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		<title>By: PSImeon</title>
		<link>http://www.quezon.ph/2008/06/20/since-iraq-a-hard-place-to-be/comment-page-3/#comment-844030</link>
		<dc:creator>PSImeon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ms. Drilon and company are indeed fortunate that they were freed right before the typhoon Frank disaster.  Otherwise, they would have been held captive for awhile as authorities get busy helping the storm victims.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ms. Drilon and company are indeed fortunate that they were freed right before the typhoon Frank disaster.  Otherwise, they would have been held captive for awhile as authorities get busy helping the storm victims.</p>
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		<title>By: leytenian</title>
		<link>http://www.quezon.ph/2008/06/20/since-iraq-a-hard-place-to-be/comment-page-3/#comment-840898</link>
		<dc:creator>leytenian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Cat,

&quot;I think you are one idealistic person who has not really seen the world and have not tried doing business. Easier said than done.&quot;

you are wrong about me again... doing business?  seeing the world? I don&#039;t need to prove that.  

Unforgivable? only the blog owner can decide that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Cat,</p>
<p>&#8220;I think you are one idealistic person who has not really seen the world and have not tried doing business. Easier said than done.&#8221;</p>
<p>you are wrong about me again&#8230; doing business?  seeing the world? I don&#8217;t need to prove that.  </p>
<p>Unforgivable? only the blog owner can decide that.</p>
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		<title>By: Bencard</title>
		<link>http://www.quezon.ph/2008/06/20/since-iraq-a-hard-place-to-be/comment-page-3/#comment-840358</link>
		<dc:creator>Bencard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>kg, you don&#039;t have to apologize. you know my irony wasn&#039;t meant for you. it was for the one who seem to have a very law opinion of lawyers and said so in my face  (lol).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>kg, you don&#8217;t have to apologize. you know my irony wasn&#8217;t meant for you. it was for the one who seem to have a very law opinion of lawyers and said so in my face  (lol).</p>
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		<title>By: The Ca t</title>
		<link>http://www.quezon.ph/2008/06/20/since-iraq-a-hard-place-to-be/comment-page-3/#comment-840151</link>
		<dc:creator>The Ca t</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve travelled in Mindanao under the sponsorship of an organization funded by German Christian Churches to lecture on livelihood programs. The participants were obliged to attend before they&#039;re given the interest-free loan for any livelihood project that they would like to engage in.

The attendees could not even attend the whole seminar. All they were interested in was to qualify for the loan.

How much more if you try to teach these unschooled young kindnappers who according to Arlyn dela Cruz (a kidnapping victim herself)  could not read and write ?

They are private armies of the politicians and what politicians would like their &quot;soldiers&quot; to be educated ? 

Keep them illiterate and they follow orders blindly.  

Between tending to livelihood projects which profitability and  feasibility are not guaranteed and getting millions  in less than a few days  thru kidnapping, what would they choose?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve travelled in Mindanao under the sponsorship of an organization funded by German Christian Churches to lecture on livelihood programs. The participants were obliged to attend before they&#8217;re given the interest-free loan for any livelihood project that they would like to engage in.</p>
<p>The attendees could not even attend the whole seminar. All they were interested in was to qualify for the loan.</p>
<p>How much more if you try to teach these unschooled young kindnappers who according to Arlyn dela Cruz (a kidnapping victim herself)  could not read and write ?</p>
<p>They are private armies of the politicians and what politicians would like their &#8220;soldiers&#8221; to be educated ? </p>
<p>Keep them illiterate and they follow orders blindly.  </p>
<p>Between tending to livelihood projects which profitability and  feasibility are not guaranteed and getting millions  in less than a few days  thru kidnapping, what would they choose?</p>
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		<title>By: The Ca t</title>
		<link>http://www.quezon.ph/2008/06/20/since-iraq-a-hard-place-to-be/comment-page-3/#comment-840124</link>
		<dc:creator>The Ca t</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Leytenian

&lt;blockquote&gt;Ã¢â‚¬Å“Lots of small business to start and maybe teach those young kidnappers on raising livestocks while providing a decent classroom.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

What kind of livestock? piggery in Muslim area. hahaha

I think you are one idealistic person who has not really seen the world and have not tried doing business. Easier said than done. 

By the way, you are not blogging here. This is MLQ3&#039;s blog. We are just commenters.

