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Monday, September 10, 2007
Pool and Paella Party!
Better not miss the paella!!!!!!!!!!!
Armin Van Buuren Spreads Good Vibes in Manila!
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Thursday, September 6, 2007
Black Eyed Peas - Bebot Translated- FILIPINO PRIDE!
http://waketrex.i.ph/
For all those Black Eyed Peas fans, non-Filipino speakers around there and wondering what Bebot means or what the song means....
This one is for you!
We are not Chinese, We are not Thai; We are not Mexican, We are just so damn fly! :P
Asia's First Airline Makes It To World Airline Rankings!
Okay so, it has been ages that I flew Philippine Airlines (PAL)... but this is a piece of good news. With one of the most experienced pilots in the world, PAL has shed the stigma of being a formally state-owned company with its inherent defects to be finally a profitable airline. If I had to choose between PAL and Cebu Pacific, I'd fly PAL only if it can compete with the low-cost fares of Cebu Pacific. PAL is Asia's first airline and also Asia's first to cross the Pacific.List of Rankings Attached (PDF file)
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PAL makes it to World Airline Rankings
MANILA, Philippines -- Philippine Airlines made it to the 2006 World Airline Rankings, a ranking of the top 150 airlines in the world, acknowledged as the most comprehensive survey of the airline industry as compiled by the respected aviation journal Airline Business.
PAL was the only Philippine airline included.
PAL ranked 61st in terms of revenue passenger kilometers (RPKs), the industry yardstick for passenger traffic, with over 16 million RPKs flown in 2006.
That put the flag carrier ahead of such Asian peers as Garuda Indonesia (64th place) and Vietnam Airlines (78th), European rivals Scandinavian Airlines (85th) and CSA Czech Airlines (99th), and U.S. regional carriers Hawaiian Airlines (82nd) and Continental Micronesia (134th).
PAL also flew a little over 21 million available seat kilometers (ASKs) -- the industry measure for total seat capacity offered -- in 2006, which, taken with its 16 million RPKs flown, meant that PAL operated flights close to capacity.
PAL also chalked an average load factor of 76 percent to earn a place as among the highest in the survey, matching or surpassing survey leaders British Airways (76 percent), Lufthansa (75 percent) and Japan Airlines (68.5 percent).
In terms of revenue, PAL was 68th in the rankings, with $1.39 billion earned last year. This enabled PAL to outstrip fellow legacy carriers Gulf Air (69th), Garuda Indonesia (76th), Brazil’s Varig (80th) and the UAE’s Etihad Airways (101st).
Among Asia-Pacific carriers, PAL’s revenue performance landed it 20th place in a highly competitive group that included two of the top ten airlines in the world, headed by Japan Airlines.
The survey results were published in the August 2007 edition of Airline Business, which is based in the United Kingdom. Both members and non-members of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) were equally rated.
Attachment: Top Airline Rankings.pdf
Filipino American baby is the Prettiest in America!
Fil-Am baby 'prettiest' in America
Cameron Dancel
Unknown to many, America 's reigning prettiest baby is a Fil-Am girl.
Yes, Virginia, one-year-old Cameron "Cami" Malia Dancel of Warren , Michigan , won the Beautiful Baby Search sponsored by "Live with Regis and Kelly" on ABC and graced the cover of Parenting magazine's June 2007 edition immediately after winning the nationwide search.
The $5,000 she won is already in a 529 college fund, her parents said.
Photos of about 150,000 babies were e-mailed to the ABC show and the entries were trimmed down to Top 10 contenders.
Viewers who were asked to vote online gave Cami more than 200,000 votes to become one of five finalists.
The five babies appeared on the show in New York City ; then editors of Parenting chose Cami.
Several videoclips are posted on YouTube.
"I really think it was her presence on TV that helped her win," said Cami's father Carl-Richard "Rich" Dancel in an interview with the Detroit Free Press during a red carpet welcome for the Fil-Am cutie-pie.
"When we watched the videos, we saw that every time she came on stage and the audience clapped, she would just turn on," he said. "She'd smile. She'd laugh. That captured a lot of hearts."
Mother Melody attributes her first child's beauty to big eyes, thick hair and a charismatic personality.
