Noynoy Aquino still the leader in another survey

Noynoy Aquino topped another presidential survey as posted in IBON Info with this this article.

This is just one of the series of surveys from different think-thank and social weather organizations Noynoy topped in these past weeks.

To those who are saying that this is just media hype and manifestation of emotional outpour, just wait for the succeeding months and you will see the "Masquerading People Power".

A Poem for Democracy

This is a poem written by Prof. Dan Rivero posted in NoyPI-AKO blog.

Prof. Dan Rivero has been an active supporter of change believing in the leadership of former Pres. Corazon Aquino.

I salute this man and other reform-minded and nationalists Filipinos here and abroad who have been active in making this campaign of the people, a first in Philippine political history, definitely possible.

This poem was composed and recited by our fellow NoyPI member Dan Rivero during the wake and funeral of Pres. Cory Aquino and “Araw ng Dilaw” last August 21)

Demokrasya
Prof. Dan Rivero

Ang bayang naging tulog, bibig naging kimi;
Ay namula’t, nagising at nagsalitang muli;
Sa paglisan ng isang babeng minsa’y tumindig;
Laban sa rehimeng sa baya’y nagpatahimik;
Mga karapatang pantaong matagal na siniil.

Kanyang asawa pinatay na walang laban;
Bitbit lamang ang hangad para sa kalayaan;
Para sa sambayanang uhaw sa kapayapaan;
Tungo sa tunay na kaunlaran nitong ating bayan;
Sa ilalim ng katotohanan, pag-ibig at katarungan.

Subali’t hindi naduwag itong abang biyuda;
Sa halip ay tumayo at humarap sa masa;
Baya’y nagkaisa’t tumalima sa panawagan nya
Na labanan ang pagkamakasarili at pagpapasasa;
Ng isang diktador, pamilya nya’t oligarkiya.

Kalayaa’y natamo dalawang dekada ng lumipas;
Nang ang diktador at alipores niya’y umalpas;
Taumbaya’y nagsimula sa isang panibagong bukas
Sa gabay ng lider na namuno sa pag-aaklas;
Ang demokrasya’y nakamtan muli sa wakas.

Nguni’t sa paglipas ng taon, tila may nagbago;
Ang kalayaan at demokrasya na ating natamo—
Ay nabale-wala at ngayo’y inaabuso
Ng mismong mamamayan, lalo na sa liderato;
Masasayang na lang ba ang ipinaglaban dito?

Para bagang isang bulkan ang bayan kong sinilangan;
Madalas ang hidwaan, paminsa’y nagpuputukan;
Mga lider ng pamahalaan gayun din ang mamamayan;
Kailan ba matatapos yari itong kaguluhan;
At magigising ang bayan sa kawalang paki-alam?

Ganito ba ang mukha ng demokrasya sa ‘ting bansa?
Na ang mga lider ay walang malasaki’t sa kapwa?
Na sa tuwing halalan lang sila naalala?
Kaawa-awa naman ang mga maralita’t dukha;
Sa yaman at posisyon ang ilan ay nagpapasasa.

Tayo ng kumilos, baguhin ang pananaw;
Ating tahakin ang landas, gabay ng bagong araw;
May pag-asa pa ang bayan, liwanag ay tanaw;
Itaguyod, ipaglaban kalayaang ating sigaw;
Demokrasya ng bayan huwag muling pumanaw.

Sa kulay na dilaw na laksang umaapaw
Tapang ay pumukaw sa’ming isip, puso’t galaw
Kalayaan at demokrasya patuloy na isisigaw-
Salamat po Cory, salamat po Ninoy
Laban ay itutuloy naming mga Pinoy!

Extension of COMELEC Registration Hours

Good news for unregistered voters!

In this article from www.gmanews.tv, the COMELEC will be extending their office hours for another four hours a day to cater the registrants who choose to register during the last minute.

Well, millions still are not yet registered and this extension could make increase the number of voters for the much anticipated People Power masquerading as election on May 2010.

An ecerpt from the article:

In anticipation of last-minute registrants, the Commission on Elections will be extending by at least four hours the daily voters' registration being conducted across the country until the end of the month.

