METAL POISONING AS CAUSE OF I.Q. DECREASE
Metals: The Reason You Still Feel Sick
Posted By Dr. Mercola
July 22 2008
Most people are absolutely clueless about just how toxic mercury is. It is toxic at one in one billion-part quantities. That is about the same concentration of one grain of salt in one swimming pool. That is why having mercury fillings is such a major challenge to your health.
Heavy metal toxicity, just like chemical toxicity, has become one of the most pressing health hazards of our day. Your body is assailed by chemicals and heavy metals on a daily basis, oftentimes from the most innocent-looking sources, from your everyday cookware to your child’s rubber ducky.
It has now gotten to the point where babies are being BORN toxic due to the toxic load of their mothers. A 2004 study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) found that blood samples from newborns contained an average of 287 toxins, including mercury, fire retardants, pesticides and chemicals in non-stick cookware.
Despite these dire warning signs, giant corporations and industry advocates like The American Chemistry Council are fighting tooth and nail to block any and all proposed bans on toxic agents that happen to be part of their profit-making schemes. According to EnviroBlog, the latest army of lobbyists is trying to crush U.S. Senate Bill 1313, which calls for a ban of perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) in concentrations exceeding 0.1 percent from food packaging, for example.
And California State Senate Bill 1713, which would ban BPA from baby bottles and toys, is also under attack by hired guns who are trying to scare everyone into believing this bill will put an end to all canned and jarred goods.
If there ever was a time to get more involved in the political process – as these are serious survival issues -- now might be a good time.
How Do You Know if You’re Suffering from Metal Toxicity?
Acute metal toxicity is a lot easier to diagnose than that of chronic exposure. Indications of acute toxicity include:
• Sudden, severe cramping and/or convulsions
• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Sweating
• Headache
• Difficulty breathing
• Impaired cognitive, motor and language skills
Symptoms of toxic build-up due to chronic toxic metal exposure, however, are much more subtle, in large part because these symptoms are so “common,” such as:
• Fatigue
• Digestive distress, and reduced ability to properly assimilate and utilize fats
• Aching joints
• Depression
• Impaired blood sugar regulation
• Female reproductive problems such as menstrual difficulties, infertility, miscarriage, pre-eclampsia, pregnancy-induced hypertension and premature birth
Sound like anyone you know?
Add to that your exposure to toxic fluoride in your municipal drinking water, which actually increases your body’s uptake of aluminum, in addition to all the other health damaging effects it has in and of itself, and it’s no wonder you’re feeling less than great.
Why is Your Diet so Important When it Comes to Toxic Metal Detox?
In addition to limiting your exposure to toxic metals, which I will go over shortly, you need to focus on eating a healthy diet, preferably based on your nutritional type to reap the maximum overall health benefits.
The Weston A. Price diet recommendations, which were written in 1920 and still, like all truths, hold true today, includes these timeless guidelines:
• Eat foods that are natural, unprocessed, and organic (and contain no sugar except for the occasional bit of honey or maple syrup).
• Eat foods that grow in your native environment. In other words, eat locally grown, seasonal foods.
• Eat unpasteurized dairy products (such as raw milk) and fermented foods.
• Eat at least one-third of your food raw.
• Make sure you eat enough healthy fats, including those from animal sources like omega-3 fat, and reduce your intake of omega-6 from vegetable oils.
As Dr. Daniel et.al. explain in this article, optimal nutrition is essential when dealing with metal toxicity because if you are deficient in essential metals, your body will use toxic metals as “stand-ins” instead. For example:
• Calcium is replaced by lead, which deposits primarily in bone, and disrupts the formation of red blood cells. Lead contributes to poor bone health such as osteopenia and osteoporosis.
• Zinc is replaced by cadmium, which tends to accumulate heavily in your kidneys. Cadmium overload is associated with peripheral neuropathy.
• Magnesium is replaced by aluminum, which, among other things, induces neurochemical changes and has been identified as a contributing factor to developing Alzheimer’s.
• Manganese is replaced by nickel, which is carcinogenic.
Secondly, you also need vital nutrients to aid your natural detoxification process.
A lot more information about this subject will be discussed in my upcoming Inner Circle interview with Dr. Kaayla Daniel, co-author of the article above and the book, The Whole Soy Story, which I recently reviewed in my brand new Book Reviews column.
I also highly recommend subscribing to the Weston A. Price Foundation’s journal, Wise Traditions. This quarterly journal is dedicated to exploring the scientific validation of dietary, agricultural and medical traditions throughout the world. It features informative and thought-provoking articles on current scientific research; human diets; non-toxic agriculture; and holistic therapies. It also offers sources for organic foods that have been conscientiously grown and processed.
You can find their membership form at this link.
Guidelines for Reducing Your Toxic Metal Exposure
It may seem like a fight you’re destined to lose, however I firmly believe you can reduce you exposure to toxic metals quite dramatically, thereby giving your body a fighting chance to eliminate accumulated toxins and restore health.
These guidelines can help limit your exposure:
• Use glass, cast iron, carbon steel, titanium, and enamel cookware. Both aluminum and non-stick cookware are well known for their toxic dangers, and stainless steel can expose you to carcinogenic nickel.
• Minimize consumption of restaurant food as restaurants are required to use stainless steel pots and vats.
• Avoid stainless steel thermoses; the glass lined kinds are best. Later this year I will be offering glass water bottles that can also be used in lieu of a thermos, with neoprene sleeves to protect them from breaking.
• Avoid cosmetics with aluminum bases, mineral powders that contain bismuth, and aluminum-laden antiperspirants, which have been shown to increase your Alzheimer’s risk by as much as 300 percent!
• Avoid vaccinations that inject mercury or aluminum directly into your bloodstream.
• Avoid and remove dental amalgam fillings.
• Avoid stainless steel orthodontics such as braces and palate wideners.
• Avoid costume jewelry if you are sensitive to metals.
• Avoid smoking and second hand smoke as it causes cadmium poisoning.
• Make sure you purchase your natural herbal remedies from a reputable source with strict quality testing. Some colloidal silvers can lead to silver poisoning, and some folk remedies can be high in mercury, lead and arsenic, either due to alleged medicinal properties or through unintentional contamination.
• Avoid conventional household cleaning products.
• Avoid conventional insecticides and herbicides. Also be VERY cautious when using the “natural alternative” Borax (boric acid), which can also cause serious health problems, including death.
Source: Mad as a Hatter -- How to Avoid Toxic Metals and Clear Them From the Body (PDF)
Related Links:
No One is Safe From Chemical Overload
How to Avoid the Top 10 Most Common Toxins
Non-Stick Cookware Continues to Prove Its Toxicity
Nutritional Typing--Your Number 1 Defense Against Toxic Metals
Posted By Dr. Mercola | June 19 2004 | 12,155 views
By William L. Wolcott, Author, "The Metabolic Typing Diet"
Toxic metals are a scourge of modern living. Most of us who live in "civilized" societies are continuously exposed to high concentrations of them. Unfortunately, these toxic contaminants have become an integral part of our industrialized culture. Metals like aluminum, cadmium, lead and mercury are commonly found in thousands of different food products, household products, personal products and untold numbers of industrial products and chemicals.
The really bad news is that soon after we’re exposed to them, the toxic metals are rapidly removed from blood circulation and shunted away to tissue storage sites in vital tissues where they disrupt our biological systems and wreak havoc on our health.
The presence of toxic metals in our systems is highly significant for they are capable of causing serious health problems through interfering with normal biological functioning. Although they can be found in high concentrations in the body, a number of these heavy metals (aluminum, beryllium, cadmium, lead and mercury) have no known biological function. Others (arsenic, copper, iron and nickel) are thought to be essential at low concentrations, but are toxic at high levels. Generally speaking, heavy metals disrupt metabolic function in two basic ways:
1. First, they accumulate and thereby disrupt function in vital organs and glands such as the heart, brain, kidneys, bone, liver, etc.
2. Second, they displace vital nutritional minerals from where they should be in the body to provide biological function. For example, enzymes are catalysts for virtually every biochemical reaction in all life-sustaining processes of metabolism. But instead of calcium being present in an enzyme reaction, lead or cadmium may be there in its place. Toxic metals can't fulfill the same role as the nutritional minerals, thus their presence becomes critically disruptive to enzyme activity.
Because their impact is at such a foundational level, metals can be causal factors in literally any health problem. This is graphically illustrated in the chart below, which summarizes the sources of each of the toxic metals as well as their adverse effects on the body.
If your job or living circumstances expose you to toxic metals, you would do well to minimize or eliminate your exposure as much as possible. Be aware that there are many ways these toxins can be absorbed into your body--through foods and beverages, skin exposure, and via the air you breathe. So, whenever possible, wear gloves, use protective breathing apparatuses, and be sure to obtain fresh air ventilation.
Avoiding Toxic Metal Exposure is Impossible
Such preventative measures are worthwhile and important , but ultimately futile. The inesacpable reality is that it is impossible in this day and age not to be exposed to toxic metals. It is only a matter of how much and how often. So what can we do to prevent their accumulation in our systems and rid ourselves of them if they’re already present? Fortunately, a solution is at hand. Eating right for your Metabolic Type can not only protect you from heavy metal accumulation, but can also empower your body to literally throw them out of your system for good.
Accumulation of toxins in the body is not normal. In fact, your body is designed to be healthy and function at peak performance. Every cell in your body knows exactly what to do and how to do it perfectly, whether a liver cell, a brain cell, a bone cell, etc. And along with this, detoxifying is part of the nature of every cell as well. If it wasn’t, cells would die from autointoxication from their own waste--produced from their own chemical activities.
The critical factor determining whether or not toxic metals are retained in the body is biochemical balance at the time of exposure (and during the period after accumulation). Remember that the body is designed to detoxify. Think of this natural capacity to detoxify as being like a computer program in every cell that is always trying to run. But the kicker is that cells need "the proper biochemical balance" in order to carry this through:
1. For proper chelating factors needed to pick up the toxic metals
2. For sufficient energy production to move waste out of the cell
3. For the proper selective membrane permeability to hold nutrients in and keep waste out.
It is the differences in the status of these factors between individuals that accounts for variability in toxic accumulation.
If the chemistry is properly balanced, meaning:
• If the cells can produce the energy to mobilize the toxic metals
• If the chelating factors are available in the cells to pick up the toxic metals
• If the cells can efficiently regulate selective membrane permeability
... then the cells will throw out the heavy metals as fast as they are taken in from exposure. Furthermore, as biochemical balance is restored at the cellular level, the innate capacity of the cells to detoxify kicks into gear and past accumulations are mobilized from storage sites for excretion.
But if the chemistry is not balanced, then the body's natural defense against toxic metals is undermined. Having no recourse against the toxic metals, the body is forced to store them away in its vital tissues, where, over time, they can do their insidious work, contributing to all manner of degenerative processes.
When you begin to properly balance body chemistry by addressing the needs of metabolic individuality through Metabolic Typing, the negative and health damaging process of toxic metal accumulation is reversed in a normal, natural way. Now every cell's natural capacity to detoxify is activated, unleashed, restored. As a result, the cells dutifully begin to mobilize the toxic metals if they have been stored and resist their accumulation when exposed.
How Toxic Metals Harm
TOXIC METAL SOURCES EFFECTS
ALUMINUM alum, aluminum foil, animal feed, antacids, aspirin, auto exhaust, baking powder, beer, bleached flour, cans, ceramics, cheese, cigarette filters, color additives, construction materials, cookware, cosmetics, dental amalgams, deodorants, drinking water, drying agents, dust, insulated wiring, medicinal compounds, milk products, nasal spray, pesticides, pollution, salt, tap water, tobacco smoke, toothpaste, treated water, vanilla powder. ALS, Alzheimer's, anemia, appetite loss, behavioral problems, cavities, colds, colitis, confusion, constipation, dementia, dry mouth, dry skin, energy loss, excessive perspiration, flatulence, headaches, heartburn, hyperactivity, inhibition of enzyme systems, kidney dysfunction, lowered immune function, learning disabilities, leg twitching, liver dysfunction, memory loss, neuromuscular disorders, numbness, osteoporosis, paralysis, Parkinson's disease, peptic ulcer, psychosis, reduced intestinal activity, senility, skin problems, spleen pain, stomach pain, weak and aching muscles
ARSENIC burning of arsenate treated building materials, coal combustion, insect sprays, pesticides, soils (arsenic rich), seafood from coastal waters, especially mussels, oysters and shrimp abdominal pain, anorexia, brittle nails, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, chronic anemia, burning in mouth / esophagus / stomach / bowel, confusion, convulsions, dermatitis, drowsiness, enzyme inhibition, garlicky odor to breath / stool, hair loss, headaches, hyper-pigmentation of nails and skin, increased risk of liver / lung / skin cancers, low grade fever, mucous in nose and throat, muscle aches / spasms / weakness, nervousness, respiratory tract infection, swallowing difficulty, sweet metallic taste, throat constriction
BERYLLIUM coal burning, manufacturing, household products, industrial dust disturbance of calcium and vitamin D metabolism, magnesium depletion, lung cancer, lung infection, rickets, vital organ dysfunction
CADMIUM airborne industrial contaminants, batteries, candy, ceramics, cigarette smoke, colas, congenital intoxication, copper refineries, copper alloys, dental alloys, drinking water, electroplating, fertilizers, food from contaminated soil, fungicides, incineration of tires / rubber / plastic, instant coffee, iron roofs, kidney, liver, marijuana, processed meat, evaporated milk, motor oil, oysters, paint, pesticides, galvanized pipes, processed foods, refined grains / flours cereals, rubber, rubber carpet backing, seafoods (cod, haddock, oyster, tuna), sewage, silver polish, smelters, soft water, solders (including in food cans), tobacco, vending machine soft drinks, tools, vapor lamps, water (city, softened, well), welding metal alcoholism, alopecia, anemia, arthritis (osteo and rheumatoid), bone disease, bone pain in middle of bones, cancer, cardiovascular disease, cavities, cerebral hemorrhage, cirrhosis, diabetes, digestive disturbances, emphysema, enlarged heart, flu-like symptoms, growth impairment, headaches, high cholesterol, hyperkinetic behavior, hypertension, hypoglycemia, impotence, inflammation, infertility, kidney disease, learning disorders, liver damage, lung disease, migraines, nerve cell damage, osteoporosis, prostate dysfunction, reproductive disorders, schizophrenia, stroke
COPPER birth control pills, congenital intoxication, copper cookware, copper IUDs, copper pipes, dental alloys, fungicides, ice makers, industrial emissions, insecticides, swimming pools, water (city / well), welding, avocado, beer, bluefish, bone meal, chocolate, corn oil, crabs, gelatin, grains, lamb, liver, lobster, margarine, milk, mushrooms, nuts, organ meats, oysters, perch, seeds, shellfish, soybeans, tofu, wheat germ, yeast acne, adrenal insufficiency, allergies, alopecia, anemia, anorexia, anxiety, arthritis (osteo & rheumatoid), autism, cancer, chills, cystic fibrosis, depression, diabetes, digestive disorders, dry mouth, dysinsulinism, estrogen dominance, fatigue, fears, fractures, fungus, heart attack, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, Hodgkin's disease, hyperactivity, hypertension, hyperthyroid, low hydrochloric acid, hypoglycemia, infections, inflammation, insomnia, iron loss, jaundice, kidney disorders, libido decreased, lymphoma, mental illness, migraines, mood swings, multiple sclerosis, myocardial infarction, nausea, nervousness, osteoporosis, pancreatic dysfunction, panic attacks, paranoia, phobias, PMS, schizophrenia, senility, sexual dysfunction, spacey feeling, stuttering, stroke, tooth decay, toxemia of pregnancy, urinary tract infections, yeast infections
IRON drinking water, iron cookware, iron pipes, welding,. foods: blackstrap molasses, bone meal, bran, chives, clams, heart, kidney, leafy vegetables, legumes, liver, meat, molasses, nuts, organ meats, oysters, parsley, red wine, refined foods, shellfish, soybeans, wheat germ, whole grains amenorrhea, anger, rheumatoid arthritis, birth defects, bleeding gums, cancer, constipation, diabetes, dizziness, emotional problems, fatigue, headache, heart damage, heart failure, hepatitis, high blood pressure, hostility, hyperactivity, infections, insomnia, irritability, joint pain, liver disease, loss of weight, mental problems, metallic taste in mouth, myasthenia gravis, nausea, pancreas damage, Parkinson's disease, premature aging, schizophrenia, scurvy, shortness of breath, stubborness
LEAD ash, auto exhaust, battery manufacturing, bone meal, canned fruit and juice, car batteries, cigarette smoke, coal combustion, colored inks, congenital intoxication, cosmetics, eating utensils, electroplating, household dust, glass production, hair dyes, industrial emissions, lead pipes, lead-glazed earthenware pottery, liver, mascara, metal polish, milk, newsprint, organ meats, paint, pencils, pesticides, produce near roads, putty, rain water, pvc containers, refineries, smelters, snow, tin cans with lead solder sealing (such as juices, vegetables), tobacco, toothpaste, toys, water (city / well), wine abdominal pain, adrenal insufficiency, allergies, anemia, anorexia, anxiety, arthritis (rheumatoid and osteo), attention deficit disorder, autism, back pain, behavioral disorders, blindness, cardiovascular disease, cartilage destruction, coordination loss, concentration loss, constipation, convulsions, deafness, depression, dyslexia, emotional instability, encephalitis, epilepsy, fatigue, gout, hallucinations, headaches, hostility, hyperactivity, hypertension, hypothyroid, impotence, immune suppression, decreased IQ, indigestion, infertility, insomnia, irritability, joint pain, kidney disorders, learning disability, liver dysfunction, loss of will, memory loss (long term), menstrual problems, mood swings, muscle aches, muscle weakness, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, myelopathy (spinal cord pathology), nausea, nephritis, nightmares, numbness, Parkinson's disease, peripheral neuropathies, psychosis, psychomotor dysfunction, pyorrhea, renal dysfunction, restlessness, retardation, schizophrenia, seizures, sterility, stillbirths, sudden infant death syndrome, tingling, tooth decay, vertigo, unintentional weight loss
MERCURY adhesives, air conditioner filters, algaecides, antiseptics, battery manufacturing, body powders, broken thermometers, burning newspapers and building materials, calomel lotions, cereals, congenital intoxication, cosmetics, dental amalgams, diuretics, fabric softeners, felt, floor waxes, fungicides, germicides, grains, industrial waste, insecticides, laxatives, lumber, manufacture of paper and chlorine, medications, mercurochrome, paints, paper products, pesticides, photoengraving, polluted water, Preparation H, psoriasis ointment, seafoods (especially tuna and swordfish), sewage disposal, skin lightening creams, soft contact lens solution, suppositories, tanning leather, tattooing, water (contaminated), wood preservatives adrenal dysfunction, allergy, alopecia, anorexia, anxiety, birth defects, blushing, brain damage, cataracts, cerebral palsy, poor coordination / jerky movements, deafness, depression, dermatitis, discouragement, dizziness, drowsiness, eczema, emotional disturbances, excess saliva, fatigue, gum bleeding and soreness, headaches (band type), hearing loss, hyperactivity, hypothyroidism, forgetfulness, immune dysfunction, insomnia, irritability, joint pain, kidney damage, loss of self-control, memory loss, mental retardation, metallic taste, migraines, nervousness, nerve fiber degeneration, numbness, pain in limbs, rashes, retinitis, schizophrenia, shyness, speech disorders, suicidal tendencies, tingling, tremors (eyelids, lips, tongue, fingers, extremities), vision loss, weakness
NICKEL butter, fertilizers, food processing, fuel oil combustion, hydrogenated fats and oils, imitation whipped cream, industrial waste, kelp, margarine, nuclear device testing, oysters, stainless steel cookware, tea, tobacco smoke, unrefined grains and cereals, vegetable shortening anorexia, kidney dysfunction, apathy, disruption of hormone and lipid metabolism, fever, hemorrhages, headache, heart attack, intestinal cancer, low blood pressure, muscle tremors, nausea, oral cancer, skin problems, vomiting
Source: Nutritional Typing--Your Number 1 Defense Against Toxic Metals
Posted By Dr. Mercola | June 19 2004
www.mercola.com
Author: William L. Wolcott, Author, "The Metabolic Typing Diet"
Should You Detox to Get Rid of Chemicals?
