Thursday, March 26, 2009

HH the Dalai Lama

Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.

True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace. The other phenomena mentioned above are similarly interrelated. Thus, for example, we see that a clean environment, wealth or democracy mean little in the face of war, especially nuclear war, and that material development is not sufficient to ensure human happiness.

Material progress is of course important for human advancement. In Tibet, we paid much to little attention to technological and economic development, and today we realize that this was a mistake. At the same time, material development without spiritual development can also cause serious problems. In some countries too much attention is paid to external things and very little importance is given to inner development. I believe both are important and must be developed side by side so as to achieve a good balance between them. Tibetans are always described by foreign visitors as being a happy, jovial people. This is part of our national character, formed by cultural and religious values that stress the importance of mental peace through the generation of love and kindness to all other living sentient beings, both human and animal. Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquillity. In that state of mind you can deal with situations with calmness and reason, while keeping your inner happiness. This is very important. Without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed or unhappy because of circumstances.

The Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1989

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Revolutionary Road / Katipunero na Daan

Four things I like about film. 

1. I like the wardrobe and casting. 
2. I like the simple cinematography, its suspicion of disbelief is realistic to some level. 
3. I like the script, the conflict structure is engaging. 
4. I like the theme, it narrowed the simple problem of miscommunication within the family and community in general. 

The scene pacing is less confusing, and the conflict shift is surprising and creative.

Short Commentary about the theme. 

"We are all victims of our redundant self-professed false hope, that our habit of escaping is either death or migration and worst fantasizing; suppose I am right, I think our only hope left beyond reason is to love unconditionally." 

If I am the director of the film, I will dedicate it to Fr. Tom Green S.J. 

Friday, March 13, 2009

Heaven on earth, Heaven in Peace.

Fr. Tom green is a close friend of my parents, I occasionally go to ADMU for spiritual advice and of course for some philosophy discussion with him. He invited me once to visit him in his community outreach at Marikina at the back of Katipunan. Anyway, he is the reason why I am a contemplative. I love his book "Contemplatives in the Marketplace". For me he is a perfect version of Tomas Merton of Asia. His profound teachings has not only inspired me to be independent in thinking but also be critical about the reality the world is presenting. 

I love him like I love my father. 


May he rest in eternal peace.

In Mary, Joseph & Jesus +




Being in a room without a door

My thoughts today.

Dear Papa Jesus, 


I am so tired of being here on earth, please take me, please give me freedom. I am sad today because dad took the door of my room and my ac. I cannot count the times I cried, I feel like I am so alone. 




Monday, March 9, 2009

The Falsely Accused Pig

Dominic is the patron saint of choir boys and of the falsely accused.

This latter title was given to him due to the following incident. One time, two boys filled the school stove with snow and garbage during the cold winter months. When the teacher came back into the room, they falsely accused Dominic of doing the "dirty" deed. Although disciplined in front of the entire class, Dominic refused to tell on the two mischievous boys. When the truth was later revealed, Dominic was asked why he didn't confess to his innocence. He remarked that he was imitating Our Lord, Who remained silent during His persecutions and crucifixion.

Wrongfully accused, almost all of us are sinners, not because we commit a mortal sin, we are sinners because we judge and condemn our neighbors, and the sad part is when we take the role of God as our reason for giving penalties. I've been judging truth since birth -haha- and I always fail not to condemn, these makes me more humble later on when I realize that my actions create notorious chaos rather than peace.

Four years ago I meant a priest a friend of my parents, we had a small party at our apartment in Intramuros. He asked me about my plans in Life? I said I want to be like St. Augustine at night and  St. Francis of Assisi at day. He laughed and said your being clever will hunt you later on. I answered back, Fr. is there a time limit for conscience, do I need to confess a forgotten sin because of poor memory? he laugh. In conclusion, I suggest to my fellow sinners to remember how God forgotten our sins, even to that extent we still crucified his only son. The cleverness of humanity to prevail with logic makes the whole system very boring. Therefore, I will judge less and pretend to be innocent -hehe- 

"Don't judge the book by it's cover, just burn it if you hate the author." Haha... 

