Do you have any consumer complaint? Send them to my office at Room 3, City Council Building. The Davao City Local Price Coordinating Council will meet on Wednesday, July 5, at the conference room of the City Agriculturist Office.
Among others, the DCLPCC will take up consumer welfare protection and enforcement of the price tag law as mandated by DILG Circular No. 2006-58 issued on June 7, 2006.
In the book The World is Flat, we were shown the three phases of globalization, first by nations, second by corporations, and the third by individuals.
The internet and the world wide web have made it possible to level the playing field that even plain citizens can now compete globally.
I believe this is best illustrated today by the pathetic reaction of the White House on the recent Osama bin Laden audio message on the internet.
Some politicians are squirming in their seats and sour-graping. They are perplexed why the Nacionalista Party is talking for a possible coalition with the Liberal Party headed by outgoing Senate President Franklin Drilon.
That is the whole trouble with people with blinders.
They call it the “development round” because since its birth in 1994 the World Trade Organization’s globalization has brought nothing but the perpetuation of underdevelopment among the poor peoples of the world.
The 2001 Doha Round of global trade talks were meant to correct the imbalances and disparities brought by the trade liberalization regime that did not had a dent on the poverty levels in poor nations.
Two students from the University of the Philippines (UP) – Diliman and a peasant organizer were abducted in Hagonoy, Bulacan last Monday.
Karen Empeño, a BA Sociology student of the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy and a member of the League of Filipino Students-UP Diliman, Sherlyn Cadapan, an award-winning triathlete from the College of Human Kinetics (CHK) and a former representative to the University Student Council of UP Diliman, together with Manuel Merino, were abducted by suspected military men at around 2 a.m, July 26.
More on this at the youngradicals blog.
UP students Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeno have been missing for five WHOLE days now. they were abducted along with 53-year-old Manuel Merino, a local farmer, last June 26 in Hagonoy, Bulacan by 15 bonneted, armed men who introduced themselves as ‘vigilantes.’
They were abducted five days ago, and I shiver at the horror of what may or has become of them for every minute that they remain missing and incommunicado.
Read full post here.
Four members of the provincial board of Benguet – in the summer capital of the Philippines built by the Americans in the early 1900s – were on an uproar for the denial of their visa application to the US.
They were indignant, cried foul and bewailed the humiliation.
It’s really ridiculous. The military gets an additional P1 billion in funds to spread chaos in the name of rooting out the communist insurgency at the snap of GMA’s finger while the acting Secretary of the Dept of Education gets a mouthful from the President when the issue about the underfunded state of our education is brought up to the table. View this with the 70-plus students crammed inside a classroom with a leaking roof, busted electric fans, an unusable toilet, and moldy outdated textbooks in the background and I don’t know what will not make you burst out in rage and cry that the men in the Palace are all mad, and worse they are being led by a woman that is the embodiment of madness and self-perpetuating perversity.
If we the people are to take this lying down, God have mercy on our nation, our children, and their children.
A politician wanted desperately to win the post of local chief executive. He wanted it so badly that he gave every voter 500 pesos. The voters were impressed by his generosity and overwhelmingly voted him into office. Everyone thought it was a win-win situation. Then, tragedy struck. A fire gutted out the town hospital and the flames jumped to the local school next door and consumed that too.
After the fire had been put out, the townspeople approached their newly elected chief executive, reminded him that they had voted for him and asked him to rebuild the hospital and the school for them. The chief executive looked at them and said: “Why should I? I don’t owe you anything anymore. Haven’t I already paid for all of your votes?”
No 11. graft and corruption
May bansa ba na graft at corruption free? Bantayan lang ng mabuti ang mga tao sa gobyerno, sundin ang mga anti-graft and corruption laws at ipatupad ito ng buong katapatan at sigasig.
O kaya huwag nang gumamit ng perang papel. Tapos ang perang gagawin, panay barya na lang mga isang-kilo ang bigat o kasing laki ng platito para walang makapagnakaw o makapagbulsa.
No. 14 “God put me here” – Gloria Daya-rhea Arrovo
You talked to two Popes with that mouth of yours?!
In about two hours, Ka Satur and wife Ka Bobbie are set to arrive in Geneva to the warm embrace and cheers from members of Migrante International-Switzerland chapter. I am sure Ka Satur will go straight to work, to perhaps frantically reschedule meetings with human rights monitors and fellow parliamentarians who have all expected to see him earlier this week.
Frankly, I did not expect Ka Satur to be able to go to Geneva last night. Yes, he secured a permit from the Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 57. Yes, the Supreme Court has issued a status quo order against the justice department. But I was truly convinced that the Arroyo regime would move heaven and earth to stop Ka Satur from leaving Manila and taking his just cause to Geneva.
More at tonyo.