Cami was the youngest of the five finalists, and tiniest. Even now, at 30 inches tall, she weighs only 18 pounds.
"She is not only blessed with a lively, alert face, but represents the colorfully diverse future of America ," said Detroit Free Press' Susan Ager.
"Looking at Cami, you can't exactly guess her heritage, but you know her ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower."
Cami's parents met as teenagers. Melody, 30, grew up in Windsor, Ontario, the daughter of Filipino immigrants.
Rich, 32, was born in the Philippines but moved with his family to metro Detroit when he was four.
They married five years ago. He's a design engineer for General Motors. She works part time for a credit union.
Family watches Cami when her parents can't; the family is huge and close.
About 150 cousins, aunts, uncles and others - including seven godparents - who all came to Cami's first birthday party on June 2 at a community center where they enjoyed karaoke, a big cake and traditional Filipino food.
"It was my mother-in-law who urged a bunch of us in the family to enter - my husband and two of his brothers had three babies within weeks of each other," said Melody, who entered her daughter's casual photo 90 minutes before the deadline. "We're the only ones who listened."
"Seeing how the Parenting photos came out at the shoot - how they showcased my daughter - was amazing," she added. "And it was great to witness Cameron relating to the show's audience in such a positive way. We weren't sure if she'd get scared and start crying."
"She enjoyed every minute of the audience clapping at the show, and loved the cameras at the photo shoot - she kept reaching for the lens. She really likes attention. We're going to remember this for the rest of our lives," said Melody.
As for a career in modeling, Melody said she's not going to push it right now.
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Article from the Filipino Reporter newspaper - New York dted, Aug.24-30, 2007 issue.
Monday, September 3, 2007
The List of Terrorists (US, UK, UN and EU)
http://www.statewatch.org/terrorlists/terrorlists.html
Eclipse Of the Red Moon
September 2, 2007 12:18 AM
PJM Manila: Jose Maria Sison, chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines, was arrested by Dutch authorities last week on charges of ordering the murders of two former allies. PJM correspondent Dean Jorge Bocobo hopes the arrest will help mark the end of a violent insurgency and bring a new dawn to the Philippines.
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By Dean Jorge Bocobo
On August 29, the same day a rare astronomical event treated millions to the celestial spectacle of the eclipse of a red moon, Jose Maria Sison, founder and chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), were arrested by Dutch authorities at his home in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Sison allegedly ordered the murders of two former fellow Communists in the Philippines, Romulo Kintanar and Arturo Tabara in 2003 and 2004. He is being held in The Hague pending arraignment and trial under Dutch law for allegedly ordering the assassinations, which are the basis of murder charges against him and New People’s Army operatives in the Philippines.
Mr. Sison has been designated a foreign terrorist and the CPP-NPA as foreign terrorist organizations, by both the United States and the European Union for every year since 2002. It is very likely they will be so designated under the new Philippines Anti-Terrorism Law, the Human Security Act of 2007. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo hailed the arrest as “a giant step toward peace. A victory for justice and the rule of law.”
The murders allegedly masterminded by Sison from the Netherlands were part of an long internal struggle within the communist movement which began in the early 1980s, when thousands of suspected government spies believed to have infiltrated the CPP-NPA in the early eighties were murdered in purges.
Several mass burial sites used by execution teams were unearthed last year and led to charges of mass murder against Sison and his associates. A purge survivor, a former member of the CPP’s Mindanao Commission, tells a compelling story of paranoia, treachery and vindictiveness as the CPP’s top leaders moved to eliminate anyone who might oppose their ideological and organizational supremacy. Sison’s deadly purges formed the prologue to the Kintanar-Tabara assassinations for which he was eventually charged.
The CPP-NPA insurgency plagued successive Philippine governments from the 1960s and is a major stumbling block to the establishment of peace and order and economic and social development. While the NPA never won any significant military victories against the government, it nevertheless succeeded in establishing a highly organized, national criminal extortion operation, collecting hundreds of millions of pesos annually from farmers, businesses and institutions. During electoral campaigns, the NPA actually collects “right to campaign” fees from political candidates in their areas of influence. Hundreds of kidnappings, assassinations, arsons, remote-controlled land mine explosions, raids on police stations, and small-scale military engagements are the sharp end of of CPP-NPA fund-raising in the countryside.