"What makes me happy is when I feel, that I am blessed with less calamities and showered with state of grace."

:-) 


Sunday, March 8, 2009

I'm Trap in Level Three

I have thought of this idea when I was at the hospital for detox. hehe... Anyway, me and my buddy Chuanco. Before our OT we write our ideas on paper and debate it if it does make sense. I proposed to him an idea called four levels of intellectual capability. first level, is of course the intelligent humans with commonsense -on the population rate of the Philippines, I suppose it is 60% haha... - second level, is more of the intelligent with wisdom - on the basis of the Southeast Asia population is 30% haha...- third level, the elite intelligence, superior perception of time and matter - on the population of the Asia 6% haha...-  and forth level, the genius visionary, capable of rationalizing truth that can change time and matter. -on the population rate of the world 4% haha... this theory led me to believe that for sometime in the history of the world have we encountered certain individuals who are genuinely genius, -after seeing Powder- the movie-When sheriff Barnum investigates the death of an elderly rural resident, he discovers a teenage grandson living in the basement. Raised by his grandparents, he has experienced the world only through books, never leaving the family farm. He is sent to a state home for boys where he has trouble fitting in socially. His odd appearance and unusual abilities cause the small town residents to fear and ridicule him. However, not all are afraid. Some begin to view his potential and gifts with wonderment. Written by Robert B. Young {youngb@tastemaker.com}

Harassed by classmates who won't accept his shocking appearance, a shy young man known as "Powder" struggles to fit in. But the cruel taunts stop when Powder displays a mysterious power that allows him to do incredible things. This phenomenon changes the lives of all those around him in ways they never could have imagined.

And their godliness thoughts and expressed without malice becomes a guiding light for most humans less capable of connecting the dots. Needless to say, reaching level four is very crucial, even to level three. So be careful of thoughts that becomes a habit for calamity or ill regrets of the past. haha... Anyway, I am running out of words I suppose the best thing to do in life is to live it on a daily basis. haha...

Creative thought from the myth of Helen of troy.

"The Gods envy the mortals, for the mortals fear death, so they live their lives in adventure, fearing life be taken from them, unlike the God's they are immortal, infinite." 

haha... :-)










Life in Mars

I watch the film watchmen, and I realized how stupid humans can get just to preserve their belief system. I am not talking about faith or religion, I am talking about the intellectual conception of how things should be run in the world. Many intellectual nerds during the time of U.S. President Nixon run White House. And many was achieved in terms of advance social conservatism, and sciences -NASA- his only failure was when he became so powerful and effective -as a president- that his paranoia caused him his presidency. -watergate scandal-


Watchmen for me is a strong reflection that hope is not as easy to buy as compared to watching a movie. Hope is something only our emotions can articulate and the more we interpret the workings of the world the more we define our finite existence in a sad and lonely pace. At the end of the day, given all the wonderful prospects of the relative future it is only by believing that Hope is a gift from God that only when we are under "state of grace" that we humans can discover its mighty effect on humanity's perception of truth.

Only God prevails on a daily basis without regrets of the past and paranoia of the future, his sense of the present moment is relative but nonetheless perfect. 

Have a great week a head. :-)


Thursday, March 5, 2009

The Funny Politics of Generation.

