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27 June 2000
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Erap Appointee orders arrest of American for calling "Erap and this government corrupt". Let's see this tough government man do the same to the Sumilao farmers or PAL employees. Or even to an ordinary Filipino who isn't living off taxpayers money.

23 June 2000
METERING- Coming sooner than you think. Cronies get what they want when they want it. Period. So when PLDT asked the government for an authority to meter, it was granted one almost overnight by then Commissioner Kintanar. However, implementation was delayed due to various reasons, one of them being "vigorous public objections" to the pay per minute plan. That was yesterday. Today there was another American "expert" in the limelight named Peter Wallace, who can apparently dictate economic strategy to the entire Erap cabinet. Or so it seems when he has Erap's men all nodding in agreement to the imposition of metering or "the entire telephone industry will collapse."
The government, it seems, cannot impose PLDT's wishes without losing what little political clout it has over the people, so it seeks an outsider to deliver the bad news to the Filipino people. And since the guy is a white man, we are all supposed to stand back in awe and nod our heads in agreement. Pweh. Take your advice and shove it up some other stupid third world country's ass, Mr. Wallace. We have to live here, you don't.

June 22 2000
There is no truth to the rumor that despite Indonesia buying up real estate and big businesses in the Philippines (through dummies) that Pinoys will have voting rights in Djakarta.

American Propaganda Expert Kaplan accuses RP press of being overly-critical of Erap. Hey, a million dollars a year they pay you, and that's all you have to say? Call Ronnie Nathanielsz for some tips on bootlicking.
Overheard in PLDT washroom- "sabi ni Boss Manny malapit na ilunsad yun PLDT for Indonesian Statehood Movement"

June 21, 2000
Manila's monopoly players get together in bid to dominate Internet - so much for the level playing field. (Oh no, I was going for Park Place.-Onel)

Pathetic is when your government will send planeloads of gov't officials, friends and cronies on a US junket to see Bill Clinton yet claim to have no money to rescue 200 Filipinos stranded in the Solomons. Good ol' Stormeng Domeng does it again by proclaiming no hope of rescue for those Pinoys. Gee, thanks!

How do you know you're in a republic gone bananas?
- When the ombudsman clears police officials linked by written evidence to a gambling syndicate ( even before trial), but allows 26 Muslims to be arrested sans warrant - beaten   and languishing behind bars.

-when different foreign governments tell you what your policy against terrorism is, and you believe them. We can't object because Siazon wouldn't want to hurt their feelings as he is busy winning their votes in bid for the next UN Sec. Gen. seat.

Police report a crime rate up by 17% this year but credit this to a more cooperative public, who, they claim now report crimes when before they would not. PLDT.COM is also sure that the rising crime rate has nothing to do with the record number of unemployed because, as Sec. Medalla said, the fault lies with global competition. In other let's-blame-the-other-guy news, Senators Enrile and Drilon blamed Malaysia for the hostage situation in Jolo.

Foreign Affairs Will someone please tell 'Stormeng Domeng' Siazon that he has a snowball's chance in hell of becoming Sec-Gen of the Untied Nations? All the boo-boos of this alleged Atenean, in his eagerness to show cooperation (read sipsip) with every country but his own, have been duly noted by the world, and more importantly, his own country.

June 20, 2000 Special Indo-Crony Edition

METRO PACIFIC'S CONTROL ON RP BUSINESS FEARED

Smart talk in a globalized world

Suharto's business empire

Chips off the old block: Suharto's corrupt children

Growing demands for the seizure of Suharto's empire

The Suharto financial dynasty

Year of Living Dangerously for a Tycoon in Indonesia

Ruangan George Aditjondro - links of articles detailing business links of
Suharto clan

The Family Firm

Call for boycott of all Indonesian businesses related to Suharto's family
and cronies 1, 2

Autumn of the Patriarch - The Suharto Grip on Indonesia's Wealth

"What have we done?" - Forbes

ELEVENTH-HOUR RESCUE OR JUST ANOTHER SWEET DEAL?

Anthony Salim's Comeback May Be Coming Apart (int'l edition)

First Pacific to Buy 40% Of Indofood for $650 Million

Indonesia - a family affair

The Salim Group, a Overseas Chinese conglomerate

Sen. Tatad on PLDT take-over of Smart

June 16, 2000
Why PAL jets carry lead pipes on board is the real question. Hasn't Lucius ever heard of unleaded fuel? Manila News Item A crew member of Continental Micronesia airline reportedly ran amuck today at the NAIA hitting a Korean national with a lead pipe on the head. Paulino Pamplona Jr., 23 years old, mistook Han Jong Suk, 44, as the man who ran away with his long-time girl friend. Han was onboard a Philippine Airlines flight for Cagayan de Oro when the incident took place.