Posted By Dr. Mercola
May 23 2009
Detoxification is growing increasingly popular. The basic premise is that your body accumulates more toxins in the modern world than its natural detoxification system (your liver, kidneys and lungs) can get rid of. Proponents say that chemicals from pesticides, chlorine, bleach and ammonia, and carbon monoxide build up over time and cause disease.
Dr. Tanya Edwards, director of the Cleveland Clinic's Center for Integrative Medicine, often starts patients out with a change in diet. Because Americans tend to have diets that lead to constipation, a change in diet can accomplish the same thing as many herbal detoxification products that are really just laxatives.
People are ideally supposed to have one or two bowel movements a day, but many people go two or three days between eliminations. The normal pathway for toxins to move out of the body is through the liver, which converts harmful chemicals into water-soluble molecules that can be flushed out in the urine or feces. If there's a delay in elimination, however, those toxins remain in your system longer.
Tamara MacDonald, a naturopathic physician, uses detox techniques because some people aren't able to detoxify chemicals naturally -- their systems aren't working well for one reason or another. But MacDonald is wary of poorly researched techniques like foot baths and colonics, and thinks that people should steer clear of fasting techniques like the "Master Cleanse," a 10-day detox plan that consists of nothing but lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper.
"One of the worst things that you can do for your body in terms of detoxification is doing a fast," she says. "That was the idea about 20 or 30 years ago, but we know now that your body actually needs specific nutrients to be able to perform its job of detoxification."
Dr.Mercola's Comments:
As Dr. Edwards states in the article above, the old idea for detoxing was to fast, but your body needs nutrients to perform optimally under any condition, and that includes performing the tasks of detoxification.
Your environment has profound impact on your health. Everything from the quality of the air you breathe to what you put into, and onto your body makes a difference. Mercury alone can mimic or cause any illness currently known, or at least contribute to it. Detoxing and cleansing your body of toxins periodically can definitely help counteract some of this onslaught of damage.
But what is the best way to rid your system of toxins?
The Top Ten Priorities for Detoxification
Late last year, I participated in a three day think-tank outside of Los Angeles with some of the top experts in autism detoxification. We explored some of the major modalities that are available. I will be presenting this information in Chicago this weekend at the Chicago Autism One Conference.
The group came up with the following consensus and priority for achieving optimal health:
1. Healthy Living
2. Avoiding Electromagnetic Fields (EMF)
3. Clean Water
4. Healthy Food
5. Healthy Movement
6. Emotions & Relationships
7. Tests
8. Organ Support
9. Supplements
10. Detox Tools
As you can see detoxification is an important tool, but it is not at the top of the priority list -- especially if you are sick. Unfortunately, a lot of people first consider detoxing when they’re not feeling well.
It’s important to realize that if you fail to follow an orderly process and begin detoxification processes prematurely, it can deteriorate your health even further, making you very sick.
Why is Your Diet so Important When it Comes to Detoxing?
In addition to avoiding or limiting your exposure to toxins, you need to focus on eating a healthy diet, preferably based on your nutritional type to reap maximum overall health benefits.
The Weston A. Price diet recommendations -- which were written in 1920 and still, like all truths, hold true today -- includes these timeless guidelines:
• Eat foods that are natural, unprocessed, and organic (and contain no sugar except for the occasional bit of honey or maple syrup).
• Eat foods that grow in your native environment. In other words, eat locally grown, seasonal foods.
• Eat unpasteurized dairy products (such as raw milk) and fermented foods.
• Eat at least one-third of your food raw.
• Make sure you eat enough healthy fats, including those from animal sources like omega-3 fat, and reduce your intake of omega-6 from vegetable oils.
Additionally, it’s important to understand that if you’re deficient in essential metals, your body will actually use toxic heavy metals as “stand-ins” instead.
For example:
• Calcium is replaced by lead, which deposits primarily in bone, and disrupts the formation of red blood cells. Lead contributes to poor bone health such as osteopenia and osteoporosis.
• Zinc is replaced by cadmium, which tends to accumulate heavily in your kidneys. Cadmium overload is associated with peripheral neuropathy.
• Magnesium is replaced by aluminum, which, among other things, induces neurochemical changes and has been identified as a contributing factor to developing Alzheimer’s.
• Manganese is replaced by nickel, which is carcinogenic.
So not only do you need to make sure you’re getting vital nutrients in order to avoid this toxic metal replacement process, you also need nutrients to aid your body’s natural detoxification process.
Toxins are naturally eliminated from your body through your liver. It converts many (but not all) of the harmful chemicals you ingest or absorb into water-soluble molecules that are flushed out in your urine or feces.
Remember, Your Skin Eliminates Toxins Too
One beneficial detox method is using an infra-red sauna, particularly for slow metabolizers. It heats your tissues several inches deep, which can enhance your natural metabolic processes. It also enhances circulation and helps oxygenate your tissues.
Your skin is another major organ of elimination, but many people do not sweat on a regular basis. This may be due to wearing synthetic or tight clothing that does not breathe. Sedentary living and sun damage also inactivate your skin. Repeated use of the sauna slowly restores skin elimination, which can help reduce your toxic load quite significantly. Steam baths, sweat lodges, vigorous exercise and hot tubs are other options, but not as effective.
Your results will be best when saunas are part of an integrated program as described above. You may want to add some natural, unprocessed salt to your diet to replace minerals lost through sweating.
Cautionary Notes
Please remember that you should avoid starting any detox regimen when you are sick.
You need to establish a healthy lifestyle and dietary habits FIRST, so you have a reserve that your body can draw on to allow your liver to do its job properly.
If you fail to do this you can easily overwhelm your liver's ability to process the toxic substances that are being eliminated and you will become very sick, wishing you had never done the detox in the first place. I have seen this happen many times, so please use caution and evaluate your current state of health before embarking on any kind of detoxification program.
Source: The Cleveland Plain Dealer May 5, 2009
Related Links:
Detox in the Sauna
'Detoxifying' Foot Pads are a Scam
The Detoxx System: Detoxification of Biotoxins in Chronic Neurotoxic Syndrome
Friday, December 30, 2011
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
PTA VISION
Parents-Teachers’ Association –
Agsoso Elementary School
Agsoso, Loon, Bohol
VISION:
Each pupil turned into a successful FarmTalEntrepreneur
Kada usa sa magtutungha nahimong usa ka malampusong Mag-uumang Negosyanteng De-abilidad
Through a Team-Synergistic PTA
Pinaagi sa usa ka mabungahong pagtinabangay sa PTA
Bringing true total progress and sustainable development to the old village
Nga naghatud ug tinuod nga ka-asensohan ug maluntarong kalambuan sa
karaang balangay
Where the good of the ancient meets the best of the modern
Diin ang mga maayong butang ug pamaagi sa karaan ug bag-ong panahon nag-abot
Thus, preventing forced migration, foreign slavery,
Nga maoy nakapaundang sa pinugos nga paglalin, kaulipnan sa langyaw nga nasud,
And marital breakdown and family disintegration and scattering,
Ug pagkawasak-wasak ug pagkabungkag sa kaminyoon ug pamilya,
Sparing our children from the temptations and short-lived passing sweets of the cities,
Magapalikay sa atong mga kabataan sa mga tentasyon ug lumalabay katam-is sa syudad,
Shielding them from the immorality and spiritual degeneration
Magataming kanila batok sa imoralidad ug spirituahanong pagka-ot-ot
and lasting bitter pains and deadly dangerous traps of the modern world,
ug kalamayong mapait nga kasakit ug mapanganib nga mga lit-ag sa modernong kalibutan,
Restoring the ancient ideal of whole happy family,
Nagpabalik sa karaang aydiyal nga tibook ug malipayong pamilya,
Praying together and working together just around the corner
Sabay mag-amo ug sabay nanginabuhi
And living together in one home,
Ug nahiusang nagpuyo.
So that as one family and one nation, together we love, together we serve,
Aron isip usa ka pamilya ug nasud, sabay kitang nahigugma, sabay kitang nagsilbi
Yahweh-Jehovah-Jesus, our Father, God and Savior
Kang Yahweh-Yehoba-Hesus, atong Amahan, Ginoo ug Manluluwas
And together we love our fellow Creation as well as ourselves and families,
Ug sabay kitang maghigugma sa atong isigka-Nilalang sa Dios
ug sa atong mga kaugalingon ug mga pamilya,
Enjoying inner peace, abundant joy, true and full freedom,
Nagtagamtam sa tiunay nga kalinaw, madagayaong kalipay, tinuod ug hingpit nga kagawasan,
Lasting prosperity and eternal life in Christ
Malungtarong prosperidad ug walay katapusang kinabuhi diha ni Kristo.
And harmony with God, Fellow Creations, Family and Self.
Ug naangayng kalinay uban sa Dios, Isigkanilalang, Pamilya ug Kaugalingon.
So help me Abba.
Busa alalayi ako Amahan.
Agsoso Elementary School
Agsoso, Loon, Bohol
VISION:
Each pupil turned into a successful FarmTalEntrepreneur
Kada usa sa magtutungha nahimong usa ka malampusong Mag-uumang Negosyanteng De-abilidad
Through a Team-Synergistic PTA
Pinaagi sa usa ka mabungahong pagtinabangay sa PTA
Bringing true total progress and sustainable development to the old village
Nga naghatud ug tinuod nga ka-asensohan ug maluntarong kalambuan sa
karaang balangay
Where the good of the ancient meets the best of the modern
Diin ang mga maayong butang ug pamaagi sa karaan ug bag-ong panahon nag-abot
Thus, preventing forced migration, foreign slavery,
Nga maoy nakapaundang sa pinugos nga paglalin, kaulipnan sa langyaw nga nasud,
And marital breakdown and family disintegration and scattering,
Ug pagkawasak-wasak ug pagkabungkag sa kaminyoon ug pamilya,
Sparing our children from the temptations and short-lived passing sweets of the cities,
Magapalikay sa atong mga kabataan sa mga tentasyon ug lumalabay katam-is sa syudad,
Shielding them from the immorality and spiritual degeneration
Magataming kanila batok sa imoralidad ug spirituahanong pagka-ot-ot
and lasting bitter pains and deadly dangerous traps of the modern world,
ug kalamayong mapait nga kasakit ug mapanganib nga mga lit-ag sa modernong kalibutan,
Restoring the ancient ideal of whole happy family,
Nagpabalik sa karaang aydiyal nga tibook ug malipayong pamilya,
Praying together and working together just around the corner
Sabay mag-amo ug sabay nanginabuhi
And living together in one home,
Ug nahiusang nagpuyo.
So that as one family and one nation, together we love, together we serve,
Aron isip usa ka pamilya ug nasud, sabay kitang nahigugma, sabay kitang nagsilbi
Yahweh-Jehovah-Jesus, our Father, God and Savior
Kang Yahweh-Yehoba-Hesus, atong Amahan, Ginoo ug Manluluwas
And together we love our fellow Creation as well as ourselves and families,
Ug sabay kitang maghigugma sa atong isigka-Nilalang sa Dios
ug sa atong mga kaugalingon ug mga pamilya,
Enjoying inner peace, abundant joy, true and full freedom,
Nagtagamtam sa tiunay nga kalinaw, madagayaong kalipay, tinuod ug hingpit nga kagawasan,
Lasting prosperity and eternal life in Christ
Malungtarong prosperidad ug walay katapusang kinabuhi diha ni Kristo.
And harmony with God, Fellow Creations, Family and Self.
Ug naangayng kalinay uban sa Dios, Isigkanilalang, Pamilya ug Kaugalingon.
So help me Abba.
Busa alalayi ako Amahan.
PTA MISSION
PTA MISSION
TO ACHIEVE THE VISION:
To wholistically educate children so they will be turned into successful, self-employed,
independent, enterprising, home-based AGRO-INDUSTRIAL CITIZEN,
that is,
Farmer-Talentist-Entrepreneur (FarmTalEntrepreneur).
Who and What Is a
Farmer-Talentist-Entrepreneur (FarmTalEntrepreneur)?
He is a
A WHOLISTICALLY EDUCATED & TALENTED CHILD OR PERSON
Who is willing and committed and very able to help achieve the National Vision for the country.
WHAT IS A WHOLISTICALLY EDUCATED & TALENTED CHILD OR PERSON?
The whole person is made of heart-spirit, mind-soul and physical body.
So, a wholistically (holistically) educated child or person is he or she who is
Well-cultivated, nurtured and developed in body, mind-soul and heart-spirit
Where the body is strong, healthy and beautiful,
Where the mind-soul is intelligent and wise in God’s ways, not worldly ways,
And where the heart is filled with love and loving emotions towards God, neighbors and self,
Leading to prosperity and abundance in material things,
in wisdom-intelligence
and in healthy, loving, positive feelings-emotions
Based on the Order of God where He is our Father
and we are brothers and sisters to one another (Matthew 23),
becoming rich or prosperous in both earthly and spiritual riches.
TO ACHIEVE THE VISION:
To wholistically educate children so they will be turned into successful, self-employed,
independent, enterprising, home-based AGRO-INDUSTRIAL CITIZEN,
that is,
Farmer-Talentist-Entrepreneur (FarmTalEntrepreneur).
Who and What Is a
Farmer-Talentist-Entrepreneur (FarmTalEntrepreneur)?
He is a
A WHOLISTICALLY EDUCATED & TALENTED CHILD OR PERSON
Who is willing and committed and very able to help achieve the National Vision for the country.
WHAT IS A WHOLISTICALLY EDUCATED & TALENTED CHILD OR PERSON?
The whole person is made of heart-spirit, mind-soul and physical body.
So, a wholistically (holistically) educated child or person is he or she who is
Well-cultivated, nurtured and developed in body, mind-soul and heart-spirit
Where the body is strong, healthy and beautiful,
Where the mind-soul is intelligent and wise in God’s ways, not worldly ways,
And where the heart is filled with love and loving emotions towards God, neighbors and self,
Leading to prosperity and abundance in material things,
in wisdom-intelligence
and in healthy, loving, positive feelings-emotions
Based on the Order of God where He is our Father
and we are brothers and sisters to one another (Matthew 23),
becoming rich or prosperous in both earthly and spiritual riches.
REGULAR AGENDA
REGULAR AGENDA:
Sharing of deeper interpretation and understanding of our PTA Vision and Mission by assigned parent and teacher and other instant volunteer/s;
Suggestions on how to achieve our PTA Vision and how to accomplish our PTA Mission;
Agree to a common plan, project, program or action to attain our PTA Vision and Mission and assign them to an ACTION AGAD TEAM OF VOLUNTEERS – PROJECT X;
Monitor the progress and evaluate these common plans, projects, programs or actions; agree on ways to facilitate or speed up their completion;
Count the blessings and benefits of achieved common plan, project, program or action. Give gratitude to whom it is due, e.g., to man and to God and other benefactors.
Information dissemination useful to parents and teachers and pupils;
Skills trainings and enhancement for parents, teachers and pupils;
Effective livelihood for teachers, parents and/or pupils;
Resolution of problems of teachers, parents and pupils;
Success techniques of teachers, parents and pupils;
REGULAR ACTIVITY DURING PTA MEETING:
* Cooking PTA snacks;
* Baking demos;
* Health & healing demos;
* Skills demos;
* Livelihood lectures and demos;
* Presentation of Pupils’ Talents
REGULAR PTA MEETINGS:
FIRST SUNDAYS OF JULY, SEPTEMBER, NOVEMBER, JANUARY & MARCH
Note: Subject for movement in case of other important schedule or celebration.
Sharing of deeper interpretation and understanding of our PTA Vision and Mission by assigned parent and teacher and other instant volunteer/s;
Suggestions on how to achieve our PTA Vision and how to accomplish our PTA Mission;
Agree to a common plan, project, program or action to attain our PTA Vision and Mission and assign them to an ACTION AGAD TEAM OF VOLUNTEERS – PROJECT X;
Monitor the progress and evaluate these common plans, projects, programs or actions; agree on ways to facilitate or speed up their completion;
Count the blessings and benefits of achieved common plan, project, program or action. Give gratitude to whom it is due, e.g., to man and to God and other benefactors.
Information dissemination useful to parents and teachers and pupils;
Skills trainings and enhancement for parents, teachers and pupils;
Effective livelihood for teachers, parents and/or pupils;
Resolution of problems of teachers, parents and pupils;
Success techniques of teachers, parents and pupils;
REGULAR ACTIVITY DURING PTA MEETING:
* Cooking PTA snacks;
* Baking demos;
* Health & healing demos;
* Skills demos;
* Livelihood lectures and demos;
* Presentation of Pupils’ Talents
REGULAR PTA MEETINGS:
FIRST SUNDAYS OF JULY, SEPTEMBER, NOVEMBER, JANUARY & MARCH
Note: Subject for movement in case of other important schedule or celebration.
OUR VISION
OUR VISION
WE, the Filipino, a tribe in the family of nations,
Cradled in this beautiful and richly blessed Pearl of the Orient,
Created after the image of the Almighty and All-loving Father of all Mankind,
Whose purpose is peace, happiness, success, prosperity,
justice, equality and abundant life
for all of us His human children,
envision ourselves as a people who are economically prosperous
because we are founded on and guided by the true moral values
that, among us, nurtured faith and love;
taught discipline, diligence and productivity;
borne peace and happiness;
and guaranteed total sustainable development of and for
our people and nation.
WE envision of a prosperous people and a peaceful society,
Established upon the solid foundation of the true moral values
of honesty and discipline, patience and diligence,
resourcefulness and responsibility…
of the Christian beatitudes of love and compassion,
mercy and kindness, faith and hope, humility and
gentleness…
which are the true and eternal keys to total and sustainable development.
We envision of a society where there is abundance
of beauty and richness of nature.
The valleys are verdant and the plains are beckoning.
The landscape is awesome and the surrounding is poetic
and musical.
A society where life thrives
and living is conducive, joyous and exciting.
A lush beautiful dwelling place
abounding in clean and plenteous water, bubbling fresh.
And abounding in pure, cool, refreshing air.
The land is fat and the farm exudes health and
brilliance to all families.
The food is abundant, delicious and nutritious
We envision a family life in the countryside which is farm-based.
A farm which provides us with sufficient, fresh and
nutritious fruits, vegetation and crops.
A farm that gives health, strengths, healing, wisdom and wealth.
We envision a sea with wealth and abundance
Which are more than enough for countless of succeeding generations.
A sea which showcases the beauty of Creation and tells
of the greatness of the Creator
We envision of an agro-industrialized country
Where both agriculture and industry thrive together
and mutually support each other.
This means to say that it is an industry that does not deplete our soil,
Nor degrade the richness of our lands,
nor poison our livestock and vegetation,
Nor pollute our rivers and seas, air and food,
Nor deny us of our health nor rob us of our precious life.
Rather, it is an industry that preserves and protects our environment
Replenishes the resources of the Earth,
respects our life relationships
And contributes to our well-being and happiness.
It will be an industrialization that is situated in places
Where there are enough trees and plants to absorb the exhausts
And recycles the wastes of factory and its products;
Thus, preventing pollution of the air, food and water.
More hopefully, it will be an industry whose products
as well as wastes are life-friendly,
That is, not harmful to the environment or to human beings.
We also envision of an industrialization that spreads into the countryside
To solve and further prevent urban congestions, traffic,
pollution, poverty, fires, crimes and immoralities.
We envision an industry that protects and preserves the
sanctity of marriage and family.
It is an industry that is usually rural-based
So that workers will be safe and away from the dangers
of the spiritually degenerating cities.
As mush as possible, it will be a home-based industrialization
So that family members will not be separated from each other,
So that each workers be safe from the abuses of alien
oppressive employers,
So that couples shall be spared from the temptations
Caused by geographical and emotional separation.
So that all members of the family can share work,
Life and happiness together
Thereby building a close-limit family
as the foundation of a strong society
And as the source of strong and upright leaders
And builders of tomorrow ‘s renewed Philippines.
We envision of a mechanized country
to lighten up the burdens and toils of each man and woman.
To enhance the quality of workmanship and to speed up production
And, consequently, allow families enough time off work
To enjoy family life together
And for each member of the family
to develop his/her talents into hobbies
Or even turn his hobbies into an enterprise
for more excellent service to mankind
Nevertheless, such mechanization should not be pollutant
So that our environment would be kept fresh and healthful.
