Gloria Arroyo is the most unpopular and the least trusted of the country’s top five officials.
The latest Pulse Asia Survey showed that almost half (48%) of the Filipinos disapprove of Arroyo’s performance while 50 % distrust her.
Among the country’s top five officials, Arroyo is the only one with negative and plunging approval marks. Vice President Noli de Castro’s net rating rose from 28 in July to 34, that of Senate President Manuel Villar Jr. from 45 to 48, that of Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. from 1 to 6, and that of Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban from 5 to 16.
The survey was conducted from Oct. 21 to Nov. 8, 2006.
Details of Arroyo’s ratings:
A big plurality of Filipinos (48%) continues to be critical of presidential performance in the past three months with small majorities of those in the rest of Luzon (51%), in the poorest Class E (51%), and in Metro Manila (56%) giving the President her highest disapproval ratings.
On the other hand, almost the same percentage of Filipinos expresses either approval (25%) or indecision (26%) regarding presidential performance. Visayans (40%) are still the most appreciative of President Arroyo’s work while those in Metro Manila (19%) are least inclined to approve of the same. The level of public indecision regarding presidential performance is generally constant across geographic areas and socio-economic classes (22% to 28%).
Despite her administration’s oft-cited improvements in national economic performance and fiscal management in the two quarters preceding the survey, President Arroyo’s overall performance ratings are not significantly different from those recorded in July 2006
With respect to presidential trust ratings, one out of every two Filipinos (50%) distrusts President Arroyo while 21% express trust in her and 28% are unable to say whether they trust or distrust her.
For the most part, the President’s trust and distrust ratings in the different geographic areas and socio-economic classes are consistent with the respective overall figures with the exception of the figure (37%) registered in the Visayas. Indecision ratings across geographic areas and socio-economic classes also do not vary markedly from the overall figure.
There is hardly any change – positive or negative – in the President’s overall trust ratings between July and November 2006. Nonetheless, in Class E, President Arroyo’s trust rating declines by 10 percentage points while her distrust rating increases by 11 percentage points.
Saw the picture of Bansot in Tribune. My, she and the husband now almost look alike! What a Pigyur! Oink, oink!
Another good news, I say! However, apparently what I gather from a comment in another blog says that “…it was Angie Reyes or Ermita who said that exploiting OFWs is a means to diffuse people’s unrest, which if ignored will lead to revolution.” That’s why Gloria is able to continue to squat in Malacañan despite her poor ratings.
Maybe this is the answer as to why the Filipinos living in the Philippines are not responding or doing anything to throw out Gloria and her Legions! Those who could make a difference have long left the country, and those who have remained are probably so few as to make a dent in kicking Gloria out.
Do we bear a Gloria until eternity? Something must be done. Something can be done. What will be THAT magic spell?
He he he. With ratings like this, will there be ANY pro-administration politicians who will commit suicide and her themselves endorsed by Gloria?
We’ll definitely see a lot who will run independently, only to switch to her side again after they win the elections. The trick here is to WATCH OUT FOR THE NAMES of those who are currently identified with Gloria. VOTE FOR POLITICIANS WHOSE PLATFORM IS TO IMPEACH &/OR THROW OUT GLORIA!
Chabeli: Do we bear a Gloria until eternity? Something must be done. Something can be done. What will be THAT magic spell?
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Answer: Think country! Lamentably, a lot many Filipinos do not have that concept in full yet.
True, they know their country is the Philippines, but when it comes to a real definition of being Filipinos, I doubt if they really have a concrete idea of it unlike how the Japanese, for example, take pride in their country and their being from Japan.
My son for instance has never introduced himself as being a mestiso, but simply a Japanese like what his father says he is.
This crook, Ellen, will go down history as the worst and most hated president of the Philippines. In fact, she should have been disqualified, arrested and sent to jail for cheating her way to Malacanang. They should actually scratch her name from the list of presidents of the Philippines. She does not deserve being called as one!
Gosh, kulang na lang lagyan ng bigote para maging kamukha ni Hitler! PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA!
Entry Title: “Most unpopular, least trusted”
Who you ask? Meron pa bang iba??
Rightly so!
Ask anyone in Inang Bayan!