Philippine Daily Inquirer - Erap has approved the metering scheme of PLDT (Neal Cruz, June 16)
ABS-CBN - NTC has shelved PLDT metering plans. (10PM Business News show, June 15)
NTC Director Ed Cabarios - (over the phone, June 16 AM) No orders have been received to implement PLDT metering scheme. However they are waiting on DOTC's USec Bengzon to give policy guidelines for metering. No knowledge of either new report as listed above. An executive order from the President can grant PLDT's request to meter. So can either congress or the DOTC.
Your average Pinoy and PLDT.COM - What's up, you sneaky bastards?

LA VIUDA LOCA. Oh yeah- she's back big time to boost the morale of our poor people and let our soldiers know that although they may run out of ammo in the fields, at least La Viuda Loca will always look good....click here and hold on to your mouses.

Almost the most unwired country in the world. Isn't analogue just great sounding?

A blast from the past: Dr. George Aditjondro, 1998 : You Filipinos can't afford to be naive. PLDT is only the tip of the iceberg.... even before the PLDT deal, there was Mabuhay Satellite, where PLDT was a co-shareholder with "Bambang's" Pasifik Satelit Nusantara in Mabuhay Satellite.... major water supply project in Cebu City. PLDT is merely the latest acquisition, buyout, or buy-in of Philippine icons by the Suharto-Liem group.... look at First Pacific's moves into the Philippines in a broader context-its business operations were facilitated by the close friendship between (the late dictator Ferdinand) Marcos and Suharto, which continued under (President Fidel V.) Ramos......Where are all the Filipinos fighting Marcos-style cronyism? Have they all fallen asleep after Marcos' fall and allowed Suharto's people to take over quietly?....For instance, during the negotiations on the sale of Fort Bonifacio, Liem stepped in directly by getting the top taipans in Southeast Asia to form Metro Pacific. LINK TO FULL ITEM

June 14, 2000
Congratulations to Cong. Suarez and Sen Enrile for finding a really sneaky way of toppling the present regime. They are trying to pass a new tax on vehicles that have vehicle owners up in arms. Knowing that they can't get to Lucio Tan via the BIR, they are now trying to use people power to counter the government's plans to impose harsh taxes on the middle and lower class while allowing the elitist upper class tax incentives. Hope your plan works. Hope it even exists, for your own political survival.

OPM,AMP, or KSP?
Guys, pakipansin naman si George Canseco. Ipa-rehab na yun malala. Bomalabs na masyado.

June 13, 2000
President of fast failing third world economy goes to secret hospital for secret checkup. Obviously in the abdominal area cause it may be medically unfeasible to diagnose a brain problem in this person.

Fearless Forecast? Several more months minimum for the hostage situation to be resolved. The non-government is allowing all the politicians to angle for the spotlight and has absolutely zero comprehension on how to deal with the Mindanao problem, being mostly from Binondo and Viva Film studios. Terrorists will negotiate with someone they fear and respect, not with people they laugh at.

The Fil-Chinese Chamber of "Commerce", the Philippine economic czars, led by Lucio Tan and a thousand strong, held their own "Independence day dinner" with Erap a few days before the 12th of June Philippine Independence day anniversary. Interesting how the word independence has a different meaning in this country for politicians and the new ruling elite. For most anyone else, it means the ability to enjoy one's basic human rights. For those in power, it means how many of those rights they will allow the 70 million Filipinos to have.

Leadership by example.
If a soldier does what he sees his CIC do, who is to blame? The Filipina is to be respected, even if the President of the Republic seems to have a low esteem for them. file photo courtesy PDI

Good news- Erap Government finds new way to control overpopulation problem. Bad news- Philip Morris to increase plant output to 30 billion sticks.

Good news- there is a Plan B. Bad news- It entails some ethnic cleansing in Mindanao.

Another one for the books. Guinness Book of world records announces Philippines is also in contention for most number of expired canned goods imported by unscrupulous chinese traders in one year.

June 12, 2000

MILF Camps
It is amazing to note that the MILF seems to have more camps than the AFP. How did this happen? And under whose watch did it take place?

