Pablo Garcia, Give One Good Reason Why You're Opposing the Automated Poll Election

Too bad, the person heading the Opposed Poll Automation is a fellow Cebuano - no other than Deputy House Speaker Pablo Garcia (Cebu, 2nd district). It really bothers me (personally) whats the very good reason to oppose the automated voting system. They didn't make the move while the poll automation agenda was still in the making. Isn't this a very eleventh hour to do such nuisance (Mayo na gud ang election nya karun pa sila nag oppose2x)? Tikas na sad ni siguro? paita..

Source: Lawmakers: Poll automation ‘illegal’

NOYNOY ON "HELLO GARCI" TAPES

Got this from a forwarded email. this may or may not be true, however the you readers could share your insights on this.

Which congressman doesn't want his voting record exposed to the public? You'd be surprised! Despite popular clamor led by the Opposition, Tarlac Representative Deputy Speaker for the Administration Noynoy Aquino protected President Gloria Arroyo by voting not to listen to the controversial "Hello Garci" tapes that revealed massive cheating during the 2004 presidential elections.

WHY DID NOYNOY PROTECT GMA? Around the same time, the Aquino and Cojuangco families were deep in negotiations with the Arroyo administration for one of the biggest anomalous deals in Philippine history.
Noynoy Aquino's vote to protect GMA merely completed the political transaction that is now the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEX) - an overpriced, anomalous arrangement that not only cheated taxpayers but the already oppressed, poor farmers of Hacienda Luisita.

Some points to ponder:

• Noynoy Aquino's family received P83 million from the government by selling 83 hectares of Hacienda Luisita land at 12 TIMES the actual zonal value.


• At 94 kilometers, the P32 billion SCTEX, bloated from the original estimate of P18.7 billion in 1999, is the longest continuous highway in the Philippines andpasses directly through Hacienda Luisita, the largest hacienda in the countryand owned by Noynoy Aquino's family.


• The Philippine government was made to shoulder the P170-million PRIVATE San Miguel Interchange of the Aquinos into Hacienda Luisita. This is the ONLY exit of the 11 exits that leads to a private property.


• Hacienda Luisita farmers own 33 percent of the estate, and yet received only THREE PERCENT of the total package amount of P83 million, or only P450 per family


• These same famers, who receive a measly P9.50 a day in wages compared to the legal minimum NCR wage of P345.00, have been denied for more than 20 years their right to land ownership under the agrarian reform law, which was enacted to transfer ownership of large haciendas to their tenant farmers, the same farmers who were called "spoiled" by Noynoy Aquino's sister Ballsy.

In 2004, government troops were sent in by the Administration to help Noynoy Aquino's family break up a strike by the farmers. The combined government and private security forces of Hacienda Luisita unleashed bursts of automatic fire into the ranks of the farmers, killing 7 - including two children and an Aglipayan priest - and wounding 121in a bloody tragedy known as the Hacienda Luisita Massacre.
Noynoy Aquino defended the "dispersal" in Congress, calling it an "illegal strike".
But don't take our word for it. Know the whole truth NOW as reported by the GMA7 investigative team here.

Twitter: Noynoy mis-tweeted?

Dont know if its true, that one of Noynoy's staff posted the suspicious tweet that was broadcast Tuesday morning.

News said that Leah Navarro, content head of the online new media bureau of Noynoy Aquino, told Yahoo! in a phone interview that "Noy asked one of his staff to tweet".

Information says that an unnamed member of staff tweeted a personal rant but it was mistakenly broadcast on Aquino's official Twitter account at @noynoyaquino.

This message was broadcast on his Twitter account at 10:28 a.m. (Manila time):
"Won't be bringing a car to work na everyday! Stupid taxi who bumped my car! 5k down the drain!"

source: Yahoo! News Philippines

Google Event in Cebu

Come March 12, 2010 and Google will come to Cebu for a whole day event. The event will be happening in UP Cebu Visayas College @ the Conference Hall, Libaray Building. Google will be talking about feature developments in open source, applications like Google maps and whole lotta stuffs..

This Innovation forum was organized by Google, UPV Cebu DOST Technology Business Incubator , GTUG – Cebu, Developers Connect (DevCon), Philippine Emerging Start-Ups Open (PESO), Brain Gain Network (BGN) and the Ayala Technology Business Incubator (AyalaTBI).

The event is free. Interested participants may call 232 49995 for details.

Philippines Ranked 4th Most Corrupt in Asia-Pacific

wew! too bad to read this news.. i do hope the upcoming election would somehow (even by just a little) fix this issue.. voters wake up!

well, here's the news : Investors rank Philippines 4th most corrupt in AsiaPac