"We are aware that a lot of Filipinos choose to register at the last minute. So in order to accommodate them and also address the growing crowds at our field offices as we near the registration deadline, the Comelec en banc has ordered the extension of office hours in all registration centers nationwide," said Comelec spokesman James Jimenez.

Bakit Noynoy at Mar?

I found this post in Harvey Keh's Facebook wall. It is an article written by Mayor jessie Robredo of Naga City on why he is supporting Noynoy and Mar in 2010 elections.

Bakit Noynoy at Mar?
ni: Mayor Jesse Robredo
Abante
http://abante.com.ph/issue/oct1109/op_jr.htm


Noong Oktubre 7, 2009 pormal na nagpapahayag ang Kaya Natin! ng suporta para sa tambalang Noynoy at Mar bilang Presidente at Bise Presidente ng ating bansa. Pinagkasunduan ito ng halos lahat ng mga kasama pagkatapos ng matagal na talakayan kung dapat nga bang tumaya ang Kaya Natin! at kung kanino tataya.

Dapat nga bang tumaya? Sa palagay ko, kung hihingi ng Kaya Natin! sa mga mamamayan na aktibong lumahok at tumaya, dapat kami ganoon din. Kung hihingi ng Kaya Natin! sa mga mamamayan na maghanap ng matino, matapat at karapat-dapat, dapat ‘yon din ang sukatan kung kanino kami tataya. Matapos na matagal na pagsusuri at pag-uusisa, pinagkaisahan na makibahagi sa pagsulong para kay Noynoy at Mar.

Ika nga ng taxi driver ng taxi na aking sinakyan patungong airport, ang kailangan daw nating mga pinuno, higit sa lahat, dapat ay matino. Sabi niya, ang kailangan nating mga pinuno ay hindi lamang ‘yong may malinis na ha ngarin. Sawang-sawa na raw siya sa mga matatamis na pangako ng nakaraan. At kahit ‘di ko tinatanong, ang sabi niya, siya ay kay Noynoy at Mar dahil sa tanang paninilbihan nila, ni minsan ‘di man lang sila nasangkot sa korapsyon at pagsamantala ng kanilang kapangyarihan.

Matagal na akong pinagkatiwalaan ng kapangyarihan bilang Mayor sa Naga City. Marami na ring pinagdaanan at karanasan. Katulad ng taxi driver, palagay ko integridad ang bukal ng matapat, maayos at mahusay na paglilingkod. Mara ming bagay ang maaaring matutuhan. Subalit ang integridad ay isang bagay na nagmumula sa puso at karakter ng tao. Hindi maaaring maipanggap. Mas mahalaga ang sinseridad sa abilidad. Mas mahalaga ang katapatan sa kahusayan. Nasubukan na natin ang matalino at marunong. Lalo tayong nasadlak sa kahirapan. Lalong nawala ang tiwala ng mamamayan sa pamahalaan. Kay Noynoy at Mar, pinagsama ang katapatan at kahusayan. Pinag-isa ang sinseridad at abilidad. Walang bahid sa matagal ng paglilingkod.

Naging bahagi ako ng Presidential Forum noong nakaraang Martes, October 6, 2009. Sa aking palagay, muling nasukat ang karunungan at pagkatao ng mga presidentiable na humarap. Iba’t ibang pananaw kung sino ang mahusay. Subalit malinaw sa lahat kung sino ang tunay na may sinseridad. Si Noynoy ‘yon!


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I hope lahat tayo ay tataya sa pagkakataong ito, tataya kay Noynoy at Mar!

Juana Change Music Video

To all those who want change, please watch this video of Juana Change posted in YouTube.



You want change? Start it now, click here!

Top 5 things to look for in a President (by Awie)

This is a post from www.noypi-ako.com by Awie about the Presdient's role according to Grace Abella-Zata, PMAP President.

President’s roles

Grace Abella-Zata, PMAP President, said in a press conference on Wednesday that any would-be president must perform each of the following roles in order to succeed:

1. Navigator.

• Able to steer the country towards a just and humane society, and knows how to get the country there.
• Has specific plans of action in solving problems like poverty, education, or corruption.
• Is decisive when faced with complex issues and hence, must be intelligent.

