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Why I won’t vote for Noynoy?
EMIL JURADO

If we were watching a basketball game, we would now be in the last two minutes. The May 10 elections is only less than two weeks away, and anything can still happen.
Despite what the poll surveys say, I still believe that it is a four-cornered fight among Liberal Party standard bearer Senator Benigno Aquino III, Nacionalista Party standard bearer Senator Manuel Villar, former President Joseph Estrada of the Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino and even administration candidate former Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro.

I have been a journalist for over half a century and I have covered elections since as early as the Laurel-Quirino fight. I know for a fact that there are so many imponderable factors in Philippine elections.

These imponderable factors are vote buying (especially in the provinces), cheating in spite of an automated election, command votes, violence, failure of the Precinct Count Optical Scan machines, disenfranchisement of voters, power outages and even the weather. Hence, I would prefer not to predict a winner at this point.

Santa Banana, despite avowals by the Commission on Elections and sectors guarding our ballots, and while I’m hoping for the best, I also know for a fact that old habits die hard. We should also not forget the Golden Rule in Philippine elections—he who has the gold rules!

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The only thing I’m sure of is that I will not vote for Aquino. I’ve cited my reasons so many times before. I will say them again.

First and foremost are perceptions (or rumors) that Noynoy is mentally unstable, having been autistic at an earlier age. He has repeatedly refused to undergo a psychiatric exam if only to prove his critics wrong.

And then, at the age of 26, he reportedly violated the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act by putting up a security agency (bearing his initials, BSA) with his uncle-in-law Len Oreta. The company cornered contracts with sequestered companies during the incumbency of his late mother President Cory Aquino. If this is not conflict of interest, I don’t know what is.

My gulay, Noynoy even had the gall to list the presidential residence on Arlegui Street as the company’s official address!

And then there are the Hacienca Luisita massacres and the Kamaganak Inc. I was among the latter’s victims. I was co-founder of Erectors Inc.(with the late Transportation Minister Totoy Dans). My investment of P200,000 disappeared into thin air.

The same group which comprised Noynoy’s security agency reportedly grabbed an insurance company owned by a Chinese-Filipino who was accused by the Marcos dictators of something. The group then went on to corner, together with the Government Service Insurance System, all insurance contracts of government firms.

Santa Banana, some people really laughed all the way to the bank. The big scam at the time was the GSIS’ striking an insurance deal with Lloyds of London. Can you imagine the kickbacks that some people must have had?

This is why I can’t stomach voting for the son of Ninoy and Cory.

This returnee arrived from USA and immediately set the region into tensions with her neighbors?
One must be low IQ, not to see the connection??? hahahaha

In order to understand the overall picture of SCS, one must understand a little bit about DIRTY PINYOY politics!
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Meet our newest superhero: NEUTRALNOY!

Manila Standard Today columnist Emil Jurado got it spot on when he tried to explain the erosion of support for Noynoy “Son of Ninoy and Cory” Aquino.

“… the dimming of Aquino’s star may be attributed to his being a candidate “against” something, not “for” something. More people are also becoming aware of his lack of track record and competence.”

When you go on national television to say nothing aside from running after crooks and vowing not to steal, then you’re standing on pretty shaky ground.

Jurado continues:“And when Noynoy says in his informercial,‘hindi ako magnanakaw (I will not steal),’ we just have to see the faces around him salivating for a return to power. And then we remember the many anomalies perpetrated by Kamag-anak Inc. during his mother’s time.

Yes, Aquino says he is running AGAINST graft and corruption, injustice, poverty (as if that can be solved in our lifetime), and insurgency. All these are motherhood statements. Come to think of it, what’s Noynoy running FOR?

He has nothing to show us, really. His stint as a legislator has been untainted all right, untainted with accomplishments. He relies solely on the alleged legacy of his famous parents.

The problem with the Noynoy campaign is that it’s anchored on hate and vindictiveness.”

Ironically, the Yellow Army fancies itself as standing for good against evil. Noynoy’s more rabid supporters delude themselves into thinking they are the messiahs of the Philippines — it is only them who are thinking for the good of the country.

Mired in this hopeless, deluded mindset, Noynoy supporters mistakenly assume we are in the same situation as we were in 1986.

No, there is no dictator to topple. Though we hate GMA and her cronies with a passion, we are not in the chokehold of dictatorship or even martial law.

But that’s how the LP Mafia want to spin it. They want to create an impression of chaos and present themselves as the only option to get us out of it.

