Richard James Mendoza
Ika-12 ng Hulyo, 2010
Ang “Ministro ng Impormasyon” ay isang ministro sa isang parlyamentaryong pamahalaan na inatasan sa pagsusubaybay ng daloy ng impormasyon na ipinapakita sa publiko. Masasabi na kaparehas din ito ng ABS-CBN, GMA7, Inquirer at iba pang kaparehas na kompanya na pagmamay-ari ng mga oligarkyo. Itu-ito rin ang mga kompanya na isinara sa administrasyong Marcos pero ipinamigay ni Corazon Aquino nang siya’y naging pangulo.
Noong rehimen ng unang Aquino, maadalas na ipakita sa mga pahayagan mga papuri para sa nakaupo. Ang magkatunggaling pananaw ay halos hindi ipakita o iparinig. Matatandaan natin na sa panahon ni Corazon Aquino ay nagsara ang isang pahayagan na kilala bilang oposisyon. Matatandaan din natin na sa panahon niya ay naitanggal sa mga “bookstore” ang librong pinamagatang “Sainthood Postponed”. Kinasuhan ni Corazon Aquino ang isang mamahayag ng libelo dahil sa akusasyon niya sa kanya na “nagtatago sa ilalim ng kama” nang maganap ang kudeta.
Hindi ko masasabi na natatandaan ko ang pamamahayag ng mga dilawan sa administrasyong Ramos subalit hindi ko makakalimutan ang kanilang pamamahayag sa administrasyong Estrada. Imbes na iulat ang mga nagawa niya katulad ng paglago ng ekonomiya noong “Asian Financial Crisis” at ang mga bagay na may kinalaman sa pambansang interes ay pinagtuunan nila ng pansin ang kanyang personal na isyu na wala naming halaga. Isang halimbawa ay ang di-umano’y mga mansion niya, ang “Boracay Mansion” bilang pinakakilala sa mga ito. Isa pang halimbawa ay ang tinatawag na “Jose Velarde account” na di-umano’y pagmamay-ari ni Pangulong Estrada subalit ang totoong may-ari nito ay ang negosyanteng si Jaime Dichaves.
Katulad sa mga buwitre na pinagkakaguluhan ang nabubulok na bangkay, patuloy pa rin ang pangdedemonyo kay Pangulong Estrada pagkatapos ng “pagpapakitang-litis” sa Sandiganbayan. Masasabi ko ng buong katiyakan na isang pagpapakitang-tao lamang ang ginawang paglilitis kay Pangulong Estrada sa Sandiganbayan dahil alam ng lahat na hinatulan na siya na may-sala bago pa man pormal na ihain ito sa kanya. At patuloy parin ang kanilang paninira sa kanya sa pamamagitan ng pagbanggit ng hatol sa kanya ng Sandiganbayan sa halos lahat ng ulat tungkol sa kanya. Nang manumpa ng labag sa batas si Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo bilang Pangulo, pinabanguhan ng midyang dilaw ang bastardong pangulo ng mga papuri pero kumambyo nang nagsilitawan ang iba’t-ibang iskandalo at iskam, ang “Hello Garci” bilang pinakatanyag na halimbawa. Kahit na kumambyo ang midya kay Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ay magaan pa rin ang kanilang pagbalita sa kaniya.
Nagsimulang kumalat ang baho ng mga dilawan noong ipalabas nila ang isang “music video” ni BSA III na isang halatang pagtatangka sa pangangampanya bago ang panahon ng halalan. Ito’y maituturi na mas malala sa mga ipinalabas na patalastas ni Manny Villar na dati pang ipinapalabas. Pinagtatakpan din nila ang mga pagkukulang at pagkakasala ng COMELEC at SMARTMATIC (na tinatawag ring “SMARTMAGIC”) nang magsilabasan na ang ebidensya. May kasabihan na ganito ang pagkakadating: “Walang mas bulag sa mga ayaw na tumingin”. At ganito na nga ang kanilang istilo pagdating sa panlilinlang ng halalan (electoral fraud). Sinasadya nilang hindi intindihin ito o binabaluktot ang katotohanan.