Just don’t ask the lapdogs, OK?
from Amb. Ernesto Maceda’s column, Nov 22, Tribune
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Another lie. The official Malacañang report on the nine-minute pull aside meeting of GMA and US President George W. Bush said they discussed: 1) The White House Filipina chef; 2) The North Korean nuclear problem; 3) A proposed RP-US free trade agreement; 4) A more comprehensive US involvement in Mindanao and 5) The anti-terrorism campaign. All of that in nine minutes. GMA must have been a fast talker and Bush a quiet listener. Bola na naman ito. (Another big lie.)
By the way, before GMA left for Hanoi, Malacañang was talking about a scheduled 45-minute one-on-one meeting with President Bush. The Philippines’ request was turned down.
Kaso hindi naniniwala si tiyanak sa mga survey…kasi bumababa ng husto.
sino me sabing unpopular si glutonia? di ba sikat siya? di ba ginagawa niya ang lahat alang alang sa kapakanan ng kanyang pamilya at mga kaalyado?
kayo naman, kayo na nga ang niloloko at pinagnanakawan, mga kamag-anak n’yo’t kaibigan ay ipinadudukot at ipinapapatay, mga kontra ay kinakasuhan, kayo pa ang galit?
ano pa ba ang kulang sa kanyang mga ginagawa upang ………………………………..tuluyan siyang burahin?
……………………huwag siyang tuluyang burahin?
California court expands immunity for bloggers —Yahoo!® News
Tue Nov 21, 8:50 AM ET
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Individuals who use the Internet to distribute information from another source may not be held to account if the material is considered defamatory, the California Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a reversal of a lower court decision.
The ruling supports federal law that clears individuals of liability if they transmit, but are not the source of, defamatory information. It expands protections the law gives to Internet service providers to include bloggers and activist Web sites.
“We acknowledge that recognizing broad immunity for defamatory republication on the Internet has some troubling consequences,” California’s high court justices said in their opinion.
“Until Congress chooses to revise the settled law in this area, however, plaintiffs who contend they were defamed in an Internet posting may only seek recovery from the original source of the statement,” the decision stated.
The opinion, written by Associate Justice Carol Corrigan, addressed a lawsuit by two doctors who claimed defendant Ilena Rosenthal and others distributed e-mails and Internet postings that republished statements the doctors said impugned their character and competence.
Rosenthal operates a San Diego-based Web site known as the Humantics Foundation (http://www.humanticsfoundation.com), which is critical of silicone breast implants.
Rosenthal had countered that her statements were protected speech and immune under the Communications Decency Act of 1996. It holds that: “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”
A California appeals court had ruled that Internet service providers and users could be held liable if they republish a statement if it is known to be defamatory.
California’s high court took that decision up for review because the lawsuit against Rosenthal involved an individual instead of a service provider, and opted for a broad view of immunity under the Communications Decency Act.
“Requiring providers, users, and courts to account for the nuances of common law defamation, and all the various ways they might play out in the Internet environment, is a Herculean assignment that we are reluctant to impose,” the court’s justices held in their opinion.
“By declaring that no ‘user’ may be treated as a ‘publisher’ of third party content, Congress has comprehensively immunized republication by individual Internet users,” they added.
Mark Goldowitz, the defense counsel who represented Rosenthal, said in a statement that the ruling offers protection against those who would chill free speech on the Internet.
“The soapbox is not liable for what the speaker has said,” said Kurt Opsahl, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation who filed a brief arguing free speech protections should cover individuals, not just Internet service providers.
(Additional reporting by Eric Auchard in San Francisco)
Libel ruling boosts net providers —BBC News
Last Updated: Tuesday, 21 November 2006, 08:31 GMT
Bloggers and US internet providers cannot be liable for posting defamatory comments written by third parties, the California Supreme Court has ruled.
It followed the case of San Diego woman sued after posting allegedly libellous comments online about two doctors.
Some of the internet’s biggest names including Google, eBay and Amazon have supported a woman in a US legal battle that may save them from libel cases.
The judges said the ruling would protect freedom of expression.
‘Disturbing implications’
Overturning a decision by the San Francisco appeal court, the court ruled that people claiming they were defamed online could now only seek damages from the original author of the comments – and not the website which re-posted it.