Blogging in one&#039;s blog is I think unforgivable especially if it is off topic. 
And too many &quot;blogs&quot; of this type is spamming a comment box.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Leytenian</p>
<blockquote><p>Ã¢â‚¬Å“Lots of small business to start and maybe teach those young kidnappers on raising livestocks while providing a decent classroom.</p></blockquote>
<p>What kind of livestock? piggery in Muslim area. hahaha</p>
<p>I think you are one idealistic person who has not really seen the world and have not tried doing business. Easier said than done. </p>
<p>By the way, you are not blogging here. This is MLQ3&#8242;s blog. We are just commenters.</p>
<p>Blogging in one&#8217;s blog is I think unforgivable especially if it is off topic.<br />
And too many &#8220;blogs&#8221; of this type is spamming a comment box.</p>
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		<title>By: hvrds</title>
		<link>http://www.quezon.ph/2008/06/20/since-iraq-a-hard-place-to-be/comment-page-3/#comment-840010</link>
		<dc:creator>hvrds</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The more complex problem in the South. 

The American military forces are already garrisoned in the Southern Philippines. 

China will soon be drilling for oil in the Florida Straits just off the coast of Cuba in America&#039;s own pond. 

Exxon Mobile has just signed a contract with the ROP to explore for oil in the South. What about the Spratly&#039;s?  

Will Big Mike and GMA try to  play the oil card between the PRC and the USA in exchange for getting rid of the problems in the South. 

Access to the diminishing reserves of conventional oil (most especially the easy to refine type) will be the seminal event that will drive political and economic policies of the world today.  

Ever since FDR told then Lord Halifax, (British Ambassador), the percentage of distribution of oil from the M.E. between the two countries in 1944 to the 1972 seminal event that made the dollar the de- facto international medium of exchange for international trade most essentially oil to the present day wherein the dollar hegemony is slowly starting to crumble as the oil producers have other clients to sell to and dollar based trade on all levels is going berserk. 

Financial markets are playing chicken with the dollar. 

Whatever claims we have over resources offshore within our national boundaries is probably going to be traded for whatever the government can get to forestall a major collapse. We pay for our imports with OFW earnings, foreign investments and the little export receipts that we earn. Rising oil and rising food prices will make our BOP problems the mother of all blowouts since our population is higher most especially in the urban areas. The country needs something more solid to leverage more borrowings. 

The U.S. consumes over 25% of oil in the world and has only 3% of the worlds proven reserves of conventional oil. 

Dollar colonization has competition today. The empire is under threat.

The transcendental colonization of the Philippines under the dollar regime for over a hundred years continues. 

The Philippines has always been the forward firebase of the U.S. versus China. 

U.S., British and French integrated oil companies have made a foothold once again in occupied Mesopotamia. The country with the world&#039;s second largest reserves of conventional oil. 
 
Mesopotamia is now heavily garrisoned by the U.S. military forces.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The more complex problem in the South. </p>
<p>The American military forces are already garrisoned in the Southern Philippines. </p>
<p>China will soon be drilling for oil in the Florida Straits just off the coast of Cuba in America&#8217;s own pond. </p>
<p>Exxon Mobile has just signed a contract with the ROP to explore for oil in the South. What about the Spratly&#8217;s?  </p>
<p>Will Big Mike and GMA try to  play the oil card between the PRC and the USA in exchange for getting rid of the problems in the South. </p>
<p>Access to the diminishing reserves of conventional oil (most especially the easy to refine type) will be the seminal event that will drive political and economic policies of the world today.  </p>
<p>Ever since FDR told then Lord Halifax, (British Ambassador), the percentage of distribution of oil from the M.E. between the two countries in 1944 to the 1972 seminal event that made the dollar the de- facto international medium of exchange for international trade most essentially oil to the present day wherein the dollar hegemony is slowly starting to crumble as the oil producers have other clients to sell to and dollar based trade on all levels is going berserk. </p>
<p>Financial markets are playing chicken with the dollar. </p>
<p>Whatever claims we have over resources offshore within our national boundaries is probably going to be traded for whatever the government can get to forestall a major collapse. We pay for our imports with OFW earnings, foreign investments and the little export receipts that we earn. Rising oil and rising food prices will make our BOP problems the mother of all blowouts since our population is higher most especially in the urban areas. The country needs something more solid to leverage more borrowings. </p>
<p>The U.S. consumes over 25% of oil in the world and has only 3% of the worlds proven reserves of conventional oil. </p>
<p>Dollar colonization has competition today. The empire is under threat.</p>
<p>The transcendental colonization of the Philippines under the dollar regime for over a hundred years continues. </p>
<p>The Philippines has always been the forward firebase of the U.S. versus China. </p>
<p>U.S., British and French integrated oil companies have made a foothold once again in occupied Mesopotamia. The country with the world&#8217;s second largest reserves of conventional oil. </p>
<p>Mesopotamia is now heavily garrisoned by the U.S. military forces.</p>
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		<title>By: KG</title>
		<link>http://www.quezon.ph/2008/06/20/since-iraq-a-hard-place-to-be/comment-page-3/#comment-839946</link>
		<dc:creator>KG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>bencard,