2. Mobilizer

• Must be good at building alliances to achieve consensus
• Must work well with Congress and Senate

3. Servant leader

• Must serve the people with a caring heart
• Must put the public interest first before vested interests
• Works hard and well to achieve the goals of government

4. Inspirational leader

• Must know how to work well with the press
• Can inspire unity, trust, and optimism among the people by being a good and moral leader

5. Guardian of national wealth and resources

• Allocates and uses the country’s resources properly
• Demonstrates strong political will, and is able to make right decisions for the common good, even if the decision is unpopular

Zata said that a candidate’s track record and political circle should also be considered since “past behavior predicts future behavior.”

“It’s like you’re making the Filipino people more educated or more enlightened in choosing better managers,” said PMAP Executive Director Gerardo Plana in a separate interview.

For the full article please click here.

by: Kristine Servando, abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak

In this post in the Noypi-Ako blog, one said that he can only envision Noynoy Aquino, no other presidential aspirants can come any closer with all these five roles in one person.

“A good leader can inspire us…”

This is an article of my idol, Conrado de Quiros.

“A good leader can inspire us…”
By Conrado de Quiros, There’s the Rub, Philippine Daily Inquirer

I’ve gotten some very interesting and thoughtful feedback from readers. A particularly noteworthy one is from a reader who wonders how I have become the No. 1 propagandist for Noynoy Aquino, investing him with the properties of a messiah, when in fact, as Cory’s rule showed, his feet are probably made of clay.

I have absolutely no problem being the “No. 1 propagandist” for Noynoy for one simple reason: I egged him to run. I egged him to run for many reasons, not the least of them being that he is a decent person. He is by no means perfect, but it’s like what Winston Churchill said about democracy: It’s a horrible system, except that the rest are worse.

The “rest” in this case meaning the “mainstream” candidates. Arguably some others have more reformist agendas, or have a reasonable claim to them. Nicky Perlas, a good friend, is one of them. JC de los Reyes, the presidential bet of the Kapatiran party of another good friend, Nandy Pacheco, is probably another.

The reason I am supporting Noynoy rather than any one of them, or others like them, has little to do with Noynoy being more likely to win than them. Or conversely, and more directly, it has little to do with them having as much chance to win as hell freezing over, or as the crow turning white, to use a more local saying. I’ve never had problems plugging for the “unwinnable” but deserving candidate in the past, I won’t have problems plugging for the “unwinnable” but deserving candidate in the future.

I haven’t wavered there. I’ve always plugged for the candidate I thought was most deserving. It just so happens that that candidate is also the most “winnable” today. Which wasn’t so only yesterday: I did propose that Noynoy run when most everybody was still scoffing at the idea, thinking it to border on lunacy.

While at this, curiously no one accused me in the past of being the chief propagandist of Jovito Salonga and Raul Roco though I rooted for them with as much passion as, if not more so than, Noynoy. No one said I made Roco in particular out to be The Messiah. I guess the principle applies only when your bet is doing well.

What makes Noynoy most deserving today is this: He carries the mantle of People Power. I do not mean that in any fuzzy religious or mystical sense—though as I’ve kept saying too, I’m not knocking it; providential things have been happening of late. I mean that in the most practical sense. Not least, the threat of People Power makes Noynoy the one deterrent to cheating. How huge a deterrent depends on how huge Arroyo’s resolve is—and as we’ve seen in the past, it’s epic. No one could have lasted nine unelected years in power without exercising epic resolve. And chicanery.

Noynoy is the one and only candidate the public will mind being cheated. None of the other candidates may claim that. In the other cases, the cheating will probably be protested as just another show of official vileness, but that is all. Noynoy gets cheated and the public will take to the streets.

Far more importantly, look at what’s happened after Aug. 5. You’ve got to be dead not to feel the sea change that’s swept over the landscape. If Le Cirque had been exposed before Aug. 5, we might have vituperated against it but ended up just making text jokes. But it happened after August 5, and the result was an explosion heard from here to New York. Since then no new government perfidy has passed without violent public reaction, from the revelation of the houses of the Arroyo kids in San Francisco to the unraveling of the Arroyo government at the height of the “Ondoy” floods.