If Noynoy was so ardent about doing good and standing up against evil, what explains a non-existent record in the Senate and House?

I mean, he was just going with the flow the whole time. Walang bahid ng abilidad. Walang pinakitang kakayahan.

Now, all of a sudden, he is the man who can do no wrong (or good)?

He is our newest superhero –NEUTRALNOY! Neither here nor there… neither good nor bad. He’s just, well, IS.

God help us all.

When President or the legislators consisting of mainly all the President's men, started screwing around with the Judiciary, isn't that the beginning of the end of real DEMOCRACY and the beginning of another DICTATORSHIP!
Now all you needed is an old trick in the book: An external bogeyman to distract the internal politic?
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Prosecution’s blunders blamed on PNoy
March 02, 2012
Lee Ann P. Ducusin

MILITANT Kilusang Mayo Uno yesterday heaped the blame for the impeachment prosecution’s blunders on President Benigno Aquino III.

KMU Chairperson Elmer Labog said Aquino is to be blamed for the sudden announcement of the prosecution panel in the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona that it is resting its case amidst perception that it messed up in the task of laying the basis for Corona’s conviction by the court.

“We blame no other than the President,” he said.

The prosecution panel scrapped five out of the eight articles of impeachment which it had initially submitted to the impeachment trial, preempting the possible testimony of a key witness, Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno, before the court.

“It is now clear that the prosecution panel, under the direction of President Aquino, has failed miserably to do its homework. It is also now clear that the President opted to wage a propaganda campaign against Corona in the hope that he would be forced to resign, instead of ensuring that he would be impeached,” Labog said.

“The original sin is the blitzkrieg fashion in which the impeachment complaint was crafted and passed under the President’s orders. The result was a poorly-prepared complaint the weakness of which the Aquino government tried to hide with propaganda hype,” he added.

The KMU said Aquino’s haste to remove Corona and control the Supreme Court stems from his desire to get back at Corona for the SC’s decision on the Hacienda Luisita case, which ordered that the hacienda’s lands be distributed to farmers.

“The impeachment complaint clearly suffered because of the President’s haste to remove Corona in order to reverse the SC’s decision on Hacienda Luisita. A more noble motive, such as going after Arroyo, would have meant creating a solid complaint even if it would take more time,” he said.

“President Aquino’s motive of overturning the Supreme Court decision on Hacienda Luisita was exposed by the special treatment which his government gave to Arroyo in prison, and his Ombudsman’s decision to downgrade the plunder cases against Arroyo to mere graft cases,” he added.

Labog stressed that the people’s desire for the impeachment of Corona so the government can go after Arroyo has been undermined by the President’s selfish motives.

1. So is Philippines playing into the hand of the US hawks?

2. Whose interest is Benigno Aquino III looking after - those of Philippines or others? I will explain later on this.

3. Who are in fact funds Benigno Aquino III Political campaign and agenda past and present?

4. Freedom in navigation in the SCS which have been quoted by USA has been pledged by China before? So what are they talking about?

5. Is this all about the covert undersea navigation that went unnoticed by all ASEAN and the rest of the world by the SUPERPOWERS?

We will take a few Pinays as wives. This should improve their lot in life.

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE wrote:

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Dumb APE just stop it... you are all talk... and obviously look at only facts that fit in with your low IQ mind...
when the USA defaults on its debt... China will have no choice but unpeg their Yuan too the Dollar anyways...
as for why they have not right now.... and why should they?
they are doing nothing countless other countries are doing with the US dollar being the world reserve currency... pegging their currency to the worlds reserve currency
pretty soon it wont matter anyways as China has stated they will not have a trade surplus by 2014
like you, the retarded Americans need to get it into their thick heads... it isnt about the Currency since the Yuan has appreciated
more than 18% against the US dollar in the last 5 years...
its because Americans have become lazy and make nothing... not unlike you Filipino APES who are lazy and beg for money
China is fast relying on its domestic market... and recently has stated to the USA ... thats its better there is a uneven recovery apposed to a even recession...
all indicators are showing China cant save the world economy but it dosent have to it just needs to save itself...
I heard the same crap spouted out in 2008 when the USA crashed the world markets... China having to shutter 100 thousand factories and 20 million Chinese went out of work...
well China never opened those factories back up...
like it or not by 2018 your american savior will be looking at 1 trillion dollars a year in interest payments on its National debt...
by 2018 medicare cost up to 1 trillion dollars
also by 2018 its Social Security will stop taking in more money than it pays out....thus it will need to dip into its social security reserves, only to find a big fat IOU from the Tresury department
but then you are a APE from a beggar nation only understand the begging for money part

What? Low IQ?