Furthermore, it should not be too concentrated in one place
So that our place would not become too unbanized
To the extent that our value of familism would get eroded
And godliness replaced by materialism and immorality.
In others words, we envision a society
where there is much beauty and health, cleanliness and freshness,
Where Love and righteousness, work and leisure,
joy and peace, richness and abundance
Are preserved and spread to all parts of nation and to all the earth —
Where the all-important God-ordained institutions of marriage and family
Are protected from destruction
Where mechanization produces an industrialization
That does not endanger our relationship with and in our families,
neighbors, and with our Creator.
This is our vision of total and sustainable development,
For the people, by the people, with the people, through the people
And with the help, blessings and the guidance of the Almighty Ever-merciful God
Who is our Creator, Provider, Sustainer, Savior and Everlasting Father.
This is made possible
Because we are a people made after the image of God
Richly endowed with Wisdom and Love from above.
Because of which we are a diligent, patient, responsible, disciplined,
Upright, kind, merciful, peace-loving people.
We build, nurture, sustain and maintain.
We produce rather than consume.
We save rather than spend.
We invest rather than waste.
We are a thrifty, honest and diligent and productive people.
This, too, is our vision for a national character.
And this we will achieve with all our hearts, mind and might,
In service to man for the glory of God…..
So guide and equip us God….
* * *
WE, the Filipino, a tribe in the family of nations,
Cradled in this beautiful and richly blessed Pearl of the Orient,
Created after the image of the Almighty and All-loving Father of all Mankind,
Whose purpose is peace, happiness, success, prosperity,
justice, equality and abundant life
for all of us His human children,
envision ourselves as a people who are economically prosperous
because we are founded on and guided by the true moral values
that, among us, nurtured faith and love;
taught discipline, diligence and productivity;
borne peace and happiness;
and guaranteed total sustainable development of and for
our people and nation.
WE envision of a prosperous people and a peaceful society,
Established upon the solid foundation of the true moral values
of honesty and discipline, patience and diligence,
resourcefulness and responsibility…
of the Christian beatitudes of love and compassion,
mercy and kindness, faith and hope, humility and
gentleness…
which are the true and eternal keys to total and sustainable development.
We envision of a society where there is abundance
of beauty and richness of nature.
The valleys are verdant and the plains are beckoning.
The landscape is awesome and the surrounding is poetic
and musical.
A society where life thrives
and living is conducive, joyous and exciting.
A lush beautiful dwelling place
abounding in clean and plenteous water, bubbling fresh.
And abounding in pure, cool, refreshing air.
The land is fat and the farm exudes health and
brilliance to all families.
The food is abundant, delicious and nutritious
We envision a family life in the countryside which is farm-based.
A farm which provides us with sufficient, fresh and
nutritious fruits, vegetation and crops.
A farm that gives health, strengths, healing, wisdom and wealth.
We envision a sea with wealth and abundance
Which are more than enough for countless of succeeding generations.
A sea which showcases the beauty of Creation and tells
of the greatness of the Creator
We envision of an agro-industrialized country
Where both agriculture and industry thrive together
and mutually support each other.
This means to say that it is an industry that does not deplete our soil,
Nor degrade the richness of our lands,
nor poison our livestock and vegetation,
Nor pollute our rivers and seas, air and food,
Nor deny us of our health nor rob us of our precious life.
Rather, it is an industry that preserves and protects our environment
Replenishes the resources of the Earth,
respects our life relationships
And contributes to our well-being and happiness.
It will be an industrialization that is situated in places
Where there are enough trees and plants to absorb the exhausts
And recycles the wastes of factory and its products;
Thus, preventing pollution of the air, food and water.
More hopefully, it will be an industry whose products
as well as wastes are life-friendly,
That is, not harmful to the environment or to human beings.
We also envision of an industrialization that spreads into the countryside
To solve and further prevent urban congestions, traffic,
pollution, poverty, fires, crimes and immoralities.
We envision an industry that protects and preserves the
sanctity of marriage and family.
It is an industry that is usually rural-based
So that workers will be safe and away from the dangers
of the spiritually degenerating cities.
As mush as possible, it will be a home-based industrialization
So that family members will not be separated from each other,
So that each workers be safe from the abuses of alien
oppressive employers,
So that couples shall be spared from the temptations
Caused by geographical and emotional separation.
So that all members of the family can share work,
Life and happiness together
Thereby building a close-limit family
as the foundation of a strong society
And as the source of strong and upright leaders
And builders of tomorrow ‘s renewed Philippines.
We envision of a mechanized country
to lighten up the burdens and toils of each man and woman.
To enhance the quality of workmanship and to speed up production
And, consequently, allow families enough time off work
To enjoy family life together
And for each member of the family
to develop his/her talents into hobbies
Or even turn his hobbies into an enterprise
for more excellent service to mankind
Nevertheless, such mechanization should not be pollutant
So that our environment would be kept fresh and healthful.
Furthermore, it should not be too concentrated in one place
So that our place would not become too unbanized
To the extent that our value of familism would get eroded
And godliness replaced by materialism and immorality.
In others words, we envision a society
where there is much beauty and health, cleanliness and freshness,
Where Love and righteousness, work and leisure,
joy and peace, richness and abundance
Are preserved and spread to all parts of nation and to all the earth —
Where the all-important God-ordained institutions of marriage and family
Are protected from destruction
Where mechanization produces an industrialization
That does not endanger our relationship with and in our families,
neighbors, and with our Creator.
This is our vision of total and sustainable development,
For the people, by the people, with the people, through the people
And with the help, blessings and the guidance of the Almighty Ever-merciful God
Who is our Creator, Provider, Sustainer, Savior and Everlasting Father.
This is made possible
Because we are a people made after the image of God
Richly endowed with Wisdom and Love from above.
Because of which we are a diligent, patient, responsible, disciplined,
Upright, kind, merciful, peace-loving people.
We build, nurture, sustain and maintain.
We produce rather than consume.
We save rather than spend.
We invest rather than waste.
We are a thrifty, honest and diligent and productive people.
This, too, is our vision for a national character.
And this we will achieve with all our hearts, mind and might,
In service to man for the glory of God…..
So guide and equip us God….
* * *
MY VISION FOR A NATIONAL CHARACTER: A nation that is both meek and wise
MY VISION FOR A NATIONAL CHARACTER:
IN MEEKNESS LIKE DOVE BUT NOT TURTLEDOVE;
IN WISDOM THAT OF A HAWK OR A SERPENT
MEEKNESS DRIVES AWAY CRUELTY
One time, the Lord was exhorting the disciples to be meek, and not repay evil for evil, nor anger for anger, nor fire for fire. On this, He cited the little unimposing gnat who playfully buzzes around and though a little bet bothered, the mighty lion dismisses its presence and allow its activity for the gnat is below the dignity of the king of the forest, meaning: it’s not for a lion to fight against a gnat!
Drawing lesson from this example: We can understand that one’s smallness or humility will spare us many troubles. As a matter of fact, it is the meekness or softness of a woman that can pacify the anger of a mighty man.
You might be also surprised to realize that the lowly coo of a turtledove spares it from the preying hawk hovering above looking for its meat.
“When nature wakes soft pity's coo
The hawk deserts the dove,
Compassion melts the creature through,
With palpitations felt by few,
The wrecking throbs of love. “
From the poem The Powers of Love, George M. Horton
Analyze the line of the poem. The pitiful coo of the turtledove (Visayan: tokmo, crocoto) melts the cruel heart of the hovering hawk and ‘the hawk deserts the dove’.
Gentleness conquers cruelty.
That is what God and His servants keep on reminding us. King Solomon wrote a proverb: ‘Soft answer turns away wrath.’
Paul wrote: “Do not repay evil for evil. But when your enemy gets hungry, feed him… Overcome evil by doing good.”
This has been the behavior of our race – the black and brown race, the descendants of Cain-Ethiope.
Even if our curly-haired, thick-lipped, black Negrito race lived long in the wild forest, we were not ferocious, but as the foreigners said, “we were a gentle race”.
This kind of character is very likeable. Even the hawk-wise Americans like us to be their employees and fondly consider Filipinos their ‘little brown brothers’.
Peace and prosperity also reigned between the White race and Black slaves in America when and as long as compassion was in the heart of the white master and humility in the heart of the black slave. In this case, ‘slave’ is a nice experience.
TURTLE MEEKNESS GIVES WAY TO ABUSE OF AN EVIL HAWK
Not dove only is meek; a turtle too. And not good wisdom alone resides in a hawk, also an evil cunningness.
When meekness is turtle’s, it is naïve meekness. It is meekness paired with dullness. It is this kind of meekness that opens up for abuse and exploitation by the deceitful animal of prey.
When the cunningness of the hawk reigns in the heart of the master, as with many of our former Spanish masters, then misery would be the lot of the people! For neither brotherly love nor neighborly love does reign in such master’s heart, but greed, lust, pride and covetousness. And so, he would turn his subjects into a milch cow, a prostitute, and a slave. It is because he does not love.
Let me quote to you, for the nth time, the negative parable of the hawk and the turtle, to wit:
THE PARABLE OF THE HAWK AND THE TURTLE
One day, there was a turtle struggling on a mudhole in the meadow. On the other hand, in the sky there was a hawk hovering. The hawk noticed the struggling turtle.
The Lord: “The hawk first eagerly helps the turtle out of its mud-hole in the meadow, only to be grabbed by the hawk in its neck during its search for herbs, carried aloft and smashed into a rock.
“Why did the hawk do that? So that she can enjoy the turtle’s flesh as a reward for its previous eagerness to help. My, children, do not do that!
“Do not follow the evil inhabitants in hell who serve out of selfishness, for everyone there expects to be served.
“They are like the story of the turtle and the hawk
“Service should be given in love and with true brotherly feeling, as is customary in the heavens.”
I envision not of a humility with naivety, such as that of the turtle , which renders us outsmartable and oppress-ible.
I envision of a meekness-humility-mercifulness like that of a Dove , who by its wakening coo
“The hawk deserts the dove,
The former’s heart melts by compassion
With palpitations felt by few,
The wrecking throbs of love.”
I do not however envision us to remain a Turtledove (naivety and shortsightedness of a turtle and weakness of a dove) who by its sad and sorrowful coo, softly tells the world that it is unhappy in its humbled condition. Its plaintive cooing indicates that it is ‘quietly mournful’ and ‘weakly complaining’ e.g., probably because it is oppressed or suppressed and does not find freedom within its sphere like a discontented mother and a regimented wife.
I envision a meekness where wisdom, peace, love, joy and freedom reign.
I envision us as individuals and as a nation evolving from a unhappy turtledove into a happy peaceful dove.
While at the same time, I envision us as individuals and as a nation like an awakening turtle getting out of the confinement of its shell so that, light and free, it can metamorphose itself into a bird, untouched by the treacherous hawk, able to soar the sky on its own, and view the whole perspective, and thus, become wise – even wiser than the hawk or as wise as a serpent, as Jesus said, without losing the harmlessness [meekness, gentleness] of the dove and never adopting the evil cunningness and treachery of the hawk-serpent.
LIKE THE DOVE WITH PURIFIED GENTLENESS, MEEKNESS, HUMILITY AND MERCY, AND LIKE THE HAWK OR SERPENT GREAT IN ITS WISDOM WITHOUT IMITATING ITS DECEITFULNESS –
THAT IS MY VISION OF CHARACTER FOR MYSELF AND FOR MY PEOPLE.
It is the turtle’s naivety, ignorance, and lack of wisdom that makes our meekness corrupt and impure, weak, gullible, beguile-ible, easy to fleece, easy to seduce, easy to deceive, abusable, oppress-able. Without true wisdom, the Filipino meekness has become a weakness. That is why we were colonized by many foreigners for over 400 years. That’s why we were exploited, suppressed, oppressed, and deceived.
But with wisdom, the Filipino meekness will be purified of its inherent weakness and soon will be like that of a dove whose coo melts the heart of the preying creature [e.g., hawk], provokes its into compassion. A meekness that conquers all cruelties.
I am challenged to think that had we had Christ’s wisdom and not the turtle’s naivety and carabao’s unselective, unconditional submission, certainly the Spaniards would not have subjugated us for 300 years and they would not have corrupted our character with pride, wastefulness [gambling, drunkenness] and indolence. We would have been long time ago a nation rich in God’s blessings, and thus, great in the nations’ eyes. As a promise which can be attained, we could be “the head and not the tail; we shall lend and not borrow” as we shall “serve and not be served”, and “not a slave even as we are not a master”.
Towards the true greatness that God has in store for us all, attainable by any nation, we can advance our selves by (1) first, purifying our meekness using God’s wisdom, thus converting it from being a turtle meekness into a dove meekness; and (2) if that is accomplished, proceeding to expanding our self-love into divine love for God, neighbor and self. Thus, we’ll have positioned ourselves prepared and ready to accomplish any thing – any dream – any vision – any mission – any goal – any aim – any purpose – any height - that this matured noble love may set before us!
That is the strategy towards our Vision for a National Character.
IN MEEKNESS LIKE DOVE BUT NOT TURTLEDOVE;
IN WISDOM THAT OF A HAWK OR A SERPENT
MEEKNESS DRIVES AWAY CRUELTY
One time, the Lord was exhorting the disciples to be meek, and not repay evil for evil, nor anger for anger, nor fire for fire. On this, He cited the little unimposing gnat who playfully buzzes around and though a little bet bothered, the mighty lion dismisses its presence and allow its activity for the gnat is below the dignity of the king of the forest, meaning: it’s not for a lion to fight against a gnat!
Drawing lesson from this example: We can understand that one’s smallness or humility will spare us many troubles. As a matter of fact, it is the meekness or softness of a woman that can pacify the anger of a mighty man.
You might be also surprised to realize that the lowly coo of a turtledove spares it from the preying hawk hovering above looking for its meat.
“When nature wakes soft pity's coo
The hawk deserts the dove,
Compassion melts the creature through,
With palpitations felt by few,
The wrecking throbs of love. “
From the poem The Powers of Love, George M. Horton
Analyze the line of the poem. The pitiful coo of the turtledove (Visayan: tokmo, crocoto) melts the cruel heart of the hovering hawk and ‘the hawk deserts the dove’.
Gentleness conquers cruelty.
That is what God and His servants keep on reminding us. King Solomon wrote a proverb: ‘Soft answer turns away wrath.’
Paul wrote: “Do not repay evil for evil. But when your enemy gets hungry, feed him… Overcome evil by doing good.”
This has been the behavior of our race – the black and brown race, the descendants of Cain-Ethiope.
Even if our curly-haired, thick-lipped, black Negrito race lived long in the wild forest, we were not ferocious, but as the foreigners said, “we were a gentle race”.
This kind of character is very likeable. Even the hawk-wise Americans like us to be their employees and fondly consider Filipinos their ‘little brown brothers’.
Peace and prosperity also reigned between the White race and Black slaves in America when and as long as compassion was in the heart of the white master and humility in the heart of the black slave. In this case, ‘slave’ is a nice experience.
TURTLE MEEKNESS GIVES WAY TO ABUSE OF AN EVIL HAWK
Not dove only is meek; a turtle too. And not good wisdom alone resides in a hawk, also an evil cunningness.
When meekness is turtle’s, it is naïve meekness. It is meekness paired with dullness. It is this kind of meekness that opens up for abuse and exploitation by the deceitful animal of prey.
When the cunningness of the hawk reigns in the heart of the master, as with many of our former Spanish masters, then misery would be the lot of the people! For neither brotherly love nor neighborly love does reign in such master’s heart, but greed, lust, pride and covetousness. And so, he would turn his subjects into a milch cow, a prostitute, and a slave. It is because he does not love.
Let me quote to you, for the nth time, the negative parable of the hawk and the turtle, to wit:
THE PARABLE OF THE HAWK AND THE TURTLE
One day, there was a turtle struggling on a mudhole in the meadow. On the other hand, in the sky there was a hawk hovering. The hawk noticed the struggling turtle.
The Lord: “The hawk first eagerly helps the turtle out of its mud-hole in the meadow, only to be grabbed by the hawk in its neck during its search for herbs, carried aloft and smashed into a rock.
“Why did the hawk do that? So that she can enjoy the turtle’s flesh as a reward for its previous eagerness to help. My, children, do not do that!
“Do not follow the evil inhabitants in hell who serve out of selfishness, for everyone there expects to be served.
“They are like the story of the turtle and the hawk
“Service should be given in love and with true brotherly feeling, as is customary in the heavens.”
I envision not of a humility with naivety, such as that of the turtle , which renders us outsmartable and oppress-ible.
I envision of a meekness-humility-mercifulness like that of a Dove , who by its wakening coo
“The hawk deserts the dove,
The former’s heart melts by compassion
With palpitations felt by few,
The wrecking throbs of love.”
I do not however envision us to remain a Turtledove (naivety and shortsightedness of a turtle and weakness of a dove) who by its sad and sorrowful coo, softly tells the world that it is unhappy in its humbled condition. Its plaintive cooing indicates that it is ‘quietly mournful’ and ‘weakly complaining’ e.g., probably because it is oppressed or suppressed and does not find freedom within its sphere like a discontented mother and a regimented wife.
I envision a meekness where wisdom, peace, love, joy and freedom reign.
I envision us as individuals and as a nation evolving from a unhappy turtledove into a happy peaceful dove.
While at the same time, I envision us as individuals and as a nation like an awakening turtle getting out of the confinement of its shell so that, light and free, it can metamorphose itself into a bird, untouched by the treacherous hawk, able to soar the sky on its own, and view the whole perspective, and thus, become wise – even wiser than the hawk or as wise as a serpent, as Jesus said, without losing the harmlessness [meekness, gentleness] of the dove and never adopting the evil cunningness and treachery of the hawk-serpent.
LIKE THE DOVE WITH PURIFIED GENTLENESS, MEEKNESS, HUMILITY AND MERCY, AND LIKE THE HAWK OR SERPENT GREAT IN ITS WISDOM WITHOUT IMITATING ITS DECEITFULNESS –
THAT IS MY VISION OF CHARACTER FOR MYSELF AND FOR MY PEOPLE.
It is the turtle’s naivety, ignorance, and lack of wisdom that makes our meekness corrupt and impure, weak, gullible, beguile-ible, easy to fleece, easy to seduce, easy to deceive, abusable, oppress-able. Without true wisdom, the Filipino meekness has become a weakness. That is why we were colonized by many foreigners for over 400 years. That’s why we were exploited, suppressed, oppressed, and deceived.
But with wisdom, the Filipino meekness will be purified of its inherent weakness and soon will be like that of a dove whose coo melts the heart of the preying creature [e.g., hawk], provokes its into compassion. A meekness that conquers all cruelties.
I am challenged to think that had we had Christ’s wisdom and not the turtle’s naivety and carabao’s unselective, unconditional submission, certainly the Spaniards would not have subjugated us for 300 years and they would not have corrupted our character with pride, wastefulness [gambling, drunkenness] and indolence. We would have been long time ago a nation rich in God’s blessings, and thus, great in the nations’ eyes. As a promise which can be attained, we could be “the head and not the tail; we shall lend and not borrow” as we shall “serve and not be served”, and “not a slave even as we are not a master”.
Towards the true greatness that God has in store for us all, attainable by any nation, we can advance our selves by (1) first, purifying our meekness using God’s wisdom, thus converting it from being a turtle meekness into a dove meekness; and (2) if that is accomplished, proceeding to expanding our self-love into divine love for God, neighbor and self. Thus, we’ll have positioned ourselves prepared and ready to accomplish any thing – any dream – any vision – any mission – any goal – any aim – any purpose – any height - that this matured noble love may set before us!
That is the strategy towards our Vision for a National Character.
Our Vision and their Charter Change - an introduction
Our Vision and their Charter Change
A great sage once said, “Without Vision, the people will perish”. Why? Because they will cast out all restraint, refuse to discipline themselves and neglect to direct their steps to a destination.
Without vision, they have no aim. Like driftwoods, they are tossed to and fro by the ebb and tide of the never-ending sea.
Without Vision, they have no propeller to make advance steps to some beautiful destination. With vision, they are like boat without rudder to guide themselves to a happy end.
