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[Ninsy_Dipsy]

nsa pilipinas ka ba ate?ahehehe

[MJ0317]

nsa pilipinas ka ba ate?ahehehe

wala po Kuya Gelo lagi lang kasi ako basa ng world news kaya alam ko po

[Ninsy_Dipsy]

[MJ0317]

Today is the 5th year anniversary of flight 9/11 lets pray for world peace  

People uncertain US has made world safer By Daniel Bardsley, Staff Reporter
 
 Five years on from the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, is the world now a safer or a more dangerous place than it was?

The United States launched a "war on terrorism" in the wake of the atrocities and as part of this it deposed both Saddam Hussain in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Some have said these military campaigns have only made things worse, with Iraq now ridden with sectarian strife and Afghanistan remaining a flash point.

Elsewhere, the dust is only recently settled on the Israel-Lebanon conflict and there are ongoing reports of plans for terrorist attacks, with flights from the UK recently thrown into turmoil when a terrorist plot was foiled.

Gulf News spoke to a cross-section of Dubai residents to find if they were now sleeping more soundly in their beds than was the case five years back.

Pakistani chartered accountant Farhan Ahmad, 34, was pessimistic about the prospects for world, particularly in the Middle East.

"Iraq, Afghanistan and more recently Lebanon have all had violence, and after them maybe Iran is a forthcoming source of conflict.

"Things are not getting better, they are getting worse and worse. The Americans are imposing themselves on every country," he said.

Administrative officer Hamad Al Attar, 34, from the UAE, agreed that the world had become more dangerous.

"We just saw a conflict between Israel and Lebanon and now they're looking to attack Iran and Syria, and in Iraq the Sunnis and Shiites are making problems between each other. It's all causing more problems," he said.

As long as Israel is committing "atrocities" in the Middle East, prospects for peace in the world are slim, according to Indian public relations director Reshma Tahiliani.

The 38-year-old said: "Politicians all over the world know that what Israel is doing to the Arab countries is wrong. Terrorism is the product of these atrocities. As long as wrong things are happening to innocent lives, there will be the danger of terrorism," she said.

British electronic security specialist Mike Emmett said it was hard to imagine the world becoming safer because just as one source of danger from terrorists is dealt with, another one crops up.

"I wouldn't say the world is more dangerous now, it's just not any safer. I don't think it's any safer because it's too open. You close one area and then something else arises," he said.

Air stewardess Clare Kenny, 31, from England, said she too did not think the threats the world was facing had lessened. "I don't think the world is safer, I am sure. The fundamentalist groups are getting stronger.

"I work in the airline industry and they have taken so many steps to prevent anything like September 11 happening again the security levels are the highest I've ever known them to be," she said.

On a more optimistic note, Pakistani office worker Shams Sherguhlam, 32, insisted things had improved.

"Muslim, Christian or Hindu, we all want to live together. Now it's safer. After September 11 happened, they haven't done something like that again," he said.

 

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Xansane causes massive flooding in Philippines
By Gilbert Felongco, Correspondent
 
 

Manila: Heavy rains brought by typhoon Xangsane caused massive flooding in parts of central and southern Philippines.

Xangsane, (Philippine codename: Milenyo), had been considered by the weather bureau as one of the strongest typhoons to hit the country this year as storm signal number three had been declared in some areas of central Philippines.

The typhoon brought strong winds of up to 120km with gusts of up to 150km as it hit the island of Samar.

Around noon yesterday, the coast guard cancelled scheduled ship sailings to the central and southern parts of the country, stranding thousands of bus and ferry passengers.

Quoting reports from field offices, civil defence officer-in-charge Anthony Rolando Golez said that of the 10 ports affected, the port in Matnog town in Sorsogon had the most number persons stranded with at least 1,742.

"As of 8am today, there are 3,400 passengers, 79 buses, 115 trucks, 61 light cars, 11 vessels and eight motorised boats were stranded in various terminals or ports," Golez said.

Inbound and outbound domestic flights had also been cancelled by the air transportation office for safety reasons.

In central Philippines's Antique province, some 100 residents had been left marooned as flashfloods caused by incessant overnight rains, rendered roads impassable.

"Flood waters continue to rise and some municipalities are covered with water," Antique Gov. Salvacion Perez said yesterday in a radio interview.

 Sana okey lng kayo lahat dyan

[Ninsy_Dipsy]

dami namatay dahil sa bagyo dami billboards ang natumba alang kuryente all over luzon.. may pasok padin sa pnb.. kainis..

