Carlos Conde’s statement on AFP’s “order of battle”
I am Carlos H. Conde, a journalist based in Manila.
I found out yesterday that my name is included in the Armed Forces of the Philippines’s “order of battle,” specifically in a document titled “JCICC ‘AGILA’ 3rd QTR 2007 OB VALIDATION RESULT” purportedly prepared by the intelligence staff of the armed forces’ 10th Infantry Division in Southern Mindanao.
In this “order of battle,” more than a hundred individuals – mostly leaders and members of progressive and leftist groups like Bayan, Bayan Muna, among others – are listed and classified as “organized,” “dominated,” or “targeted.” As far as I can tell, I am the only journalist on the list, which classifies me as “targeted,” whatever that means.
It would seem that the army considers me an enemy of the state, as the document, which shows the alleged links of these individuals with the communist movement, seems to be implying.
Needless to say, this “order of battle” has caused anxiety and fear in my family because, as we all know, an “order of battle” in the Philippines is a veritable hit list. Indeed, at least one of the individuals in the document – Celso Pojas, a peasant leader in Davao City — has been assassinated and several others have either been attacked or subjected to harassment and intimidation by agents of the armed forces.
Just to be clear, I am a journalist and has been so in the past 15 years. Presently, I work as a freelance correspondent for US-based publications, namely The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune and GlobalPost.com. I also contribute stories and reports every now and then to other foreign and local publications.
I used to be the coordinator of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines in Davao City and Southern Mindanao, where I resided until three years ago. I was the NUJP’s secretary-general from 2004 to 2006. Part of my job at the time was to lead the campaign in the Philippines to stop the killings of journalists. The Philippines, as we all know, is notorious for being the world’s most murderous place for journalists.
Why my name is included in the “order of battle” is a mystery. Unless, that is, the armed forces considers my and NUJP’s advocacy for press freedom, as well as pressuring the government to end the killings, as the work of enemies of the state. Unless the armed forces views my job and my writing as threats to this nation.
Carlos H. Conde
Manila, Philippines
Tel.: (+63) 9189425492
Email: chconde@gmail.com
kaibigang carlos…dasal at matinding pag-iingat
matagal na yang dokumentong nakita mo o nabasa mo pero higit pa sa inaakala mo na ikaw lamang ang bukod tanging journalist sa listahan…nagkakamali ka
lahat ng kritikal at may matinding batikos sa rehimeng ito ay isinasama nila sa order of battle…thanks to ingenius secretary of national intelligence for creating a master list orf perceived destabilizers and enemy of the state..wherein fact most persons included in the watchlist and surveillance is known critic or progressive-minded jounalist.
nakakatakot ang panahon natin ngayon sapagkat ang resources ni juan dela cruz ay ginagamit ng rehimeng ito laban sa masang pilipino.
ingat ka at ang aming dasal sa iyong kaligtasan.
ang katotohanan ay mananaig din, magtiwala ka lamang at umasang ang lahat ng takot mo ay pag-iingatan ng ating Dakilang Lumikha.
Carlos,
Naging isang aktibong myembro ako ng LFS and a member of NUSP noon sa probinsya namin nung ako ay asa kolehiyo, i was once included in the so called order of battle due to my affiliation to the org.sabi ng tiyuhin ko yun daw ang mga panakot ng mga militar sa mga taong pumapansin sa katiwalian ng gobyerno.Minsan nga alas dose ng hatinggabi e kinakatok ang bahay namin ng mga militar or minsan pinupuntahan pa ako sa school.kung kaya’t minabuti kong pumunta dito sa Manila para na rin sa kaligtasan ko;me mga kasamahan akong pinatay noon pati Prof. ko. Payo lang po.. wag maglakad ng nag iisa at ibayong ingat.
Being a journalist, why don’t Mr. Carlos Conde ask the help of the National Press Club to make representation with the new CSAFP Gen. Victor Ibrado to confront the derogatory reports on him to clear his name and be removed from the OB of 10th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army.
Some field agents of the military write reports on people based on information gathered from civilian assets and sad to say are sometimes not verified or confirmed from other sources.
The fact that “Part of my job WAS to campaign against the killings of journalists” is a key to Carlos’ inclusion in the “order of battle”.
Ingat lang Carlos. There are hired motorcycle bandits who are hired to get rid of the perceived enemies of the state, even the enemies of this regime. ANYBODY can be a target. Lawlessness seem to be the order of the day!
