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What is the current real score of the Philippines in terms of global competitiveness in the midst of prevailing world economic setback?

According to the latest export data from the National Statistics Office (NSO),only 3.3 percent of the last year’s revenue was gained, that is from last year $28.25 billion into $ 29.19 billion only.
The global competitiveness of export products of the Philippines has been down this year and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas(BSP) said the setback of growth on Philippines export industry is due to low demand from the major export countries where the Philippines export its export products, that is from the United States and Europe.
This is so because America and Europe has recently experiencing financial problems and most citizens on America and Europe are losing their jobs or some are already becoming jobless as some international reports said. Actually, poverty incidence rate in America is now 15 % and it is due to increasing unemployment as the international reports also said.

Thus, since the prime countries where the export industry of the Philippines mostly earn is now in great brink of economic collapse, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas(BSP) urges Pinoy exporters to be more competitive and find new market for their export products as well as urged them to improved the quality of their respective export products to gain better and increased revenues.

Moreover, what weakens more the revenues of Pinoy exporters is the rising value of Philippine peso on foreign exchange market which of course lessens their dollar revenues. Thus, in counter urge of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas(BSP) to improved the quality of their export products and find new foreign markets for their markets, they too urges the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas(BSP) to deliberately weaken the Philippine peso by buying more dollars to strengthen the value of dollars in the Philippines. But Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas(BSP) refused to do so though the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas(BSP) admitted that they actually buy and sell foreign currencies but it is not to kill the Philippine peso neither to boost the Philippine peso for according to Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas(BSP),that is not their policy.

Thus, Pinoy exporters were left by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas(BSP) ‘ advice to be more competitive and develop new market for their products if they wanted to gain higher revenues in the future despite some foreign economic setbacks.

In connection to this lukewarm status of the export industry in the Philippines, will PNoy’s idea of exporting the Pinoy coconuts to United States market, a very good idea to strengthen the export industry in the Philippines?

Actually,it is a very bad idea for the United States is already on the brink of economic collapse,yet he want to sell our Pinoy coconuts to them? What will the Philippines gain? Smells something fishy going on with PNoy and the United States.

Moreover, if Pinoy coconuts will already become a prime exclusive export products, then there would be no coconut juice left for Filipinos to drink their own coconut juice and will be force to Buy their Own products!!!,just to strengthen US failing economy???!!! What a big Slap on Filipinos PNoy is doing! What Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III is doing;is he pro-Pinoy or pro-America disguising to be pro-Pinoy?

Is PNoy selling the Philippines to America? In exchange for what?

Is there is Really Independence Day?

If you are a foreigner and are not adept to Philippine History as well as a naïve Filipino, you will get “Wow!” how the Philippines is now 113^th year old free and independent country, but is it really? I really laugh out loud that most Filipinos think that indeed the Philippines is already 113^th year old independent country and even make ardent devotion on its annual celebration; ahahaha !

Actually, this annual celebration on June 12 as a day when the Philippines finally free from the occupation of colonial powers and independent from its conquerors’ grip and influence is totally and absolutely NOT TRUE and NOT A FACTUAL event in the Philippine history; it is a great lie which Filipinos today still thought that it is true and some ignorant Filipinos even want to pass this legacy of lie to their children to preserve a lie about Philippine independence. Whatta!

For June 12,1898 which the modern Philippine flag today is first raise and wave on General Emilio Aquinaldo’s balcony, is not a day of independence of Filipinos from Spanish occupation neither the day the Philippines get finally free and independence from all foreign conquerors up to this day, rather according to Philippine history it is just a day ,Aguinaldo wants to encourage Filipinos to fight for freedom which they were currently deprived then because the Spaniards still rules over them and over the country (actually, even today the Philippines is still not free from the influence of Spaniards or the Philippines is not yet Independent from the Spanish rule for see the name of the country is still Spanish inspired that reminds Filipinos that their homeland is still the possession of the Spanish King- King Philip)Moreover, Filipinos have still Spanish inspired religion and feasts which most Filipinos upheld as theirs whereas they are not theirs.

Furthermore, after the Spanish occupation, does the Philippines is still free and independent then? Certainly not for after the Spaniards have conquered the Philippines, America follow; then after America, the Japanese conquer the Philippines. It is only according to Philippine history, that the Japanese have been subdued by America, the Philippines becomes as the Philippines is now. It is America who give the Philippines a freedom which the Philippines is enjoying now at July 4,1945; America bestow the Philippines a freedom but in exchange for ,you know, the Philippines have still child-like connection to United States that waits to be pampered by America.

Before, the Philippine Independence is celebrated on July 4 and not June 12 but it was only move by former Philippine president Diosdado Macapagal to June 12 in the urge of nationalist and historians then because they don’t want a trace of American influence or they don’t want to remember that the Philippines is made free and independent by the help of United States on July 4,1945,imitating Apolinario Mabini which alter the transcript so-called Act of the Declaration of Independence and want to remove America from it, but though Apolinario Mabini can erase the name “America” on the transcript, he can’t still remove the powers behind the transcript. Actually, the transcript of the so-called the Act of the Declaration of Independence was still inspired and under the bestowed power of United States, quote: “…and under the protection of our Powerful and Humanitarian Nation, The United States of America…” This so-called Act of Declaration of Independence transcript was just a rebellion against the tyranny of Spaniards especially the tyrant Catholic priests then who enslaves Filipinos through their power and through the religion the Spaniards severely imposed to the Filipinos, the religion Christianity.