Following is our National Vision. This is our Blue Print – our map for the future. This National Vision will act as our propeller (fuel and inspiration to keep us moving) and our rudder to guide us away from danger and towards the safe paths of life.
Then our life will be meaningful and purposeful!
This National Vision is very necessary in the face of the efforts of others to complete the disintegration of this poor wretched nation. With this Vision, animated by our love, we shall no longer perish! These men are orchestrating the Charter Changes which we do not need; as a matter of fact, their proposed Charter Changes will further bring us to greater captivity and poverty.
After printing our National Vision below, will follow our comments whether or not their versions of Charter Change will help us achieve our vision.
A great sage once said, “Without Vision, the people will perish”. Why? Because they will cast out all restraint, refuse to discipline themselves and neglect to direct their steps to a destination.
Without vision, they have no aim. Like driftwoods, they are tossed to and fro by the ebb and tide of the never-ending sea.
Without Vision, they have no propeller to make advance steps to some beautiful destination. With vision, they are like boat without rudder to guide themselves to a happy end.
Following is our National Vision. This is our Blue Print – our map for the future. This National Vision will act as our propeller (fuel and inspiration to keep us moving) and our rudder to guide us away from danger and towards the safe paths of life.
Then our life will be meaningful and purposeful!
This National Vision is very necessary in the face of the efforts of others to complete the disintegration of this poor wretched nation. With this Vision, animated by our love, we shall no longer perish! These men are orchestrating the Charter Changes which we do not need; as a matter of fact, their proposed Charter Changes will further bring us to greater captivity and poverty.
After printing our National Vision below, will follow our comments whether or not their versions of Charter Change will help us achieve our vision.
OUR NATIONAL VISION
OUR NATIONAL VISION
WE, the Filipino, a tribe in the family of nations,
Cradled in this beautiful and richly blessed Pearl of the Orient,
Created after the image of the Almighty and All-loving Father of all Mankind,
Whose purpose is peace, happiness, success, prosperity,
justice, equality and abundant life
for all of us His human children,
envision ourselves as a people who are economically prosperous
because we are founded on and guided by the true moral values
that, among us, nurtured faith and love;
taught discipline, diligence and productivity;
borne peace and happiness;
and guaranteed total sustainable development of and for
our people and nation.
WE envision of a prosperous people and a peaceful society,
Established upon the solid foundation of the true moral values
of honesty and discipline, patience and diligence,
resourcefulness and responsibility…
of the Christian beatitudes of love and compassion,
mercy and kindness, faith and hope, humility and
gentleness…
which are the true and eternal keys to total and sustainable development.
We envision of a society where there is abundance
of beauty and richness of nature.
The valleys are verdant and the plains are beckoning.
The landscape is awesome and the surrounding is poetic
and musical.
A society where life thrives
and living is conducive, joyous and exciting.
A lush beautiful dwelling place
abounding in clean and plenteous water, bubbling fresh.
And abounding in pure, cool, refreshing air.
The land is fat and the farm exudes health and
brilliance to all families.
The food is abundant, delicious and nutritious
We envision a family life in the countryside which is farm-based.
A farm which provides us with sufficient, fresh and
nutritious fruits, vegetation and crops.
A farm that gives health, strengths, healing, wisdom and wealth.
We envision a sea with wealth and abundance
Which are more than enough for countless of succeeding generations.
A sea which showcases the beauty of Creation and tells
of the greatness of the Creator
We envision of an agro-industrialized country
Where both agriculture and industry thrive together
and mutually support each other.
This means to say that it is an industry that does not deplete our soil,
Nor degrade the richness of our lands,
nor poison our livestock and vegetation,
Nor pollute our rivers and seas, air and food,
Nor deny us of our health nor rob us of our precious life.
Rather, it is an industry that preserves and protects our environment
Replenishes the resources of the Earth,
respects our life relationships
And contributes to our well-being and happiness.
It will be an industrialization that is situated in places
Where there are enough trees and plants to absorb the exhausts
And recycles the wastes of factory and its products;
Thus, preventing pollution of the air, food and water.
More hopefully, it will be an industry whose products
as well as wastes are life-friendly,
That is, not harmful to the environment or to human beings.
We also envision of an industrialization that spreads into the countryside
To solve and further prevent urban congestions, traffic,
pollution, poverty, fires, crimes and immoralities.
We envision an industry that protects and preserves the
sanctity of marriage and family.
It is an industry that is usually rural-based
So that workers will be safe and away from the dangers
of the spiritually degenerating cities.
As mush as possible, it will be a home-based industrialization
So that family members will not be separated from each other,
So that each workers be safe from the abuses of alien
oppressive employers,
So that couples shall be spared from the temptations
Caused by geographical and emotional separation.
So that all members of the family can share work,
Life and happiness together
Thereby building a close-limit family
as the foundation of a strong society
And as the source of strong and upright leaders
And builders of tomorrow ‘s renewed Philippines.
We envision of a mechanized country
to lighten up the burdens and toils of each man and woman.
To enhance the quality of workmanship and to speed up production
And, consequently, allow families enough time off work
To enjoy family life together
And for each member of the family
to develop his/her talents into hobbies
Or even turn his hobbies into an enterprise
for more excellent service to mankind
Nevertheless, such mechanization should not be pollutant
So that our environment would be kept fresh and healthful.
Furthermore, it should not be too concentrated in one place
So that our place would not become too urbanized
To the extent that our value of familism would get eroded
And godliness replaced by materialism and immorality.
In others words, we envision a society
where there is much beauty and health, cleanliness and freshness,
Where Love and righteousness, work and leisure,
joy and peace, richness and abundance
Are preserved and spread to all parts of nation and to all the earth —
Where the all-important God-ordained institutions of marriage and family
Are protected from destruction
Where mechanization produces an industrialization
That does not endanger our relationship with and in our families,
neighbors, and with our Creator.
This is our vision of total and sustainable development,
For the people, by the people, with the people, through the people
And with the help, blessings and the guidance of the Almighty Ever-merciful God
Who is our Creator, Provider, Sustainer, Savior and Everlasting Father.
This is made possible
Because we are a people made after the image of God
Richly endowed with Wisdom and Love from above.
Because of which we are a diligent, patient, responsible, disciplined,
Upright, kind, merciful, peace-loving people.
We build, nurture, sustain and maintain.
We produce rather than consume.
We save rather than spend.
We invest rather than waste.
We are a thrifty, honest and diligent and productive people.
This, too, is our vision for a national character.
And this we will achieve with all our hearts, mind and might,
In service to man for the glory of God…..
So guide and equip us God….
* * *
WE, the Filipino, a tribe in the family of nations,
Cradled in this beautiful and richly blessed Pearl of the Orient,
Created after the image of the Almighty and All-loving Father of all Mankind,
Whose purpose is peace, happiness, success, prosperity,
justice, equality and abundant life
for all of us His human children,
envision ourselves as a people who are economically prosperous
because we are founded on and guided by the true moral values
that, among us, nurtured faith and love;
taught discipline, diligence and productivity;
borne peace and happiness;
and guaranteed total sustainable development of and for
our people and nation.
WE envision of a prosperous people and a peaceful society,
Established upon the solid foundation of the true moral values
of honesty and discipline, patience and diligence,
resourcefulness and responsibility…
of the Christian beatitudes of love and compassion,
mercy and kindness, faith and hope, humility and
gentleness…
which are the true and eternal keys to total and sustainable development.
We envision of a society where there is abundance
of beauty and richness of nature.
The valleys are verdant and the plains are beckoning.
The landscape is awesome and the surrounding is poetic
and musical.
A society where life thrives
and living is conducive, joyous and exciting.
A lush beautiful dwelling place
abounding in clean and plenteous water, bubbling fresh.
And abounding in pure, cool, refreshing air.
The land is fat and the farm exudes health and
brilliance to all families.
The food is abundant, delicious and nutritious
We envision a family life in the countryside which is farm-based.
A farm which provides us with sufficient, fresh and
nutritious fruits, vegetation and crops.
A farm that gives health, strengths, healing, wisdom and wealth.
We envision a sea with wealth and abundance
Which are more than enough for countless of succeeding generations.
A sea which showcases the beauty of Creation and tells
of the greatness of the Creator
We envision of an agro-industrialized country
Where both agriculture and industry thrive together
and mutually support each other.
This means to say that it is an industry that does not deplete our soil,
Nor degrade the richness of our lands,
nor poison our livestock and vegetation,
Nor pollute our rivers and seas, air and food,
Nor deny us of our health nor rob us of our precious life.
Rather, it is an industry that preserves and protects our environment
Replenishes the resources of the Earth,
respects our life relationships
And contributes to our well-being and happiness.
It will be an industrialization that is situated in places
Where there are enough trees and plants to absorb the exhausts
And recycles the wastes of factory and its products;
Thus, preventing pollution of the air, food and water.
More hopefully, it will be an industry whose products
as well as wastes are life-friendly,
That is, not harmful to the environment or to human beings.
We also envision of an industrialization that spreads into the countryside
To solve and further prevent urban congestions, traffic,
pollution, poverty, fires, crimes and immoralities.
We envision an industry that protects and preserves the
sanctity of marriage and family.
It is an industry that is usually rural-based
So that workers will be safe and away from the dangers
of the spiritually degenerating cities.
As mush as possible, it will be a home-based industrialization
So that family members will not be separated from each other,
So that each workers be safe from the abuses of alien
oppressive employers,
So that couples shall be spared from the temptations
Caused by geographical and emotional separation.
So that all members of the family can share work,
Life and happiness together
Thereby building a close-limit family
as the foundation of a strong society
And as the source of strong and upright leaders
And builders of tomorrow ‘s renewed Philippines.
We envision of a mechanized country
to lighten up the burdens and toils of each man and woman.
To enhance the quality of workmanship and to speed up production
And, consequently, allow families enough time off work
To enjoy family life together
And for each member of the family
to develop his/her talents into hobbies
Or even turn his hobbies into an enterprise
for more excellent service to mankind
Nevertheless, such mechanization should not be pollutant
So that our environment would be kept fresh and healthful.
Furthermore, it should not be too concentrated in one place
So that our place would not become too urbanized
To the extent that our value of familism would get eroded
And godliness replaced by materialism and immorality.
In others words, we envision a society
where there is much beauty and health, cleanliness and freshness,
Where Love and righteousness, work and leisure,
joy and peace, richness and abundance
Are preserved and spread to all parts of nation and to all the earth —
Where the all-important God-ordained institutions of marriage and family
Are protected from destruction
Where mechanization produces an industrialization
That does not endanger our relationship with and in our families,
neighbors, and with our Creator.
This is our vision of total and sustainable development,
For the people, by the people, with the people, through the people
And with the help, blessings and the guidance of the Almighty Ever-merciful God
Who is our Creator, Provider, Sustainer, Savior and Everlasting Father.
This is made possible
Because we are a people made after the image of God
Richly endowed with Wisdom and Love from above.
Because of which we are a diligent, patient, responsible, disciplined,
Upright, kind, merciful, peace-loving people.
We build, nurture, sustain and maintain.
We produce rather than consume.
We save rather than spend.
We invest rather than waste.
We are a thrifty, honest and diligent and productive people.
This, too, is our vision for a national character.
And this we will achieve with all our hearts, mind and might,
In service to man for the glory of God…..
So guide and equip us God….
* * *
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
Our National Vision states: “Whose purpose is peace”…
WILL THEIR CHA-CHA GIVE US PEACE?
The Administration’s first five proposed amendments will consolidate and perpetuate their power? What kind of leaders and people they are to deserve consolidated and less-auditable and longer power?
• They are the ones who approved GATT-WTO/Trade globalization to flood our domestic market with cheap and quality products, and prosecute patent-infringer, causing the bankruptcy of thousands of small Filipino entrepreneurs, instead of placing safety nets to allow them to survive while working out to legalize and improve their competitiveness; the people’s savings from cheap and quality imported products have come in exchange for their friends and relatives closing shop or losing jobs; No lunch is free, so they say.
• They are the ones who have ordered TESDA, Dole and other government agencies to hasten the deployment of our people abroad particularly women without work certainty and protection. They are very much aware of the deception by employment agencies, namely: that it is not actually decent works that await most of our Filipinas but immoral works of prostitutes or sex slaves, as well as low-respect domestic works prone to abuses. But they play deaf ear to the dangers that our Filipinas face. Mostly, it was too late: rape was already done. Or the OFW already has come home – inside a coffin! Some they had saved but where is praise for saving what they had fed to the “terong” in the first place? Where is gratitude deserved?
• With the 7th proposed amendment, they will literally sell our land, country, our natural resources to the foreigner whose mere cents can but hectares of land here?
How can peace be felt after seeing their superior technology driving our businesses to bankruptcy? – after seeing their thriving businesses and mansions dotting our lands while us losing our lands, houses, and freedom? How can peace be there when they become our employers or masters in our own land?
This happened to Poland, Germany and Spain: when the government allowed the Jews to settle in their land. The Jews by their financial genius and business acumen, eventually became their rich lenders and masters, while the citizens became either slaves, employees of the Jewish businessmen or they became bankrupt in their own businesses – poorer than before the Jews came.
The seeming economic development was benefiting only the foreigners as well as the government who enjoyed higher tax collection, thanks to the Jews. But overall, the lives of the citizens did not improve. The banking or financing system run by the Jews also proved disastrous. What promised to help ended up binding the people into deeper debts! When the people saw it, they revolted and drove away the Jews, to the sorrow of the government officials. The Jews were efficient tax-makers!
If we allow foreigners buy out easily our land, waters, and businesses with their almighty dollars and powerful technology and become our employers and masters, instead of rising up ourselves and moving to resurrect the independence and prosperity of this country, then, like Poland, et. al., we will suffer amidst foreigner-induced economic prosperity, and then eventually, in sheer disgust and hatred, we will drive these foreigners, the bringer of economic prosperity as well as the impoverisher of the masses, away in some bloody insurrection.
So, I prefer that they share or sell their technology to us (that is there systems, machinery) but leave us alone here. Technology Transfer, not their transfer of residence and business. For them to live with us or among us, will surely be troublesome. We won’t achieve peace side by side foreigners.
Japan only asked for knowledge from America and Europe. The Japanese government never entertained the idea of letting the foreigners make prosperity for them! They are the main makers of their own prosperity with a little help from foreign benefactors or workers. They took charge their own fate. They charted their own destiny. Not the foreigners. Nor did they allow foreigners to hinder them or stand on the way! They did not delegate nor surrender their future to unknown foreigners!
U.S. Ambassador Armacost also noted that Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong and China also have attained their economic prosperity by giving foreigner equity investment, surely, not 100% foreign ownership of businesses and properties.
I suggest we also ask the advices of Prime Ministers Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, Mahathir of Malaysia and Kozomi of Japan regarding the proposed amendments of our Charter especially the one on foreign business ownership. Of course, they will say “yes” to the 7th proposal so they can do business fully in our country. But do not ask them as businessmen; ask them what they will do if they were in our place. What they did when presented with the same problem? Did they allow the foreigners enjoy the full privileges of their citizens? Were there no laws that serve as safety nets for our people?
I guess, that in this level of immaturity, where each nation possesses more Selflove than brotherly, we can not expect them to work fully for our welfare. They will take more than they would be willing to give. That is a proven fact. And there hearts have not changed; only worsened!
Like in Germany, Poland and Spain, the Jews or foreigners continued to grow rich while the natives continued to grow poorer as a result of the foreigners’ unfair economic system!
Our National Vision states:
“happiness, success, prosperity,
justice, equality and abundant life
for all of us His human children,
envision ourselves as a people who are economically prosperous…”
Where our lands, minerals, precious metals, owned or taken over by foreigners, we cannot expect those vision to get fulfilled.
“and guaranteed total sustainable development of and for
our people and nation.”
Let us not trust them. The foreign mining firms as well as the U.S.A. military have left toxin chemicals that have destroyed our environment, polluted our waters (portable water, rivers, seas and rains) and have brought deformities and cancers upon our people!
Our National Vision states:
“WE envision of a prosperous people and a peaceful society”
This cannot be achieved if we become slaves and employees of foreigners in our own land.
“We envision of a society where there is abundance
of beauty and richness of nature.
The valleys are verdant and the plains are beckoning.
The landscape is awesome and the surrounding is poetic
and musical.”
Foreigners are known polluters of pure Nature. Their sciences and technology causes such pollution. That’s a fact. And we better take pre-cautions with that!
“A society where life thrives
and living is conducive, joyous and exciting.
A lush beautiful dwelling place
abounding in clean and plenteous water, bubbling fresh.
And abounding in pure, cool, refreshing air.
The land is fat and the farm exudes health and
brilliance to all families.
The food is abundant, delicious and nutritious.”
I assure you: Their science, knowledge, technology and machinery will never help us fulfill this vision. To the contrary, their chemicals and their greed will produce the opposite. The U.S.A. is a case in point. There’s a book that proved with solid proofs that America is a poisoned country. The title of the book is: “America the Poisoned”. And when these poisonous products and companies were told to stop the poisoning, they transferred to ignorant nations like the Philippines!
The purity, the freshness of our Nature or Environment will disappear if we let their technology abuse them – all in the name of profit.
Our National Vision states:
“We envision a family life in the countryside which is farm-based.
A farm which provides us with sufficient, fresh and
nutritious fruits, vegetation and crops.
A farm that gives health, strengths, healing, wisdom and wealth.”
This sweet vision, we can better attain without the intervention of the foreigners. The foreigners’ involvement such as in funding will instead paralyze us because we would wait forever their funding or would be led to think that without their funding we could do nothing!
Just take the “bakhaw” planting for example. Indeed I saw that the local government succeeded planting a few hectares of shores with bakhaw. What surprised me was when I was told that in order to do that, the local government had to loan P5 millions!
I surveyed the place and analyzed the complexity or possibility of the project. I concluded that it could be done by the municipal government with just one employee who will do the seedling preparation, and in a matter of months; or by the people in the area.
Millions of pesos were not needed. The bakhaws can be seeded in the nursery or at home and easily planted at low tide.
All that we needed is: Self-reliance or independent frame of mind. The mind of a person with initiative. The mind of an entrepreneur. The mind of a diligent person.
The mind not of the beggar nor of a lazy dumb servant who cannot move or act without their master’s further instructions. We need the character of the ants: They work without masters. All of them are workers. They fight without captains generals; all of them are soldiers!
Our National Vision states:
“We envision a sea with wealth and abundance
Which are more than enough for countless of succeeding generations.
A sea which showcases the beauty of Creation and tells
of the greatness of the Creator”
Do you know that the factories of these foreigners have produced volumes of toxic wastes which they loaded on ships and threw into our seas and oceans?
Now, ever wonder why our marine lives are dying, including our fishes?
If we copy their factories, and install them in our backyards, where do you think will you throw the wastes? Will these foreigners allow us to throw our wastes on their own seas?
Our National Vision states:
“We envision of an agro-industrialized country
Where both agriculture and industry thrive together
and mutually support each other.
This means to say that it is an industry that does not deplete our soil,
Nor degrade the richness of our lands,
nor poison our livestock and vegetation,
Nor pollute our rivers and seas, air and food,
Nor deny us of our health nor rob us of our precious life.
Rather, it is an industry that preserves and protects our environment
Replenishes the resources of the Earth,
respects our life relationships
And contributes to our well-being and happiness.”
The good news is this: This can be achieved without much help and intervention from foreigners. We can just copy the proven organic farming system such as the SRI or System of Rice Intensification which is now fast become the fad among fertilizer-wary and pesticide-infected farmers all over the world!
All we need is a basic knowledge on ecology and organic farming which is spelled as follows: Tender loving care of our non-human neighbors, namely: plants and animals and the rest of the creation.
Our National Vision states:
“It will be an industrialization that is situated in places
Where there are enough trees and plants to absorb the exhausts
And recycles the wastes of factory and its products;
Thus, preventing pollution of the air, food and water.”
The type of heavy industry of these foreigners does not suit to this vision. We have to design that type of industry by ourselves. No foreigners will help us achieve that because he is here to make money, not to waste time and his resources in achieving such vision in a country not his own. It is us who will do it.