The court ruled that that Internet Service Providers were protected by US Federal law that said providers of chat rooms or news groups are not considered the publishers of information furnished by others.
“The prospect of blanket immunity for those who intentionally redistribute defamatory statements on the Internet has disturbing implications,” said Associate Justice Carol A. Corrigan.
“Nevertheless … statutory immunity serves to protect online freedom of expression and to encourage self-regulation, as Congress intended.”
The lawsuit involved a health activist who posted someone else’s letter on her web site. The subject of the letter sued the activist – as well as the author – for libel.
Internet service providers have long argued that, like telephone companies, they were “common carriers” who could not be subject to libel laws.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6167930.stm
Chi,
The Bansot is nothing but a pathological liar. Bakit hindi ba nagbabasa ng dyaryo ang mga kano at hindi na nahiya ang ungas na magsinungaling? In fact, I know that a lot of them at the US Embassy now are being told to study Tagalog, so there are some of them who can also read the newspapers in Tagalog. Missionary nga namin marunong na nga ng Tagalog e. Gulat nga ako.
Akala siguro ni Bansot kaya niyang bolahin ang lahat! 😛
nababanaag na ang sikat ng pag-asang inaasam,
pag-sulong at pag-unlad na ipinagkait nang kaytagal
sa pagkakalugmok sa dusa, pagkaduhagi’t kapaitan
sandaling pagkapipil ngunit patuloy ang paglaban.
patong patong, sapin sapin sakit hapding ipinalasap
nitong mapaniil na rehimeng balatkayo ang kalasag
kunwari ay paglilingkod ang mukha kung iharap
sa likod ay pagkutyang matutunog na halakhak.
buong pagtitiwalang tinanggap ang inilahad na paglilingkod
binuo sa mga pangakong pagbabangon sa pagkalugmok
ngunit sa kabila ng mga ngiti’t pagkaway nang buong lugod
kinasangkapan lamang tayo sa ambisyon niyang mambusabos.
makailang ulit nang ipinagkanulo ang tiwala ng buong bayan
maraming beses nang nilubid ang buhanging kasinungalingan
hindi na mabilang ang laksang panloloko’t panlilinlang
lalo’t higit ang pang-aabusong walang mukhang kasakiman.
subalit ang ningas at init ng hangaring sintang baya’y palayain
hindi naging andap itong apoy ng paghulagpos ng damdamin
kamataya’t pagkabuwal sa pakikibaka’y mamatamisin
kung ito ang kapalit ng panatang paglilingkod nang taimtim.
ngayon ay sumisilay na ang pagkatanto, namulat na ang mga mata
nabubuksan na itong isip, ang diwang tulog ay gising na
ang mga pagal na katawang bahid latay ng di matingkalang pagdurusa
nagpanibagong lakas sa pagbango’t pagsalubong sa umagang may pag-asa!
Hi, Ystakei.
You are right! Filipinos are not natinalistic, this is more apparent when compared to our neighbors in the region. That is one of the beautiful things I admire about Japan-their LOVE OF COUNTRY!
Chabeli:
Filipinos are being confused by their adulation of America that is why. Nahihiya sila sa kawalanghiyaan ng mga nakaupo isa pa kaya hindi sila maging proud sa bansa nila.
Sabihin mong taga-Pilipinas ka kahit saan ka pumunta, ang tingin sa iyo, domestic helper! Buti na nga lang when I had my Philippine passport, wala pang DH noon at saka may pera lang ang nakakalabas ng Pilipinas o scholar o immigrant to the USA. Dito nga sa Japan, tingin sa mga pilipino, kundi magnanakaw, Japayuki, which means “prostitute.”
At least, bilang na lang ang Japayuking nakakapasok dito ngayon. Makulit lang iyong mga bugaw gaya ni Lagman who has been here a lot of times pleading to the Japanese government to allow them to still enter Japan despite the ban on human trafficking, which is the main industry of the bogus regime. These pimps should be ashamed of themselves peddling their countrymen over here.
ystakei,
Lagman who? The Tongressman?