The so-called Act of the Declaration of Independence (which includes the raising and waving of the Philippine flag as well the Philippine march) is just a declaration against the Spanish occupation in the Philippines and not against America who also conquer the Philippines, as well as it is also not against any foreign conquerors that will want to conquer the Philippines.

Therefore, the celebration of the so-called Philippine Independence on June 12 that also mimics the raising and waving of the national flag accompanied with the play of Philippine national march is just nothing but a fake legacy of Philippine independence which for the United States government a remainder that the Philippines is still their colony up until now because it is them who inspired it; the America is the protective power behind such so-called Philippine Independence ritual or ceremony. Take note, the Philippine National Flag is not Philippine made but rather Hong Kong made; wow, is this the so-called Philippine Independence?

What about the so-called more than centennial (113^th) Philippine Independence? Where they got this, wow more than 100 years of Philippine Independence? Is it from “1898”? Terrible!

This annual Philippine Independence celebration on June 12 (the June 12, 1898; that is where they count the so-called independence of the Philippines, thus, 113th year old) is big terrible lie that slaps the both cheeks of every Filipinos that tricks the naïve and modern generation of Filipinos that we are indeed 113^th year old free and independent since June 12, 1898 whereas it is NOT; whereas it is an outright LIE; and the worst, this terrible lie wants every current Philippine government to be a legacy for Filipinos to remember.

Therefore, is there really Philippine Independence on June 12? Or a trick or treat annual celebration?

Filipino Dignitaries on America

It seems to be that America is the second home of most Filipinos wherein the number of Filipino immigrants settling on the American land is not handful to be measured. Thus, the blood of Filipinos already conquering the American races through gaining dignitary positions on the American land is indeed surprising such as Brigadier General Cary Chun who is said to be the highest ranking Filipino general in the United States Air Force who heads all the Department of Defense Space Forces of the Unites States; judge Lilian Lim who said to be the first Filipina judge in the United States;Ms. Velma Veloria who said to be the first Filipino-American who become a Washington state legislature; Mr. Rey Pagtakhan said to be the first Filipino-Canadian Parliament member; Ms.Josie Natori a Filipina fashion designer not only known in America but also in the world; and many other Filipinos who gain a dignified position on the American land.

“The number of Filipino immigrants in the United States tripled between 1980 and 2006, from 501,440 to 1.6 million, making them the second largest immigrant group in the United States after Mexican immigrants and ahead of the Chinese, Indian, and Vietnamese foreign born……There were 1.6 million foreign born from the Philippines residing in the United States in 2006. The 1960 census counted 104,843 Filipino immigrants, a number that increased 15.6 times to 1,638,413 Filipino immigrants in 2006. The Filipino born were the second-largest foreign-born group in the United States in 2006 after immigrants from Mexico…..” —Migration Information Source

If since 2006, there are already millions of Filipino immigrants in the United States, what more today or this current year wherein brand new Filipino achievers were arising into one of America’s dignitaries. There are many of them which are not reported on the mainstream media in the Philippines but just later on discovered when they make noise or controversies around the world. The recent is Ms. Charice Pempengco‘s success.

Now aside from Ms. Charice Pempengco who has gain respect as an entertainment artist in the United States, recently another Filipino have gain such position in America, who has become the first Filipino to become a president of Seton Hall University in New Jersey (a Catholic University in America).He is Mr. Amado Gabriel Esteban, a Philippine born Filipino that got the highest position in an American Catholic University wherein only priests of the university are voted for the position. It is another brand new dignitary position an immigrant Filipino received on a foreign land and it do not end there but continue counting which make us wonder how come America become the benchmark of international success of most Filipinos but on other countries we never heard any dignitary success but shame actually most especially on Singapore where most Filipinos received death penalty for the sins they, I guess did not commit but was only frame up on Singapore.

The recent population of Filipino immigrants has become 1.7 million from being 1.6 million as the Migration Information Source says :

“April 2010
The United States is home to about 1.7 million Filipino immigrants, making them the second-largest immigrant group in the United States after Mexican immigrants. The Filipino immigrant population grew rapidly during the 1970s and 1980s and has continued to grow (although at a slightly slower pace) since then. In addition, the United States is home to about 1.4 million native-born US citizens who claim Filipino ancestry. Heavily concentrated in the western United States, the Filipino born account for almost half of all immigrants in Hawaii …” — Migration Information Source

The Philippines still remains the second source of foreign immigrants in the United States after Mexico.

Will Kano’s Bacon Make Us Fat?

