anymore, do you?

Philippine Embassy & the News

How the Philippine Embassy manipulates the news to create a nice image…  

Below is a press release from the Phil. Embassy that the economy is doing ok per the NY Times.  Below this, I have put the actual op/ed piece.  The Phil. Embassy selects only the favorable parts and prop it up as the whole article.

Essentially the actual article ends by saying the Philippines needs national industrialization and not OFWs and call centers.  Yet the Embassy selects certain quotes to make it sound like the opposite. 

Unbreakable

Unbreakable
dir. M. Night Shyamalan
107 minutes
2000

M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable stars Bruce Willis as David Dunn, an ordinary, working class man in Philadelphia with marital problems who miraculously survives unscathed from a train wreck as the only survivor.  Helping him uncover the mystery behind this is Elijah Price whose bones are as fragile as glass, played by Samuel L. Jackson.  Elijah is a comic book collector and owns an art gallery.  Growing up in a working class neighborhood, Elijah turned to comics as a release and an escape from the harsh realities of being a disabled kid. 

U.S. Chapters of AnakBayan celebrate Kabataan Party-list securing a seat in the Philippine House of Representatives

April 24, 2009
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U.S. Chapters of AnakBayan celebrate Kabataan Partylist securing a seat in the Philippine House of Representatives
 

The chapters of AnakBayan in the United States are celebrating the historic victory of the 1^st youth representative to the Philippine Congress held by the Kabataan (Youth) Partylist.  The position will be held by 29 year old Raymond Palatino who was once chair of the University Student Council of the University of the Philippines Diliman and president of the National Union of Students of the Philippines.  This comes after the Philippine Supreme Court overturned a previous decision on partylist elections and now allows for a full representation from the 2007 elections.  In addition to the Kabataan Partylist, the decision has now increased the progressive block in Congress with an additional seat for both BAYAN-MUNA and Anakpawis.

Quotations From Chief Consultant Sison

On Technology

“The biggest irony in the world today is that science and technology can effect industrial development and eliminate poverty but is used by the multinational firms and banks to exploit the people of the world, extract superprofits and debt service from them, deprive them of the boon of development and consign them to worsening levels of poverty.”