Come on chink, stop telling lies!

We Filipinos are the ones giving rational thoughts to you guys! Our posts are worth reading unlike yours, so totally worthless spams. You are really an imbecile for believing that you are a superior race. You are blinded by your arrogance and no wonder the world treated you chinks as dirts in spite of your riches.

Anyway, the reason why your china had its riches and its taste of glory is because of cheap labor and counterfeiting. Your china started as a beggar nation begging richer countries to put their investments in china, promising dirt-cheap labor cost and limitless supply of slave workers as well as a billion mouth to feed, and ended up being the biggest sucker of all. In short, your shrewdness and cunningness made you bigtime.

Now, pegging your yuan to the dollar and not letting it float is your way of containing cost at the least acceptable level. Well.... that's brilliant! Not all countries can be slave masters, suppressive, and get away with it. But as you said, 2014 will be the year your china ceases to have a trade surplus, so that's good. We can then expect the yuan to float and arrive at its true value and give the people of china a sense of..........something.

The stats you have provided meant nothing to me though I am concern about how your china will become if she reaches the superpower status.

Also, it will be best if you can provide your readers with your own inputs on the issues at hand and not go into insults and be a racist. In that way, you can prove your claim of high intellect and not be regarded as a mere fluke that you are.

Americans so easily FOOL wrote:

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SHAMELESS low IQ chinaman CEV or Donkey Kong!
Hahahaha
This article is not mean your caste of low IQ apes as someone so aptly put it!
Hahahahaha

as you have again demonstrated for a hundred time..you have shown your small brain to the readers of this forum. Cev and Astro Guy have been posting relevant evidences that support the Philippines claim..

and what did you do? you ALWAYS reply with insults ...

because at the end of the day.. that's all you can do with your limited, government controlled, brainwashed brain of yours. result to insults when you are cornered

pathetic, really pathetic

Everybody knows who the agressor is!
China will grow stronger not weaker in the comming years. I hope their officials live up to their "peaceful rise".
China wants bilateral talks with Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines and Brunei but this is only acceptable if she has an equally valid reasons for claiming these islands.
Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines and Brunei uses international law for laying their respective claims while the Chinese are using it's unverified old dotted map and history plus guns/military and money/economy to lay her claim.
Bilateral talks would only be acceptable between the ASEAN states because they all use international law as against China who wouldn't submit itself before an international court because she know that she has no legal basis for her claim.

1. Chinese claim to South China Sea is without merit and its long-hidden expansionism is now clearly exposed to the world. China has no facts to back up its claim except for its discreted words, which are gradually becoming more hollow with time.
2. After years of admiring Chinese development and intergrated China into its economies, ASEAN nations are waking up to contradictions of Chinese words vs. deeds. They don't necessarily prefer the US, but they totally reject China. So, the push-back at China has little to do with the US intention and everything to do with Chinese actions thus far.
3. China can succeed in provoking military responses from the Philippines and/or Vietnam and easily win a few bloody battles here and there, but the resistance will be fierce and Chinese people will be hurt. China will be further isolated and progresses will slow down. Greed never brings permanent prosperity.
4. The only recourse for China is to join the 21st century civilization behave responsibly like a new superpower it has become.

China's new tactic to claim ownership of SCS:

Increase use of disguised fishing fleets and other supposedly civilian activities to provoke an incident.

If the Code of Conduct is signed, PLAN will lose the opportunity window to justify the use of force by a provoked incident. They know it and therefore they are doing what they can to avoid the signature of the COC, until they can provoke this incident (say death of a couple of Chinese "fishermen").

Dong King Kong wrote:

