Category: CHANGE

Usaping EDSA, kaliwa, kanan, at gitna

All the talk amid this grand corruption scandal about doing an EDSA version 2025 to remove both president and vice president — the militant Left (Makabayan, BAYAN, KBKK orgs) wanting to replace them with a transition council and the Right wanting to replace them with a military-civilian junta — is just so disruptive. Neither is going to happen anyway.

For the Right’s military junta to happen, the retired military officers would need factions of the active military to join if not lead them, a la JPE-RAM and FVR-PC-INP in ’86, except that these wanna-coup military retirees started out pro-DDS and therefore are likely to be pro-China, too, which active AFP and PNP, and most Pinoys, are not, no ifs or buts about it.

For the Left’s transition council to happen naman, the progressive militants would need for the prez and veep to resign first; only then could the sitting senate prez be asked to lead a multi-sectoral mostly-leftist council that would call and prepare for the election of reformist candidates with a program for systemic change. Except that PBBM and VP Sara are not going to resign on the say-so of militant leftists whose public cred is still in recovery A.D. (After Duterte). Hindi bale sana kung kaisa nila ang Liberals and moderate Left (Akabayan, TPMM orgs) na medyo namamayagpag ngayon pero maingat na gumigitna.

What’s the point nga naman of prioritizing BBM’s case when he’s immune from suit anyway while he’s president. At least he’s got the process moving, DPWH Sec Vince Dizon and Ombudsman Boying Remulla inspire confidence, and yes the ICI needs contempt and prosecutorial powers and hearings should be made public, let’s not stop demanding such, and let’s keep informed, the more quickly to grasp and respond to unwarranted twists and turns.

This is an interregnum, a bardo, a transition state of great opportunity, to be savored and valued because painfully finally gained by a populace awakened to the harsh consequences of corruption in failed flood-control programs, our worst suspicions confirmed that the senators and congressmen we keep voting into office are the worst kurakots pala and we want to see them all in jail. Ngayon lang natin narating ang ganitong antas ng kamalayan. Huwag sana nating sayangin.

PAHABOL. If there’s anything about EDSA ’86 that deserves, even warrants, re-playing, it’s uniting behind one candidate vs. Sara in 2028. Basta anti-corruption at reformist ang platform. Ke si Risa o si Gibo, si Tulfo o si Sotto, magkaisa tayo. It’s the only way forward.

The Great Conjunction

JEANNIE JAVELOSA  

Tonight and tomorrow dawn will be a perfect time to intensify prayer, meditation, positive intentions to kickstart positive shifts and look up to the sky to see a fantastic rare celestial event called the Great Conjunction of the planets Saturn and Jupiter (in 0.29 degrees of the Aquarius constellation). This degree position can be likened to a seed which holds the potential of the great tree that the seed can grow into.Just google the internet to learn more but this event as everyone is talking about it.

In a nutshell from my astro-evolutionary understanding: this event pushes humanity into intensified changes plus a new trajectory and paradigm of consciousness: the “new norm” that we are all struggling to define now. It is about creating new sustainable structures that benefit the many and not just one; of drawing in spiritual energies into the practicality of our daily lives; of choices that support life aligned to the planet and not just profit; of collaborations for the good and that the way is collective and not alone.

More remarkable in its timing, the great conjunction happens at the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year and the annual cycle of “deepest slumber of the soul”. How potent a timing this is as the planetarial alignments trigger a new awakening of humanity’s soul at its galactic connection to God’s multiverse.

Ancient and present day astronomers and astrologers have followed and studied similar events in the past identifying these points as the beginning of a new leap on consciousness on the macro level where new socio-spiritual-cultural movements begin: as it was seen as the Bethlehem star highlighting the Christos Light descending into human form,

Galileo’s study of this that began the intense studies of space and the beginning of the Renaissance period in the west. Some say last this was seen was back 400, 600, 800 years back. With so much info online what we can say is that on a personal level, it will mark intense changes towards a new and different trajectory whether you are ready or not.