The framers of our 1987 Constitution were wise to base industrialization on our agriculture. The provision states: “The state shall promote industrialization and full employment based on sound agricultural development and agrarian reform, through industries that make full and efficient use of human and natural resources…” Article XII, Section 1.
Although the same section states that “The President may enter into agreements with foreign-owned corporations involving either technical or financial assistance for large-scale exploration, development, and utilization of minerals, petroleum, and other mineral oils” which more probably than not, will entail pollution of our environment, the following purpose statement should serve as guide to wit: “based on real contribution to the economic growth and general welfare of the country.” General welfare of the country should mean the protection and preservation of the basics of life such as land, water, air, food, etc.
This means to say first and foremost, that any business undertaking that will pollute or destroy these basics of life should not be pushed through!
Only life-friendly technology for sustainable life shall be allowed.
I recently read one high official in the National League of Municipal Mayors in the Philippines lambasting the to him naïve framers of the Constitution for the above-quoted provision preventing the kind of industrialization responsible for the progress of nations like the England, the U.S., Germany, Japan, etc.
May I advise that man to please review the kind of progress these mentioned nations had gone through in the past centuries. And then to ask them whether or not they would like to go through the same experience. My naïve official, do you know that this kind of progress that you were referring to is the same force that has destroyed their rivers and underground waters, with chemicals, poisoned their farms, polluted their air, and brought their people tremendous sufferings in the form of cancers? Deformed children. Debilitating sicknesses. Sky-high cost of medications. Immeasurable sorrows! What do you call them? Progress? Even in terms of farm output, their chemical-based methods are giving them progress in reverse! The high yield that they were celebrating thanks to scientific methods is fast diminishing, due to totally dead soil and highly poisonous chemicals.
I advise you further to secure the U.S. book titled “Poisoned America” and you will certainly back track with your ill-informed desire to follow their example of industrialization!
Look up! We already have an ozone hole in Antarctica, 27.4 million sq km, thanks to the huge thick CFC smoke from the U.S. crude fossil oil refineries that lined up her coastal states facing the Atlantic opposite the Middle East. Result: killer hurricanes!
O foolish leaders of this country! When will you come to realize that you do not deserve to lead this nation because you are blind men leading the blind!
Yes, shameless ones, time is soon when you will resign because of new-found shame!
Our National Vision states:
“More hopefully, it will be an industry whose products
as well as wastes are life-friendly,
That is, not harmful to the environment or to human beings.”
Piles of evidence are being brought everyday to prove that INDUSTRY BASED ON CHEMICALS ARE ANTI-LIFE, ENVIRONMENT-HOSTILE AND HARMFUL TO HUMANS!
It means poisoning and diseases such as cancers!
Our National Vision states:
“We also envision of an industrialization that spreads into the countryside
To solve and further prevent urban congestions, traffic,
pollution, poverty, fires, crimes and immoralities.”
This we can do with our own families. No need for foreign investors!
Our National Vision states:
“We envision an industry that protects and preserves the
sanctity of marriage and family.
It is an industry that is usually rural-based
So that workers will be safe and away from the dangers
of the spiritually degenerating cities.
“As mush as possible, it will be a home-based industrialization
So that family members will not be separated from each other,
So that each workers be safe from the abuses of alien
oppressive employers,
So that couples shall be spared from the temptations
Caused by geographical and emotional separation.
So that all members of the family can share work,
Life and happiness together
Thereby building a close-limit family
as the foundation of a strong society
And as the source of strong and upright leaders
And builders of tomorrow ‘s renewed Philippines.”
The most important thing we MUST DO is restore the capacity of our land, farm and barangay to support its families!
And organic farming holds the key to the return of high-yielding fertility and sustainability.
WE don’t need foreigners to achieve this vision. All we need is God, His teachings or guidance, the land and natural resources that He has given us, and our obedience and diligence.
Our National Vision states:
“We envision of a mechanized country
to lighten up the burdens and toils of each man and woman.
To enhance the quality of workmanship and to speed up production
“And, consequently, allow families enough time off work
To enjoy family life together
And for each member of the family
to develop his/her talents into hobbies
Or even turn his hobbies into an enterprise
for more excellent service to mankind
Nevertheless, such mechanization should not be pollutant
So that our environment would be kept fresh and healthful.
Furthermore, it should not be too concentrated in one place
So that our place would not become too unbanized
To the extent that our value of familism would get eroded
And godliness replaced by materialism and immorality.”
Some countries possess and sell this kind of machinery. We can buy them.
Our National Vision states:
“In others words, we envision a society
where there is much beauty and health, cleanliness and freshness,
Where Love and righteousness, work and leisure,
joy and peace, richness and abundance
Are preserved and spread to all parts of nation and to all the earth —
Where the all-important God-ordained institutions of marriage and family
Are protected from destruction
Where mechanization produces an industrialization
That does not endanger our relationship with and in our families,
neighbors, and with our Creator.”
And then, we end with a sort of epilogue:
“This is our vision of total and sustainable development,
For the people, by the people, with the people, through the people
And with the help, blessings and the guidance of the Almighty Ever-merciful God
Who is our Creator, Provider, Sustainer, Savior and Everlasting Father.
“This is made possible
Because we are a people made after the image of God
Richly endowed with Wisdom and Love from above.
Because of which we are a diligent, patient, responsible, disciplined,
Upright, kind, merciful, peace-loving people.
We build, nurture, sustain and maintain.
We produce rather than consume.
We save rather than spend.
We invest rather than waste.
We are a thrifty, honest and diligent and productive people.
This, too, is our vision for a national character.
And this we will achieve with all our hearts, mind and might,
In service to man for the glory of God…..
So guide and equip us God….”
So that’s all that we need! We do not need foreign assistance. We need divine assistance however to effect the kind of character which we can use as a tool to emancipate ourselves from other forms of poverty.
In short, we do not need Cha-Cha to attain this wonderful and beautiful vision. We just need CHARACTER CHANGE (Char-Cha). And to attain Char-Cha, we have God to help us. All we have to do is tell Him: “Father, it’s Char-Cha that we have come up to be what we shall pursue. Please help us achieve this. As for Cha-Cha, let it not prosper. Amen.”
Personally ask that and it shall be begin. He promised: If My people will pray and humble themselves, then, I will hear and heal their land!
As a matter of fact, their Cha-Cha will pose a great hindrance to our attaining this vision because their Cha-Cha will make these enemies more powerful and more able to continue dispersing and driving us to other nations to get dollars to offset their stupidity, hide their incompetence, and fund their graft and corruption.
With their Cha-Cha, they will continue to drive us away from this our Native Land and they will have all the freedom and power to begin to let foreigners come in!
If there is a few words to best describe their Cha-Cha, these are as follows: TREACHERY, BETRAYAL AND TREASON AGAINST THE FILIPINO PEOPLE!
Their Cha-Cha is consolidation and perpetuation of their power – read: CORRUPT EVIL POWER - so that they can continue their “Fly-Now-Pay-Later” driving- away-the-Filipinos program, so that they can continue stealing from the National coffer without fear of bankruptcy because there is the dollar that the OFW remits, and also without anymore the possibility of being caught because their proposed Parliamentary-Unicameral system will remove all balance-and-check engines present in today’s Presidential-Bicameral system.
It is very clear what will happen: They steal the more, when the built-in check-and-balance is removed, and prevent consequent government bankruptcy by sending more Filipinos abroad to bail out the nation with their dollars,
And they will let foreigners in to further rape and ravish our Motherland.
After they had sent all beautiful Filipinas to be ravished, abused and raped and devoured in foreign lands!
Our fat plains and fertile valleys are already in the hands of the hacienderos and the Church.
What’s left – namely: our infertile mountaintops, our eroded slopes and cliffs - will be taken by the foreigners with his mighty dollars.
So, if now we are in the mountain slopes, sooner we shall be pushed to the edge of the cliffs! Or to go down to the cities and beg!
During the recent years, the homeless and landless Badjaos suddenly flocked in Cebu City. This alarmed Mayor Osmeña. These beggars filled the streets, and irritated the pedestrians. When asked why they had suddenly come en masse to Cebu, the Badjaos answered Mayor Osmeña: “The last source of livelihood that we had, which is the shorelines and the shallow sea, have been turned into fish sanctuaries and fishing is not allowed, and not only that, we have no equipment to fish in the deeper sea, and so, we prefer to beg here where it is surer to survive than to die in hunger.”
Shall the same fate happen to us in our own country when the foreigners due to their advantage in capital, technology, management and entrepreneurial skills, higher intelligence, and access to power?
I am afraid – this fear began recently – that what we, from Luzon and the Visayas – we, so-called civilized and Christianized section of our country had done to our helpless native brothers and sisters starting in the previous decades, namely: driving them away from the land, we seized and called our own, and by our merciless destruction of the forest, inevitably killed them en masse – I fear that WHAT WE DID TO THEM IS THE SAME BEING DONE TO US BY THE FOREIGNERS, namely: being driven from our homeland!
Are we now reaping our own sowing? Is Karma then immutable? Is God’s law of Cause and Effect inexorable? Is the Almighty giving us to the same experience for what we had done to our own blood brothers and sisters, the native tribes of this land?
If this crime was true, then
This will happen to us!
Furthermore, when these present greed-driven leaders are secured in their consolidated and perpetuated power, thanks to our approval to their Cha-Cha this coming plebiscite,
Then, all money-making operations which will destroy the moral fabric of the youth and nation shall be accelerated. I still need to mention these evil operations: gambling, drugs, flesh trade, guns, and the likes!
One observer is correct to say, These men we have now in government particularly Speaker De Venecia, and his cohorts are worse than Marcos!
It is heroism if someone can stop them – by all means!
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Our National Vision states: “Whose purpose is peace”…
WILL THEIR CHA-CHA GIVE US PEACE?
The Administration’s first five proposed amendments will consolidate and perpetuate their power? What kind of leaders and people they are to deserve consolidated and less-auditable and longer power?
• They are the ones who approved GATT-WTO/Trade globalization to flood our domestic market with cheap and quality products, and prosecute patent-infringer, causing the bankruptcy of thousands of small Filipino entrepreneurs, instead of placing safety nets to allow them to survive while working out to legalize and improve their competitiveness; the people’s savings from cheap and quality imported products have come in exchange for their friends and relatives closing shop or losing jobs; No lunch is free, so they say.
• They are the ones who have ordered TESDA, Dole and other government agencies to hasten the deployment of our people abroad particularly women without work certainty and protection. They are very much aware of the deception by employment agencies, namely: that it is not actually decent works that await most of our Filipinas but immoral works of prostitutes or sex slaves, as well as low-respect domestic works prone to abuses. But they play deaf ear to the dangers that our Filipinas face. Mostly, it was too late: rape was already done. Or the OFW already has come home – inside a coffin! Some they had saved but where is praise for saving what they had fed to the “terong” in the first place? Where is gratitude deserved?
• With the 7th proposed amendment, they will literally sell our land, country, our natural resources to the foreigner whose mere cents can but hectares of land here?
How can peace be felt after seeing their superior technology driving our businesses to bankruptcy? – after seeing their thriving businesses and mansions dotting our lands while us losing our lands, houses, and freedom? How can peace be there when they become our employers or masters in our own land?
This happened to Poland, Germany and Spain: when the government allowed the Jews to settle in their land. The Jews by their financial genius and business acumen, eventually became their rich lenders and masters, while the citizens became either slaves, employees of the Jewish businessmen or they became bankrupt in their own businesses – poorer than before the Jews came.
The seeming economic development was benefiting only the foreigners as well as the government who enjoyed higher tax collection, thanks to the Jews. But overall, the lives of the citizens did not improve. The banking or financing system run by the Jews also proved disastrous. What promised to help ended up binding the people into deeper debts! When the people saw it, they revolted and drove away the Jews, to the sorrow of the government officials. The Jews were efficient tax-makers!
If we allow foreigners buy out easily our land, waters, and businesses with their almighty dollars and powerful technology and become our employers and masters, instead of rising up ourselves and moving to resurrect the independence and prosperity of this country, then, like Poland, et. al., we will suffer amidst foreigner-induced economic prosperity, and then eventually, in sheer disgust and hatred, we will drive these foreigners, the bringer of economic prosperity as well as the impoverisher of the masses, away in some bloody insurrection.
So, I prefer that they share or sell their technology to us (that is there systems, machinery) but leave us alone here. Technology Transfer, not their transfer of residence and business. For them to live with us or among us, will surely be troublesome. We won’t achieve peace side by side foreigners.
Japan only asked for knowledge from America and Europe. The Japanese government never entertained the idea of letting the foreigners make prosperity for them! They are the main makers of their own prosperity with a little help from foreign benefactors or workers. They took charge their own fate. They charted their own destiny. Not the foreigners. Nor did they allow foreigners to hinder them or stand on the way! They did not delegate nor surrender their future to unknown foreigners!
U.S. Ambassador Armacost also noted that Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong and China also have attained their economic prosperity by giving foreigner equity investment, surely, not 100% foreign ownership of businesses and properties.
I suggest we also ask the advices of Prime Ministers Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, Mahathir of Malaysia and Kozomi of Japan regarding the proposed amendments of our Charter especially the one on foreign business ownership. Of course, they will say “yes” to the 7th proposal so they can do business fully in our country. But do not ask them as businessmen; ask them what they will do if they were in our place. What they did when presented with the same problem? Did they allow the foreigners enjoy the full privileges of their citizens? Were there no laws that serve as safety nets for our people?
I guess, that in this level of immaturity, where each nation possesses more Selflove than brotherly, we can not expect them to work fully for our welfare. They will take more than they would be willing to give. That is a proven fact. And there hearts have not changed; only worsened!
Like in Germany, Poland and Spain, the Jews or foreigners continued to grow rich while the natives continued to grow poorer as a result of the foreigners’ unfair economic system!
Our National Vision states:
“happiness, success, prosperity,
justice, equality and abundant life
for all of us His human children,
envision ourselves as a people who are economically prosperous…”
Where our lands, minerals, precious metals, owned or taken over by foreigners, we cannot expect those vision to get fulfilled.
“and guaranteed total sustainable development of and for
our people and nation.”
Let us not trust them. The foreign mining firms as well as the U.S.A. military have left toxin chemicals that have destroyed our environment, polluted our waters (portable water, rivers, seas and rains) and have brought deformities and cancers upon our people!
Our National Vision states:
“WE envision of a prosperous people and a peaceful society”
This cannot be achieved if we become slaves and employees of foreigners in our own land.
“We envision of a society where there is abundance
of beauty and richness of nature.
The valleys are verdant and the plains are beckoning.
The landscape is awesome and the surrounding is poetic
and musical.”
Foreigners are known polluters of pure Nature. Their sciences and technology causes such pollution. That’s a fact. And we better take pre-cautions with that!
“A society where life thrives
and living is conducive, joyous and exciting.
A lush beautiful dwelling place
abounding in clean and plenteous water, bubbling fresh.
And abounding in pure, cool, refreshing air.
The land is fat and the farm exudes health and
brilliance to all families.
The food is abundant, delicious and nutritious.”
I assure you: Their science, knowledge, technology and machinery will never help us fulfill this vision. To the contrary, their chemicals and their greed will produce the opposite. The U.S.A. is a case in point. There’s a book that proved with solid proofs that America is a poisoned country. The title of the book is: “America the Poisoned”. And when these poisonous products and companies were told to stop the poisoning, they transferred to ignorant nations like the Philippines!
The purity, the freshness of our Nature or Environment will disappear if we let their technology abuse them – all in the name of profit.
Our National Vision states:
“We envision a family life in the countryside which is farm-based.
A farm which provides us with sufficient, fresh and
nutritious fruits, vegetation and crops.
A farm that gives health, strengths, healing, wisdom and wealth.”
This sweet vision, we can better attain without the intervention of the foreigners. The foreigners’ involvement such as in funding will instead paralyze us because we would wait forever their funding or would be led to think that without their funding we could do nothing!
Just take the “bakhaw” planting for example. Indeed I saw that the local government succeeded planting a few hectares of shores with bakhaw. What surprised me was when I was told that in order to do that, the local government had to loan P5 millions!
I surveyed the place and analyzed the complexity or possibility of the project. I concluded that it could be done by the municipal government with just one employee who will do the seedling preparation, and in a matter of months; or by the people in the area.
Millions of pesos were not needed. The bakhaws can be seeded in the nursery or at home and easily planted at low tide.
All that we needed is: Self-reliance or independent frame of mind. The mind of a person with initiative. The mind of an entrepreneur. The mind of a diligent person.
The mind not of the beggar nor of a lazy dumb servant who cannot move or act without their master’s further instructions. We need the character of the ants: They work without masters. All of them are workers. They fight without captains generals; all of them are soldiers!
Our National Vision states:
“We envision a sea with wealth and abundance
Which are more than enough for countless of succeeding generations.
A sea which showcases the beauty of Creation and tells
of the greatness of the Creator”
Do you know that the factories of these foreigners have produced volumes of toxic wastes which they loaded on ships and threw into our seas and oceans?
Now, ever wonder why our marine lives are dying, including our fishes?
If we copy their factories, and install them in our backyards, where do you think will you throw the wastes? Will these foreigners allow us to throw our wastes on their own seas?
Our National Vision states:
“We envision of an agro-industrialized country
Where both agriculture and industry thrive together
and mutually support each other.
This means to say that it is an industry that does not deplete our soil,
Nor degrade the richness of our lands,
nor poison our livestock and vegetation,
Nor pollute our rivers and seas, air and food,
Nor deny us of our health nor rob us of our precious life.
Rather, it is an industry that preserves and protects our environment
Replenishes the resources of the Earth,
respects our life relationships
And contributes to our well-being and happiness.”
The good news is this: This can be achieved without much help and intervention from foreigners. We can just copy the proven organic farming system such as the SRI or System of Rice Intensification which is now fast become the fad among fertilizer-wary and pesticide-infected farmers all over the world!
All we need is a basic knowledge on ecology and organic farming which is spelled as follows: Tender loving care of our non-human neighbors, namely: plants and animals and the rest of the creation.
Our National Vision states:
“It will be an industrialization that is situated in places
Where there are enough trees and plants to absorb the exhausts
And recycles the wastes of factory and its products;
Thus, preventing pollution of the air, food and water.”
The type of heavy industry of these foreigners does not suit to this vision. We have to design that type of industry by ourselves. No foreigners will help us achieve that because he is here to make money, not to waste time and his resources in achieving such vision in a country not his own. It is us who will do it.
The framers of our 1987 Constitution were wise to base industrialization on our agriculture. The provision states: “The state shall promote industrialization and full employment based on sound agricultural development and agrarian reform, through industries that make full and efficient use of human and natural resources…” Article XII, Section 1.
Although the same section states that “The President may enter into agreements with foreign-owned corporations involving either technical or financial assistance for large-scale exploration, development, and utilization of minerals, petroleum, and other mineral oils” which more probably than not, will entail pollution of our environment, the following purpose statement should serve as guide to wit: “based on real contribution to the economic growth and general welfare of the country.” General welfare of the country should mean the protection and preservation of the basics of life such as land, water, air, food, etc.
This means to say first and foremost, that any business undertaking that will pollute or destroy these basics of life should not be pushed through!
Only life-friendly technology for sustainable life shall be allowed.
I recently read one high official in the National League of Municipal Mayors in the Philippines lambasting the to him naïve framers of the Constitution for the above-quoted provision preventing the kind of industrialization responsible for the progress of nations like the England, the U.S., Germany, Japan, etc.
May I advise that man to please review the kind of progress these mentioned nations had gone through in the past centuries. And then to ask them whether or not they would like to go through the same experience. My naïve official, do you know that this kind of progress that you were referring to is the same force that has destroyed their rivers and underground waters, with chemicals, poisoned their farms, polluted their air, and brought their people tremendous sufferings in the form of cancers? Deformed children. Debilitating sicknesses. Sky-high cost of medications. Immeasurable sorrows! What do you call them? Progress? Even in terms of farm output, their chemical-based methods are giving them progress in reverse! The high yield that they were celebrating thanks to scientific methods is fast diminishing, due to totally dead soil and highly poisonous chemicals.
I advise you further to secure the U.S. book titled “Poisoned America” and you will certainly back track with your ill-informed desire to follow their example of industrialization!