I'm kinda in the mood for writing, I think there are only nine generations including the succeeding one. Then whole system fucks up like say... -revolution of humanity- Jesus of Nazareth the Living Chris and the son of God. After his death there became a great evolution of society began. Jesus is a Jew with Parents Joseph, and Virgin Mary. Mary was not poor at all she was a noble blood from generations of Jews from Rome. And Joseph also was a Humble noble Jew, who travels from different locations in the middle east but was called upon -by the angels- to direct Mary to Jerusalem. Anyway, to cut it short Jesus was there gave birth to New Ideas, he was in short the Mr. Jose Rizal or the perfect being as they say. A typical Jewish/Moorish appeal. Jesus for me in my "creative interpretation" is the middle man/PR man of elite proportion from the humility of Mary and Gracefulness and the Marlboro Hotness Carpenter of Joseph. They are the couple of the century b.c. until Jesus was born things seem to be a in deferent style. He stood beyond the limits of his race he stood beyond the crises of the two classes and the powers of two flamboyant empires, one in rome more of the aryans with its middle eastern sophistication and one in babylon more of the moors with an asian decent. And started a revolution of Faith and Temporal governance of empires. The combination of barbarism and excellent sensitivity on life. In economics the post-modern of the west and the resiliency of the east. After his death life restarted and became a new world a world of premium civility. Man became less of being selfish and became more giving. The Jesuits is correct in making the world be more prepared upon his million decent from history to history. However, on the following list of generic evolution of let say the Roman Catholic principle of selling Love rather than War. Are they practicing the Jesus way of forgiving and not projecting war against her church goers? I just hope when they eat their fifth buffet meal they will think about the poor people starving to death. My point being here is not to see the church as a bad example of Maximum but rather a beacon of hope for millions less rich as italy or say canada? or maybe the Philippines? I believe in the separation of faith, state and corporate affiliations . Three "The Father the Son and the Holy Ghost." not three but two okay! haha... Anyway, back on earth sometimes the corporate affiliations interfere with the separation of state and church due to say, Edsa one and Two and Banana Republic of the everlasting Philippines. Edsa Three was more of a stage play. Don't freeze my accounts said the ousted President -my idol by the way- or I will ask America to question your legitimacy. I have more wives to feed, more children to send to Manchester Prep. As a sample Edsa 3 as defined by many as not legitimate but rather a check in balance among the two separation of Power -the rich and the poor- Jesus during his time was also into Tax Collection and Market disturbance when people were paying taxes to a foreign ruler. Jesus was the middle man of the generation deprived of their democracy. He is the son of man the, the perfect oracle of Love, Faith and Truth. He was the missing link of the two strong empires, manipulating world politics and events. 

As of the Presidency of Barak Obama, Sir I salute you for accepting the most daring kingdom upon earth. Let the shift of power transcend a dignifying process. Let the war on economics set its course and let the power struggle be amongst the insecure nations. Let the church heal its own pitiful redefinition of faith and popular conception of truth. In short, nobody is to play God only God can play us. hehe...

 I just hope that this time that a new black president is installed; that faith will be used by the mother church  as an instrument of Hope and Justice rather than a mere malice of  dirty politics. That the business sector will be more mature in handing business, less defensive and more proactive-assertive in citing economic policies that are politically questionable by nature. I just hope not most of them are not government officials or military generals. That the state will be more vigilant and humble in handling homeland security trying not to hurt civilians that are mostly children but also protect the sanctity of family and their ancestors. My dream is just a dream until I become another government official running for public office or a faith healer that allows the selling of faith. I am not interested in politics and its vicious vanity that can doom not only my credibility but my profound yet mad reputation. Haha... I am Czar of Asia... joke... Modesty aside, I think I earned my bad boy/girl reputation to my Dad but i'm not the Junior, haha.. so I suppose I am safe.- joke- I got my dad's vision a democratic/federalist yet truthful and a reputation of being a -elitist conservative- is from my very graceful yet scared of the macro management kinda mother, in short she is like a very good accountant and a psychotherapist. I am a crazy kid! haha... Actually, I am more careful in making and breaking with friends joke... hehe...  

My point is, as generation matures its catharsis will be a bit painful, economically and mostly politically, that Love, Justice, Hope and Peace becomes   becomes the only reason for the survival of humanity, leaders upon leaders of old generation redefined, until it settles when all dust settles. The peace generation has not just became myths of former old conservatism it has become a certain reality yet relative upon the diversity of civilizations. Super powers should not promulgate hate and division but rather peace upon understanding the cultures and not force and unnecessary assertion of power. Lets all be vigilant and resilient upon the call of times let the government do its administrative function; let congress and senate make sound laws that prevail domestically and globally. Most of all let the mother church do it's guiding force with the strong conviction of the media as its eyes. I think no nation will prevail in fear nor doubt for growth will be perceived as a global crises rather than a local micro-economic failure. And the peace as a local problem becomes a mere diplomatic crises within coexisting provinces. Peace prevails as the signal from Greater Manila Area to Visayas and Mindanao is reached. Its a socialist idea but I guess maturity has left Philippines the shadows of edsa one without healing. Lets not fool ourselves, this time let us show the world how a poor fisher man can explain its ill-gotten wealth of wisdom and humble intellectual sensitivity. 