As someone who reads the stars, I can only marvel in awe at the perfection of timing of the Divine Intelligence. So let us take the shift with no fear, let the old structures that do not work…go, let healing embrace you and be open to the radically different. (For those who know their birth charts, check the degree and house where Aquarius is in your chart, that’s where you will see the push where the shift of your life will come from.)

Wanted: An alternative political movement

Elizabeth Angsioco

“Crazy? No. Doable? Yes.”

In just three months, the Filipino electorate will again troop to the polls for the midterm elections. Historically, less voters exercise their right to suffrage during midterms. I have heard people say that it is less important than presidential elections. People tend to think that if the presidency is not at stake, then the elections are less crucial.

I disagree. Let us look at the coming elections in terms of numbers. Except for the positions of President, Vice President, and twelve (12) Senators, all other elective positions are at stake. ONLY 14 of the tens of thousands of positions will not be affected by midterm elections. Thus, the coming elections cannot be less important because the people we will elect will determine the trajectory of our country.

Read on…

calling on the church, the integrated bar, and the communists

on facebook, duterte’s pa-thinking trolls have been bashing bashing bashing vp leni for being on vacation in the states during and after typhoon nina that hit her home province hard.  kesyo hindi daw dapat umalis in the first place, kesyo dapat umuwi na, now na, kesyo wala siyang kuwentang vice president, at kung ano ano pang panlalait na tuloytuloy lang, to the point na OA na, as though the vp had committed, were committing, an impeachable offense?  medyo over the top, guys.

i suppose it has everything to do with rumors of an attempt to oust duterte and replace him with leni before january 10 when, it is also rumored, the supreme court is set to replace leni with bongbong, which btw rendered rene saguisag incredulous (what with an indolent SC in the middle of a long break), and so you wonder why these pa-thinking peeps are even dignifying it, one of them even warning that if leni et al. should attempt a people power action, well, sila mismo, with mocha in the lead, playing joan of arc i guess, would respond in kind.  how exciting.

i suppose, too, that it is these same rumors that had the president flipflopping on martial law. just early this december he had said it would be “kalokohan,” he would not allow oppression, it did not do any good the first time around, blah blah blah.  but just before christmas he was suddenly lamenting that he couldn’t impose military rule without the ok of congress and the supreme court, and practically ordering that the charter be amended to allow him to do a marcos!  takot ako, seriously.

i suppose also that leni being in new york of all places is driving them paranoid.  easy to imagine that she’s cozying up to loida and, who knows, ex-ambassador goldberg?  UN human rights commissioners?  the CIA?  the senators markey, coons, and rubio?  the extrajudicial killings has rendered the president infamous, after all, his war on drugs failing to net any big fish but a lot of small fry who have no ex-deals to offer, not to speak of the bystanders, and the “innocent until proven guilty” that’s been honoured more in the breach than the observance in the last six months.

read david balangue’s Justice–Philippine style.  and manolo quezon’s Freedom from fear.  and this, from tony la viña, posted on facebook the day after his bloomberg TV interview on extrajudicial killings.

… we are nearing a point when legally and politically, whether intended or not, what is happening in the country will be considered by objective and independent international mechanisms as genocide. It’s the number and the typology of the victims, certainly not mainly pushers or definitely not drug lords, at most addicts and users with increasing number of innocents and almost universally poor. The evidence being gathered is damming and at some point will be overwhelming. It will not only have aid implications but there will be severe trade consequences once genocide is determined. Can ordinary citizens stop it other than self-restraint by the government? In my view, only the Church acting with such institutions like the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, and the communists by making human rights compliance a non-negotiable in the peace talks are in a position to make a difference here. The opposition is too weakened or compromised or complicit to even contribute to what has to be done. 

“self-restraint by the government” is a pie in the sky, given the president’s martial law talk.  and indeed, even the opposition (leni loida leila and LP, take note) is “too weakened or compromised or complicit to even contribute to what has to be done.”

but, yes, the church acting with such institutions like the integrated bar, and the communists by making human rights compliance a non-negotiable in the peace talks — they ARE in a position to make a difference.  especially the communists.  would that they rise to the occasion this time around.  not necessarily to oust duterte but, at the very least, to make. him. stop. the. killings.