Truth snapshots

INFOWARS
Herman Tiu Laurel
1/21/2008



“Mabuhay” to journalist Ellen Tordesilla, for upholding truth in the PNP insinuations she was the media person who aided the escape Capt. Faeldon in the Manila Pen incident. When asked by Anthony Taverna and Gerry Baja over radio if she is the journalist being implicated Ellen said, “I would not help bad people.” Which neither a denied nor confirmed the allegation, and clearly had a sharp double entendre pun: is Faeldon a good or bad guy?. Certainly, the PNP and Esperon are not identified as “good” while Faeldon and the Magdalo is seen by a vast majority as the good guys.

The stark truth about the search committee for the Comelec chairmanship: it includes Namfrel “election trending” mastermind Joe Concepcion, “voter’s list padding genius” former Commissioner Christian Monsod exposed by former Commissioner Tancangco, Mahar Mangahas who admitted exit polls “errors” skewed against FPJ in 2004, Code-NGO which aided Gloria’s 2001 power-grab and swindled the country with zero-coupon bonds deal, and the whole caboodle identified with the CIA-controlled Namfrel. These frauds will come up with either a new Abalos or a new figurehead who’ll be inutile against the Comelec syndicate.

The truth in the “Forget Edsa II” issue: Gloria says she’s forgetting for “healing wounds”, President Estrada says it only reminds us of the “death of democracy”. In reality, it can never be forgotten because of the grief and suffering, bitterness and bloodstained pain the country has gone through after seven years of Edsa Dos; but our memory of it must be deeper than the sentimental way mainstream media treats it. We etch deep in our memory the economic exploitation that followed the power grab as corporate powers escalated their plunder of the economy through power, water, telecoms privatization, rate increases and tax holidays.

The Federal Aviation Authority downgrade: the truth is the rapacity of the U.S. airline industry lobby to swallow as much of Philippine air transport and travel business as they can using the political muscle of the U.S. government. The downgrading forces Philippine airline companies to “wet lease” from them if Philippines carriers are use the “open skies” deal to fly in the U.S.. We have been gypped again. At the same time, DOTC secetary Mendoza ATO never provided the ATO’s needed funds to upgrade training facilities despite yearly submission of its budgetary requirements. Mendoza should be sacked, but he has too many ZTE secrets!

What’s the truth in the Freedom House demotion of “Philippine Democracy”? There never was genuine democracy in the Philippine and Freedom House knows this all along. Edsa Dos was the death of a nascent democracy when eleven million voters’ mandate to President Joseph E. Estrada was scrapped, but Freedom House did not make a squeak against Gloria and Edsa Dos then. Obviously, Gloria no longer ideal U.S. purposes today as Gloria is absolutely discredited and cozying up to China. Freedom House’s shot across the bow of Gloria’s ship is just a warning to keep in line. I wonder what she has to give away to the U.S. again to keep them at bay.

Freedom House has neo-conservative members such as Zbigniew Brzezinski (father of Osama bin Laden’s mujahedins), Alexander Haig (renowned for claiming “I am in charge” during Nixon’s resignation), Stephen Solarz (who bullied Marcos to “cut cleanly”), Michael Ledeen (neocon writer), Richard Pipes (with Project for a New American Century which planned Iraq Wa), rightwing writer William Kirstol, Reagan defense secretary Caspar Wienburger, and former CIA chief James Woosley, among others. Freedom House has never loved freedom or democracy. The good news is that now it doesn’t love Gloria either.

The truth about Gloria’s debt: Freedom from Debt Coalition produced a must read report, here are some highlights: “As of end-August 2007, the National Government (NG) Outstanding debt was pegged at P3.871 trillion, or US$81.91 billion. The bigger part of this debt was acquired domestically (55.98 percent), with Treasury Bonds debt pegged at P1.55 trillion. This is worse when Mrs. Arroyo acknowledged that the country was suffering from a fiscal crisis. In 2004, National Government debt was P3.81 trillion. As of mid-2007, the total National Government debt per Filipino is P43,649.57 with each individual coughing P7,012.12 just to service the debt….

“The towering declaration that the debt problem is over falls flat when one considers the Arroyo administration broke two major fiscal records—first, for being the most aggressive if not the most addictive borrower, and second, for being the largest payer of debts. From 2001 to 2006, Mrs. Arroyo borrowed a total of P2.83 trillion shaming the total P1.51 trillion combined borrowings of the Aquino, Ramos and Estrada administrations spanning 14 years… even more precarious with National Government contingent liabilities reported as having reached P537 billion by 2007…”, contingent liabilities are impending debts.

“A close look at the proposed 2008 budget will reveal that payments for the principal amortization of debts actually went up by 6 percent, or P18.842 billion. Combined with the total of interest payments and principal amortization, debt expenditure actually went up by P11.296 billion, … 70 percent of the revenues generated from R-VAT would go to debt service … respectively. From the Estrada administration’s P201.00 per capita on health, it radically dropped to P184. Furthermore, for every pupil spending dropped from Estrada’s P5,830 to P5,467….”

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