Look up! We already have an ozone hole in Antarctica, 27.4 million sq km, thanks to the huge thick CFC smoke from the U.S. crude fossil oil refineries that lined up her coastal states facing the Atlantic opposite the Middle East. Result: killer hurricanes!
O foolish leaders of this country! When will you come to realize that you do not deserve to lead this nation because you are blind men leading the blind!
Yes, shameless ones, time is soon when you will resign because of new-found shame!
Our National Vision states:
“More hopefully, it will be an industry whose products
as well as wastes are life-friendly,
That is, not harmful to the environment or to human beings.”
Piles of evidence are being brought everyday to prove that INDUSTRY BASED ON CHEMICALS ARE ANTI-LIFE, ENVIRONMENT-HOSTILE AND HARMFUL TO HUMANS!
It means poisoning and diseases such as cancers!
Our National Vision states:
“We also envision of an industrialization that spreads into the countryside
To solve and further prevent urban congestions, traffic,
pollution, poverty, fires, crimes and immoralities.”
This we can do with our own families. No need for foreign investors!
Our National Vision states:
“We envision an industry that protects and preserves the
sanctity of marriage and family.
It is an industry that is usually rural-based
So that workers will be safe and away from the dangers
of the spiritually degenerating cities.
“As mush as possible, it will be a home-based industrialization
So that family members will not be separated from each other,
So that each workers be safe from the abuses of alien
oppressive employers,
So that couples shall be spared from the temptations
Caused by geographical and emotional separation.
So that all members of the family can share work,
Life and happiness together
Thereby building a close-limit family
as the foundation of a strong society
And as the source of strong and upright leaders
And builders of tomorrow ‘s renewed Philippines.”
The most important thing we MUST DO is restore the capacity of our land, farm and barangay to support its families!
And organic farming holds the key to the return of high-yielding fertility and sustainability.
WE don’t need foreigners to achieve this vision. All we need is God, His teachings or guidance, the land and natural resources that He has given us, and our obedience and diligence.
Our National Vision states:
“We envision of a mechanized country
to lighten up the burdens and toils of each man and woman.
To enhance the quality of workmanship and to speed up production
“And, consequently, allow families enough time off work
To enjoy family life together
And for each member of the family
to develop his/her talents into hobbies
Or even turn his hobbies into an enterprise
for more excellent service to mankind
Nevertheless, such mechanization should not be pollutant
So that our environment would be kept fresh and healthful.
Furthermore, it should not be too concentrated in one place
So that our place would not become too unbanized
To the extent that our value of familism would get eroded
And godliness replaced by materialism and immorality.”
Some countries possess and sell this kind of machinery. We can buy them.
Our National Vision states:
“In others words, we envision a society
where there is much beauty and health, cleanliness and freshness,
Where Love and righteousness, work and leisure,
joy and peace, richness and abundance
Are preserved and spread to all parts of nation and to all the earth —
Where the all-important God-ordained institutions of marriage and family
Are protected from destruction
Where mechanization produces an industrialization
That does not endanger our relationship with and in our families,
neighbors, and with our Creator.”
And then, we end with a sort of epilogue:
“This is our vision of total and sustainable development,
For the people, by the people, with the people, through the people
And with the help, blessings and the guidance of the Almighty Ever-merciful God
Who is our Creator, Provider, Sustainer, Savior and Everlasting Father.
“This is made possible
Because we are a people made after the image of God
Richly endowed with Wisdom and Love from above.
Because of which we are a diligent, patient, responsible, disciplined,
Upright, kind, merciful, peace-loving people.
We build, nurture, sustain and maintain.
We produce rather than consume.
We save rather than spend.
We invest rather than waste.
We are a thrifty, honest and diligent and productive people.
This, too, is our vision for a national character.
And this we will achieve with all our hearts, mind and might,
In service to man for the glory of God…..
So guide and equip us God….”
So that’s all that we need! We do not need foreign assistance. We need divine assistance however to effect the kind of character which we can use as a tool to emancipate ourselves from other forms of poverty.
In short, we do not need Cha-Cha to attain this wonderful and beautiful vision. We just need CHARACTER CHANGE (Char-Cha). And to attain Char-Cha, we have God to help us. All we have to do is tell Him: “Father, it’s Char-Cha that we have come up to be what we shall pursue. Please help us achieve this. As for Cha-Cha, let it not prosper. Amen.”
Personally ask that and it shall be begin. He promised: If My people will pray and humble themselves, then, I will hear and heal their land!
As a matter of fact, their Cha-Cha will pose a great hindrance to our attaining this vision because their Cha-Cha will make these enemies more powerful and more able to continue dispersing and driving us to other nations to get dollars to offset their stupidity, hide their incompetence, and fund their graft and corruption.
With their Cha-Cha, they will continue to drive us away from this our Native Land and they will have all the freedom and power to begin to let foreigners come in!
If there is a few words to best describe their Cha-Cha, these are as follows: TREACHERY, BETRAYAL AND TREASON AGAINST THE FILIPINO PEOPLE!
Their Cha-Cha is consolidation and perpetuation of their power – read: CORRUPT EVIL POWER - so that they can continue their “Fly-Now-Pay-Later” driving- away-the-Filipinos program, so that they can continue stealing from the National coffer without fear of bankruptcy because there is the dollar that the OFW remits, and also without anymore the possibility of being caught because their proposed Parliamentary-Unicameral system will remove all balance-and-check engines present in today’s Presidential-Bicameral system.
It is very clear what will happen: They steal the more, when the built-in check-and-balance is removed, and prevent consequent government bankruptcy by sending more Filipinos abroad to bail out the nation with their dollars,
And they will let foreigners in to further rape and ravish our Motherland.
After they had sent all beautiful Filipinas to be ravished, abused and raped and devoured in foreign lands!
Our fat plains and fertile valleys are already in the hands of the hacienderos and the Church.
What’s left – namely: our infertile mountaintops, our eroded slopes and cliffs - will be taken by the foreigners with his mighty dollars.
So, if now we are in the mountain slopes, sooner we shall be pushed to the edge of the cliffs! Or to go down to the cities and beg!
During the recent years, the homeless and landless Badjaos suddenly flocked in Cebu City. This alarmed Mayor Osmeña. These beggars filled the streets, and irritated the pedestrians. When asked why they had suddenly come en masse to Cebu, the Badjaos answered Mayor Osmeña: “The last source of livelihood that we had, which is the shorelines and the shallow sea, have been turned into fish sanctuaries and fishing is not allowed, and not only that, we have no equipment to fish in the deeper sea, and so, we prefer to beg here where it is surer to survive than to die in hunger.”
Shall the same fate happen to us in our own country when the foreigners due to their advantage in capital, technology, management and entrepreneurial skills, higher intelligence, and access to power?
I am afraid – this fear began recently – that what we, from Luzon and the Visayas – we, so-called civilized and Christianized section of our country had done to our helpless native brothers and sisters starting in the previous decades, namely: driving them away from the land, we seized and called our own, and by our merciless destruction of the forest, inevitably killed them en masse – I fear that WHAT WE DID TO THEM IS THE SAME BEING DONE TO US BY THE FOREIGNERS, namely: being driven from our homeland!
Are we now reaping our own sowing? Is Karma then immutable? Is God’s law of Cause and Effect inexorable? Is the Almighty giving us to the same experience for what we had done to our own blood brothers and sisters, the native tribes of this land?
If this crime was true, then
This will happen to us!
Furthermore, when these present greed-driven leaders are secured in their consolidated and perpetuated power, thanks to our approval to their Cha-Cha this coming plebiscite,
Then, all money-making operations which will destroy the moral fabric of the youth and nation shall be accelerated. I still need to mention these evil operations: gambling, drugs, flesh trade, guns, and the likes!
One observer is correct to say, These men we have now in government particularly Speaker De Venecia, and his cohorts are worse than Marcos!
It is heroism if someone can stop them – by all means!
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Our Vision and their Charter Change
Our Vision and their Charter Change
Part I
By:
Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
October 2006
A great sage once said, “Without Vision, the people will perish”. Why? Because they will cast out all restraint, refuse to discipline themselves and neglect to direct their steps to a destination.
Without vision, they have no aim. Like driftwoods, they are tossed to and fro by the ebb and tide of the never-ending sea.
Without Vision, they have no propeller to make advance steps to some beautiful destination. With vision, they are like boat without rudder to guide themselves to a happy end.
Following is our National Vision. This is our Blue Print – our map for the future. This National Vision will act as our propeller (fuel and inspiration to keep us moving) and our rudder to guide us away from danger and towards the safe paths of life.
Then our life will be meaningful and purposeful!
This National Vision is very necessary in the face of the efforts of others to complete the disintegration of this poor wretched nation. With this Vision, animated by our love, we shall no longer perish! These men are orchestrating the Charter Changes which we do not need; as a matter of fact, their proposed Charter Changes will further bring us to greater captivity and poverty.
After printing our National Vision below, will follow our comments in serials whether or not their versions of Charter Change will help us achieve our vision.
OUR NATIONAL VISION
WE, the Filipino, a tribe in the family of nations,
Cradled in this beautiful and richly blessed Pearl of the Orient,
Created after the image of the Almighty and All-loving Father of all Mankind,
Whose purpose is peace, happiness, success, prosperity,
justice, equality and abundant life
for all of us His human children,
envision ourselves as a people who are economically prosperous
because we are founded on and guided by the true moral values
that, among us, nurtured faith and love;
taught discipline, diligence and productivity;
borne peace and happiness;
and guaranteed total sustainable development of and for
our people and nation.
WE envision of a prosperous people and a peaceful society,
Established upon the solid foundation of the true moral values
of honesty and discipline, patience and diligence,
resourcefulness and responsibility…
of the Christian beatitudes of love and compassion,
mercy and kindness, faith and hope, humility and gentleness…
which are the true and eternal keys to total and sustainable development.
We envision of a society where there is abundance
of beauty and richness of nature.
The valleys are verdant and the plains are beckoning.
The landscape is awesome and the surrounding is poetic and musical.
A society where life thrives
and living is conducive, joyous and exciting.
A lush beautiful dwelling place
abounding in clean and plenteous water, bubbling fresh.
And abounding in pure, cool, refreshing air.
The land is fat and the farm exudes health and
brilliance to all families.
The food is abundant, delicious and nutritious
We envision a family life in the countryside which is farm-based.
A farm which provides us with sufficient, fresh and
nutritious fruits, vegetation and crops.
A farm that gives health, strengths, healing, wisdom and wealth.
We envision a sea with wealth and abundance
Which are more than enough for countless of succeeding generations.
A sea which showcases the beauty of Creation and tells
of the greatness of the Creator
We envision of an agro-industrialized country
Where both agriculture and industry thrive together
and mutually support each other.
This means to say that it is an industry that does not deplete our soil,
Nor degrade the richness of our lands,
nor poison our livestock and vegetation,
Nor pollute our rivers and seas, air and food,
Nor deny us of our health nor rob us of our precious life.
Rather, it is an industry that preserves and protects our environment
Replenishes the resources of the Earth,
respects our life relationships
And contributes to our well-being and happiness.
It will be an industrialization that is situated in places
Where there are enough trees and plants to absorb the exhausts
And recycles the wastes of factory and its products;
Thus, preventing pollution of the air, food and water.
More hopefully, it will be an industry whose products
as well as wastes are life-friendly,
That is, not harmful to the environment or to human beings.
We also envision of an industrialization that spreads into the countryside
To solve and further prevent urban congestions, traffic,
pollution, poverty, fires, crimes and immoralities.
We envision an industry that protects and preserves the
sanctity of marriage and family.
It is an industry that is usually rural-based
So that workers will be safe and away from the dangers
of the spiritually degenerating cities.
As mush as possible, it will be a home-based industrialization
So that family members will not be separated from each other,
So that each workers be safe from the abuses of alien
oppressive employers,
So that couples shall be spared from the temptations
Caused by geographical and emotional separation.
So that all members of the family can share work,
Life and happiness together
Thereby building a close-limit family
as the foundation of a strong society
And as the source of strong and upright leaders
And builders of tomorrow ‘s renewed Philippines.
We envision of a mechanized country
to lighten up the burdens and toils of each man and woman.
To enhance the quality of workmanship and to speed up production
And, consequently, allow families enough time off work
To enjoy family life together
And for each member of the family
to develop his/her talents into hobbies
Or even turn his hobbies into an enterprise
for more excellent service to mankind
Nevertheless, such mechanization should not be pollutant
So that our environment would be kept fresh and healthful.
Furthermore, it should not be too concentrated in one place
So that our place would not become too urbanized
To the extent that our value of familism would get eroded
And godliness replaced by materialism and immorality.
In others words, we envision a society
where there is much beauty and health, cleanliness and freshness,
Where Love and righteousness, work and leisure,
joy and peace, richness and abundance
Are preserved and spread to all parts of nation and to all the earth —
Where the all-important God-ordained institutions of marriage and family
Are protected from destruction
Where mechanization produces an industrialization
That does not endanger our relationship with and in our families,
neighbors, and with our Creator.
This is our vision of total and sustainable development,
For the people, by the people, with the people, through the people
And with the help, blessings and the guidance of the Almighty Ever-merciful God
Who is our Creator, Provider, Sustainer, Savior and Everlasting Father.
This is made possible
Because we are a people made after the image of God
Richly endowed with Wisdom and Love from above.
Because of which we are a diligent, patient, responsible, disciplined,
Upright, kind, merciful, peace-loving people.
We build, nurture, sustain and maintain.
We produce rather than consume.
We save rather than spend.
We invest rather than waste.
We are a thrifty, honest and diligent and productive people.
This, too, is our vision for a national character.
And this we will achieve with all our hearts, mind and might,
In service to man for the glory of God…..
So guide and equip us God….
* * *
OUR ANALYSIS OUR NATIONAL VISION AND THEIR CHA-CHA – Part II:
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Our National Vision states: “Whose purpose is peace”…
WILL THEIR CHA-CHA GIVE US PEACE?
The Administration’s first five proposed amendments will consolidate and perpetuate their power? What kind of leaders and people they are to deserve consolidated and less-auditable and longer power?
• They are the ones who approved GATT-WTO/Trade globalization to flood our domestic market with cheap and quality products, and prosecute patent-infringer, causing the bankruptcy of thousands of small Filipino entrepreneurs, instead of placing safety nets to allow them to survive while working out to legalize and improve their competitiveness; the people’s savings from cheap and quality imported products have come in exchange for their friends and relatives closing shop or losing jobs; No lunch is free, so they say.
• They are the ones who have ordered TESDA, Dole and other government agencies to hasten the deployment of our people abroad particularly women without work certainty and protection. They are very much aware of the deception by employment agencies, namely: that it is not actually decent works that await most of our Filipinas but immoral works of prostitutes or sex slaves, as well as low-respect domestic works prone to abuses. But they play deaf ear to the dangers that our Filipinas face. Mostly, it was too late: rape was already done. Or the OFW already has come home – inside a coffin! Some they had saved but where is praise for saving what they had fed to the “terong” in the first place? Where is gratitude deserved?
• With the 7th proposed amendment, they will literally sell our land, country, our natural resources to the foreigner whose mere cents can but hectares of land here?
How can peace be felt after seeing their superior technology driving our businesses to bankruptcy? – after seeing their thriving businesses and mansions dotting our lands while us losing our lands, houses, and freedom? How can peace be there when they become our employers or masters in our own land?
This happened to Poland, Germany and Spain: when the government allowed the Jews to settle in their land. The Jews by their financial genius and business acumen, eventually became their rich lenders and masters, while the citizens became either slaves, employees of the Jewish businessmen or they became bankrupt in their own businesses – poorer than before the Jews came.
The seeming economic development was benefiting only the foreigners as well as the government who enjoyed higher tax collection, thanks to the Jews. But overall, the lives of the citizens did not improve. The banking or financing system run by the Jews also proved disastrous. What promised to help ended up binding the people into deeper debts! When the people saw it, they revolted and drove away the Jews, to the sorrow of the government officials. The Jews were efficient tax-makers!
If we allow foreigners buy out easily our land, waters, and businesses with their almighty dollars and powerful technology and become our employers and masters, instead of rising up ourselves and moving to resurrect the independence and prosperity of this country, then, like Poland, et. al., we will suffer amidst foreigner-induced economic prosperity, and then eventually, in sheer disgust and hatred, we will drive these foreigners, the bringer of economic prosperity as well as the impoverisher of the masses, away in some bloody insurrection.
So, I prefer that they share or sell their technology to us (that is there systems, machinery) but leave us alone here. Technology Transfer, not their transfer of residence and business. For them to live with us or among us, will surely be troublesome. We won’t achieve peace side by side foreigners.
Japan only asked for knowledge from America and Europe. The Japanese government never entertained the idea of letting the foreigners make prosperity for them! They are the main makers of their own prosperity with a little help from foreign benefactors or workers. They took charge their own fate. They charted their own destiny. Not the foreigners. Nor did they allow foreigners to hinder them or stand on the way! They did not delegate nor surrender their future to unknown foreigners!
U.S. Ambassador Armacost also noted that Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong and China also have attained their economic prosperity by giving foreigner equity investment, surely, not 100% foreign ownership of businesses and properties.
I suggest we also ask the advices of Prime Ministers Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, Mahathir of Malaysia and Kozomi of Japan regarding the proposed amendments of our Charter especially the one on foreign business ownership. Of course, they will say “yes” to the 7th proposal so they can do business fully in our country. But do not ask them as businessmen; ask them what they will do if they were in our place. What they did when presented with the same problem? Did they allow the foreigners enjoy the full privileges of their citizens? Were there no laws that serve as safety nets for our people?
I guess, that in this level of immaturity, where each nation possesses more Selflove than brotherly, we can not expect them to work fully for our welfare. They will take more than they would be willing to give. That is a proven fact. And there hearts have not changed; only worsened!
Like in Germany, Poland and Spain, the Jews or foreigners continued to grow rich while the natives continued to grow poorer as a result of the foreigners’ unfair economic system!
OUR ANALYSIS OUR NATIONAL VISION AND THEIR CHA-CHA – Part III:
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Our National Vision states:
“happiness, success, prosperity,
justice, equality and abundant life
for all of us His human children,
envision ourselves as a people who are economically prosperous…”
Where our lands, minerals, precious metals, owned or taken over by foreigners, we cannot expect those vision to get fulfilled.
“and guaranteed total sustainable development of and for
our people and nation.”
Let us not trust them. The foreign mining firms as well as the U.S.A. military have left toxin chemicals that have destroyed our environment, polluted our waters (portable water, rivers, seas and rains) and have brought deformities and cancers upon our people!
OUR ANALYSIS OUR NATIONAL VISION AND THEIR CHA-CHA – Part IV:
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Our National Vision states:
“WE envision of a prosperous people and a peaceful society”
This cannot be achieved if we become slaves and employees of foreigners in our own land.
“We envision of a society where there is abundance
of beauty and richness of nature.
The valleys are verdant and the plains are beckoning.
The landscape is awesome and the surrounding is poetic
and musical.”
Foreigners are known polluters of pure Nature. Their sciences and technology causes such pollution. That’s a fact. And we better take pre-cautions with that!
“A society where life thrives
and living is conducive, joyous and exciting.
A lush beautiful dwelling place
abounding in clean and plenteous water, bubbling fresh.
And abounding in pure, cool, refreshing air.
The land is fat and the farm exudes health and
brilliance to all families.
The food is abundant, delicious and nutritious.”
I assure you: Their science, knowledge, technology and machinery will never help us fulfill this vision. To the contrary, their chemicals and their greed will produce the opposite. The U.S.A. is a case in point. There’s a book that proved with solid proofs that America is a poisoned country. The title of the book is: “America the Poisoned”. And when these poisonous products and companies were told to stop the poisoning, they transferred to ignorant nations like the Philippines!
The purity, the freshness of our Nature or Environment will disappear if we let their technology abuse them – all in the name of profit.
OUR ANALYSIS OUR NATIONAL VISION AND THEIR CHA-CHA – Part IX:
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Our National Vision states:
“More hopefully, it will be an industry whose products
as well as wastes are life-friendly,
That is, not harmful to the environment or to human beings.”
Piles of evidence are being brought everyday to prove that INDUSTRY BASED ON CHEMICALS ARE ANTI-LIFE, ENVIRONMENT-HOSTILE AND HARMFUL TO HUMANS!