June 11, 2000

ISP's race against the clock to provide slowest service in Asia? Tried downloading anything from the web lately? The longer you stay online, the more money ISP's make. Will they feel the need for speed? Is Lucio a tax payer? Go figure. Maybe a consumer boycott? Take the PLDT.COM "Slow ISP" poll!

Chinese Spy Boat Operated in Waters Near Japan
(article) TOKYO -- A Chinese navy intelligence vessel
conducted surveillance operations in the
Pacific off Japan's Boso Peninsula, southeast
of Tokyo, in late May, the Sankei Shimbun
newspaper reported Saturday.
Yeah, and against us they send cheap trawlers? And, oh yeah, remember that the taxes presidential best pal Lucio pays to Red China help fund our biggest enemy in the Spratlys.

June 7, 2000

No truth. Well, not only anywhere in the government, but to the rumor as well that Erapus, Lucio Tan and Co. are pushing for this war in the south in order to deflect media from the real problems facing the regime. Not to mention the hawks in the military looking for an excuse to harass docile reporters. Note story about ISAFP harassment of journalists covering the defense beat. Tsk tsk, not even mutineer Speight was that arrogant. Wait, Marcos was, but he is supposed to be gone now.

ABU SAYYAF GROUP Rejects Imelda for Hostage Swap. Foreign journalists today reported that despite repeated attempts by the government to offer Imelda as a swap for the hostages, the ASG remains firm. An Abu Sayyaf spokesman said in an interview that "the reason we are doing this is because we are broke. Now you wish to send someone who will then steal what little we have! What kind of Christians are you anyway? Are you nuts? We are a different type of terrorist, please don't compare us to you know who."

Heartwarming news from the world. Looks like Chilean former strongman may yet get his day in court, and Suharto (the friend of that PLDT guy) has his day in court in August. At least some sanity going on elsewhere. Good luck world, cause we are about to inflict ourselves upon you really soon.

Puzzles of the day. Was Nandy Pacheco a middle child? Has he or a member of his family ever been mugged? Driven alone at night on a deserted provincial road? Gone out of his house after six PM sans his yaya? Did he have a bad childhood? Has he at least enjoyed the smell of napalm in the morning? Is he really a CIA agent?

Marcos isn't dead, he is reincarnated as a fat, bumbling small town bully who was not content with seeing the kids endure the stress of having to trek to their first day of classes amidst the pollution, traffic, heat, threat of bombs going off and amidst that all, hordes of pot-bellied men walking around schools with M16 assault rifles. He issued an executive order that made all school kids nationwide have to sing a song he composed before they could start classes. Ironically, the song was about hard work and love of country and stuff like that. We can hardly wait for the part where kids have to practice waving the Red Chinese flag as his friend tours Chinese officials around "their" new countryside. Just like Imelda did with Lucius in her time.

JUNE 6, 2000

Coming soon to a street corner near you:
Many, many police checkpoints and choke points. In case you have been away from the country or just plain naive, it is getting clear to many that the Police (and we don't mean Sting) are about to give us lessons in car maintenance. As you are stopped in each check/choke point, you will be subjected to flashlights shining in your face, men with long arms (as in M-16's hehe) all around your car "checking " to see if you are either a subversive communist, Moslem terrorist bomber, or not with your real wife.
And remember, they are the only ones who will have guns, because no more gun permits are allowed. This exquisite form of martial law has been slowly happening. I don't know about you, but I am buying stickers of PAL, Asia Brewery and putting them all over my car. This will guarantee some bit of politeness from the fascists as they may deem me a close personal but non-cronical friend of the Man. Because we all know that there is no cronyism in the Philippines. Friends lang. Curfew passes, anyone? Sa bagay, bukas na naman yun Where Else....

June 5, 2000

WARNING: BEWARE OF TOILET
Instead of "Mabuhay" and sampaguita necklaces, what greets tourists at the international airport is "Warning, beware of toilet! Beware of toilet!" The mad toilet bombers strike again! This time it was the NAIA arrival area's fecal depository that blew up. There were no flights arriving at the time. Neither was anybody in the "c.r." when the giant fart took place. At the rate they're bombing all these toilets, maybe a review of waste disposal systems and more frequent visits by Malabanan, et.al., are needed. In the meantime, sales of Jingle Bags and Portapotties are seen to go through the roof - as the shit hits the ceiling fan, so to speak.

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