Ngayon at Pangulo na (raw) si BSA III, babalik sa dating gawi ang dilawang midya na ginawa nila noong panahon ni Corazon Aquino. Wiwisikan nila ng mumurahing pabango ang isang “drag queen” o sa kasong ito, isang PENOY. Ang bango ay mapapalitan din ng baho na kasama sa kanyang illegal na pagkapangulo.
Ang totoong giyera ay hindi ang pagpapalitan ng putok ng armas kundi ang sagupaan ng “mainstream” na impormasyon at ang alternatibong pananaw.
Monday, July 12, 2010
The Yellow Ministry of DIS-Information
Richard James Mendoza
July 12, 2010
A “Ministry of Information” is a ministry in a parliamentarian government which is tasked to control the flow of information being shown to the public. The same can be said to ABS-CBN, GMA7, Inquirer and other similar entities that are owned by the oligarchy. These are also the same entities that were shut down during the Marcos administration but were practically given away from free when Corazon Aquino assumed the presidency.
During the first Aquino regime, most of these publications reported nothing but praises for the incumbent. Opposing views were almost unheard of. It can be remembered that during this period, an opposition broadsheet was shut down and a book entitled “Sainthood Postponed” was deshelved from bookstores. It is also on record that that a certain journalist was sued by Corazon Aquino for libel when he accused her of “hiding under the bed” during the coup.
I cannot claim to remember the coverage of the yellows during the Ramos administration but I cannot forget the coverage that they did during the Estrada administration. They were demonizing him up until his last minute of his short-lived term. Instead of reporting about his achievement of an economic turnaround during the Asian Financial Crisis and other items of national interest, they focused on his personal issues that did not really matter. An example is his reported mansions, the so-called “Boracay Mansion’ being the most famous. Another example is the so-called “Jose Velarde account” which is purportedly owned by President Estrada when it is in fact owned by businessman Jaime Dichaves.
Like vultures feasting on a rotting corpse, the yellow media kept on demonizing Estrada even after the Sandiganbayan show trials. I can say with certainty that the Sandiganbayan trials were nothing but show trials because it is well known that Estrada was already convicted even before the verdict was formally handed. And they continue to defame him by mentioning his verdict in the show trials in almost every item about President Estrada. When Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was illegally sworn in as president, the yellow media perfumed the illegitimate president with nothing but praises but started backtracking when various scandals and scams started to show up, most notably the “Hello Garci” scandal. Although they backtracked, so to speak, they still treated her with a kid’s glove.
The yellow’s stench started to spread when they presented a music video of BSA III in an obvious attempt at pre-election campaigning. It can be considered as worse than Manny Villar’s ads shown sometime before. They were also covering up the faults of COMELEC and SMARTMATIC (or as they call it, SMARTMAGIC) when the evidences started to appear. There is a saying that goes around like this: “None are blind as those who do not want to see”. And they were just like that when it came to electoral fraud; either deliberately ignoring it or twisting the facts.
Now that BSA III is President (supposedly), the yellow media will go back to the same tactics that they used during the first Aquino regime. They are going to spray cheap perfume to a drag queen or in this case, an unhatched egg. Then the fragrance will eventually be worn off by the filth that has come with his illegal presidency.
The real war is not the exchange of gunfire but the battle between mainstream information and alternate viewpoints.
July 12, 2010
A “Ministry of Information” is a ministry in a parliamentarian government which is tasked to control the flow of information being shown to the public. The same can be said to ABS-CBN, GMA7, Inquirer and other similar entities that are owned by the oligarchy. These are also the same entities that were shut down during the Marcos administration but were practically given away from free when Corazon Aquino assumed the presidency.
During the first Aquino regime, most of these publications reported nothing but praises for the incumbent. Opposing views were almost unheard of. It can be remembered that during this period, an opposition broadsheet was shut down and a book entitled “Sainthood Postponed” was deshelved from bookstores. It is also on record that that a certain journalist was sued by Corazon Aquino for libel when he accused her of “hiding under the bed” during the coup.