The CPP-NPA also runs dozens of political front organizations among workers, students, peasants and other “marginalized sectors”. These militant activist fronts are the CPP-NPA’s major recruiting stations and base of operations for their parliamentary operations. Like the Irish Republican Army, the CPP-NPA had underground and aboveground components. In recent years, Communist front organizations have won several seats in the Philippine House of Representatives under the party-list system. Perhaps the best known of these is Rep. Satur Ocampo of the party list Bayan Muna, who also happens to be Mr. Sison’s co-accused for having ordered the murderous purges of the 1980s, when both were running the CPP-NPA.
Sison’s arrest had long been urged upon the Dutch government by Philippine authorities, which does not have an extradition treaty with the Netherlands.
Sison had been granted political refugee status in the Netherlands nearly 20 years ago on the basis of a claim that his life would be in danger in the Philippines. Once Sison was in safe harbor, the CPP’s top leadership and their families joined him to Utrecht where Sison received millions in financial contributions from the European Left and other international sources. From their European base they ran the CPP-NPA’s operations in the Philippines by fax and email and in coordination with their agents and allies in the Philippines. When anyone defied them, they allegedly resorted to assassinations to eliminate their ideological rivals, some of whom had returned to the fold of the law and were therefore considered “counter-revolutionaries” subject to execution by the same “People’s Courts” responsible for the purges and “killing fields” of the 1980s.
The classification of Sison and the CPP-NPA as foreign terrorists by the US and EU put a major dent in their European exile lifestyles and forced their men in the Philippines to redouble their fundraising efforts through organized crime. But while extortion relieved the financial pressure it also drove a deep wedge between those fighting in the island hills and the Continental exiles in their glamorous and comfortable command in Europe.
Hopefully, Sison’s arrest and the end of his Dutch Treat presages the eventual downfall of the CPP-NPA as a terrorist organization in the Philippines. This would clears the way for the island nation to finally fulfill its efforts as the first and the oldest constitutional democracy in Asia; allow it to increase its rate of economic growth, fulfil its potential as a tourist and investment destination and to become a fit ally in the war on terror in Southeast Asia.
Ninety million Filipinos who long have suffered from the communist and Islamic insurgencies can take heart in Sison’s arrest. Still, the totalitarian left and the Islamic Jihad remain formidable. The Islamic insurgents in particular are on a rampage of ambushes and mass beheadings in the southern Philippines where an “all-out war” has erupted. (But that is another story yet to be told!)
For now however, the Filipinos are enjoying the sight of the Red Moon’s eclipse.
Dean Jorge Bocobo is a Filipino media personality who blogs at Philippine Commentary
http://pajamasmedia.com/2007/09/eclipse_of_the_red_moon.php
Eclipse Of the Red Moon
September 2, 2007 12:18 AM
PJM Manila: Jose Maria Sison, chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines, was arrested by Dutch authorities last week on charges of ordering the murders of two former allies. PJM correspondent Dean Jorge Bocobo hopes the arrest will help mark the end of a violent insurgency and bring a new dawn to the Philippines.
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By Dean Jorge Bocobo
On August 29, the same day a rare astronomical event treated millions to the celestial spectacle of the eclipse of a red moon, Jose Maria Sison, founder and chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), were arrested by Dutch authorities at his home in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Sison allegedly ordered the murders of two former fellow Communists in the Philippines, Romulo Kintanar and Arturo Tabara in 2003 and 2004. He is being held in The Hague pending arraignment and trial under Dutch law for allegedly ordering the assassinations, which are the basis of murder charges against him and New People’s Army operatives in the Philippines.
Mr. Sison has been designated a foreign terrorist and the CPP-NPA as foreign terrorist organizations, by both the United States and the European Union for every year since 2002. It is very likely they will be so designated under the new Philippines Anti-Terrorism Law, the Human Security Act of 2007. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo hailed the arrest as “a giant step toward peace. A victory for justice and the rule of law.”
