Consul General Aragon: No one to blame for Manila misery, but global warming
Regarding Yuko Takei's quote of the Malaya editorial touching on La Gloria's extravagance in New York and her excessive junkets with planeloads of entourage in tow as a result of which the government's calamity and contingency funds are emptied just to sustain her indecent vanity, Pedestrian Observer is accurate in characterizing Mikey Arroyo's heroics in defense of mommy dearest as sanctimonious and making too much ado about his pakitang tao – supposedly feeding the desperately hungry flood victims with soda each.
'Yan ang mga napapala natin sa mga hudas ng bayan, ninakaw lahat ang laman ng kaban-publiko dahil sa sariling kasibaan. I suggest that we include in the blame our other bloated and shameless elected officials who kowtow to the dictates and wishes of GMA as well as those who participate in raiding public coffers through secret disbursements, pork barrel allocations, needless travels overseas, etc., etc.
While this should not have been the time to be assigning blames, still the grossness of the sins committed against the people they've sworn to serve and protect simply beg to be addressed. Because of their collective abuses and wanton disregard especially to the less fortunate, we are now in an unimaginable situation wherein the government is unable to launch immediate and systematic rescue efforts. Thus we are confronted with people shivering in rooftops; men and women wading neck-deep in dirty flood water and even doing acrobatics on electric cables just to stay dry; hungry mobs fighting for meager food distributed, if any; and such other heart-rending scenes. And all this supposed leader of our banana republic did is come up with a publicity stunt -- opening the gates of Malacanang. And, yes, there's that instant, shameless calling for international assistance.
Such unprincipled actuation's may have been telegraphed to the country's official representatives abroad. For example, I attended a fund-raising event Wednesday evening held by various community organizations at the consulate general in Los Angeles. After Pete Cruz and other community personalities called attention to the fact that government agencies concerned are obviously derelict in their responses -- even the various arms of the armed forces, Cruz said, have not provided their six-by-sixes, water vehicles, helicopters, etc. to assist the flood victims immediately -- Gloria's alter-ego in this part, Consul General Mary Jo A. Bernardo-Aragon, cautioned against finger-pointing stating instead that the calamity is a wake-up call for all of us, that there's already some kind of disaster preparedness bill in congress, that we all are to blame for causing global warming. Following Aragon's line of justification, the robber barons who by their profligacy and unscrupulous ways steal clean the people's treasury including even the money reserved for this kind of calamities are not to blame because, in the first place, this kind of calamities is caused by our own carbon emissions that cause global warming. Neat alibi, huh?
'Yan ang mga napapala natin sa mga hudas ng bayan, ninakaw lahat ang laman ng kaban-publiko dahil sa sariling kasibaan. I suggest that we include in the blame our other bloated and shameless elected officials who kowtow to the dictates and wishes of GMA as well as those who participate in raiding public coffers through secret disbursements, pork barrel allocations, needless travels overseas, etc., etc.
While this should not have been the time to be assigning blames, still the grossness of the sins committed against the people they've sworn to serve and protect simply beg to be addressed. Because of their collective abuses and wanton disregard especially to the less fortunate, we are now in an unimaginable situation wherein the government is unable to launch immediate and systematic rescue efforts. Thus we are confronted with people shivering in rooftops; men and women wading neck-deep in dirty flood water and even doing acrobatics on electric cables just to stay dry; hungry mobs fighting for meager food distributed, if any; and such other heart-rending scenes. And all this supposed leader of our banana republic did is come up with a publicity stunt -- opening the gates of Malacanang. And, yes, there's that instant, shameless calling for international assistance.
Such unprincipled actuation's may have been telegraphed to the country's official representatives abroad. For example, I attended a fund-raising event Wednesday evening held by various community organizations at the consulate general in Los Angeles. After Pete Cruz and other community personalities called attention to the fact that government agencies concerned are obviously derelict in their responses -- even the various arms of the armed forces, Cruz said, have not provided their six-by-sixes, water vehicles, helicopters, etc. to assist the flood victims immediately -- Gloria's alter-ego in this part, Consul General Mary Jo A. Bernardo-Aragon, cautioned against finger-pointing stating instead that the calamity is a wake-up call for all of us, that there's already some kind of disaster preparedness bill in congress, that we all are to blame for causing global warming. Following Aragon's line of justification, the robber barons who by their profligacy and unscrupulous ways steal clean the people's treasury including even the money reserved for this kind of calamities are not to blame because, in the first place, this kind of calamities is caused by our own carbon emissions that cause global warming. Neat alibi, huh?