Go and seek the help of all presidentiables, NUJP and make INGAY. If still you feel your life is in danger, lumayas ka na lang muna sa Pinas and make ingay from abroad.
Mr. Conde: We will pray for all of you and for you in particular..Be not afraid..God is on your side!
Ingat na lang po kasi kayo lang ang kayang kaya ng mga private armies ni Glorya. Hindi po nila kaya ang mga Abu Sayaf, MILF at mga NPA’s. Noong isang araw nga lang ay may pinugutan ng mga Abu’s wala hong nagawa ng mga army ni Glorya.Waaa ho sila sabi. Yon kinidnap nila na si Vagni wla na hinayaan na lang. Kasi po wala talaga eh, may baril ho ang kalaban. Pero sigurado ko ho na kayang kaya nila ang mga taong walang baril na gaya niyo. So ingat na lang.
Wala na hong pinag-iba ng panahon noong panahon ni Marcos mas grabe pa ngayon kay Glorya.
Bakit nga kaya Armalite o American made na mga gamit ng mga kalaban ni Glorya? Nakapagtataka ano? Hindi kaya ibinebenta ng mga General ang mga bagong armas sa mga kalaban at yong luma ang ipinapagamit sa mga kawawang sundalo. Kung hindi naman saan kaya galing ang mga sandata nila?
Korek ka diyan Dorek. The US and other powerful countries like our Mindanao so much that this place will never be peaceful until they get it! These countries supply the trouble makers in Mindanao with high powered guns. Tapos, yung mga sundalo natin eh binebenta rin siguro yung mga baril nila sa MILF at Abu. Yan tuloy sila ang wala at yung mga kalaban ang merong mga sandata.
Palagay ko nga PSB. Kasi karamihan na nakikita ko sa ibang Bansa magka-iba ang armas ng Gobyerno at ang mga kalaban. Dito Parehas pati uniporme. Hindi kaya kagagawan din ng mga military lahat ng ito. Ika nga …. PALABIGASAN nila.
Ang bali-balita sa Cordillera ay yong mga taniman ng marijuana na nahuhuli ng mga military ay sila rin ang nagpapatanim. At pag puwede ng anihin … yon nire-raid nila. Siyempre may promosyon, pera at medalya yan. Nakapagtataka kasi dahil tuwing meron silang ni-raid na taniman … wala naman silang nahuhuli kung sino ang nagtanim. Yang jueteng na yan … bakit meron pa yan … bakit hindi hinuhuli ng mga military … dahil may share din sila sa kita. Sa Ilokos na nga lang ang lakas.
Kaya pag may sinabi naman ang Reyna …. puro YES Maam lang sila.
According to some sources, si sabit swingson na daw ang may hawak ng jueting sa buong Pilipinas. Kaya siyempre may malaking porsiento si fat pig at si pandak.
Statement of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines:
Stupid intelligence endangers lives
Again, the Armed Forces of the Philippines has proven that military intelligence is an oxymoron.
The sad thing is it is no laughing matter because the irresponsibility and stupidity of military intelligence, specifically of the Army’s 10th Infantry Division, places lives in danger, if it has not already cost some people their lives.
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines has come into possession of a PowerPoint presentation entitled “JCICC Agila, 3trd Qtr 2007 OB Validation Report,” which is marked “Secret” and was apparently prepared by the 10th ID based in Southern Mindanao.
An “OB” is an “order of battle, a list of what the military considers to be enemy targets, often members of the communist rebel movement. It is no secret that, very often, landing in the OB is a veritable death sentence, as shown by the close to a thousand extrajudicial killings
that have raked the ranks of progressive legal organizations that the government and military openly label “legal fronts” of the communist rebel movement.
The 10th ID OB lists down more than a hundred individuals, mostly leaders and members of progressive and leftist organizations – Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, Bayan Muna, Gabriela – church organizations, based in Davao City, all of whom are classified as “organized,” “dominated” and “targeted.”
It also includes one media organization, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, under which is listed Carlos Conde. He is among those categorized as “targeted.”
Mr. Conde is the Philippine correspondent for the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune and GlobalPost.com, a contributor to other foreign and Philippine publications, and is a member and former secretary general of the NUJP. Mr. Conde, who lived in Davao for 10 years, also used to be NUJP’s coordinator for Davao and Southern Mindanao.