I cannot claim to remember the coverage of the yellows during the Ramos administration but I cannot forget the coverage that they did during the Estrada administration. They were demonizing him up until his last minute of his short-lived term. Instead of reporting about his achievement of an economic turnaround during the Asian Financial Crisis and other items of national interest, they focused on his personal issues that did not really matter. An example is his reported mansions, the so-called “Boracay Mansion’ being the most famous. Another example is the so-called “Jose Velarde account” which is purportedly owned by President Estrada when it is in fact owned by businessman Jaime Dichaves.
Like vultures feasting on a rotting corpse, the yellow media kept on demonizing Estrada even after the Sandiganbayan show trials. I can say with certainty that the Sandiganbayan trials were nothing but show trials because it is well known that Estrada was already convicted even before the verdict was formally handed. And they continue to defame him by mentioning his verdict in the show trials in almost every item about President Estrada. When Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was illegally sworn in as president, the yellow media perfumed the illegitimate president with nothing but praises but started backtracking when various scandals and scams started to show up, most notably the “Hello Garci” scandal. Although they backtracked, so to speak, they still treated her with a kid’s glove.
The yellow’s stench started to spread when they presented a music video of BSA III in an obvious attempt at pre-election campaigning. It can be considered as worse than Manny Villar’s ads shown sometime before. They were also covering up the faults of COMELEC and SMARTMATIC (or as they call it, SMARTMAGIC) when the evidences started to appear. There is a saying that goes around like this: “None are blind as those who do not want to see”. And they were just like that when it came to electoral fraud; either deliberately ignoring it or twisting the facts.
Now that BSA III is President (supposedly), the yellow media will go back to the same tactics that they used during the first Aquino regime. They are going to spray cheap perfume to a drag queen or in this case, an unhatched egg. Then the fragrance will eventually be worn off by the filth that has come with his illegal presidency.
The real war is not the exchange of gunfire but the battle between mainstream information and alternate viewpoints.
Behind the propaganda
DIE HARD III
Herman Tiu Laurel
07/12/10
If only the nation could see through the propaganda, it would be obvious to one and all that the kind of government we are seeing today is nothing but a continuation of the anti-people, pro-oligarchy, and pro-Western regimes of Corazon Aquino, Fidel Ramos and Gloria Arroyo. Just watch closely how a few days after the presidential inauguration, one of the key economic and financial managers of PeNoy Aquino, Budget and Management chief Butch Abad, already turned around and announced that the 2010 budget deficit will be increasing from Gloria’s 3.6 percent to PeNoy’s 3.9 percent! At the same time, even as the Arroyo-appointed board at the PNOC-EC, which owns 10 percent of Malampaya, had previously delayed the sale of those shares (which Joseph Estrada as president had acquired for government), PeNoy’s Cesar Purisima is now saying that such shares are also “on the table” (i.e. ready to be sold along with two other state assets).
The expected revenues from selling the 10 percent share of government would fetch up to P16 billion, an amount that is ridiculous considering that this natural gas asset remitted P13 billion in revenues from royalties and other incomes in 2008 alone. The pressure to sell these government shares invariably come from foreign energy companies. Like all previous government finance managers usually backed by international bankers and multilateral financial institutions, the issue of the national budget deficit is regularly invoked to press the sale. We are therefore not surprised that the Budget and Finance secretaries of PeNoy seem to be in a coordinated play to justify the sale of extremely profitable government assets again, including the Food Terminal Inc. in Taguig, as well as our nation's properties in Japan.
Shell Philippines Exploration BV, developer of the Malampaya natural gas wells, has by now fully recovered its investment of $4.5 billion after operating for the past decade. This is therefore the time that the Philippines should be negotiating for a substantially larger share of the project. It is certainly not the time to sell if government is thinking of the public good. If the Filipino people do not awake from the trance of “wang-wang” and “PNoy” which the mainstream print and broadcast media are feeding into the public’s subconscious, the vested interests moving in for the kill will finally succeed in this swindle of the century. PeNoy Aquino may also turn out to be the final villain in this Malampaya saga, with the ruling oligarchs behind Shell Philippines and their propaganda for him becoming instrumental in his infamy.