It means poisoning and diseases such as cancers!
OUR ANALYSIS OUR NATIONAL VISION AND THEIR CHA-CHA – Part V:
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Our National Vision states:
“We envision a family life in the countryside which is farm-based.
A farm which provides us with sufficient, fresh and
nutritious fruits, vegetation and crops.
A farm that gives health, strengths, healing, wisdom and wealth.”
This sweet vision, we can better attain without the intervention of the foreigners. The foreigners’ involvement such as in funding will instead paralyze us because we would wait forever their funding or would be led to think that without their funding we could do nothing!
Just take the “bakhaw” planting for example. Indeed I saw that the local government succeeded planting a few hectares of shores with bakhaw. What surprised me was when I was told that in order to do that, the local government had to loan P5 millions!
I surveyed the place and analyzed the complexity or possibility of the project. I concluded that it could be done by the municipal government with just one employee who will do the seedling preparation, and in a matter of months; or by the people in the area.
Millions of pesos were not needed. The bakhaws can be seeded in the nursery or at home and easily planted at low tide.
All that we needed is: Self-reliance or independent frame of mind. The mind of a person with initiative. The mind of an entrepreneur. The mind of a diligent person.
The mind not of the beggar nor of a lazy dumb servant who cannot move or act without their master’s further instructions. We need the character of the ants: They work without masters. All of them are workers. They fight without captains generals; all of them are soldiers!
OUR ANALYSIS OUR NATIONAL VISION AND THEIR CHA-CHA – Part VI:
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Our National Vision states:
“We envision a sea with wealth and abundance
Which are more than enough for countless of succeeding generations.
A sea which showcases the beauty of Creation and tells
of the greatness of the Creator”
Do you know that the factories of these foreigners have produced volumes of toxic wastes which they loaded on ships and threw into our seas and oceans?
Now, ever wonder why our marine lives are dying, including our fishes?
If we copy their factories, and install them in our backyards, where do you think will you throw the wastes? Will these foreigners allow us to throw our wastes on their own seas?
OUR ANALYSIS OUR NATIONAL VISION AND THEIR CHA-CHA – Part VII:
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Our National Vision states:
“We envision of an agro-industrialized country
Where both agriculture and industry thrive together
and mutually support each other.
This means to say that it is an industry that does not deplete our soil,
Nor degrade the richness of our lands,
nor poison our livestock and vegetation,
Nor pollute our rivers and seas, air and food,
Nor deny us of our health nor rob us of our precious life.
Rather, it is an industry that preserves and protects our environment
Replenishes the resources of the Earth,
respects our life relationships
And contributes to our well-being and happiness.”
The good news is this: This can be achieved without much help and intervention from foreigners. We can just copy the proven organic farming system such as the SRI or System of Rice Intensification which is now fast become the fad among fertilizer-wary and pesticide-infected farmers all over the world!
All we need is a basic knowledge on ecology and organic farming which is spelled as follows: Tender loving care of our non-human neighbors, namely: plants and animals and the rest of the creation.
OUR ANALYSIS OUR NATIONAL VISION AND THEIR CHA-CHA – Part VIII:
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Our National Vision states:
“It will be an industrialization that is situated in places
Where there are enough trees and plants to absorb the exhausts
And recycles the wastes of factory and its products;
Thus, preventing pollution of the air, food and water.”
The type of heavy industry of these foreigners does not support this vision. We have to design that type of industry by ourselves. No foreigners will help us achieve that because he is here to make money, not to waste time and his resources in achieving such vision in a country not his own. It is us who will do it.
The framers of our 1987 Constitution were wise to base industrialization on our agriculture. The provision states: “The state shall promote industrialization and full employment based on sound agricultural development and agrarian reform, through industries that make full and efficient use of human and natural resources…” Article XII, Section 1.
Although the same section states that “The President may enter into agreements with foreign-owned corporations involving either technical or financial assistance for large-scale exploration, development, and utilization of minerals, petroleum, and other mineral oils” which more probably than not, will entail pollution of our environment, the following purpose statement should serve as guide to wit: “based on real contribution to the economic growth and general welfare of the country.” General welfare of the country should mean the protection and preservation of the basics of life such as land, water, air, food, etc.
This means to say first and foremost, that any business undertaking that will pollute or destroy these basics of life should not be pushed through!
Only life-friendly technology for sustainable life shall be allowed.
I recently read one high official in the National League of Municipal Mayors in the Philippines lambasting the to him naïve framers of the Constitution for the above provision industrialization which was responsible for the progress of nations like the England, the U.S., Germany, Japan, etc.
May I advise that man to please review the kind of progress these mentioned nations had gone through in the past centuries. And then to ask them whether or not they would like to go through the same experience. My naïve official, do you know that this kind of progress that you were referring to is the same force that has destroyed their rivers and underground waters, with chemicals, poisoned their farms, polluted their air, and brought their people tremendous sufferings in the form of cancers? Deformed children. Debilitating sicknesses. What do you call them? Progress? Even in terms of farm output, their chemical-based methods are giving them progress in reverse! The high yield that they were celebrating thanks to scientific methods is fast diminishing, due to totally dead soil and highly poisonous chemicals.
I advise you further to secure the U.S. book titled “Poisoned America” and you will certainly back track with your ill-informed desire to follow their example of industrialization!
O foolish leaders of this country! When will you come to realize that you are not deserving to lead this nation because you are blind men leading the blind!
Yes, shameless ones, time is soon when you will resign because of new-found shame!
OUR ANALYSIS OUR NATIONAL VISION AND THEIR CHA-CHA – Part X:
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Our National Vision states:
“We also envision of an industrialization that spreads into the countryside
To solve and further prevent urban congestions, traffic,
pollution, poverty, fires, crimes and immoralities.”
This we can do with our own families. No need for foreign investors!
OUR ANALYSIS OUR NATIONAL VISION AND THEIR CHA-CHA – Part XI:
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Our National Vision states:
“We envision an industry that protects and preserves the
sanctity of marriage and family.
It is an industry that is usually rural-based
So that workers will be safe and away from the dangers
of the spiritually degenerating cities.
“As mush as possible, it will be a home-based industrialization
So that family members will not be separated from each other,
So that each workers be safe from the abuses of alien
oppressive employers,
So that couples shall be spared from the temptations
Caused by geographical and emotional separation.
So that all members of the family can share work,
Life and happiness together
Thereby building a close-limit family
as the foundation of a strong society
And as the source of strong and upright leaders
And builders of tomorrow ‘s renewed Philippines.”
The most important thing we MUST DO is restore the capacity of our land, farm and barangay to support its families!
And organic farming holds the key to the return of high-yielding fertility and sustainability.
WE don’t need foreigners to achieve this vision. All we need is God, His teachings or guidance, the land and natural resources that He has given us, and our obedience and diligence.
OUR ANALYSIS OUR NATIONAL VISION AND THEIR CHA-CHA – Part XII:
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Our National Vision states:
“We envision of a mechanized country
to lighten up the burdens and toils of each man and woman.
To enhance the quality of workmanship and to speed up production
“And, consequently, allow families enough time off work
To enjoy family life together
And for each member of the family
to develop his/her talents into hobbies
Or even turn his hobbies into an enterprise
for more excellent service to mankind
Nevertheless, such mechanization should not be pollutant
So that our environment would be kept fresh and healthful.
Furthermore, it should not be too concentrated in one place
So that our place would not become too unbanized
To the extent that our value of familism would get eroded
And godliness replaced by materialism and immorality.”
Some countries possess and sell this kind of machinery. We can buy them.
OUR ANALYSIS OUR NATIONAL VISION AND THEIR CHA-CHA – Part XIII:
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Our National Vision states:
“In others words, we envision a society
where there is much beauty and health, cleanliness and freshness,
Where Love and righteousness, work and leisure,
joy and peace, richness and abundance
Are preserved and spread to all parts of nation and to all the earth —
Where the all-important God-ordained institutions of marriage and family
Are protected from destruction
Where mechanization produces an industrialization
That does not endanger our relationship with and in our families,
neighbors, and with our Creator.”
And then, we end with a sort of epilogue:
“This is our vision of total and sustainable development,
For the people, by the people, with the people, through the people
And with the help, blessings and the guidance of the Almighty Ever-merciful God
Who is our Creator, Provider, Sustainer, Savior and Everlasting Father.
“This is made possible
Because we are a people made after the image of God
Richly endowed with Wisdom and Love from above.
Because of which we are a diligent, patient, responsible, disciplined,
Upright, kind, merciful, peace-loving people.
We build, nurture, sustain and maintain.
We produce rather than consume.
We save rather than spend.
We invest rather than waste.
We are a thrifty, honest and diligent and productive people.
This, too, is our vision for a national character.
And this we will achieve with all our hearts, mind and might,
In service to man for the glory of God…..
So guide and equip us God….”
So that’s all that we need! We do not need foreign assistance. We need divine assistance however to effect the kind of character which we can use as a tool to emancipate ourselves from other forms of poverty.
In short, we do not need Cha-Cha to attain this wonderful and beautiful vision. We just need CHARACTER CHANGE (Char-Cha). And to attain Char-Cha, we have God to help us. All we have to do is tell Him: “Father, it’s Char-Cha that we have come up to be what we shall pursue. Please help us achieve this. As for Cha-Cha, let it not prosper. Amen.”
Personally ask that and it shall be begin. He promised: If My people will pray and humble themselves, then, I will hear and heal their land!
As a matter of fact, their Cha-Cha will pose a great hindrance to our attaining this vision because their Cha-Cha will make these enemies more powerful and more able to continue dispersing and driving us to other nations to get dollars to offset their stupidity, hide their incompetence, and fund their graft and corruption.
With their Cha-Cha, they will continue to drive us away from this our Native Land and they will have all the freedom and power to begin to let foreigners come in!
If there is a few words to best describe their Cha-Cha, these are as follows: TREACHERY, BETRAYAL AND TREASON AGAINST THE FILIPINO PEOPLE!
Their Cha-Cha is consolidation and perpetuation of their power – read: CORRUPT EVIL POWER - so that they can continue their “Fly-Now-Pay-Later” driving- away-the-Filipinos program, so that they can continue stealing from the National coffer without fear of bankruptcy because there is the dollar that the OFW remits, and also without anymore the possibility of being caught because their proposed Parliamentary-Unicameral system will remove all balance-and-check engines present in today’s Presidential-Bicameral system.
It is very clear what will happen: They steal the more, when the built-in check-and-balance is removed, and prevent consequent government bankruptcy by sending more Filipinos abroad to bail out the nation with their dollars,
And they will let foreigners in to further rape and ravish our Motherland.
After they had sent all beautiful Filipinas to be ravished, abused and raped and devoured in foreign lands!
Our fat plains and fertile valleys are already in the hands of the hacienderos and the Church.
What’s left – namely: our infertile mountaintops, our eroded slopes and cliffs - will be taken by the foreigners with his mighty dollars.
So, if now we are in the mountain slopes, sooner we shall be pushed to the edge of the cliffs! Or to go down to the cities and beg!
During the recent years, the homeless and landless Badjaos suddenly flocked in Cebu City. This alarmed Mayor Osmeña. These beggars filled the streets, and irritated the pedestrians. When asked why they had suddenly come en masse to Cebu, the Badjaos answered Mayor Osmeña: “The last source of livelihood that we had, which is the shorelines and the shallow sea, have been turned into fish sanctuaries and fishing is not allowed, and not only that, we have no equipment to fish in the deeper sea, and so, we prefer to beg here where it is surer to survive than to die in hunger.”
Shall the same fate happen to us in our own country when the foreigners due to their advantage in capital, technology, management and entrepreneurial skills, higher intelligence, and access to power?
I am afraid – this fear began recently – that what we, from Luzon and the Visayas – we, so-called civilized and Christianized section of our country had done to our helpless native brothers and sisters starting in the previous decades, namely: driving them away from the land, we seized and called our own, and by our merciless destruction of the forest, inevitably killed them en masse – I fear that WHAT WE DID TO THEM IS THE SAME BEING DONE TO US BY THE FOREIGNERS, namely: being driven from our homeland!
Are we now reaping our own sowing? Is Karma then immutable? Is God’s law of Cause and Effect inexorable? Is the Almighty giving us to the same experience for what we had done to our own blood brothers and sisters, the native tribes of this land?
If this crime was true, then
This will happen to us!
Furthermore, when these present greed-driven leaders are secured in their consolidated and perpetuated power, thanks to our approval to their Cha-Cha this coming plebiscite,
Then, all money-making operations which will destroy the moral fabric of the youth and nation shall be accelerated. I still need to mention these evil operations: gambling, drugs, flesh trade, guns, and the likes!
One observer is correct to say, These men we have now in government particularly Speaker De Venecia, and his cohorts are worse than Marcos!
It is heroism if someone can stop them – by all means!
* * *
SHALL WE GO TOO FAR SO AS TO SELL OUR LAND AND RESOURCES
TO THE FOREIGNERS?
If ever we need foreigners, we need righteous foreigners who will do good business but also obey our God’s law: “Replenish the earth” and “Love your neighbor as yourself”! We need foreign brothers who can help us attain SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, which is not for us only but for our children and their children’s children!
If we can have our own capital, such as from our OFWs, then, we need foreign brothers who can sell their good technology (not the bad technology based on chemicals and motivated by greed) to us in return for royalty fees, or whatever. Their technology or even management skill we ask to transfer or impart to us. Like what they did to the Japanese. The Japanese did not let foreigners replace them in their lands. They just bought or copied their technology. Technology Transfer is the name of the solution.
That is the way Japan employed and not the proposed selling of our lands, metals, minerals, and all other resources to the suspect foreigners.
Therefore, let us VIGOROUSLY oppose the 7th amendment without guaranteed safety nets to prevent evil businessmen from coming to further ravish and rape our Mother Land! They have already ravished us from afar. And now shall they be allowed to come near to further do their evil deeds?
Quoted from:
Foreign Debt First Before Cha-Cha
Savante Servantes
June 29, 2006
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Part I
By:
Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
October 2006
A great sage once said, “Without Vision, the people will perish”. Why? Because they will cast out all restraint, refuse to discipline themselves and neglect to direct their steps to a destination.
Without vision, they have no aim. Like driftwoods, they are tossed to and fro by the ebb and tide of the never-ending sea.
Without Vision, they have no propeller to make advance steps to some beautiful destination. With vision, they are like boat without rudder to guide themselves to a happy end.
Following is our National Vision. This is our Blue Print – our map for the future. This National Vision will act as our propeller (fuel and inspiration to keep us moving) and our rudder to guide us away from danger and towards the safe paths of life.
Then our life will be meaningful and purposeful!
This National Vision is very necessary in the face of the efforts of others to complete the disintegration of this poor wretched nation. With this Vision, animated by our love, we shall no longer perish! These men are orchestrating the Charter Changes which we do not need; as a matter of fact, their proposed Charter Changes will further bring us to greater captivity and poverty.
After printing our National Vision below, will follow our comments in serials whether or not their versions of Charter Change will help us achieve our vision.
OUR NATIONAL VISION
WE, the Filipino, a tribe in the family of nations,
Cradled in this beautiful and richly blessed Pearl of the Orient,
Created after the image of the Almighty and All-loving Father of all Mankind,
Whose purpose is peace, happiness, success, prosperity,
justice, equality and abundant life
for all of us His human children,
envision ourselves as a people who are economically prosperous
because we are founded on and guided by the true moral values
that, among us, nurtured faith and love;
taught discipline, diligence and productivity;
borne peace and happiness;
and guaranteed total sustainable development of and for
our people and nation.
WE envision of a prosperous people and a peaceful society,
Established upon the solid foundation of the true moral values
of honesty and discipline, patience and diligence,
resourcefulness and responsibility…
of the Christian beatitudes of love and compassion,
mercy and kindness, faith and hope, humility and gentleness…
which are the true and eternal keys to total and sustainable development.
We envision of a society where there is abundance
of beauty and richness of nature.
The valleys are verdant and the plains are beckoning.
The landscape is awesome and the surrounding is poetic and musical.
A society where life thrives
and living is conducive, joyous and exciting.
A lush beautiful dwelling place
abounding in clean and plenteous water, bubbling fresh.
And abounding in pure, cool, refreshing air.
The land is fat and the farm exudes health and
brilliance to all families.
The food is abundant, delicious and nutritious
We envision a family life in the countryside which is farm-based.
A farm which provides us with sufficient, fresh and
nutritious fruits, vegetation and crops.
A farm that gives health, strengths, healing, wisdom and wealth.
We envision a sea with wealth and abundance
Which are more than enough for countless of succeeding generations.
A sea which showcases the beauty of Creation and tells
of the greatness of the Creator
We envision of an agro-industrialized country
Where both agriculture and industry thrive together
and mutually support each other.
This means to say that it is an industry that does not deplete our soil,
Nor degrade the richness of our lands,
nor poison our livestock and vegetation,
Nor pollute our rivers and seas, air and food,
Nor deny us of our health nor rob us of our precious life.
Rather, it is an industry that preserves and protects our environment
Replenishes the resources of the Earth,
respects our life relationships
And contributes to our well-being and happiness.
It will be an industrialization that is situated in places
Where there are enough trees and plants to absorb the exhausts
And recycles the wastes of factory and its products;
Thus, preventing pollution of the air, food and water.
More hopefully, it will be an industry whose products
as well as wastes are life-friendly,
That is, not harmful to the environment or to human beings.
We also envision of an industrialization that spreads into the countryside
To solve and further prevent urban congestions, traffic,
pollution, poverty, fires, crimes and immoralities.
We envision an industry that protects and preserves the
sanctity of marriage and family.
It is an industry that is usually rural-based
So that workers will be safe and away from the dangers
of the spiritually degenerating cities.
As mush as possible, it will be a home-based industrialization
So that family members will not be separated from each other,
So that each workers be safe from the abuses of alien
oppressive employers,
So that couples shall be spared from the temptations
Caused by geographical and emotional separation.
So that all members of the family can share work,
Life and happiness together
Thereby building a close-limit family
as the foundation of a strong society
And as the source of strong and upright leaders
And builders of tomorrow ‘s renewed Philippines.
We envision of a mechanized country
to lighten up the burdens and toils of each man and woman.
To enhance the quality of workmanship and to speed up production
And, consequently, allow families enough time off work
To enjoy family life together
And for each member of the family
to develop his/her talents into hobbies
Or even turn his hobbies into an enterprise
for more excellent service to mankind
Nevertheless, such mechanization should not be pollutant
So that our environment would be kept fresh and healthful.
Furthermore, it should not be too concentrated in one place
So that our place would not become too urbanized
To the extent that our value of familism would get eroded
And godliness replaced by materialism and immorality.
In others words, we envision a society
where there is much beauty and health, cleanliness and freshness,
Where Love and righteousness, work and leisure,
joy and peace, richness and abundance
Are preserved and spread to all parts of nation and to all the earth —
Where the all-important God-ordained institutions of marriage and family
Are protected from destruction
Where mechanization produces an industrialization
That does not endanger our relationship with and in our families,
neighbors, and with our Creator.
This is our vision of total and sustainable development,
For the people, by the people, with the people, through the people
And with the help, blessings and the guidance of the Almighty Ever-merciful God
Who is our Creator, Provider, Sustainer, Savior and Everlasting Father.
This is made possible
Because we are a people made after the image of God
Richly endowed with Wisdom and Love from above.
Because of which we are a diligent, patient, responsible, disciplined,
Upright, kind, merciful, peace-loving people.
We build, nurture, sustain and maintain.
We produce rather than consume.
We save rather than spend.
We invest rather than waste.
We are a thrifty, honest and diligent and productive people.
This, too, is our vision for a national character.
And this we will achieve with all our hearts, mind and might,
In service to man for the glory of God…..
So guide and equip us God….
* * *
OUR ANALYSIS OUR NATIONAL VISION AND THEIR CHA-CHA – Part II:
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Our National Vision states: “Whose purpose is peace”…
WILL THEIR CHA-CHA GIVE US PEACE?
The Administration’s first five proposed amendments will consolidate and perpetuate their power? What kind of leaders and people they are to deserve consolidated and less-auditable and longer power?