To our knowledge, at least one person in the 10th ID OB has been murdered – Davao peasant leader Celso Pojas. Others have been threatened and harassed.
Thus, aside from our concern over the continued extrajudicial killings of persons the state and its security forces choose to consider enemies, we are particularly worried over the inclusion of Mr. Conde
and the NUJP in the 10th ID OB, which contains, in this case, not only dated and erroneous information, but is also based on a false premise.
The NUJP was once included in an earlier PowerPoint presentation produced by the Intelligence Services of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, which was being shown in schools, called “Know Thy Enemy,” that listed down so-called communist legal fronts tagged “enemies of the state.”
The clamor over that fiasco led a red-faced military to admit its mistake and promise to pull out the presentation.
Apparently, at least one unit of the AFP – the 10th ID – does not think the NUJP’s inclusion among the state’s considered enemies was a mistake and, has in fact, even singled out one of our more senior and more respected members for “targeting.”
The existence of such an abomination as this OB only bolsters the thesis of United Nations special rapporteur Philip Alston that the plague of extrajudicial killings that has cost the lives of close to a thousand activists and dissenters since 2001, when President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo came to power, can be blamed on a government counterinsurgency strategy that targets personalities from legal leftist organizations openly tagged rebel legal fronts.
While the NUJP reiterates that we have, so far, seen no indication that the murder of journalists in this country is part of official policy, the discovery that our organization and a former officer are considered “enemies of the state,” has made us think that we may have
to reconsider our position.
Especially since, not only have the most number of journalists – 64 of the 100 slain since 1986 – lost their lives under this administration,it is also this administration alone, after the 14-year Marcos
dictatorship, that has attempted a wholesale muzzling of the
Philippine media.
The 10th ID OB also belies all claims by defense officials and the military top brass about reforms within the AFP and how state security forces have been reoriented to respect human rights.
The only way the AFP and the Department of Defense, specifically Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr., can rectify this mistake is to sack everyone involved in producing this abominable and stupid PowerPoint presentation, including the commander of the 10th ID, who cannot evade
liability under the principle of command responsibility, and to issue a public apology to Mr. Conde, the NUJP and to all the other individuals it may have wronged and placed in danger because of their inclusion in the OB.
Not to do so can only lead us to conclude that the OB has the blessings of the defense and military leadership, and, as a consequence, the government itself.
Hindi naman mangyayari lahat ng ito pag ang mga General ay matitino.
Now that the OB is in the open, expect denial from the defense and military leadership that they know about it. Diyan magaling ang pekeng gobyerno ni Gloria…deny everything kung nabubuko.
As to the fake commander-in-chief Gloria unana, whether she knows about the OB or not does not matter. The buck stops at her.
Hindi mangyayari ito kung si Gloria Arroyo ay matino!
Infiltrated na kasi ng black army ng mga Arrovos ang AFP. Di ba meron sila noon sabi nga ni Pig Arrovo noong kasagsagan ng EDSA 2 kuno? At nabanggit na rin ito ni Sen. Trillanes. Kaya din siguro tahimik ang iba na gusto na rin ng pagbabago dahil hindi nila alam kung sino ang mga nasa paligid nila.
This is one shouting proof of abusive leadership. Placing journalists opposed to oppressive ways of a shitting administration in the Armed Forces Order of Battle is a prelude and test run to martial rule. They may drop the ax once the restive people take it to the streets as what was feared by Judge Lorredo.
But if this is the ONLY way to get the attention of the world most particularly the UNCHR, so be it!
It would put, most likely gloria arroyo and her hellish aministration in a NO win situation and losing confidence from all over the corners of the world.
isa kang matapang na tao, carlos. higit na matapang di hamak kay manny pacquiao. ang banta ng militar sa iyo ay hindi biro; higit na katapangan ang ilantad mo itong kabalastugang ito sa publiko. mabuhay ka at naway kaakibat mo ang Dios sa iyong lakbay sa buhay.