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What? Low IQ?
Come on chink, stop telling lies!
We Filipinos are the ones giving rational thoughts to you guys! Our posts are worth reading unlike yours, so totally worthless spams. You are really an imbecile for believing that you are a superior race. You are blinded by your arrogance and no wonder the world treated you chinks as dirts in spite of your riches.
Anyway, the reason why your china had its riches and its taste of glory is because of cheap labor and counterfeiting. Your china started as a beggar nation begging richer countries to put their investments in china, promising dirt-cheap labor cost and limitless supply of slave workers as well as a billion mouth to feed, and ended up being the biggest sucker of all. In short, your shrewdness and cunningness made you bigtime.
Now, pegging your yuan to the dollar and not letting it float is your way of containing cost at the least acceptable level. Well.... that's brilliant! Not all countries can be slave masters, suppressive, and get away with it. But as you said, 2014 will be the year your china ceases to have a trade surplus, so that's good. We can then expect the yuan to float and arrive at its true value and give the people of china a sense of..........something.
The stats you have provided meant nothing to me though I am concern about how your china will become if she reaches the superpower status.
Also, it will be best if you can provide your readers with your own inputs on the issues at hand and not go into insults and be a racist. In that way, you can prove your claim of high intellect and not be regarded as a mere fluke that you are.

what ever filipino APE you are all talk about your thoughts and feelings...

I gave third party articles to support my arguments... you give back a essay on your APE TALK

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Why U.S. Must Get Over Renminbi
June 22, 2012
By Yukon Huang

U.S. politicians are tempted to blame Chinese currency manipulation for the country’s economic woes. But doing so is unhelpful.
Why U.S. Must Get Over Renminbi

In a close election year, the easy option for politicians is to blame the United States’ economic woes on China. The U.S. bilateral deficit with China hit a record $295 billion for last year. Protectionist sentiments are running high with recent complaints filed with the WTO that China doesn’t follow the rules. Passage of a countervailing tariff bill exemplifies the skirmishes that are coming. These efforts are bolstered by repeated calls for the renminbi to be revalued upwards to offset China’s alleged currency manipulation.

The problem is that this isn’t the real story.

From China’s perspective, admonitions that the renminbi is significantly undervalued seem devoid of logic. China’s current account surplus has declined from 10 percent of GDP five years ago to less than 3 percent last year and many project even further declines. Moreover, Beijing finds it perplexing that after steadily appreciating the renminbi by nearly 40 percent in real terms since 2005, critics say that the renminbi is still undervalued by the same 20 percent or more as if nothing has happened over the past five years.

Much of the confusion comes from focusing on the still huge U.S.-China bilateral trade imbalances, rather than looking at it from a global perspective.

Chinese policy makers are reminded that the United States took a similar approach in complaining decades ago that an undervalued yen was the major reason for Japan’s sustained trade surpluses. That the Japanese yen appreciated from 240 to 80 to a dollar in response to the 1985 Plaza Accord and yet the country continued to run a surplus until its recent nuclear disaster reminds the Chinese leadership that factors other than the exchange rate are far more important in shaping trade balances.

The truth is that China’s surpluses aren’t driving America’s deficits. This is illustrated by the differences in timing for when changes to both countries’ trade balances occurred. The U.S. trade deficit began increasing rapidly around 1998 and peaked around 2005. China’s trade surpluses began increasing around 2005 and peaked in 2008. This pattern suggests that U.S. deficits and China’s surpluses aren’t directly related, but reflect global shifts and country specific circumstances.

Clearly,“manipulating” the value of the renminbi had little to do with the emergence of China’s trade surplus since its value was pegged to the dollar until 2005. And only as the renminbi began to appreciate, did China’s surplus increase.

One could argue that China’s reluctance to allow the renminbi to appreciate even more rapidly after 2005 allowed surpluses to grow larger. However, more rapid appreciation would likely not have reduced U.S. trade deficits but only transferred some of the China specific surpluses to other Asian countries as long as the U.S. continued to run major fiscal deficits.

The driving force behind the U.S. deficits and China’s surpluses lies not in exchange rates but in structural factors that built up over time. Three factors largely explain the emergence of China’s trade surpluses: surging U.S. consumption that fueled import demand, maturation of the East Asian production sharing network centered on China, and ratcheting up of China’s savings rates.

http://thediplomat.com/2012/06/22/why-u-s-mus...

China uses its claims of "indisputable sovereignty" to neutralize neighboring countries cliaims to EEZ's according to UNCLOS; in China's groupthink, the concept of the EEZ is not even activated. To my knowledge there has bever been such an expansive claim to an entire body of water as maritime sovereign "territory" since the Roman Empire's Mare Nostrum which as excusable seeing as how the Roman Empire surrounded the Mediterranian on all sides. China however, has these inconveinient little neighbors it has to share the waters to its South with, and it it doesn't appear to like sharing.

China had to hide its intention because it did not have the means to defend what it claimed, claims that it is revealing bit by bit today. This is understood, but not understandable; not from a responsible permanent member of the UNSC.