• They are the ones who approved GATT-WTO/Trade globalization to flood our domestic market with cheap and quality products, and prosecute patent-infringer, causing the bankruptcy of thousands of small Filipino entrepreneurs, instead of placing safety nets to allow them to survive while working out to legalize and improve their competitiveness; the people’s savings from cheap and quality imported products have come in exchange for their friends and relatives closing shop or losing jobs; No lunch is free, so they say.
• They are the ones who have ordered TESDA, Dole and other government agencies to hasten the deployment of our people abroad particularly women without work certainty and protection. They are very much aware of the deception by employment agencies, namely: that it is not actually decent works that await most of our Filipinas but immoral works of prostitutes or sex slaves, as well as low-respect domestic works prone to abuses. But they play deaf ear to the dangers that our Filipinas face. Mostly, it was too late: rape was already done. Or the OFW already has come home – inside a coffin! Some they had saved but where is praise for saving what they had fed to the “terong” in the first place? Where is gratitude deserved?
• With the 7th proposed amendment, they will literally sell our land, country, our natural resources to the foreigner whose mere cents can but hectares of land here?
How can peace be felt after seeing their superior technology driving our businesses to bankruptcy? – after seeing their thriving businesses and mansions dotting our lands while us losing our lands, houses, and freedom? How can peace be there when they become our employers or masters in our own land?
This happened to Poland, Germany and Spain: when the government allowed the Jews to settle in their land. The Jews by their financial genius and business acumen, eventually became their rich lenders and masters, while the citizens became either slaves, employees of the Jewish businessmen or they became bankrupt in their own businesses – poorer than before the Jews came.
The seeming economic development was benefiting only the foreigners as well as the government who enjoyed higher tax collection, thanks to the Jews. But overall, the lives of the citizens did not improve. The banking or financing system run by the Jews also proved disastrous. What promised to help ended up binding the people into deeper debts! When the people saw it, they revolted and drove away the Jews, to the sorrow of the government officials. The Jews were efficient tax-makers!
If we allow foreigners buy out easily our land, waters, and businesses with their almighty dollars and powerful technology and become our employers and masters, instead of rising up ourselves and moving to resurrect the independence and prosperity of this country, then, like Poland, et. al., we will suffer amidst foreigner-induced economic prosperity, and then eventually, in sheer disgust and hatred, we will drive these foreigners, the bringer of economic prosperity as well as the impoverisher of the masses, away in some bloody insurrection.
So, I prefer that they share or sell their technology to us (that is there systems, machinery) but leave us alone here. Technology Transfer, not their transfer of residence and business. For them to live with us or among us, will surely be troublesome. We won’t achieve peace side by side foreigners.
Japan only asked for knowledge from America and Europe. The Japanese government never entertained the idea of letting the foreigners make prosperity for them! They are the main makers of their own prosperity with a little help from foreign benefactors or workers. They took charge their own fate. They charted their own destiny. Not the foreigners. Nor did they allow foreigners to hinder them or stand on the way! They did not delegate nor surrender their future to unknown foreigners!
U.S. Ambassador Armacost also noted that Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong and China also have attained their economic prosperity by giving foreigner equity investment, surely, not 100% foreign ownership of businesses and properties.
I suggest we also ask the advices of Prime Ministers Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, Mahathir of Malaysia and Kozomi of Japan regarding the proposed amendments of our Charter especially the one on foreign business ownership. Of course, they will say “yes” to the 7th proposal so they can do business fully in our country. But do not ask them as businessmen; ask them what they will do if they were in our place. What they did when presented with the same problem? Did they allow the foreigners enjoy the full privileges of their citizens? Were there no laws that serve as safety nets for our people?
I guess, that in this level of immaturity, where each nation possesses more Selflove than brotherly, we can not expect them to work fully for our welfare. They will take more than they would be willing to give. That is a proven fact. And there hearts have not changed; only worsened!
Like in Germany, Poland and Spain, the Jews or foreigners continued to grow rich while the natives continued to grow poorer as a result of the foreigners’ unfair economic system!
OUR ANALYSIS OUR NATIONAL VISION AND THEIR CHA-CHA – Part III:
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Our National Vision states:
“happiness, success, prosperity,
justice, equality and abundant life
for all of us His human children,
envision ourselves as a people who are economically prosperous…”
Where our lands, minerals, precious metals, owned or taken over by foreigners, we cannot expect those vision to get fulfilled.
“and guaranteed total sustainable development of and for
our people and nation.”
Let us not trust them. The foreign mining firms as well as the U.S.A. military have left toxin chemicals that have destroyed our environment, polluted our waters (portable water, rivers, seas and rains) and have brought deformities and cancers upon our people!
OUR ANALYSIS OUR NATIONAL VISION AND THEIR CHA-CHA – Part IV:
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Our National Vision states:
“WE envision of a prosperous people and a peaceful society”
This cannot be achieved if we become slaves and employees of foreigners in our own land.
“We envision of a society where there is abundance
of beauty and richness of nature.
The valleys are verdant and the plains are beckoning.
The landscape is awesome and the surrounding is poetic
and musical.”
Foreigners are known polluters of pure Nature. Their sciences and technology causes such pollution. That’s a fact. And we better take pre-cautions with that!
“A society where life thrives
and living is conducive, joyous and exciting.
A lush beautiful dwelling place
abounding in clean and plenteous water, bubbling fresh.
And abounding in pure, cool, refreshing air.
The land is fat and the farm exudes health and
brilliance to all families.
The food is abundant, delicious and nutritious.”
I assure you: Their science, knowledge, technology and machinery will never help us fulfill this vision. To the contrary, their chemicals and their greed will produce the opposite. The U.S.A. is a case in point. There’s a book that proved with solid proofs that America is a poisoned country. The title of the book is: “America the Poisoned”. And when these poisonous products and companies were told to stop the poisoning, they transferred to ignorant nations like the Philippines!
The purity, the freshness of our Nature or Environment will disappear if we let their technology abuse them – all in the name of profit.
OUR ANALYSIS OUR NATIONAL VISION AND THEIR CHA-CHA – Part IX:
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Our National Vision states:
“More hopefully, it will be an industry whose products
as well as wastes are life-friendly,
That is, not harmful to the environment or to human beings.”
Piles of evidence are being brought everyday to prove that INDUSTRY BASED ON CHEMICALS ARE ANTI-LIFE, ENVIRONMENT-HOSTILE AND HARMFUL TO HUMANS!
It means poisoning and diseases such as cancers!
OUR ANALYSIS OUR NATIONAL VISION AND THEIR CHA-CHA – Part V:
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Our National Vision states:
“We envision a family life in the countryside which is farm-based.
A farm which provides us with sufficient, fresh and
nutritious fruits, vegetation and crops.
A farm that gives health, strengths, healing, wisdom and wealth.”
This sweet vision, we can better attain without the intervention of the foreigners. The foreigners’ involvement such as in funding will instead paralyze us because we would wait forever their funding or would be led to think that without their funding we could do nothing!
Just take the “bakhaw” planting for example. Indeed I saw that the local government succeeded planting a few hectares of shores with bakhaw. What surprised me was when I was told that in order to do that, the local government had to loan P5 millions!
I surveyed the place and analyzed the complexity or possibility of the project. I concluded that it could be done by the municipal government with just one employee who will do the seedling preparation, and in a matter of months; or by the people in the area.
Millions of pesos were not needed. The bakhaws can be seeded in the nursery or at home and easily planted at low tide.
All that we needed is: Self-reliance or independent frame of mind. The mind of a person with initiative. The mind of an entrepreneur. The mind of a diligent person.
The mind not of the beggar nor of a lazy dumb servant who cannot move or act without their master’s further instructions. We need the character of the ants: They work without masters. All of them are workers. They fight without captains generals; all of them are soldiers!
OUR ANALYSIS OUR NATIONAL VISION AND THEIR CHA-CHA – Part VI:
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Our National Vision states:
“We envision a sea with wealth and abundance
Which are more than enough for countless of succeeding generations.
A sea which showcases the beauty of Creation and tells
of the greatness of the Creator”
Do you know that the factories of these foreigners have produced volumes of toxic wastes which they loaded on ships and threw into our seas and oceans?
Now, ever wonder why our marine lives are dying, including our fishes?
If we copy their factories, and install them in our backyards, where do you think will you throw the wastes? Will these foreigners allow us to throw our wastes on their own seas?
OUR ANALYSIS OUR NATIONAL VISION AND THEIR CHA-CHA – Part VII:
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Our National Vision states:
“We envision of an agro-industrialized country
Where both agriculture and industry thrive together
and mutually support each other.
This means to say that it is an industry that does not deplete our soil,
Nor degrade the richness of our lands,
nor poison our livestock and vegetation,
Nor pollute our rivers and seas, air and food,
Nor deny us of our health nor rob us of our precious life.
Rather, it is an industry that preserves and protects our environment
Replenishes the resources of the Earth,
respects our life relationships
And contributes to our well-being and happiness.”
The good news is this: This can be achieved without much help and intervention from foreigners. We can just copy the proven organic farming system such as the SRI or System of Rice Intensification which is now fast become the fad among fertilizer-wary and pesticide-infected farmers all over the world!
All we need is a basic knowledge on ecology and organic farming which is spelled as follows: Tender loving care of our non-human neighbors, namely: plants and animals and the rest of the creation.
OUR ANALYSIS OUR NATIONAL VISION AND THEIR CHA-CHA – Part VIII:
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Our National Vision states:
“It will be an industrialization that is situated in places
Where there are enough trees and plants to absorb the exhausts
And recycles the wastes of factory and its products;
Thus, preventing pollution of the air, food and water.”
The type of heavy industry of these foreigners does not support this vision. We have to design that type of industry by ourselves. No foreigners will help us achieve that because he is here to make money, not to waste time and his resources in achieving such vision in a country not his own. It is us who will do it.
The framers of our 1987 Constitution were wise to base industrialization on our agriculture. The provision states: “The state shall promote industrialization and full employment based on sound agricultural development and agrarian reform, through industries that make full and efficient use of human and natural resources…” Article XII, Section 1.
Although the same section states that “The President may enter into agreements with foreign-owned corporations involving either technical or financial assistance for large-scale exploration, development, and utilization of minerals, petroleum, and other mineral oils” which more probably than not, will entail pollution of our environment, the following purpose statement should serve as guide to wit: “based on real contribution to the economic growth and general welfare of the country.” General welfare of the country should mean the protection and preservation of the basics of life such as land, water, air, food, etc.
This means to say first and foremost, that any business undertaking that will pollute or destroy these basics of life should not be pushed through!
Only life-friendly technology for sustainable life shall be allowed.
I recently read one high official in the National League of Municipal Mayors in the Philippines lambasting the to him naïve framers of the Constitution for the above provision industrialization which was responsible for the progress of nations like the England, the U.S., Germany, Japan, etc.
May I advise that man to please review the kind of progress these mentioned nations had gone through in the past centuries. And then to ask them whether or not they would like to go through the same experience. My naïve official, do you know that this kind of progress that you were referring to is the same force that has destroyed their rivers and underground waters, with chemicals, poisoned their farms, polluted their air, and brought their people tremendous sufferings in the form of cancers? Deformed children. Debilitating sicknesses. What do you call them? Progress? Even in terms of farm output, their chemical-based methods are giving them progress in reverse! The high yield that they were celebrating thanks to scientific methods is fast diminishing, due to totally dead soil and highly poisonous chemicals.
I advise you further to secure the U.S. book titled “Poisoned America” and you will certainly back track with your ill-informed desire to follow their example of industrialization!
O foolish leaders of this country! When will you come to realize that you are not deserving to lead this nation because you are blind men leading the blind!
Yes, shameless ones, time is soon when you will resign because of new-found shame!
OUR ANALYSIS OUR NATIONAL VISION AND THEIR CHA-CHA – Part X:
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Our National Vision states:
“We also envision of an industrialization that spreads into the countryside
To solve and further prevent urban congestions, traffic,
pollution, poverty, fires, crimes and immoralities.”
This we can do with our own families. No need for foreign investors!
OUR ANALYSIS OUR NATIONAL VISION AND THEIR CHA-CHA – Part XI:
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Our National Vision states:
“We envision an industry that protects and preserves the
sanctity of marriage and family.
It is an industry that is usually rural-based
So that workers will be safe and away from the dangers
of the spiritually degenerating cities.
“As mush as possible, it will be a home-based industrialization
So that family members will not be separated from each other,
So that each workers be safe from the abuses of alien
oppressive employers,
So that couples shall be spared from the temptations
Caused by geographical and emotional separation.
So that all members of the family can share work,
Life and happiness together
Thereby building a close-limit family
as the foundation of a strong society
And as the source of strong and upright leaders
And builders of tomorrow ‘s renewed Philippines.”
The most important thing we MUST DO is restore the capacity of our land, farm and barangay to support its families!
And organic farming holds the key to the return of high-yielding fertility and sustainability.
WE don’t need foreigners to achieve this vision. All we need is God, His teachings or guidance, the land and natural resources that He has given us, and our obedience and diligence.
OUR ANALYSIS OUR NATIONAL VISION AND THEIR CHA-CHA – Part XII:
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Our National Vision states:
“We envision of a mechanized country
to lighten up the burdens and toils of each man and woman.
To enhance the quality of workmanship and to speed up production
“And, consequently, allow families enough time off work
To enjoy family life together
And for each member of the family
to develop his/her talents into hobbies
Or even turn his hobbies into an enterprise
for more excellent service to mankind
Nevertheless, such mechanization should not be pollutant
So that our environment would be kept fresh and healthful.
Furthermore, it should not be too concentrated in one place
So that our place would not become too unbanized
To the extent that our value of familism would get eroded
And godliness replaced by materialism and immorality.”
Some countries possess and sell this kind of machinery. We can buy them.
OUR ANALYSIS OUR NATIONAL VISION AND THEIR CHA-CHA – Part XIII:
Will Their Cha-Cha Help Us Achieve Our National Vision?
By: Arnulfo Yu Laniba
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
Our National Vision states:
“In others words, we envision a society
where there is much beauty and health, cleanliness and freshness,
Where Love and righteousness, work and leisure,
joy and peace, richness and abundance
Are preserved and spread to all parts of nation and to all the earth —
Where the all-important God-ordained institutions of marriage and family
Are protected from destruction
Where mechanization produces an industrialization
That does not endanger our relationship with and in our families,
neighbors, and with our Creator.”
And then, we end with a sort of epilogue:
“This is our vision of total and sustainable development,
For the people, by the people, with the people, through the people
And with the help, blessings and the guidance of the Almighty Ever-merciful God
Who is our Creator, Provider, Sustainer, Savior and Everlasting Father.
“This is made possible
Because we are a people made after the image of God
Richly endowed with Wisdom and Love from above.
Because of which we are a diligent, patient, responsible, disciplined,
Upright, kind, merciful, peace-loving people.
We build, nurture, sustain and maintain.
We produce rather than consume.
We save rather than spend.
We invest rather than waste.
We are a thrifty, honest and diligent and productive people.
This, too, is our vision for a national character.
And this we will achieve with all our hearts, mind and might,
In service to man for the glory of God…..
So guide and equip us God….”
So that’s all that we need! We do not need foreign assistance. We need divine assistance however to effect the kind of character which we can use as a tool to emancipate ourselves from other forms of poverty.
In short, we do not need Cha-Cha to attain this wonderful and beautiful vision. We just need CHARACTER CHANGE (Char-Cha). And to attain Char-Cha, we have God to help us. All we have to do is tell Him: “Father, it’s Char-Cha that we have come up to be what we shall pursue. Please help us achieve this. As for Cha-Cha, let it not prosper. Amen.”
Personally ask that and it shall be begin. He promised: If My people will pray and humble themselves, then, I will hear and heal their land!
As a matter of fact, their Cha-Cha will pose a great hindrance to our attaining this vision because their Cha-Cha will make these enemies more powerful and more able to continue dispersing and driving us to other nations to get dollars to offset their stupidity, hide their incompetence, and fund their graft and corruption.
With their Cha-Cha, they will continue to drive us away from this our Native Land and they will have all the freedom and power to begin to let foreigners come in!
If there is a few words to best describe their Cha-Cha, these are as follows: TREACHERY, BETRAYAL AND TREASON AGAINST THE FILIPINO PEOPLE!
Their Cha-Cha is consolidation and perpetuation of their power – read: CORRUPT EVIL POWER - so that they can continue their “Fly-Now-Pay-Later” driving- away-the-Filipinos program, so that they can continue stealing from the National coffer without fear of bankruptcy because there is the dollar that the OFW remits, and also without anymore the possibility of being caught because their proposed Parliamentary-Unicameral system will remove all balance-and-check engines present in today’s Presidential-Bicameral system.
It is very clear what will happen: They steal the more, when the built-in check-and-balance is removed, and prevent consequent government bankruptcy by sending more Filipinos abroad to bail out the nation with their dollars,
And they will let foreigners in to further rape and ravish our Motherland.
After they had sent all beautiful Filipinas to be ravished, abused and raped and devoured in foreign lands!
Our fat plains and fertile valleys are already in the hands of the hacienderos and the Church.
What’s left – namely: our infertile mountaintops, our eroded slopes and cliffs - will be taken by the foreigners with his mighty dollars.
So, if now we are in the mountain slopes, sooner we shall be pushed to the edge of the cliffs! Or to go down to the cities and beg!
During the recent years, the homeless and landless Badjaos suddenly flocked in Cebu City. This alarmed Mayor Osmeña. These beggars filled the streets, and irritated the pedestrians. When asked why they had suddenly come en masse to Cebu, the Badjaos answered Mayor Osmeña: “The last source of livelihood that we had, which is the shorelines and the shallow sea, have been turned into fish sanctuaries and fishing is not allowed, and not only that, we have no equipment to fish in the deeper sea, and so, we prefer to beg here where it is surer to survive than to die in hunger.”
Shall the same fate happen to us in our own country when the foreigners due to their advantage in capital, technology, management and entrepreneurial skills, higher intelligence, and access to power?
I am afraid – this fear began recently – that what we, from Luzon and the Visayas – we, so-called civilized and Christianized section of our country had done to our helpless native brothers and sisters starting in the previous decades, namely: driving them away from the land, we seized and called our own, and by our merciless destruction of the forest, inevitably killed them en masse – I fear that WHAT WE DID TO THEM IS THE SAME BEING DONE TO US BY THE FOREIGNERS, namely: being driven from our homeland!
Are we now reaping our own sowing? Is Karma then immutable? Is God’s law of Cause and Effect inexorable? Is the Almighty giving us to the same experience for what we had done to our own blood brothers and sisters, the native tribes of this land?
If this crime was true, then
This will happen to us!
Furthermore, when these present greed-driven leaders are secured in their consolidated and perpetuated power, thanks to our approval to their Cha-Cha this coming plebiscite,
Then, all money-making operations which will destroy the moral fabric of the youth and nation shall be accelerated. I still need to mention these evil operations: gambling, drugs, flesh trade, guns, and the likes!
One observer is correct to say, These men we have now in government particularly Speaker De Venecia, and his cohorts are worse than Marcos!
It is heroism if someone can stop them – by all means!
* * *
SHALL WE GO TOO FAR SO AS TO SELL OUR LAND AND RESOURCES
TO THE FOREIGNERS?
If ever we need foreigners, we need righteous foreigners who will do good business but also obey our God’s law: “Replenish the earth” and “Love your neighbor as yourself”! We need foreign brothers who can help us attain SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, which is not for us only but for our children and their children’s children!
If we can have our own capital, such as from our OFWs, then, we need foreign brothers who can sell their good technology (not the bad technology based on chemicals and motivated by greed) to us in return for royalty fees, or whatever. Their technology or even management skill we ask to transfer or impart to us. Like what they did to the Japanese. The Japanese did not let foreigners replace them in their lands. They just bought or copied their technology. Technology Transfer is the name of the solution.
That is the way Japan employed and not the proposed selling of our lands, metals, minerals, and all other resources to the suspect foreigners.
Therefore, let us VIGOROUSLY oppose the 7th amendment without guaranteed safety nets to prevent evil businessmen from coming to further ravish and rape our Mother Land! They have already ravished us from afar. And now shall they be allowed to come near to further do their evil deeds?
Quoted from:
Foreign Debt First Before Cha-Cha
Savante Servantes
June 29, 2006
Agape Foundation (Agasoft)
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