I like Kris Aquino better she's back in being a daughter of a statesman/hero and a grateful apple of eye of millions of Filipino's. 












Wednesday, March 4, 2009

The New yet Redundant Politics

Power Elite Playbook, Establishing Precedents Part 19

- by Deanna Spingola, 11 December, 2008

The exploitation of the Philippine Islands' vast mineral reserves, so strongly encouraged by President McKinley, gave one particular American Expeditionary soldier, First Lieutenant John William Haussermann (1867-1965, discharged September 1, 1899),1 an Ohio-born attorney from Leavenworth, Kansas, a (literally) golden opportunity.2 Since Philippine law didn't recognize the American entity known as a "corporation," the U.S. Congress passed a law on July 1, 1902 which enabled Haussermann, then city attorney for Manila, to organize a corporation on June 1903, which became known as the Benguet Consolidated Mining Company by 1906.3 In 1927, Benguet bought out its competitor, Balatoc Mining, giving it 80% of the Philippine gold industry.4 Philippine gold made Haussermann "the Gold King" and his associates a massive fortune which would later be selectively shared with influential political puppets like General Douglas MacArthur, who comfortably identified with the Philippine oligarchy.5

In 1904, during his first military assignment in the Philippines, Lt. Douglas MacArthur, son of Arthur, befriended Manuel Quezon, a well-educated Chinese mestizo, who quickly recognized the plundering patterns being exhibited by yet another imperialist power. Quezon was then prosecuting attorney for the new U.S. colonial government and later governor of his native province, Tayabas. With the American's blessings, Quezon and Sergio OsmeƱa became leaders in the right-wing Nacionalista Party (though Quezon would later oust OsmeƱa).6 For the prosperous Philippine minority, democracy, ethics and justice for their less fortunate fellow citizens was trumped by the quest for personal power and profit.

Quezon went to Washington as Resident Commissioner (per the Philippine Bill of 1902) to the U.S. House of Representatives from 1909 to 1916, and used his time there to make powerful alliances that would later benefit him politically. To accommodate wealthy, well-connected U.S. businessmen doing business in the Philippines, Congress passed tariff acts allowing free U.S. entry of all Philippine products; this would make the Philippines dependent on the U.S. In 1916, Congress passed the Jones Act which promised Philippine independence at some vague future date on condition of a "stable government," newspeak for compliance with U.S. business interests.7

From 1919 to 1922, Douglas MacArthur served as superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He was then sent back to the U.S.-occupied Philippines, where he would be stationed until 1930. Between 1928 and 1930, he served as commander of the Philippine Department, a regular US Army unit devoted to training Filipino troops to defend their country. MacArthur returned to the U.S., where President Herbert Hoover promoted him to four-star general and appointed him to the office of Army Chief of Staff, a position he held from November 21, 1930 to October 1, 1935.

On July 28, 1932, MacArthur revealed his loyalties to the government's upper management when his men, along with six battle tanks, fixed bayonets and poisonous Adamsite gas (developed by Roger Adams for use in WWI), marched on and fired upon the Bonus Army, a desperate group of World War I veterans and their families (43,000 individuals) who had set up temporary housing which the troops burned. They had been attempting to collect the bonus promised to veterans by the government (which delayed these payments until 1944). Hundreds of veterans were injured and several were killed by MacArthur's troops. Virulent anti-Communist MacArthur claimed that the veteran's group had been taken over by pacifists and communists (the latter serving as America's latest fear-producing, made-to-order enemy). Hoover later helped force the resignation of America's most decorated general, Smedley D. Butler, who supported the objectives of the Bonus Army. Butler vociferously maintained that war is a racket to enrich big business.