The propaganda to make PeNoy into the “humble, uncomplaining, incorruptible” PNoy is deliberately being generated to overshadow and drown out discussions on vital issues of strategic importance to the public. This is one way to “manufacture consent” as noted linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist and political activist Noam Chomsky has often written about. He explains: “I think there is a good reason the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them.”
The same people behind Gloria Arroyo and, now, PeNoy Aquino are still doggedly after the total conquest, occupation, and usurpation of all the wealth of this nation. PeNoy’s Cabinet secretaries’ reversals on the budget deficit and full Malampaya privatization are just some of the glaring examples of the continuation of Arroyo’s disastrous policies. Another one has to do with recent pronouncements on the unconstitutional Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MoA-AD).
The duplicity behind the MoA-AD’s near-consummation was a major issue against Gloria. PeNoy was supposed to offer a departure from that and a hope for a reversal of the previous regime's policy of appeasement. But in an interview with Ces Drilon on ANC’s The Rundown, PeNoy’s Peace Process chief Ging Quintos Deles even praised that piece of high treason as well-intentioned and designed to benefit the Mindanaoans, but which lacked only in transparency. When pressed for details, such as the US Embassy's undue interest on the matter, Deles could only say that in such sensitive issues she has learned not to open her mouth too much, which in itself is a denial of openness and transparency. Let me note that Deles and her husband have lived largely on foreign governments’ and foundations’ projects and funds, such as the Canadian International Development Agency. Ging Deles’ deliberate ambiguity is just a new approach to duplicity; thus, we can expect the PeNoy government to use his so-called “political capital” from his Hocus-PCOS “victory” plus the constant barrage of propaganda to finally consummate the MoA-AD.
There are more duplicities hiding behind ambiguities: The pursuit of evidence on Gloria Arroyo’s many alleged crimes, including the Fertilizer Fund scam, through a toothless Truth Commission led by a dubious chairman, defended and reaffirmed by PeNoy Aquino himself.
Another major issue is the wanton abandon with which the energy companies are raising power rates. The Philippine Electricity Market Corp., for starters, is already seeking a three-fold increase of its fees for “governance and market” operations in the energy market — an additional overhead in privatization that very few know about. Yet little, if any, public discussion initiated by government has come up about this major manipulation in the energy market. Why then is this policy of silence being continued by PeNoy Aquino?
It certainly feels like these are just a foretaste of more insidious propaganda from the PeNoy regime. Could this be why there was that compelling need to form a fortified propaganda war room in the guise of a presidential communications group?
(Tune in to 1098AM, Sulo ng Pilipino, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.; Destiny Cable Channel 21, Talk News TV — Infowars Edition, Tuesday, 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on “Election Annulment” with Gov. Bono Adaza and Engr. H.R. Estrella; also visit http://hermantiulaurel.blogspot.com)
Herman Tiu Laurel
07/12/10
If only the nation could see through the propaganda, it would be obvious to one and all that the kind of government we are seeing today is nothing but a continuation of the anti-people, pro-oligarchy, and pro-Western regimes of Corazon Aquino, Fidel Ramos and Gloria Arroyo. Just watch closely how a few days after the presidential inauguration, one of the key economic and financial managers of PeNoy Aquino, Budget and Management chief Butch Abad, already turned around and announced that the 2010 budget deficit will be increasing from Gloria’s 3.6 percent to PeNoy’s 3.9 percent! At the same time, even as the Arroyo-appointed board at the PNOC-EC, which owns 10 percent of Malampaya, had previously delayed the sale of those shares (which Joseph Estrada as president had acquired for government), PeNoy’s Cesar Purisima is now saying that such shares are also “on the table” (i.e. ready to be sold along with two other state assets).