Some Filipinos become more nationalistic when they are out of Pinas for so long a time. But I must say that majority of pinoys I met here in the US are kind of boastful and envious of their kababayans’ success. Dala pa rin nila ang ugaling pinoy na kung naghihirap sila ay nais rin nilang makita na naghihirap ang lahat tulad nila.
On my part, I am always proud of Pinoys who reached success anywhere, unfortunately most of them become high-nosed once success has gone to their heads. OK lang sa akin, I don’t live among them, nasa bundok ako :).
San ka makakita ng Pangulo (kuno!) na negative ang ratings for almost two years na? At hindi lang negative na maliit. Negative na double digits pa.
Paano ka makapag lead ng bansa kung ang mismo mamamayan mo ay hindi na naniniwala sa yo?
Hindi umubra ang good economy-strong peso-strong stock market propaganda nila.
Bansot pa rin ang rating ni Bansot.(mukhang redundant ano?)
Yup, Chi, the same tongressman whom Soleil fondly calls “Lagayman”! Madalas iyan dito sabi ng informer ko, and wined and dined by the Japanese promoters many of whom have Yakuza connections.
Yes, Chabeli and Chi, nationalism is something that Filipinos actually are not familiar with in the same way a Japanese for example would feel proud of his country. Iba talaga ang dating!
Even the British for example have that pride even when they are as fragmented as the number of nationalities and clans they have there as the Welsh being different from the English, Scottish and the Irish.
The Scottish may say, “I don’t like the English,” but when it comes to defending UK from outside invasion, fight they do for the old Union Jack as they did in WWII versus the Germans.
This is the reason why I know Japan can fight the North Koreans with or without US help. 400 years of isolation from the world did it really good. Natutuwa nga ako sa anak ko when he pledges his allegiance to his country, and to the “Hi no Maru” (the round sun in the middle of a white background). He says, his father, his mother and himself are Japanese even when his maternal grandmother is American of Filipino descent! He says he cannot be anything else.
Lokal Vocal says, “San ka makakita ng Pangulo (kuno!) na negative ang ratings for almost two years na? At hindi lang negative na maliit. Negative na double digits pa.”
Ang tawag diyan makapal ang mukha! Tignan mo ang litrato niya sa Tribune Online. Kamukhang-kamukha na ng isa ang kapalmukhs din na asawa niya! Yuck! 😛 Oink, oink!
ystakei Says: “Yes, Chabeli and Chi, nationalism is something that Filipinos actually are not familiar with in the same way a Japanese for example would feel proud of his country. Iba talaga ang dating!”
ystakei, ‘yun lang sigurong mga ungas na kabig at tagasunod ng reynang anay!
Nelbar, your posting of that California ruling about immunity from sharing defamatory information and articles is very timely. But, Manila or the Philippines is not California. Perhaps some decent lawmakers will sponsor a bill regarding that…preferably a lawmaker with journalism background. If Loren Legarda decides to run again and gets re-elected, she could sponsor such a bill. In the meantime, I hope our good moderator Ellen would also take the cue from Nelbar’s post. She herself should not be selective in her monitoring of this blog. She should not delete messages even if these are critical of her and some people in this blog as long as the messages have basis of reference or based on facts.
Mrivera:
Iba pa rin ang dating ng mga taong walang nakilalang dayuhan na sumakop sa kanila. Iba ang tunog kapag sinabi nilang, “I love my country, wala nang iba!”
Because I still love my country, and the future of my children,and countless Filipinos is at stake, palayasin ang pekeng presidente at gobyerno niya, patalsikin papunta sa impyerno, dahil doon nararapat ang mga sinungaling, mandaraya, magnanakaw tulad niya!!!Sana bago magpasko o bagong taon, kinuha na ni taning si pandak, ang gahamang baboy na asawa at lahat kampon ni pandak,lalo na sa tongreso.Hey, bogus president, I’m not afraid of you!!!Your end is near, very near!Nothing in this world last forever!Lahat ay may katapusan!You will pay for your lies to the Filipino People!Masahol ka pa kay Marcos,sinungaling na pandak!!!Magbabayad ka sa taong bayan!Nakakasuka yung boses mo pandak, Helloooooo Garciiiiii!We will not forget that easily bogus one!!!We are not that stupid, as you want us to be!!!Kahit anong gawing mong maganda,until you confess your crimes to the people, your lies, your cheating of the presidency, there will be no justice or moving forward!Patatawarin ka lang namin kung aaminin mo ang mga kasalanan mo sa bansa, if not, your sins will haunt you until the day, we the People move to rid our country of a liar, a cheater, thief and murderer,once and for all!!!