An opponent of pacifism, Douglas MacArthur, pursuing political ambitions of his own, did whatever it took to oblige his superiors. He would officially retire in December 1937 but remained on the active duty list. In the fall of 1934 President Quezon had visited MacArthur in America to inquire whether he could resume supervision of the Philippine Army, due to the acceleration of Japanese aggression in Asia. Though MacArthur would have preferred to be the Commonwealth's Governor-General, he consented and was commissioned Field Marshal of the Philippine Army, a position created just for him, complete with a lavish salary and other amenities.

Quezon was a flamboyant, manipulative politician who in his youth had been nicknamed "gularato" (the bluffer). Though born Catholic, he became a Freemason in 1928 to further his own interests. Always the opportunist, whenever he wished to appeal to the majority he emphasized his Catholic heritage. For just the right look, he even designed his own clothes, including an informal uniform.8

With Quezon's encouragement, MacArthur also designed his own uniform - black pants, white tunic, a braided cap, a gold baton and enough medals, stars and gold cord to impress the most unimpressionable person. Quezon built MacArthur a luxurious penthouse with a spectacular view of Manila Bay atop the Manila Hotel. He was inducted into the most exclusive clubs, including Quezon's assembly of Freemasons. He became a director for the posh Manila Hotel and received generous shares of Benguet Mining stock. Meanwhile, he neglected his military responsibilities. He was originally responsible for maintaining twenty-two thousand American and eight thousand Filipino soldiers in combat readiness.9 By November 30, 1941, MacArthur commanded only 31,095 men, including 11,988 Philippine Scouts.

MacArthur's second wife was Jean Marie Faircloth, daughter of banker Edward C. Faircloth, who had left her a substantial fortune. Later, she was friends with Barbara Bush.10 The MacArthurs had their first and only child, Arthur, in Manila on February 21, 1938. Close friend, Quezon and his wife, Aurora (Aragon), were little Arthur's godparents. The charismatic Quezon displaced OsmeƱa, the first leader of the Nacionalista Party, and then remained the autocratic ruler of the Philippines until his death on August 1, 1944 in Saranac Lake, New York.11

The Philippines was a U.S. territory from August 13, 1898 to November 15, 1935, when the U.S. granted the islands a degree of autonomy through the Tydings-McDuffie Act by making them a Commonwealth and allowing them to develop a constitution which was signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 23, 1935. Full independence was to be granted after a ten-year transition period. But all of this changed with the Japanese invasion, followed by yet another profitable, calculated catastrophic world war.

Japan's naval strength had increased during World War I to five fleets - these ships had been acquired from British firms, and paid for with loans from Rothschild-controlled British banks. Before World War I erupted, the U.S., Germany, Britain and Japan competed to acquire colonies in the resource-rich Pacific Rim with an abundance of industrial metals like manganese, tungsten, antimony, tin, nickel, and chromium. Japan had invaded and annexed Taiwan in 1895. They had invaded Korea in 1895 and annexed it in 1910. Germany had leased land in China's Shandong Province in 1898 and then purchased the Marshall and Caroline Islands from Spain in 1899.12 Influential U.S. companies and banks had industrial interests in China and the Pacific, including the Philippines. The U.S. had forcefully annexed the Hawaiian Islands in 1898 on behalf of wealthy American sugar producers as described in part ten of this series.

Herbert Hoover attended portions of the Paris Peace Conference which opened on January 18, 1919. Fifty individuals attended another meeting that was held at the Hotel Majestic in Paris on May 30, 1919, the organizational meeting of an Anglo-American Institute of International Affairs, which had one branch in London and one in New York called the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Col. Edward M. House and his advisors, Herbert Hoover and Thomas W. Lamont, were among the twenty-one American attendees, including twelve scholars from Harvard, Yale and Columbia. The financing for the creation of the CFR came in part from J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Bernard Baruch, Otto Kahn, Jacob Schiff and Paul Warburg.13 Hoover accompanied banker Bernard Baruch, to Paris (Baruch would later be instrumental in the Wall Street Crash of 1929.) In 1922, as a result of the Versailles Peace Treaty, Japan was limited to about two-thirds of the fleet allowed the United States and Britain. This was viewed by the Japanese as racist and inequitable.