The expected revenues from selling the 10 percent share of government would fetch up to P16 billion, an amount that is ridiculous considering that this natural gas asset remitted P13 billion in revenues from royalties and other incomes in 2008 alone. The pressure to sell these government shares invariably come from foreign energy companies. Like all previous government finance managers usually backed by international bankers and multilateral financial institutions, the issue of the national budget deficit is regularly invoked to press the sale. We are therefore not surprised that the Budget and Finance secretaries of PeNoy seem to be in a coordinated play to justify the sale of extremely profitable government assets again, including the Food Terminal Inc. in Taguig, as well as our nation's properties in Japan.
Shell Philippines Exploration BV, developer of the Malampaya natural gas wells, has by now fully recovered its investment of $4.5 billion after operating for the past decade. This is therefore the time that the Philippines should be negotiating for a substantially larger share of the project. It is certainly not the time to sell if government is thinking of the public good. If the Filipino people do not awake from the trance of “wang-wang” and “PNoy” which the mainstream print and broadcast media are feeding into the public’s subconscious, the vested interests moving in for the kill will finally succeed in this swindle of the century. PeNoy Aquino may also turn out to be the final villain in this Malampaya saga, with the ruling oligarchs behind Shell Philippines and their propaganda for him becoming instrumental in his infamy.
The propaganda to make PeNoy into the “humble, uncomplaining, incorruptible” PNoy is deliberately being generated to overshadow and drown out discussions on vital issues of strategic importance to the public. This is one way to “manufacture consent” as noted linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist and political activist Noam Chomsky has often written about. He explains: “I think there is a good reason the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them.”
The same people behind Gloria Arroyo and, now, PeNoy Aquino are still doggedly after the total conquest, occupation, and usurpation of all the wealth of this nation. PeNoy’s Cabinet secretaries’ reversals on the budget deficit and full Malampaya privatization are just some of the glaring examples of the continuation of Arroyo’s disastrous policies. Another one has to do with recent pronouncements on the unconstitutional Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MoA-AD).
The duplicity behind the MoA-AD’s near-consummation was a major issue against Gloria. PeNoy was supposed to offer a departure from that and a hope for a reversal of the previous regime's policy of appeasement. But in an interview with Ces Drilon on ANC’s The Rundown, PeNoy’s Peace Process chief Ging Quintos Deles even praised that piece of high treason as well-intentioned and designed to benefit the Mindanaoans, but which lacked only in transparency. When pressed for details, such as the US Embassy's undue interest on the matter, Deles could only say that in such sensitive issues she has learned not to open her mouth too much, which in itself is a denial of openness and transparency. Let me note that Deles and her husband have lived largely on foreign governments’ and foundations’ projects and funds, such as the Canadian International Development Agency. Ging Deles’ deliberate ambiguity is just a new approach to duplicity; thus, we can expect the PeNoy government to use his so-called “political capital” from his Hocus-PCOS “victory” plus the constant barrage of propaganda to finally consummate the MoA-AD.
There are more duplicities hiding behind ambiguities: The pursuit of evidence on Gloria Arroyo’s many alleged crimes, including the Fertilizer Fund scam, through a toothless Truth Commission led by a dubious chairman, defended and reaffirmed by PeNoy Aquino himself.
Another major issue is the wanton abandon with which the energy companies are raising power rates. The Philippine Electricity Market Corp., for starters, is already seeking a three-fold increase of its fees for “governance and market” operations in the energy market — an additional overhead in privatization that very few know about. Yet little, if any, public discussion initiated by government has come up about this major manipulation in the energy market. Why then is this policy of silence being continued by PeNoy Aquino?
It certainly feels like these are just a foretaste of more insidious propaganda from the PeNoy regime. Could this be why there was that compelling need to form a fortified propaganda war room in the guise of a presidential communications group?
(Tune in to 1098AM, Sulo ng Pilipino, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.; Destiny Cable Channel 21, Talk News TV — Infowars Edition, Tuesday, 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on “Election Annulment” with Gov. Bono Adaza and Engr. H.R. Estrella; also visit http://hermantiulaurel.blogspot.com)
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