Just take it with a grain of salt. We know very well the intel people are not really that intelligible. They get the money, spend it and then just pick up the first thing in their mind. The OB is only a scrap of paper. Believe you me.
kaibigang carlos…payong kaibigan, hindi biro pag nasa listahan ka ng OB ng afp kaya sana medyo konting preno muna at lubusang pag-iingat.
hindi masama na mag-isip muna para sa iyong sarili, sa iyong kaligtasan at maging sa iyong pamilya at mahal sa buhay…siguro naman ay saksi ka din ng mga pang-aabuso ng mga nasabing protektor ng bayan, mahirap ang panahon ngayon kaya bukod sa pag-iingat ay dasal ang gawin mong pananggalang at maraming pilipino ay magdarasal sa iyong kaligtasan.
maging mapagmasid at mag-ingat sa lahat ng oras at sandali, kailangan ka ng bayan sa matapang mong pag-analisa ng mga usapin at makatotohanan mong pamamahayag…maging matapang sa nasabing pagsubok at higit sa lahat ay ang lubusang tiwala at pananampalataya na may Diyos tayo na gumagabay sa atin sa araw-araw.
mabuhay ka kaibigang carlos, ang dasal namin ay kasa-kasama mo sa araw-araw
File a petition for writ of amparo. Ask for temporary protected status. Sabihin mong ang gusto mong custodian ay si Congressman Palparan. Mwahaha. Ipit ngayon ang gago.
Kung gusto mo talagang hiyain sila, walk into the embassy of one of the EU countries. Sabihing humihingi ka ng political asylum, dahil target ka ng Harm Forces of the Philippines. Puwede ring Canada or Australia – parehong nagpapalaki ng population. Hindi man ibigay, kakalat lalo ang baho sa international community.
I believe it is not only Carlos Conde who is in the AFF Order (ni Misis) of Battle. The list comes only from the Intelligence Group from Mindanao. The hard hitting journalists, including Ms. Tordesillas, is in a separate list and probably not only targeted but being zeroed in at the moment. Even the bloggers who are critical of the administration will not be spared once the crackdown begins.
It is a good thing Mr.Conde comes out and make noise.
to ms. ellen,
ive emailed you before that they are now more active in conducting surveillance and close watch of those personalities including journalists that they perceived as “destabilizers and enemy of the state”
buti na lang at matapang si kaibigang carlos conde to reveal part of the ob,lubusang pag-iingat at dasal para sa inyo at sa lahat na patuloy na nagbibigay kaalaman sa mamamayan sa mga usapin at patuloy na isinusulong ang malayang pamamahayag at katotohanan…
dalangin namin ang inyong kaligtasan at naway gabayan kayo ng mantel na proteksiyon ng ating Poong Lumikha, at lakas ng loob, at tapang upang ipagpatuloy ninyo ang inyong paniniwala at paninindigan sa mga usapin ng bansa.
mabuhay po kayo at mas mag-ingat sa bawat sandali at oras, baguhin ang inyong daily routine at ugaliing laging nasa mata ng publiko o may kasama upang hindi sila magkaroon ng pagkakataon upang isakatuparan ang kanilang mala-gestapong interrogation o pagtatanong.
The following is a partial list of retired officers appointed to civilian positions:
1. Gen. Eduardo Ermita — Executive secretary
2. Gen. Leandro Mendoza — DoTC secretary
3. Gen. Angelo Reyes — DoE secretary
4. Gen. Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. — DPWH secretary
5. Gen. Hermogenes Esperon — PMS
6. Gen. Roy Kyamko — DoE undersecretary
7. Gen. Ramon Santos — DoE undersecretary
8. Gen. Thompson Lantion — DoTC undersecretary
9. Gen. Domingo Reyes Jr. — DoTC undersecretary
10. Gen. Antonio Santos — DND undersecretary
11. Vice Admiral Ariston de los Reyes — DND undersecretary
12. Gen. Antonio Romero — DND undersecretary
13. Gen. Ernesto Carolina — DND undersecretary
14. Gen. Generoso Senga — ambassador
15. Gen. Efren Abu — ambassador
16. Gen. Roy Cimatu — ambassador
17. Gen. Ernesto de Leon — ambassador
18. Gen. Noe Wong — ambassador
19. Gen. Vidal Querol — ambassador
20. Gen. Rodolfo Garcia — Peace Process undersecretary
21. Gen. Arturo Lomibao — LTO assistant secretary
22. Gen. Reynaldo Berroya — DoTC assistant secretary
23. Gen. Elmer Soneja — DoTC assistant secretary
24. Gen. Narciso Abaya — BCDA
25. Gen. Avelino Razon — NSA/Peace Process undersecretary
26. Gen. Servando Hizon — National Printing Office director
27. Gen. Roberto Lastimoso — MRT
28. Gen. Edgar Aglipay — Phil. Retirement Authority
29. Gen. Ruben Ciron — CAAP Dir. Gen.
30. Gen. Alfredo Vera — LTO consultant
31. Col. Eduardo Kapunan — CAAP Dep. Dir. Gen.
32. Gen. Nestorio Gualberto — BoC/ESS
33. Gen. Narciso Radovan — BoC/ESS
34. Col. Arsenio Batac — CAAP Ass. Chief, Flight Standards Insp. Service,
35. Gen. Enrique Galang Jr. — BID, Dep. commissioner
36. Gen. Victor Boco — BID, Law Enforcement Division
37. Gen. Alberto Braganza — BID, Civilian Security, Division
38. Gen. Dionisio Santiago — PDEA Dir. Gen.
39. Gen. Oscar Calderon — Bureau of Prisons director
40. Col. Alexander Arevalo — BoC Dep. commissioner
41. Gen. Alexander Yano — ambassador
42. Gen. Cardoso Luna — ambassador
There are about 30 more appointed as consultants.
Jojo,
Hesusmaryopes!
Ganyan sila kadaming nagsisiksikan sa ilalim ng palda ni gloria?
Nakakahinga pa ba sila?
‘Kakapal naman ng mga mukha ng hijo de puta!
Ano ba ‘yung PMS ni Esperon?
Post Mortem Secretary ba siya ni gloria?
Ang pag appoint ng mga retiradong AFP at PNP ranking officers sa mga sibilyan na pwesto sa gobyerno ya isang stratehiya ng mga Arroyo para mahawakan nila sa leeg ang military at police. Kakalabanin pa ba nila ang evil bitch kung may nag aantay na magandang posisyon sa kanilang pag retiro? Kaya nga laging paalala ng malacanang ay sundin ang Saligang Batas at ayon dito, ang presidente ay ang commander-in-chief ng mga sundalo na dapat sundin.
Iyong inaakala nating may prinsipyo at pagmamalasakit sa bayan na si Heneral Yano ay isa palang huwad. Sana ay magising siya at hindi pa huli para mabago ang pagtingin sa kanya ng kanyang mga kababayan. Maaari pa niyang hikayatin ang mga opisyal at sundalo sa sandatahang pilipinas na tanggalin ang evil bitch at bumuo ng transition government na siyang susubaybay sa halalan sa 2010.
Jojo, thank you for the list. I’m doing an article fro VERA Files on this. You saved me a lot of time and effort in the research.
What’s the source of this list?
Statement of the Center for media Freedom and Responsibility
Targeting Journalists
The inclusion of anyone in the so-called “Order of Battle” of the Armed Forces of the Philippines has not only been threatening. It has also time and again proven fatal for many political activists. The abolition of “OBs” which include the names of legal and unarmed political activists is among the recommendations of UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston, precisely because inclusion in them has too often led to the assassination of the person listed.
The inclusion of the name of journalist Carlos Conde—a 15-year practitioner who currently writes for the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune and who was formerly secretary general of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP)—in the “Order of Battle” of a 2007 Armed Forces document must thus be regarded as threatening.
Given its traditions of secrecy, the Armed Forces of the Philippines has denied authorship of the document, and would naturally refuse to answer questions on whether a 2009 version of it exists. But such denials, as the escalation of extra judicial killings (EJKs) in the last four years has shown, are as sinister as they’re meaningless, since, in a number of cases, the denials have not prevented EJKs. Under these circumstances journalists’ and media groups have no other recourse but to assume the worst– i.e., that Mr. Conde’s life is in danger.
The AFP document accurately lists Mr. Conde as a former officer of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, but claims that he is being “targeted” for influence or organizing by the Communist Party of the Philippines, which by itself justifies neither his inclusion in the list nor the threat implied in it. In addition, however, the inclusion of Mr. Conde in that “OB” is troubling in the context of the continuing killing of journalists.
The harassments, threats and other assaults on critical and independent journalists and media organizations already constitute a pattern of government intimidation that has eroded free expression and press freedom in the Philippines.
While the consensus is that the killing of journalists cannot be blamed on government except as a result of its inefficiency and indifference, the case of Mr. Conde suggests that journalists and media groups may have to rethink that assessment. Are journalists being included in so-called “OBs” to justify attacks on their persons as well as on the freedom the Constitution guarantees their profession?
