so what?

if you notice, it seems 6 days past that i didn't put any entry here. it's because there's no topic seems interesting and i don't want to write anymore about this so called "gloriagate". it only makes me hate life. now that gloria apologizes and admit that it was her voice, so what?

muslims asked to back mindanao independence

in my last post, june 16, 2005, mindanao calls for an independence if pgma will be ousted using mob rule. two political figures from mindanao, davao city mayor rodrigo duterte and davao del norte rep. pantaleon alvarez are advocating the idea for the mindanao republic.

a muslim council chaired by amina rasul, the philippine council for islam and democracy [or pcid] urging its own brother muslims to support calls for a mindanao independence. in their statement, the pcid said that muslims should heed any serious call for mindanao independence.

amina rasul added with questions: "what has mindanao been getting from being part of the country, anyway? poor share of the fruits of national development? social, economic and political instability."

yes, the questions of amina rasul is striking and true. mindanao shares 65% percent of the country's domestic goods but it is given only a meager part of the national budget.

whatever happens to this congress inquiry, i hope they will be careful enough to remove the president from its seat using legal means. or they will suffer losing the country's most valued asset, the mindanao.

secession

this word came into my mind when i was reading the title of ramon tulfo's on target: mindanao to declare independence if pgma is ousted.

secession is the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or political entity. typically there is a strong issue difference that drives the withdrawal.

pgma's ousting through mob rule is the strong issue difference mindanao will declare independence.

i know mindanao can stand on its own if it will secede from the philippines, considering its vast resources [forests, mines, aquatic resources, rice, bananas, copra and many more]. with an estimated population of 20 million [with 2 million muslim brothers], thats more than enough human resources.

65 percent of the philippine's gross domestic product are produced from mindanao but it's very sad to know that the second biggest island gets only 30 percent of the national budget and 15 percent of the proceeds from foriegn loans reaches mindanao.

though this issue is not new to me, a certain ruben canoy, a political figure from cagayan de oro city have been discussing this one, many many years back. now the idea is back again. two political figures, davao's proud mayor, rodrigo duterte and former congressman and transportation secretary pantaleon alvarez are strongly advocating the idea to fellow christians and muslim brothers to the plan of seceding from the philippine republic.

they said that almost 60 percent of the military assigned in mindanao are for it. insurgency problems will not be an issue considering muslims will rule themselves and christians theirs. a federal republic government will be installed if ever this will might happen, the one advocated by sen. aquilino pimentel . when this issue erupted many years ago as canoy as the proponent, people in mindanao are divided of the plan. with many problems that continue to bombard the country, graft and corruption, financial instability, scandals, unemployment and many others, i think 60 to 70 percent of mindanaons support the mindanao independence. i am also for it and don't ask me why and don't base my opinion because i'm from mindanao.

whoever might be our leader, this country remains as what we are today facing huge problems that it doesn't know how to solve it. oppositions [as name implies] are not even rallying and supporting its leader, yet they have to find ways to cripple leadership so that will rule next. filipinos are sick and tired of all of this.

mindanao is also sick and tired and running its own government will might solve the problem for mindanao. if mindanao will push through with the secession plan, philippines will be crippled considering the 65% domestic goods produced are from mindanao but it will save 30 percent from its national budget.

on a lighter side, you will need visa even if you only want to go to bohol [the summer fiesta capital].

parallelism

the title is not about english grammar, parallel. this is all about the parallelism of the watergate scandal and this wiretapping headlines in all daily broadsheets.

i don't really want to write about ex-nbi deputy director, samuel ong's allegations on the taped conversations of pgma and commissioner garcillano. reasons are, [1] originality, i hate copied works [this is just like u.s. watergate scandal which results to nixon's resignation] , [2] ong himself is also tainted, he has personal interests [nbi directorship], [3] he has no loyalty [switching from one group to another whom he thinks advanteagous to him and give him gains [from erap to arroyo to lacson], and [4] he is afraid to die [if he claimed to be loyal and patriot and telling the truth, what he is afraid of?].

as what i expected and timed. when paguia presented last week the alleged taped conversation of president arroyo and garcillano, a maximum of 5 days, a pinoy "deep throat" will emerge. and last friday, a man, whom he claimed to be loyal to his countrymen and patriot and has pity in his heart for his countrymen, hold a press conference and claimed he has "the mother of all tapes". so meaning, bunye and paguia's tapes are just "children". and all the mp3 formats we have downloaded from inq7.net and pjic blog are "grandchildren" i wonder who is the "father " and "grandfather" of all this tapes. only sammy knows it.

i have already written that this issues about wiretapping are just parallels of the u.s. watergate scandal. mark felt [the deep throat] is the u.s. fbi deputy director, samuel ong ["hoarse throat" claimed by wycoco] is the philippine's nbi deputy director. the two dreamed of directorship but they were overlooked by their serving president.

i just only hope, samuel ong can survive and fight to the end. he needs to have "big guns" to fight.