Recently PNoy received a $434 million US dollar from Millennium Challenge Corporation or MCC (MCC is an independent United States aid agency, chaired by Clinton, that aims to help a third world country or a developing countries to reduce poverty as long as the country meets the criteria of US democratic principles and the so-called rule of law) to help reduce poverty and corruption in the Philippines, wherein PNoy promise that the funds will be used for his dream project for the Philippines.

Millennium Challenge Corporation

However, there are many negative thoughts about this PNoy receiving $434 M funds from MCC, though Hillary Clinton expresses utmost trust that PNoy is worthy to be grant by such big money. That is, because of the “Kapalpakan” PNoy administration is doing recently which for example the fiasco of the Manila bus hostage tragedy which until now seems to be swinging; the ever growing unsettled issue of Hacienda Luisita; his proposed opposed toll VAT raise; his cronyism style of hiring cabinet officials; his unverified and sometimes inaccurate accusation on someone on some issues; and other issues regarding his somewhat incompetent management.

So, if the start of his administration signals,”Kapalpakan” or swinging into a lot of troubles and mistakes and some current issues brought by his own administration like the recent fiasco is not properly manage, though he promise change; will he be able to divide the bacon properly and justly whereas the current status of his administration is rain with lot of mistakes and pending troubles which he find it hard to manage? Or will he just waste away such big funds because of his incompetency?

What is the difference between wasting big funds by an incompetent leader with corrupting funds and budget by some corrupt Philippine government officials? Certainly, there is no difference, is not it?

PDI Frontpage About PNoy receiving MCC's fund

What about his proposed dream projects which he repeatedly promises that he will do? What are these dream projects of him will these dream projects of him will really help the Philippines and gear the Philippines toward holistic success? Okey, let us give him a break that he deserved, though his administration was tainted with incompetency from the very start; and let him prove himself that Kano’s bacon will make Philippines fat.

But, we owe it to the United States and could hold us on the neck once United States become in trouble especially when a big world war strikes again.

Thus, PNoy receiving a US money grant symbolizes Philippines allowing itself to be slave of America when big trouble comes along and the Philippines could not say “No”.

Is this a Philippine Independence or Philippine Dependence?

When Filipinos heard the word “Ilocos”, they already Know what the word connotes, that is, Pagudpud beach, Vigan ancestral houses, Laog city Philippines, Fort Ilocandia, Ilocos homes and architecture,Paoy church, the Qurino Bridge, former President Ferdinand Marcos or Sarrat Ilocos, ceramic products, Ilocos garlic and bagoong, etc.

As we or as Filipinos knew, Ilocos in the Philippines is divided into two regions, namely Ilocos Sur Philippines and Ilocos Norte Philippines. Ilocos Philippines is located at the northern part of Luzon Philippines, somewhere at the top of Baguio Philippines and La Union Philippines.

Ilocus Sur Philippines is closely adjacent to La Union Philippines or the southerpart of Ilocos in the Philippines. It is part of Ilocos Philippines that features cultural heritage or Ilocos Sur Philippines is so-called the Heritage Village of the Philippines. This is due because, Ilocos Sur Philippines capital is the well known Vigan City Philippines where the World Heritage Known Ancestral Homes where situated. Vigan City Philippines, as we all know boast of its 16^th century old ancestral homes where UNESCO World Heritage have noted it and included it on their List of World Heritage places in the world.

Another cultural heritage one could see at Ilocos Sur Philippines is the Sta. Maria Church. This church is an ancestral fortress of the Philippine Revolution during 1896.This church is a landmark church, thus you could immediately saw Sta. Maria Church the moment you foot set upon Ilocos Sur in the Philippines, specifically at the Municipality of Sta.Maria Ilocos Sur where Sta. Maria Church is located.

Another cultural heritage that can be found at Ilocus Sur Philippines is the Tirad Pass National Shrine. Tirad Pass is known as the last stand or last defense fortress of General Emilio Aguinaldo’s revolutionary forces. The young Filipino general whom General Emilio Aguinaldo has appointed to head over the forces to defend Tirad Pass is the young General named Gregorio Del Pilar. This National Shrine is located at Municipality of Conception which now known as the Municipality of Gregorio Del Pilar.

Another cultural heritage of Ilocos Sur in the Philippines is the Bessang Pass. Bessang Pass is the last stronghold of the Japanese occupation in the Philippines which fall at the hands of the forces of the United States. Actually, Bessang Pass is a controversial place at the time of Marcos Regime. This is so because President Ferdinand Marcos then claims that he is the “real hero” of the Bessang Pass which sparks shocks among the real Filipinos who suffer and fight at the place itself. Even the guerillas then were shock because they never see any President Ferdinand Marcos trace at the site. They even thought that President Ferdinand Marcos was at Nueva Viscaya Philippines then. But President Ferdinand Marcos then insist that he is the real hero behind it, and since he is dictator leader then no one can rebuke him. But until a late military man named Col. Bonifacio Gillego who becomes a congressman then make a probe of President Ferdinand Marcos claim. He has discovered at the archives of US military that indeed President Ferdinand Marcos is a big Liar or a real fake hero of Bessang Pass.