Dati-rati’y ang puwesto ng Postmaster General ay nakareserba lamang para sa mga retired military generals. Pagkatapos ni Lito Banayo, lahat ng mga umupo sa Philpost ay pawang retiradong heneral lahat hanggang kay Gen. (Adm.?) Nicasio Rodriguez na pinalitan ni Dario Rama na wala namang nagawa kahit pa puwesto niya sa Pres’l Anti-Graft Commission. Masunurin kasi si Rama. Wala siyang ginawa kundi mag-ANTAY ng commission ng presidential graft. Nirambol!
Ngayon ay isang banker na ang nakaupong PostGen. Si Hector Villanueva ay kasalukuyang may P4.7B project para sa modernisasyon ng Post Office. Kung kelan magiging obsolete na ang snail mail, saka pa nag-modernize! Bakit banker? Kasi malakas ang ingay na balak ni Pandak na diyan ilagak ng OWWA ang bilyun-bilyong pondo nila.
Juicekopo! Nangangamoy tongpats na naman iyan!
kaibigang jojo….
marami pang military officers lalo na captain to lt. col. rank ang naipuwesto sa customs, immigration, pati nga denr
remember the infamous capt. val lopez? pagkatapos ng di matatawaran niyang pagbabantay at pag-aalaga kay garci sa utos ng little president hayun naipuwesto as consultant sa bureau of mines under denr…consultant sa mga mining permit at project study…ang background niya???? loyalty lang at masunurin sa amo.
kawawa naman mga career execs at diplomats natin, hirap makapuwesto as under secretaries man lamang pero mga retired yesman generals ni madam hayun automatic department head/ president/ chairman/ board member/ consultant at ambassador pa…ngayon lang nangyari yan na daming tinatalunan na magagaling na govt officials in favor of loyalty at serbisyo kay madam.
kaibigang jojo, sa customs, phil port authority at immigration lang daming ex-military nasa puwesto as consultant or assistant ng undersecretary at yung iba nagtitiyaga muna as alalay/ bodyguard wala pang bakanteng puwesto o hindi pa nakakagawa ng bagong puwesto/ posisyon.
limpak-limpak ang tinatamasa ng mga ex-military/ yesmam generals..sa dotc at dpwh nga ay balitang balita ang kayamanan ng mga bosing, bili ng bili ng mga mansion…sana magsipag ang pcij, at iba pang kauring journalists para masilip naman ang kayamanan ng mga yesmam generals.
wala pa yatang yesmam generals sa doh at deped? bka magawan ng bagong appointment papers ni little president parang di pa complete ang republic of the retired afp officers
oops…baka magtampo ang mga yesmam pnp generals
di pa complete ang lineup ng govt officials under the new name of our country…republic of the retired afp and pnp officers
kaya nga di matatawaran ang paninindigan at tapang ng tanay boys sa pangunguna nina gen. miranda, gen. lim, col. querubin at iba pa….
kung nakiayon lamang sila sa malacanang mafia at arroyo corrupt-poration at nilunok ang prinsipyo baka nakapuwesto na sana sila ngayon….
gen. miranda -secretary of education
gen. lim – secretary of health
col. querubin – secretary of agriculture
kaso nga eh hindi, may prinsipyo at paninindigan sa kabila ng lahat ng panggigipit ng rehimeng ito.
mabuhay po kayo! kasama ninyo ang pilipino sa ipinaglalaban ninyo at sa tamang panahon…lahat ng paghihirap at pagtitiis ninyo para sa bayan ay may kapalit na karangalan sa mga pilipinong nagtitiwala at magtitiwala sa inyo sa anumang larangan na inyong tatahakin.
we are proud of you and we will support your noble cause…for our country and for our childrens future, mabuhay po kayo!
On the appointment of generals; civilian authority daw over the military. That seems to be mere lip service – the President is the kumendeng in chief.
But with all those military men heading the executive department, the military really has authority over the civilians. And don’t give me that cow dung about their being civilians already. Their entire adult life was spent in the military.
iwatcher2010, hindi naman mga YESMAM ang mga heneral ni Aling Goya. Ikaw naman, oo…………rather, ‘pag sinabi ni pandak na “NO”………………”NO” rin ang mga heneral niya.