I know that and I am not sarcastic or patronizing when I say that when you see something stupid you point it out.

looking at it, it sounds stupid and nonesensical but that was the position of the so called  mindanao war victims group:

&quot;It is not surprising,Ã¢â‚¬Â said Datu Hadji Alonto, convenor of the Mindanao War Victims group, explaining that Muslim children who fight in Mindanao have no other option.&quot;


so whe should quote  only the sensical ones, pero pano kung sa ibang tao hindi ito nonesense .

sa mga ibat ibang articles  na nabasa ko not only those with sense are cited and quoted.

but thank you and bencard and others  for noticing.
and sorry for going ballistic sometimes,but I appreciate being corrected.

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UPNS

thanks and duly noted,nagyon nakikita ko na before investigating they try to sort it out first, kala ng mga tao kasi and I cant blame them investigate for air time.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>bencard,</p>
<p>I know that and I am not sarcastic or patronizing when I say that when you see something stupid you point it out.</p>
<p>looking at it, it sounds stupid and nonesensical but that was the position of the so called  mindanao war victims group:</p>
<p>&#8220;It is not surprising,Ã¢â‚¬Â said Datu Hadji Alonto, convenor of the Mindanao War Victims group, explaining that Muslim children who fight in Mindanao have no other option.&#8221;</p>
<p>so whe should quote  only the sensical ones, pero pano kung sa ibang tao hindi ito nonesense .</p>
<p>sa mga ibat ibang articles  na nabasa ko not only those with sense are cited and quoted.</p>
<p>but thank you and bencard and others  for noticing.<br />
and sorry for going ballistic sometimes,but I appreciate being corrected.</p>
<p>==================================</p>
<p>UPNS</p>
<p>thanks and duly noted,nagyon nakikita ko na before investigating they try to sort it out first, kala ng mga tao kasi and I cant blame them investigate for air time.</p>
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		<title>By: UP n student</title>
		<link>http://www.quezon.ph/2008/06/20/since-iraq-a-hard-place-to-be/comment-page-3/#comment-839925</link>
		<dc:creator>UP n student</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And if my walking around in the jungle rifle in hand does not strike fear in you,  then I will remind you I am here with a bomb detonated  or a kidnapping &lt;i&gt;with the predictable media-attention. &lt;/i&gt;   The money is a nice bennie, too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And if my walking around in the jungle rifle in hand does not strike fear in you,  then I will remind you I am here with a bomb detonated  or a kidnapping <i>with the predictable media-attention. </i>   The money is a nice bennie, too.</p>
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		<title>By: UP n student</title>
		<link>http://www.quezon.ph/2008/06/20/since-iraq-a-hard-place-to-be/comment-page-3/#comment-839917</link>
		<dc:creator>UP n student</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>what fighting does is sustain the male macho.  In the end, it becomes a feeling of self-worth, one may say.   If you &lt;i&gt;can&#039;t respect me, then at least &lt;b&gt;fear me because I have a gun.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>what fighting does is sustain the male macho.  In the end, it becomes a feeling of self-worth, one may say.   If you <i>can&#8217;t respect me, then at least <b>fear me because I have a gun.</b></i></p>
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		<title>By: mindanaoan</title>
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		<dc:creator>mindanaoan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ã¢â‚¬Å“In short, fighting is a necessity for survival, for justice, for freedom and for a homeland.Ã¢â‚¬Â

what arrant nonsense. which of these necessities do the kidnappers lack? or for that matter, the moros lack?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ã¢â‚¬Å“In short, fighting is a necessity for survival, for justice, for freedom and for a homeland.Ã¢â‚¬Â</p>
<p>what arrant nonsense. which of these necessities do the kidnappers lack? or for that matter, the moros lack?</p>
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