machong drop-out [istambay me]

the title above is the segment title of the i-witness documentary aired last night, monday, june 13, 2005. the documentary talks about the widening gap of boys and girls in school.

the feature topic was the alarming number of "boy drop-out" in most of the schools in the country taking ramon magsaysay high school in cubao as example. while more boys tend to drop-out of school in the middle of a school year, the girls on the other hand are doing well in class, i. e. getting good marks in achievement test, getting higher grades in most all subjects.

it's true that there are many girls inside every classroom, in a typical class of 50, 30 or more are girls, leaving 15 to 20 for boys. and it's also true that are more boys tend drop out of class in the middle of a school year. but why?

the i-witness staff also scour inside the quezon city jail and interviewed some of the inmates. all the inmates interviewed are drop-outs or didn't finish high school. peers and friends involving in drug addictions and other vices are most of the reasons why they drop-out.

there are many questions raised: why are boys and girls so different? are girls just smarter or are they raised differently? while much of the world worries about the "disadvantaged girl-child," the situation in the philippines is the opposite, with boys clearly more disadvantaged in basic education. [i-witness june 13, 2005: machong drop-out]

this was answered last night by a basic education specialist, but i'm very sorry i forgot the name of the lady, howie interviewed. she said that, girls are far better than most boys today because the teaching method used in almost schools in our country are mostly listening and seeing symbols written in front of them, setting 5 to 6 hours a day. girls are more focused using this skills, that means boys are poor on listening skill, they are more hyper-active, their attention span is not that much compared with the girls and boys like to learn things actively. she added that because of the household responsibility of this girls at home like watching their younger siblings, cleaning the house, and cooking, girls are more responsible than of todays boys.

in 2005 philippine population forecast of 85.2 million, there are 36.25 million ages 5 to 24 . if educational age starts at 3 and reaches up to 24 then there are suppose to be 36.25 million students in all levels of education starting from preparatory up to tertiary. of these 36.25 million, 18.4 million are males and 17.85 are females. that means there are almost same number of males and females.

in my assumptions based on the figures above, there are 3.9 million to 7.5 million males not in classroom this year which is very very alarming. the government should act on this quickly.

dogmatix, the shy boy

my pet, dogmatix

the 2 tapes

after a week mark felt, the 2nd fbi guy during nixon's era admitted that he is indeed "deep throat" who kick nixon's ass out of the white house. this time another group in our country, seems to do the same "watergate scandal" to put our government again out of balance.

and there are seems to be in parallel between the original u.s. watergate scandal and this "pinoygate" scandal. (1) the plot is election, presidency, (2) involves are wiretapping, eavesdropping and bugs, (3) according to this paguia, someone handed him the tapes, name and personality withheld (like deep throat).

anyway, attempt to detabilized the government not a new business, but this wiretapped conversations between the highest position in the country and one government official on the topic of election results is something new. but the style is takin from the watergate style. correct me if i'm wrong.

i have the four recorded conversations in mp3 format downloaded via inq7.net, the two of which claimed by malacañang as original and the other two are altered. i listen only a part of the two mp3 format because it's quiet long. and i don't bother reading the scripted form since it's difficult to probe what is different between this claimed original and altered conversations. i know i can find something odd between the two, from which i'm not wrong. i find a few that might put a big weight the difference between the two files, if the inq7.net techie guys put it as a the same when they got it. (1) i notice the volume level of the two, a difference of 1 volume level i think. from my point of view, why alter the volume level if you want to prove something on the conversations. for me it's hard to compare the file, so using a program called goldwave, i set the volume of the altered conversation i notch higher for have a good comparison of the two. (2) i notice a different voice of "gary" in the altered conversation, the voice is quiet young. hmmmmmm.... (3) now this will put a great weight the difference of the two. i trimmed a part of the conversation, with camarines as the topic of the two voices and i did directly notice the difference. i notice the "ahhh.." of this guy named "gary" in the altered converation. "ahhh..." and all of what is heared in the recording should be put also as part of the transcript form conversation to identify in the first place the difference of the two. i think they did not notice it, because they are more focused on the words coming from each mouth of the two voices here. but anyway, if you try hear it clearly, take note of this phrase "ahhh... good evening mam." that should put clearly the altered claimed by malacañang is indeed doctored.

my analysis is, when this group find this recorded conversation on hand and listening to it doesn't give much descredit to pgma, they altered it. how? i'm not sure how they did it, but few techie guys abroad or even here did it. with our vast resources of technology nowadays, it's very possible to do it. first, i think they erased this "gary" voices from the original conversations. second, they find such guy, or audition such guy with the almost the same voice as "gary", then have him read doctored scripts then paid him for his service. third, incorporate the voice of the "new" "gary" voice in the conversations. fourth, fine tuning the conversation as if nothing is altered. oooopsss... i nearly forgot, the last part of it, setting the volume level 1 notch below the original. there you have a new doctored conversation.

very nice work. i think, they painstakingly do it in months. but they aren't good enough... tsk! tsk! tsk!