[Nanayangel]

From: http://ph.yfittopostblog.com/2010/05/26/dear-noynoy/



By caffeinesparks, Blog Watch

Dear Noynoy,

The People have spoken and they chose you to lead this battered ship of State. Nine years of sailing through rough seas and here we find ourselves picking up the pieces of wreckage. You say you are up to the challenge. You say you are ready. Dare we believe in your truths? Dare we believe in the magic of your lineage? Dare we believe in your manifest destiny? Time will tell. You have six years to prove your mettle. But first, there is the business of proclamation.

The nation had but a brief respite from the heavy-handed politicking. On May 10, millions of citizens braved the sweltering heat and suffered patiently the inconvenience of casting their votes. It was, as they say, an uneventful day. Contrary to the doom and gloom of naysayers, the country’s first attempt at automated elections did not result in chaos.  Pre-election jitters were such that people could only make jokes. Will there be a Philippines left standing after May 10?  Stock up on supplies, you’ll never know.  Hold on to your cash, banks might close.  Prepare for the worst we did. But people held on to a kernel of hope. Despite mistrust in nearly all of the State’s institutions, despite the last-minute mix-up with the CF cards, the electorate went out to vote. It was, perhaps, a supreme exercise of trust in ourselves as a People. We believe in our democratic project. Despite the many mistakes we have committed in the name of democracy, we continue to hope that this time we will have made the right choice. And are you the right choice sir? Will you deliver us from evil? Time will tell.

It may be true that in this country, there are never any losers. There are only those who were cheated. Now there is all this noise about election fraud. A marsupial bearing witness to high-tech vote-padding tests the limits of the farcical, even by Philippine standards.  Would that the creative, fantastical politicking be given a rest.  Is it any wonder that the People have elected entertainers to office?  When our political discourse is circumscribed by clowns masquerading as politicians? When the public is rarely ever treated to a serious discussion of what is at stake both in the public, collective realm and in our private, individual lives? Politics is a serious business. Your parents, sir, have given their lives for it. Your family has sacrificed much for it. Surely we all deserve a measure of sincerity, a sense that all our actions stand for something.

I do not know you. I have only met you that one time. And I felt you to be sincere. When you take office, would that you continue to communicate with those whom you would serve and lead.  I never liked how this president has a dozen people speaking on her behalf. It is as if she prefers to keep her distance from those whose lives her every decision affects. I never like to be made to feel as though I were an inconvenience. Speak to us only of truths. After the hardship and heartbreak of this decade, we deserve to hear it. Every time. Even if it is bad news, look those whom you would serve and lead in the eye and present your case. Even if it painful, even if we do not like it, we will listen.

And in turn, promise to keep your eyes and ears open.  Truth speaks only to those who would listen.  By all sorts of measures life has gotten more difficult for many Filipinos. I suspect that many of our so-called leaders harbor an illusion that they live in a grandiose setting as befits their grandiose selves. This is simply not true. We live in a country as broken and battered as any random stretch of pot-holed streets all across this glorious capital. We live in a country so barren of opportunities lands lay fallow in the hinterlands. But the People continue to dream. We continue to chase that promise of comfort, of a life fully-lived, if not here, then some place else.

In the end, isn’t the achievement of the good life the goal of all politics? Will you deliver us from this old administration’s regime of legal acrobats? Will you restore honor in public life? Will you honor the memory of your mother and father? They who were symbols of resistance, visionaries who dared dream the impossible, they who represent the Filipino servant-leader at his very best? Will you, sir, rise to the challenge?

On the evening of the 10th the nation sat stunned at how quickly the tally of votes went.  At first the numbers trickled slowly, and then a torrent.  As I clicked on the interactive maps of the networks and obsessively refreshed the official COMELEC website, I literally had the future in my hands. There they were, the regions, the hundreds of thousands of unnamed voters at my fingertips. My People have made a decision and there it is, reflected back at me. I wonder, now, did you feel the same as I did? Did you, like me, feel not a little sense of awe and magic? As Monday gave way to Tuesday, despite the worst scenarios our imaginations could conjure, the world did not end.  It felt as though we had a lease at a new beginning. We knew the President-elect. As Monday gave way to Tuesday, the nation released its collectively-held breath.  The patient still has a pulse. We look to you, sir, to nurse her back to life.