Because, then:
- When China said: we pursue a peaceful policy, people are entitled to infer: inversely proportional to China growing military.
- When China said: we settle disputes according to International Law, people can interpret: not the current International Law, but the Law a stronger China can bend.
- When China said: we are prepared to sign a treaty,“when time is ripe”, people will deduce: when China feels it can violate with impunity.
- When China said: NO FIRST USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS, people conclude that China said:“SUCKERS IF YOU BELIEVE ME”.

Russians have shot at and imprisoned Chinese fishermen.
There's a pecking order in toeing the line. China looms over it's smaller southern neighbors, and in turn Russia looms over its smaller southern neighbor.

too many have been willing to entertain the ridiculous and overarching claims of the PRC in regards to the SCS in order to remain diplomatic, only to further encourage such grandstanding on the part of the PRC. The more it is made clear that such claims are ridiculous the sooner it will force the PRC into a more reasonable mindset and help decrease the risk of conflict.

This is not to say the PRC has no claim to any part of the SCS (they have their EEZ after all), and those areas which fall outside of any claimants EEZ can be open for discussion about joint exploitation and utilization; what cannot be open for discussion are such mad claims made by the PRC which risk plunging the region and even the world into war.

the overarching question in all this is "if someone doesn't put a challenge to the extraterritorial claims of the PRC, then who will?" How long before the PRC feels that it can move from blocking off areas with fishing and maritime surveillance boats to using military vessels or–worse–instigating conflicts to unjustly claim resources? Furthermore, are we turning a blind eye towards the beginnings of something far worse, as Western Europe did in the early months of WWII?

commentators such as (put name here of all the 50centers in this forum), no doubt, represent the hardline extreme of PRC posters here–may decry "imperialist" powers such as the United States and its lackeys (read: anyone else who might trump China's "destiny"), the reality is that the PRC is acting just as imperialist as those it criticizes; as someone else mentioned, not since the Roman Empire have we seen an attempt like that of the PRC to turn a body of water into an area of exclusive sovereignty where none may pass without permission. This, coupled with the development and deployment of Anti-Access/Area Denial weapons such as the DF-21D suggests that the PRC is going to attempt something that will provoke the US to act in the defense of others……and it wants to ensure that the US will pay too high a price to intervene in whatever conflict is on the horizon.

Can China’s Consumers Save West?
January 04, 2012
By John Berthelsen

China’s huge domestic market has long fueled dreams that once its consumers are unleashed, rising demand will help heal ailing Western economies. Don’t count on it.
Can China’s Consumers Save West?
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Although a long succession of Western leaders, bankers and finance officials have held out the holy grail of the Chinese consumer’s purchase of Western exports as the savior of flagging economies, it may well remain a distant dream.

It’s certainly true that China, with an embarrassing $3 trillion in foreign exchange reserves and trade and current account surpluses that amount to 10 percent of gross domestic product, has been seeking to drive up imports.

Yu Ping, vice chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, told reporters at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation forum in Hawaii in November that the current five-year plan is focused on balancing imports and exports. The plan, he said,“demonstrates China’s resolution to improve its status in technological development as well as its determination to leverage the country’s massive domestic market.” As an example of that resolve, Vice Minister of Commerce Zhong Shan said in Shanghai in September that the commerce ministry was considering cutting taxes on imported consumer goods and was soliciting guidelines to encourage more imports. Andy Rothman, the China macro strategist for CLSA in Hong Kong, in a recent report pointed out that China’s share of personal consumption expenditure for U.S. goods has doubled over the past decade, with U.S. exports of electronics, agricultural and other products to China rising by 468 percent from 2000 to 2010.

Still, there are formidable structural obstacles to raising consumer spending in China that could take decades to unravel. Chinese household savings are as high as 50 percent, partly due to the region’s traditional conservatism, but also because the country lacks a social safety net. Pensions are almost nonexistent, along with reliable health insurance – either government or private. The education system is equally troubled, to the point where families who want to give their children adequate schooling must send them to private institutions. While the university system is improving, many wealthy Chinese send their children overseas.

Consumers are also cautious. According to government statistics, private household consumption was only 37 percent of gross domestic product in 2009, down from 49 percent in 1990, a fact that’s likely best explained by the massive rise in GDP over the period. In the United States, by contrast, household consumption accounts for 70 percent of GDP, including spending on health care by both individuals and government.

http://thediplomat.com/2012/01/04/can-china%E...

China's solution to its regional territorial claims is a bigger gun.