Renato,
Hello Garci?? he he he..Ibaon mo na yan sa limot..
Hello Manny na ngayon..
ystakei Says: “Iba pa rin ang dating ng mga taong walang nakilalang dayuhan na sumakop sa kanila. Iba ang tunog kapag sinabi nilang, “I love my country, wala nang iba!””
hindi batayan kung meron man o walang sumakop na dayuhan sa isang bansang sinasabing mahal ng sinuman, lalo na ang pilipinas. kung paano ipagsakit ng sinumang mamamayan upang huwag lamang mayurakan ang kanyang karapatan at mabuhay ng marangal sa kabila ng kabi kabilang katiwalian ay sapat na upang maging patunay ang taos na pagmamahal sa bayan.
banyaga mang mananakop o mga pulitikong mapang-api at gahaman ang nasasangkot sa ipinaglalabang katotohanan, sapat na itong patunay sa lantay na pagmamahal sa bayan. ikaw na sabi mo’y mahal pa rin ang pilipinas bilang lupang iyong sinilangan bagama’t sa ibang lupain ka na namimirmihan at mga katulad mo na sumumpa ng katapatan subalit hindi pa rin kinakalimutan ang pagiging dugong pilipino; kaming mga OFW na pinagpapatuluan ng dugo at pawis ang ipinang-aagdong buhay ng mga taong umaasa sa akin sa pilipinas at silang mga naiwan sa ating bansa na sa kasalukuyan ay nakikibaka upang huwag mawala ang karapatang makapamuhay ng marangal at malaya, hindi man makaluwag ay walang lamang sumala sa oras; silang mga kawal na ayaw isuko ang prinsipyong sinusupil, tayong lahat ay patunay na hindi nawawala ang pagmamahal sa bayang sinilangan at pinag-aalayan ng lahat!
…..ng mga taong umaasa sa amin sa pilipinas at silang ….
….hindi man makaluwag ay huwag lamang sumala sa oras; ….
Sinabi mo pa, Mrivera, pero iilan ang mga pilipinong sinasabi mo. Majority mas gusto pang mabulok sa kulungan sa ibang bansa kesa maghirap sa sariling bansa!
Meron nga akong tinutulungang pilipino dito na suyang-suya ako kasi iyong anak kinakausap ng tagalog pero sasabihin lang halimbawa ang ngipin, ini-ingles pa na akala mo naman ay sala sa salita ang tagalog para hindi masabi ang ngipin imbes na “teeth.” Suyang-suya ako.
Kagagaling lang niyan sa Pilipinas ha kumpara sa akin na mas matagal na nanirahan sa ibang ibayo kesa sa Pilipinas na ngayon ay napupuntahan lang kung may mga pulong-pulong ng mga concerned na mga pilipino para mapaunlad ang bansang sinilangan. Bakit? Kasi ikinahihiyang mas magaling siyang mag-tagalog kesa mag-ingles at pinagtatakpan ng pagkukunyaring mas magaling siyang mag-ingles kesa mag-tagalog. Kundi iyan kapalaluan na may halo pang kagaguhan, ano ang tawag diyan?
Ang anak ko ay marunong din magsalita ng tagalog kahit hindi pa siya nakakarating sa Pilipinas, at marunong din ng ingles. Natuto ng tagalog sa ina ko na ilokana at hindi naman talagang bihasa sa tagalog. Katwiran ng nanay ko na pamangkin ng magkapatid na Juan at Antonio Luna, para daw magkaroon siya na “amor” sa bansa ng nanay niya! Natuto ang anak ko ng tagalog at ingles sa Amerika sa lola, mga kapatid ko at mga pinsan niya.
Tungkol sa mga hindi nasakop ng ibang bansa, para sa akin ay mas matindi ang pagmamahal nila sa bansa nila kesa doon sa mga nasakop ng iba!
