Dear Folks,
Vietnam is celebrating the 33rd anniversary of the liberation of the Spratly archipelago. This sounds like a joke. But no, it’s not a joke. The story goes that back in 1975, Vietnam sent an “invasion” force to one of the Spratly islands occupied by the Philippine military. However, the soldiers garrisoned in that island were in another island celebrating their commander’s birthday. It was rumored that the Vietnamese sent a birthday cake — …

Fighting the mind rape
(Herman Tiu Laurel / Infowars / Tribune column for
4-28-2008 MON)
“Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an
assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control
techniques.” — Joost Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind:
The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and
Brainwashing
“Oil is running out!” so says the global media
repeatedly. Rarely, if ever, do the world’s media
feature the serious studies that pierce the “gospel
truth” of “peak oil” theory. There are really many
questions about it, like the Newsday report on an
article, “Are Old Oil Fields Refilling?” which reports
that apparently, “new …

No food crisis in Asean: Only in the Philippines
(Herman Tiu Laurel / Infowars / Tribune column for
4-21-2008 MON)
The furor over the “global food crisis” is all over
the world’s media, but in Asia and Asean, do we see
any panicky country other than the Philippines?
China, India and Pakistan, the three most populous
Asian continental nations, have limited their exports
and secured their reserves. Take note of the word
“reserves,” that is, buffer stocks of their own and
not imported. Indonesia, with the largest population
in Asean, has also stopped its rice exports; likewise,
Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, …

GMA and her family riding an airplane…
GMA: “What if I throw one check worth a million pesos out of the window to make at least one Filipino happy?”
Mike Arroyo: “Honey, why not throw two checks worth half a million to make Filipinos happy?”
Lui Arroyo: “Mom, why not throw four checks worth quarter of a million to make four Filipinos happy?”
Finally her granddaughter spoke.
“Grandma, why not simply throw yourself out of the window to make all Filipinos happy?”
Source: www.redlan76.blogspot.com

Hi Folks,
Rumors are swirling around the country about the impending Cabinet revamp of Gloria. One of the rumors is that Manny Pacquiao will be appointed ambassador to the Vatican. Manny will be anointed by Gloria’s favorite cardinal as “honorary bishop.” The Cardinal believed that Manny won his boxing title bouts because he wore a rosary with a big cross around his neck going into the ring and also for making the sign of the …

Federal Fol-de-rol
By Antonio C. Abaya
Written on April 28, 2008
For the Standard Today,
April 30 issue
My American Heritage Dictionary defines ‘fol-de-rol’ as ‘foolish talk
or procedure, or nonsense.’ And that is what this recurring advocacy
for federalism is: foolish talk and nonsense.
Senate Minority Leader Nene Pimentel is principal author of a Senate
resolution calling for a debate on Charter Change (again), for a
revision of the Constitution to shift from a unitary to a federal
system of government. And Pimentel wants this debate to happen before
the presidential elections in 2010.
The resolution was signed by eleven other …

How the new Pharisees undermine the Roman Catholic Church
AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
There are true Christians among Catholics, but there are also Catholics who are not even Christians at all. Sometimes, even the shepherds of Christ’s Church are themselves lost sheep.
In fact, history documents many instances when even the top ranking leaders of Christ’s Church have been behind atrocious sins and crimes against humanity – the so-called Holy War and the Inquisition are just two examples of these. The late Pope John Paul …

DEAR DAD…..
A Father passing by his son’s bedroom was astonished
to see the bed was nicely made and
everything was picked up. Then he saw an envelope
neatly placed on the center of the bed. It was
addressed “Dad”. With the worse feeling, he opened the
envelope and read the letter with trembling
hands……………….
Dear Dad,
It is with great regret and sorrow that I am writing
you. I had to elope with my new girlfriend because I
wanted to avoid a scene with Mom and You. I’ve been
finding real passion with Joan and she is so nice-even
with all her …

You could have heard a pin drop
We Americans are hated worldwide. Maybe it is because we have helped and rescued so many nations?
And how quickly they forget that we SAVED their countries!
When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of ‘empire building’ by George Bush.
He answered by saying, ‘Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great …

A year ago, April 28, Jonas Burgos was kdnapped by persons who were allegedly members of the military establishment. Several weeks ago I heard Edita Burgos, Jonas’ mother, spoke to a group of Fil-Am leaders in the Bay Area. Edita has been traveling around the United States to bring awareness to the Fil-Am community of the disappearance of her son. There is nothing more hurting than a mother losing her son and not knowing where her son is. If anyone has any information on the whereabouts …