Numerous CFR members have been included in every administration since Herbert Hoover. As Under Secretary of State, Joseph Grew (CFR) was mentored by Herbert Hoover and Harvard-educated Thomas W. Lamont (CFR, Bilderberg, and a Pilgrim Society chairman). The Pilgrim Society (PS), founded on July 24, 1902, with thousands of interlocking connections, is closer to the inner circle of the New World Order conspiracy than the CFR. The Pilgrim Society, initially funded by the Rhodes Foundation, is the most secretive and certainly the most dangerous such organization, and is in control of the world's money supply. The Pilgrim Society has controlled every president since Theodore Roosevelt.14 Jean MacArthur, the general's wife, was a Pilgrim Society member.15

Lamont was a J. P. Morgan Partner and chaired its Board as of March 1943; he owned the New York Evening Post from 1918 to 1922 (its current owner is media mogul Rupert Murdoch); and he was the representative of the U.S. Treasury in the American delegation to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.16 Members of the U.S. chapter of the Pilgrims Society lobbied for U.S. involvement in World War II on the side of Great Britain. To implement fascism in Italy, Lamont arranged a $100 million loan to Mussolini in 1926 - leading Wall Street bankers were/are very supportive of all fascist regimes.

Joseph C. Grew (CFR), America's pre-war Ambassador to Japan (Herbert Hoover appointed him in 1932), encouraged the Japanese to enter a state of military preparedness, for which they actually received the necessary scrap steel from the entire 6th Avenue Elevator Railroad of New York. Agents from the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR), financed by the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations and controlled by a Wall Street alliance of Morgan and Rockefeller interests, were instructed to induce the Japanese to strike the United States.17

Japan had been warring against China since 1931. Germany, after invading Poland on September 1, 1939, was at war with Great Britain and France. The U.S. had been monitoring Japanese communications since the early 1920s.18 By August 1940, America could de-code all of Japan's messages. The war was raging in Europe and America's leaders were endeavoring to get America embroiled in it despite what her citizens wanted. Presidential candidate Roosevelt had promised neutrality if re-elected. Insiders knew better! If an opportunity did not present itself, Roosevelt was going to create one. In August 1940, while promising neutrality, the National Guard was assigned federal service for a period of one year. Additionally, the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 (a peace time draft), known as the Burke-Wadsworth Act, was passed by Congress on September 14, 1940.

Coincidentally, on September 27, 1940, Japan, Germany and Italy (the Axis Powers - all fascist) signed theTripartite Treaty in Berlin, a military alliance, which stipulated that if any one of the three nations was attacked by any of the Allied nations (Great Britain, United States and the Soviet Union), then all three of the nations would be at war. The feasibility of Germany attacking the U.S. was zero. If the U.S. responded to a Japanese attack, the U.S. would also be drawn into the European War, just what the profit-seeking bankers wanted.

Roosevelt and Winston Churchill (PS), a Rothschild minion, had already covertly committed to engage in a war against Germany. During his presidential campaign, Roosevelt had promised American mothers and fathers that he would keep their young men out of an irrelevant foreign war. However, an attack on America would change everything.

At Roosevelt's request, in October 1940, Secretary of the Navy asked Admiral J. O. Richardson, Commander-in-Chief of the American fleet in the Pacific, to position American naval ships across the Pacific Ocean in order to prevent Japan from obtaining crucial supplies. Richardson protested against this obvious act of war. Perhaps Richardson was being set up as a patsy? Richardson had requested that his fleet, inadequately prepared for war, be withdrawn from Hawaii, where they were totally exposed and vulnerable. Those requests were ignored! Richardson was suddenly relieved of his command in January 1941.