Siguro iba ka kasi naranasan mong makipaglaban para sa iyong bayan. Iyan din ang sabi ng tatay ko na nakipaglaban para sa bayan sinilangan niya laban sa mga kalahi ng angkan ng kaniyang ama noong WWII lalo na iyong tiyo kong nagmartsa sa Bataan!
Why our beloved Pinas is so far behind its neighbors!
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“Jose Rizal once counseled: If the Philippines must progress, we must study how other countries became successful economically and we must follow them. Our people must realize this or continue to live in humiliating poverty.”
Ahhh, ang economist president kuno ang tanging hindi nakakaalam na isa ito sa dapat niyang gawin para umunlad! Ano ba ang nakuhang grades ni Reyna Pandakekang sa kanyang mga subjects sa Economy? 101 lang kasi wala ng binatbat! Kakahiya! Tapos iyong mga estudyante niya ay siya ring nasa pwesto ngayon. Like teacher, like pupils, Pwe, pwe, pwe!!!
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A lesson from Vietnam for Filipino economists
Inquirer
Last updated 01:25am (Mla time) 11/25/2006
Published on Page A14 of the November 25, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
VIETNAM serves a lesson that should shock and awe our mainstream economists if only they were not so dense. And this is: Developing countries can successfully resist the domination of the United States and other Western countries, win a war and prosper without foreign aid and advice.
The Nov. 18-19 Apec summit in Vietnam highlighted the “economic miracle” of Vietnam which, only three decades ago, had just emerged from 30 long years of anti-colonial war, starting in 1945 against the French and ending in 1975, after a 10-year war against the United States.
Fortune, America’s magazine that promotes capitalism, reported in its Nov. 20, 2006 issue: “Over the past 15 years, Vietnam has reduced the population living below the poverty rate of less than $1 a day to 8 percent from 15 percent — a feat not even China can match.” It also noted that Vietnam has now the fastest-growing economy in the world, second only to China, with a GDP (gross domestic product) growth of 8.9 percent last year. GDP growth in China was 9.9 percent and in India, previously second to China, it was 7.6 percent. Foreign direct investment (FDI) as percent of GDP was 3.8 percent in Vietnam, 3.3 percent in China and .08 percent in India. All these take place even as the United States has rejected normal trade relations with Vietnam.
On the other hand, the poverty rate in the Philippines is around 40 percent (US CIA figures), despite continuing US economic and military aid. With a lower (as yet) per capita income ($660 for Vietnam and $1,400 for the Philippines), socialist Vietnam’s poverty level is much lower because of a more equitable distribution of income. The exodus from Vietnam after the US defeat has reversed — more and more educated Vietnamese are returning to their homeland to participate in nation-building. In the Philippines, the diaspora goes on unabated.
The UN Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) “has called on poor nations to be more interventionist and to strengthen their national economies in a similar manner to China,” according to an Agence France-Presse report dated Nov. 9, 2006. The annual report of the agency said that the standard reforms and deregulation promoted by the Washington-based World Bank and International Monetary Fund have failed to create enough growth or cut poverty. For 40 years, the Philippines has been a ward of the US-led WB-IMF. It has piously swallowed all the US-WB-IMF policy prescriptions but it has never gotten out of the purgatory of poverty.
Vietnam has used China as the model of its economic policies, after China copied that of Japan, the first Asian country to industrialize. Jose Rizal once counseled: If the Philippines must progress, we must study how other countries became successful economically and we must follow them. Our people must realize this or continue to live in humiliating poverty.
MANUEL F. ALMARIO (via e-mail)
Chi,
It was in fact one reason why Rizal came to Japan and tried to learn a lot about the people here during his short stint. There was no love affair with a Japanese woman. His supposed love affair with O-Sei-san was in fact a fiction and a product of some Filipino historian(kuno)’s mind. She was in fact bethrothed to an Englishman.
Rizal was interested in knowing more about how the Japanese were able to resist foreign intrusion for more than 300 years until the Americans came. His notes on the Japanese in fact would be a good study.
When he came here, Japan was not yet industrialized, and there was in fact some rebellion against the attempt to industrialize the country, and get rid of the Bushido (Samurai) system. Foreigners were not allowed to roam around the country unescorted by Japanese nationals trusted by the government. They were mostly confined to the port city of Yokohama. O-Sei-san’s father was apparently one of those trusted Japanese nationals, and Rizal was assigned to his care.