The murders allegedly masterminded by Sison from the Netherlands were part of an long internal struggle within the communist movement which began in the early 1980s, when thousands of suspected government spies believed to have infiltrated the CPP-NPA in the early eighties were murdered in purges.
Several mass burial sites used by execution teams were unearthed last year and led to charges of mass murder against Sison and his associates. A purge survivor, a former member of the CPP’s Mindanao Commission, tells a compelling story of paranoia, treachery and vindictiveness as the CPP’s top leaders moved to eliminate anyone who might oppose their ideological and organizational supremacy. Sison’s deadly purges formed the prologue to the Kintanar-Tabara assassinations for which he was eventually charged.
The CPP-NPA insurgency plagued successive Philippine governments from the 1960s and is a major stumbling block to the establishment of peace and order and economic and social development. While the NPA never won any significant military victories against the government, it nevertheless succeeded in establishing a highly organized, national criminal extortion operation, collecting hundreds of millions of pesos annually from farmers, businesses and institutions. During electoral campaigns, the NPA actually collects “right to campaign” fees from political candidates in their areas of influence. Hundreds of kidnappings, assassinations, arsons, remote-controlled land mine explosions, raids on police stations, and small-scale military engagements are the sharp end of of CPP-NPA fund-raising in the countryside.
The CPP-NPA also runs dozens of political front organizations among workers, students, peasants and other “marginalized sectors”. These militant activist fronts are the CPP-NPA’s major recruiting stations and base of operations for their parliamentary operations. Like the Irish Republican Army, the CPP-NPA had underground and aboveground components. In recent years, Communist front organizations have won several seats in the Philippine House of Representatives under the party-list system. Perhaps the best known of these is Rep. Satur Ocampo of the party list Bayan Muna, who also happens to be Mr. Sison’s co-accused for having ordered the murderous purges of the 1980s, when both were running the CPP-NPA.
Sison’s arrest had long been urged upon the Dutch government by Philippine authorities, which does not have an extradition treaty with the Netherlands.
Sison had been granted political refugee status in the Netherlands nearly 20 years ago on the basis of a claim that his life would be in danger in the Philippines. Once Sison was in safe harbor, the CPP’s top leadership and their families joined him to Utrecht where Sison received millions in financial contributions from the European Left and other international sources. From their European base they ran the CPP-NPA’s operations in the Philippines by fax and email and in coordination with their agents and allies in the Philippines. When anyone defied them, they allegedly resorted to assassinations to eliminate their ideological rivals, some of whom had returned to the fold of the law and were therefore considered “counter-revolutionaries” subject to execution by the same “People’s Courts” responsible for the purges and “killing fields” of the 1980s.
The classification of Sison and the CPP-NPA as foreign terrorists by the US and EU put a major dent in their European exile lifestyles and forced their men in the Philippines to redouble their fundraising efforts through organized crime. But while extortion relieved the financial pressure it also drove a deep wedge between those fighting in the island hills and the Continental exiles in their glamorous and comfortable command in Europe.
Hopefully, Sison’s arrest and the end of his Dutch Treat presages the eventual downfall of the CPP-NPA as a terrorist organization in the Philippines. This would clears the way for the island nation to finally fulfill its efforts as the first and the oldest constitutional democracy in Asia; allow it to increase its rate of economic growth, fulfil its potential as a tourist and investment destination and to become a fit ally in the war on terror in Southeast Asia.
Ninety million Filipinos who long have suffered from the communist and Islamic insurgencies can take heart in Sison’s arrest. Still, the totalitarian left and the Islamic Jihad remain formidable. The Islamic insurgents in particular are on a rampage of ambushes and mass beheadings in the southern Philippines where an “all-out war” has erupted. (But that is another story yet to be told!)
For now however, the Filipinos are enjoying the sight of the Red Moon’s eclipse.
Dean Jorge Bocobo is a Filipino media personality who blogs at Philippine Commentary
http://pajamasmedia.com/2007/09/eclipse_of_the_red_moon.php
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Free Burma Coalition Mission
http://www.freeburmacoalition.org/
Free Aung San Suu Kyi! Free the Dissidents!
Free Aung San Suu Kyi! Free the Dissidents!
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