On January 27, 1941, Ambassador Joseph Grew sent a telegram to Secretary of State Cordell Hull (1933-44) reporting the following: "The Peruvian minister has informed a member of my staff that he heard from many sources, including a Japanese source, that, in the event of trouble breaking out between the United States and Japan, the Japanese intend to make a surprise attack against Pearl Harbor."19 Cordell Hull authored the federal income tax laws of 1913 and 1916, and was later instrumental in establishing the United Nations (he is referred to as the Father of the United Nations). He was an early proponent of "free trade," devised to stifle free enterprise and destroy national borders.20

On July 26, 1941, Roosevelt recalled MacArthur to active duty in the U.S. Army and assigned him as Commander of U.S. Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE), promoting him to lieutenant general. The entire Philippine Army, including Ferdinand Marcos, was inducted into the U.S. Army. Despite military records to the contrary, Marcos would later claim to have shown extraordinary courage and to have performed life-saving heroic exploits; these claims were promoted by his hired biographer, and later validated by Lyndon Johnson when he needed support for America's invasion of Vietnam.

On July 26, 1941, Roosevelt froze all Japanese assets in the U.S. and closed the Panama Canal to all Japanese shipping. Between November 27 and December 6, 1941, the State, War and Navy Departments received several warnings about Japanese intentions, including specific details like the hour and the date of the attack.21 The American military commanders in the Philippines, General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Thomas Hart, were part of the network that received de-coded messages. Unfortunately, General Short and Admiral Kimmel, the commanders in Hawaii were not part of this network.22 Hawaii reported that the Japanese Fleet was at sea and in the north. In reply, General MacArthur sent a series of three messages on November 26, 29 and December 2, 1941 fallaciously claiming that the Japanese Fleet was in the South China Sea west of the Philippines. Later, the National Security Agency would term these messages inexplicable. MacArthur's false assurance had left Hawaii totally unprepared.23

Presidential foreknowledge about the imminent attack on Pearl Harbor has been well substantiated through recently-released public records. Over 2400 individuals were literally sacrificed to get the U.S. into war in the Pacific and in Europe.


Personal Comment:

The new politics of our nation and as perceived by the global community has become less than a mundane repetition of what happens when a Democrat or a Republican President is in the Oval Office. Peace keepers left and right, Economic Recession re-occurs and the rest is a snowball effect on Global Politics with the unprecedented global warming redress. Many of the Asian countries including the great ones -economically- is sooner to be doomed or rather participate in the current shift of power in the west. The "power" adventuresome  of the middle-east plus the impending labour problems worldwide is just the tidbit of what is happening around the world. This era is a bloody and scary one. 

If I may "speculate creatively"-if the we are in a Jungle wherein eight super kingdoms or the Original G-8 countries plus the european union; America, China, Japan, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, and United Kingdom with European union as it's executive spokesperson and the rest of humanity as its subjects and animals as it's pets. Needless to say in my speculation that the two basic philosophy of Democracy and Authoritarian and its evolution has become very clear. The effects of it has not only deprived certain poor countries -defined by the globalized media as such- but left them in turmoil without prospect of development. Hence, the help of this so called g-9 limits it self to peace-keeping, and economic stimulus packaging. Being aware of the limits set upon by UN and the international law on individualistic nations and its aspiration. I believe that helping a poor nation or nations should be bureaucratic in "nature" with "humanistic agenda" meaning seeing the greater perspective of individual nations as such independence should not be limited because of their luck of modern democracy and levelheaded leadership. The government of United States of America should "stop" violating international laws as so other G-8 nations. And be more responsible in its dealing with World Economics and International Law. If not the world will turn its back on America and its other powerful allies and join the middle eastern cry for a smooth authoritarian management and start anew war against humanity and it will boil down to a senseless wars amongst rich to poor nation and vise versa. I have big hope for Obama's Administration in his statement "I am not against war, I am against senseless wars." 