It’s the spirit of Edsa that has made that outrage possible, it is the spirit of Edsa that has made that defiance possible. It’s the spirit Cory resurrected by her death, it’s the spirit Noynoy keeps alive by running. What makes Noynoy the most deserving “candidate” today is that he is more than a candidate and the exercise is more than elections. The fact that he is busting the charts all over the place—not even Erap made that spectacular showing in 1998—must suggest that we must look at today’s election beyond the framework of elections. As I suggested at FMAP last week, the only way to see it is this:

It is an Edsa masquerading as an election.

None of it is to suggest that we may look at Noynoy as some kind of savior. I did say last August that we may regard Cory herself only as a source of inspiration, not as a source of salvation. Only we can save ourselves. But a good leader can inspire us to do that. A good leader can dare us to do that.

True enough, the Cory presidency had its share of problems, and the Noynoy presidency will have its share of problems. I myself have not forgotten the things I brought up during the Cory presidency, which was not just Hacienda Luisita but the human rights abuses during the anti-insurgency campaign (notably by the paramilitary groups), government’s dependence on the US (which led to its defense of the Clark and Subic bases), government’s refusal to negotiate, if not scrap, the fraudulent loans (indeed making debt payments, not education, the number one priority of the budget), and so on. I’ll leave for another column why I think the Noynoy presidency can surpass the Cory one. Suffice it to say here that by all means give criticism where criticism is due. It should help make that presidency better.

It’s not perfect. Nothing in life is. One thing I can say is that Cory did not find my stance a reason to regard me as an enemy. If there was one thing she hated in life, it was hypocrites. If there was one thing she believed till death, it was better honorable foes than dishonorable friends.

The mother knew how to listen. Maybe the son does too.

Simply the best!!!

The Pope's advice to the Filipinos

This is a post I got from www.noypi-ako.com. Yes, indeed we need to choose upright leaders in this time where wrongdoings become right if you are in power.

Pope says Filipino people need upright leaders
By Evelyn Macairan (The Philippine Star)

Believing that poverty continues to be a major concern in the Philippines, Pope Benedict XVI yesterday advised Filipinos to choose upright political leaders.

The Pope gave the message to Philippine Ambassador to the Vatican Mercedes Arrasitia Tuason during a meeting last Oct. 2.

In CBCPNews, the official news service provider of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), the meeting between the Pope and Tuason revealed the concern of the Holy See of the continuing struggle of Filipinos in the face of the two powerful storms that devastated the country in a week.

Tuason said the Pope suggested that Filipinos should choose leaders who would lead them out of the struggle.

“The struggle against poverty in the Philippines calls for honesty, integrity and an unwavering fidelity to the principles of justice, especially on the part of those entrusted with positions of governance and public administration,” the Pope said.

The Pope also said that Filipino public officials should rediscover the real ethical foundation of their political authority.

The Pontiff called on officials to work for peace, particularly in Mindanao, described as a region “scarred by conflicts.”

In his statement, the Pope did not make any reference to a specific group but only said that the people should work for charity and persevere in the peace-building efforts in Southern Philippines.

“In an age when the name of God is abused by certain groups, the work of charity is particularly urgent,” the Pontiff added.

The Pope also praised the “courageous steps” being taken in the Philippines “to foster reconciliation and mutual understanding.”

He cited in particular the “commendable work” of the Bishops-Ulama Conference, the Mindanao People’s Conference, and the many grassroots organizations.

Tuason was among three new ambassadors to the Holy See that presented their Letters of Credence to the Pope at his summer residence in Rome.

The two others were Henriette Johanna Cornelia Maria van Lynden-Leijten of the Netherlands, and Miguel Humberto Diaz of the United States.

The Pope often uses the reception of a new ambassador as a venue to send a message to their government expressing his concerns or appreciation about certain matters.

Over the years, the Pope has been briefed about the situation in the country by Filipino bishops as well as by the Apostolic Nuncio, the representative of the Vatican to the Philippines.