Teka, sino nga ba ang mga heneral na ito ? General Admission ? General Mills ? General Electric ? General Motors ? Game of the Generals ? General Appropriations ? Genral Problem ? Nakakalito !!
Anyway, ngayon ko lang naisip na bagay talaga silang mag-asawa. Si Ate Glue ay PIGMY (maliit na tao) at si pareng Joe eh PIGGY (do I have to elaborate ?) Now you know.
PIGMY loves PIGGY. Wow….bagong love team !!!
nice one kaibigang kim…
pygmy loves piggy…parang malaswa lang at punong-puno ng kababuyan hahaha
kaibigang kim…piggy bank na piggy bank ang dating kaya di na magtataka ang masang pilipino na sila ang pinakamayamang pamilya sa pinas…kung si sen. villar ang pinakamayamang pulitiko, walang sinabi ang yaman ni queen gloria at kingpin pidal + piglet mikey + piglet dato + piggy iggy
compute muna natin – kingpin pidal and queen gloria Php500-600M (di pa kasama yung ibang nakaw) + piglet mikey Php300M + piglet dato Php 200M + piggy iggy Php 400-500M
= Php 1.4B – Php 1.6B estimate lang naman siguro mas malaki pa
pamilya pala ng mga taipan…self-made multi-millionaire at billionaire courtesy of tongpats, bribe money, smuggling, jueteng, various business and investment…hmmm bigatin nga kaya bagay na bagay ang piggy and pygmy.
iwatcher,
Hindi naman masagwa, eh. Sobra lamang silang napakababoy, este napakaraming alagang baboy.
(medyo off-topic nang kaunti lang)
Gloria’s cling to power for so long (and probably beyond 2010) reminds me of a funny conversation between four friends talking about their respective grandfathers’ stubborn cling to dear life.
Friend#1: Yoong lolo ko sobrang tanda na nang namatay. Namatay siya sa edad na 96.
Friend#2: Wala iyan !! Yoong lolo ko namatay sa edad na 105.
Friend#3: Ang ba-bata palang namatay ang mga lolo niyo !! Yoong lolo ko, kung hindi lang nahawa sa sipon ng lola ko, eh buhay pa sana ngayon. Namatay tuloy siya nang wala sa oras sa edad na 117.
Friend#4: (medyo naiiyak) Yoong lolo ko buhay pa hanggang noong isang buwan sa edad na 124. Pero dahil pare-pareho na kaming nahihirapan sa paglipas ng panahon, pinatay na lang namin siya sa sobrang ka-tandaan.
Note: I am not in any way suggesting anything.
nice one kaibigang kim…hahaha
wala yan sa presidente ko….
sabi ng hapon: yung prime minister namin nagsinungaling lang tungkol sa declared assets niya nag submit ng resignation letter sa parliament, nakakabilib ang katapatan sa bansa namin.
sabi ng koreano: wala yan sa presidente namin, di nakaya yung bribery scandal nagpakamatay, ngayon bilib kami sa kanyang pabmamahal sa bansa namin naging mabuti at magaling siyang presidente pero kahit isang pagkakamali di niya pinatawad ang sarili niya.
sabi ng thailander: wala yan sa presidente namin, pag nagkasala sinisipa agad sa puwesto at agad nagbibitiw kasi ganun na lamang ang respeto sa aming hari.
sabi ni juan dela cruz: tumawa ng malakas hahaha tapos sabay nalungkot at sabi ” suwerte niyo naman sa lider, sa amin di na ibinoto, nanalo pa rin…ayaw na ng tao pero nakaupo pa rin sa puwesto at higit sa lahat daming kasalanan sa bayan kasama ng mga alipores hayun hihirit pa ng chacha” sabay tawa uli
sabi ng koreano: ano problem pilipino tatawa tapos lulungkot
sabi ng thailander: oo nga dami problem philippines pero wala ginagawa filipinos
sabi ng hapon: kaya siguro nabaliw na kasi di na kaya problem at ayaw kumilos para maayos country nila
sumabat si juan dela cruz: hoy di ako baliw, nagdadasal lang ako baka may milagro at mapalitan na ang abusadong lider namin at kumikilos naman kami kanya-kanya nga lang tapos sabay malulungkot uli tapos tatawa
sabi ng hapon, thailander at koreano: malala na talaga ‘to