Personally, I am not against war though I am a Pacifist and a Liberal/Democrat -A Democrat at day and a shining Republican at night. Hahaha-  what I am against is political adventuresome, grandstanding and senseless political killings. As my grandfather told me, the greatest kingdom built on this planet is the Kingdom of God. I was raised as a Contemplative Roman Catholic which, is why I believe that "God" is relative "philosophically". In a Political macro perspective it can be economics or arms power, in Micro Perspective in can be individual freedom or homeland security. These two basic questions of how to run the world can be contained in my creative view, of how my parents set the divide rules and unset them. I have a Liberal/Republican father and a Socialist/Democratic mother. Needless to say, I need "divine" intervention amongst these two conflicting faith system. With prejudice I will side with my Dad in terms of running the Macro economics of our daily lives and my mom as the executive finance secretary. In short "God is within us all" regardless of the bullshit definition the world is trying to comprehend.

In a more comprehensible simplicity of my idea. Love thy neighbors as you love yourself, and most of all Love your own God. Without love there will be no respect, without love, there will be no mutual understanding and the rest falls into tiny definition of values which are very relative and volatile to be defined. 

At the end of the day it is history that can only judge the immortality of our leaders in global politics. I hope the Philippine leadership will not be limited in its grandstanding of her achievements in Micro and Macro Management of economics. It shall participate not only in international economic forums but also in lobbying sound international law and make drastic local policies to reflect its conviction on the global community. To be a trend setter in asian leadership that is being defined by me as the green east. "Let the Filipino first Policy" of The Late President Carlos P. Garcia mixed with the resiliency of Pres. Manuel L. Quezon on foreign policy and with the solid socialism of Pres. Ferdinand Marcos in terms of domestic reforms and government rationalization without military force nor political killings. If these ideas will be put into practice, I will not only make a film about Gloria but I will make a documentary that embodies the philippine politics and its very democratic opinion on global issues. 

The world is round and I suppose there is no world beyond us. So let us try to preserve it by not killing ourselves nor by pushing others to be like us. Let the Gods in the heavens see us -the living creatures-, mature enough to handle our own deputes by respecting each and everyone. And if peace will reign, we will all be like perfect beings ready for the next generation. 

As a Filipino, I am very proud  too see the placement of world events as relatively connected to my inner peace and as of my family. And my vision of peace for the world is of making the Philippines not as a poppet -nor an instrument of other rich nations stealing from our natural resources-  My vision of the Philippines is to be number one like in the 50's up to the 70's that the world sees us as a nation of greatness rather than a banana republic, -we are not apes for god's sake hehe..-  I am dreaming of a Philippines as a potential promise-land of the east and be correct in its efforts to be respected, I am a proud Filipino but I am being humbled the way our country is being run, but I am still hopeful that sooner or later we will be part of the "World peace policy making.

"The ends depends upon the beginning but fortune favors the brave." Haha...

"All factors considered at the end of the day it is the intention that makes a person's character worth remembering."

WORLD PEACE!







Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Films beyond Art

The film Captain America is more likely an 80's version of the current hero films, politically it suggest that America is in control of the world and the rest are mere spectators and speculators in terms of buying peace of temporary control over their freedom. I know it's too early for me to be very critical about Obama's promise to bring peace among diversified nations here in Asia. Especially the very poorest of the poor nation deprived from civility due to their peculiar understanding of statesmanship. The conspiracy theory of intellectuals are coming to fruition -that all of us are under one great umbrella of powerful demigods. And I am not saying that its bad at all, or we should rebel against it. We should embrace it and study its phantom. I think if America has Obama as it's symbol of Hope and Change, we as a Filipino nation should not -again- fall into assumption that we should be prioritized in whatever form, what we can do is make our mother nation an example of a true powerful southeast nation that prevails amidst the pitiful TV Democracy. We shall prevail not only as quality contract workers we shall be the trend setters of Asia in successful handling a Presidential form of Government with or without the watchful eyes of some first-world nations. 

This economic crises has not only made clear to the powerful nations that resiliency of a country such as the Philippines and other countries in Southeast Asia is as easy to swallow, hence our tolerance in austerity due to poverty is like a milking pig with a hundred piglets. We divide, and multiply like robotic animals conquering civilized nation and milking them. We can be the best nation in Asia not against any nation poor nor rich. We can become great trend setters of a funny Republic that prevails with humility and resiliency.