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how could you blame no one but global warming???????????? first and foremost majority of ondoy storm victims were ordinary citizen who has nothing but their family..and global warming isnt caused by those ordinary people but to those who have almost everything but want a lot more..they are protecting again their ass to this disaster..
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its so much easy to blame and fingerpoint anybody other than ourselves. but its hard to admit, but all of us contributed to this phenomenon called global warming. of course, the powerful few have the "powers", but all of us must learn from this hard lesson.
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I love the pinpoint and blame...especially with what happened on our country after Ondoy.
Yes, it is climate change. But darn, who caused the climate change to be this early and have this fierce effects on man? All of us. But it is only all of us.
It is the government. Yes we are all responsible, but we elected them to fix the problems of the nation which are by the way macrocosmic.
They were bestowed with more powers, more resources at their disposal...thus they have the greater responsibility. And what spiderman forgot is with great responsibility comes heavier accountability.
Think about this, the honest hard working American who hard as can, follow the laws of the land, trying hard day after day to raise honest U.S. American children. Respect. books, family, friends, games and Salute the U.S.A. flag, all the, what used to be proper things in life are going to hell in this country so all the punk left wing liberial politically correct degenerates can go ahead and destroy this country that WE have fought to keep free. I am sick of watching the Honest Hard Working Americans get screwed by a bunch of communist democrat faggot acting queer, crooks who are living high on the hog for now, but i tell you this, soon we all have a meeting with Lord Jesus in Heaven and we shall see where the real power lays. Laugh now for you shall mourn and weep. This was once a great country but look what is happining to us. Are there no longer any Americans with backbone? Communist are ripping at our throats. Are only a handfull of us seeing what is happening? J am crippled with parkinsons disease and other crippling diseases, a Vietnam Era Veteran (Honorable) and Proud, but sick to my stomach for what this country is turning into. It makes me sick to my stomach. I sit here in great pain this morning, but, i cry thinking about the parents who sent their sons and daughters off to battle to keep murderous rapist and thugs from infiltrating this great country, U.S.A. but it seems they are already here and each time a Proud U.S. Military person goes down on the field of battle, another communist fag from hell takes their place while the spineless politicians and rich get richer. Sure hope all you left wing freaks go make well for yourselves in a third world country and enjoy your leberial ways.
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Dr. Dics,
Welcome to third world politics.... you sure are getting there with how you conduct your politics, lol.
Right on Elmot, those leaders bear the brunt of responsibility unfortunately through sheer trickery will pass the blame on people more than willing to inflict more harm on themselves like ignorant self-flagellants atoning for the sins of their leaders.
Dear Everyone,
It may be true that, or perhaps (you know, there are also hundreds of reputable scientists who do not believe or minimize it) the so-called global warming could have detrimental effects on our weather. It is also a given that flooding is a perennial problem in Metro Manila, its suburbs, and other parts of our country of many islands. The message, however, is that given the latter unavoidable problem, why are there no programs or facilities in place if only to mitigate the extreme sufferings of the people -- most especially the less fortunate ones.
As I wrote above and according to knowledgeable sources, government agencies concerned were obviously derelict and incompetent in their responses. Even the various agencies of our armed forces, it was said, have not provided vast no. of vehicles and other emergency resources at their disposal (I don't know about the human components) to assist the flood victims immediately.
Where were the various government disaster agencies? Except for very few small rubber boats supposedly from some of those sectors, most of the victims were largely made to fend for themselves. For example, it was reported that there were only two small rubber boats from the government in the entirely submerged Marikina area.
I learned that the private sector and foreigners are better in coming to the rescue of our countrymen.
Again, the message is that the people are reaping the whirlwind caused by the wanton profligacy of our elected leaders who are misusing the national treasury -- reportedly depleting even the contingency and calamity funds, money reserved for this kind of disasters. All responsible governments have some kind of emergency funds but in the case of my country, and hopefully still your country, those funds have been wiped clean by GMA's excessive traveling and spending abroad with so many people needlessly in tow.
Global warming, if true, should be something to be dealt with by all of us -- by all the people of the world -- under the leadership of appropriate government agencies. It should be a priority topic of discussion in other forums instead of being made the scapegoat of a scandalous, graft-ridden bureaucracy.
And by the way, the term 'global warming' has been changed to climate change because in many parts of the globe they're not warming but cooling.
dioni
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