While foreigners observed the customs and traditions, etc. of Japan, they were also observed by the Japanese. Much has been written about their peculiar ways that could adversely affect the Japanese. That was why there were those restrictions. Any violation of trust, in fact, could mean immediate execution.
Yuko,
Ang layo ano? While Rizal was studying foreign countries for his own country’s economic progress, here is Reyna Pandakekang just pimping and making kendeng-kendeng for the sole purpose of self-preservation.
Tapos walanghiya pang sasabihin na kamag-anak ni Pigyur si Joey! At gayahin ang hairdo ng Bayani! Loose screws talaga!
npongco,salamat at napapansin mo naman ang mga posting ko.
tungkol naman Vietnam na posting sa itaas:
may nakasama ako sa trabaho na Vietnamese sa Singapore, 6 years na nakakaraan, at marami kami na natutunan sa isat-isa lalo na sa pananaw sa aming bansa na pinagmulan.
Naipagmalaki ko sa kanya na kami sa Pilipinas ay hindi tinatablan ng “AIDS” dahil pro-Western ang orientation namin at isapa ay dahil Katoliko/Kristyanong bansa nga kami.
Binanggit ko sa kanya na huwag na kalilimutan na ipagkumpara ang populasyon ng dalawang bansa. Noong 2000 ay 75M~76M ang populasyon ng Pilipinas.
Mataas ang respeto nya sa akin kapag sinasabi ko na ang Pilipinas ang nagsulong ng Vietnamese membership sa ASEAN.
Naaasar ito sa akin kapag binibiro ko na ang mga Vietnamese ay mga “boat people” noong late 70’s.
Paris fan shot dead by policeman —BBC News
Last Updated: Friday, 24 November 2006, 10:20 GMT
A French football fan has been shot dead by a plain-clothed police officer after a European football match.
The officer reportedly fired tear gas, then live ammunition in an effort to disperse a fighting crowd near Paris’ Parc des Princes football stadium.
The group of 150 Paris Saint Germain supporters were surrounding a fan of the Israeli team Hapoel Tel Aviv, who had beaten PSG 4-2 in the Uefa Cup.
An investigation has been launched into the shooting, police said.
Paris Saint Germain fans have a reputation for violent incidents, with the club disciplined over their behaviour several times in the past.
Cornered
The skirmish broke out by the Parc des Princes in the aftermath of PSG’s defeat.
The police officer, who has not been identified, threw tear gas to break up a group of Paris fans surrounding the Israeli.
The officer was then chased towards a McDonald’s restaurant nearby, holding the crowd at bay with his firearm before firing at least two shots, reports said.
Police union official Luc Poignant told the AFP news agency that the officer “had no choice but to defend himself and protect another person”.
There was an atmosphere of high tension among Paris fans immediately after the game, which continued a poor run of form for the team.
AFP quoted witnesses describing a climate of “extreme confusion” in the streets.
Police reinforcements were sent to the area in an effort to calm the violence in the moments after the Paris fan was shot.
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Football in dock after fans shot during mob violence —THE SCOTSMAN
Sat 25 Nov 2006
THIERRY LEVEQUE
IN PARIS
FRENCH politicians urged the football authorities to clean up their sport yesterday after a black policeman killed one man and injured another while under attack from fans shouting racist comments.
Witnesses said the officer opened fire on a mob of fans of French first division side Paris St Germain who were chasing a Jewish supporter of the Israeli team Hapoel Tel Aviv late on Thursday.
“It seems like quite serious racist insults were used,” a Paris prosecutor said.
According to police, the Hapoel supporter was being pursued by about 100 PSG fans when Antoine Granomort, a plain-clothes officer, intervened. At first, he let off a tear gas canister to try to disperse the mob, but then he came under attack and was kicked to the ground.
Witnesses said he shouted “police, police” before opening fire, killing Julien Quemener, 25, and injuring Mounir Bouchaer, 26.
Jacques Chirac, the French president, condemned the thugs. “Such violence is shocking. Racist remarks of whatever nature are shameful and outrageous and must be condemned,” he said