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Angola beauty is 2011 Miss Universe; Shamcey is 3rd runner-up
via ABS-CBN News

Miss Angola’s Leila Lopes was crowned Miss Universe for 2011 in the competition held in Sao Paulo, Brazil Monday night (Tuesday morning in Manila). Shamcey Supsup, a 25-year-old beauty from the Philippines, was the third runner-up for the pageant.

Tony Award winner Lea Salonga asked Lopes the final question that would help her win the pageant. She asked Lopes: “If you could change one of your personal characteristics, which one would it be and why?”

Lopes replied: “Thank God, I’m very well satisfied with the way God created me and I would not change a thing. I consider myself a woman with inner beauty. I have my principles. I have acquired many wonderful principles from my family and I plan to follow this through the rest of my life.”

Supsup, meanwhile, was one of the strongest contestants in the competition, placing first in the final fan rankings. In the crucial question and answer portion, she said she would not change her religion just to marry the person she loves.

“If I had to change my religious beliefs, I would not marry the person that I love because the first person that I love is God who created me and I have my faith and my principles and this is what makes me who I am. And if that person loves me, he should love my God too,” Supsup said.

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This is a blog i got from kuro-kuro.org.. Credit goes to the site and to the one who submitted this article, Mr. Anthony Perez.. Medyo napaisip ako upon reading this.. Sa dinami - dami na ng mga kuro-kuro ng mga tao sa paligid ukol sa isyung ito, di na tuloy natin malaman kung saang side tayo papanig.

Yesterday I watched with dismay a video of politicians and known personalities being very vocal about their support for the RH bill. That quote made famous by Professor Charles Xavier came into my mind: “Man fears what he does not understand.”

Amidst this demagogue and clamor for the passage of this bill lies the silent truth: that everything in this bill is based on lies. I intend to shed some light on one particular lie – that the world is overpopulated.

To help us understand better what is at stake here, let us look at the facts.

The origin of the RH bill isn’t even local; it comes from foreign agencies that want to push their own agenda on developing countries like ours. In April of 1974, Henry Kissinger released the NSSM 200 or National Security Study Memo 200 which says that the population growth in the least developed countries or LDCs (the Philippines included) is a threat to the United States’ security and interests. Thus the study promoted population control measures like contraception and education towards the ‘contraceptive’ mentality. This ‘education’ also meant that everyone should be made to believe that the planet is getting more and more crowded and the resources are running out. I shall comment on this later on.

Overpopulation is a concoction of contraceptive pushers and abortion pushers who have banded together in a conglomerate called International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). These are owners of multinational corporations which manufacture infant formulas, contraceptives, condoms, IUDs, sterilization and abortion gadgets like suction machines. They are the same people who control international money lending institutions like the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Frankfurt-based Development Loan Corporation and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

NSSM 200 says that the population of the world has increased dramatically from 1950′s onwards, an increase never before seen in human history. This is true, but it was not the result of too many babies… it was the result of better healthcare. More children live beyond their fifth birthdays and fewer women die in childbirth. Sadly, the population scaremongers made it look like the world’s population was expanding simply due to the number of children being born.

But is there enough food and resources to go around? The answer is yes. Food production has been on the rise despite the growing population, and this rise can be attributed to technology. We now have the technology to produce food enough to feed everyone. But why is there still hunger? Attribute that to graft and corruption. Attribute that to lack of opportunities and arable land in some places of the world. The rich countries, on the other hand, have more than enough food to spare. Better yet, they own the technology that enables them to produce food to sustain them.

It is easy to believe that as we grow in numbers, there wouldn’t be enough space and food to go around, and it sounds logical right? Along those lines is the belief that population growth is the primary reason for poverty.

The culprit behind this thinking was Robert Malthus, who said that as the population grows geometrically, production grows arithmetically, therefore resulting in poverty. However, almost 200 years later, Professor Simon Kuznets proved that Malthus was wrong, and said that economic growth is fastest during the time that the population growth was highest. This was validated in Europe during the 100 years industrialization of the European continent. For his efforts in disproving the fallacy, Kuznets was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1971.

And yet our lawmakers (read: lawbreakers) continue the education (read: idiotcation) and brainwashing of the masses that they with their 8 or 9 children are the reason behind the poverty of our country. They disregard facts and still cling to the fallacious Malthusian principle.

If we are so many, then why are we still poor?

The natural and expected result in the equation however did not happen in the Philippines, because purchasing power was removed from the population that grew. People could not buy because they had no money; and they had no money because they had no jobs or income earnings. The earnings that could easily have gone on to the people through industry were siphoned off by payments to a ballooning international and domestic debt, by tremendous tax cuts and tax holidays being given to foreign investments prejudicial to the internal economic growth of the country and most of all by the shameful and rampant corruption in the government. Instead of the people earning, it is the government official and a select few who were making all the money – and can afford to have a $20,000 dinner while the country is hungry.

Is the earth getting more and more crowded? According to basic calculations by area, all six billion people on the earth today would fit within the state of Texas, with each family having a house with a little yard. So, it is not a question of area. The problem is the growing concentration of large numbers of people in certain cities, caused by the deterioration and lack of opportunities in the rural areas.

Today, the world faces a demographic winter with an ageing population (which means the median age of a country is rising). Population control has its good and bad effects – on the good side, it will create a temporary economic bonanza. This is happening to Europe, Japan and Singapore. On the other hand, they have to face the music after that economic boom: with an ageing population that has bred so few children, the burden of having to pay for social security lies on the few, and there is also the question of manpower availability. Fact is that many of these European and Asian countries are now giving incentives to those who can bear 3 or more children. They have realized their folly a little too late.

Does this RH bill support abortion? Not directly. Of course if it blatantly said that the bill does support abortion, it would be shot down faster than you can say “women’s rights”. But it is an open secret that to offer reproductive health care in the name of women’s rights and more importantly, population control, means that abortion is a necessary option as well. Not convinced? Let’s take it directly from NSSM 200:

“No country has reduced its population growth without resorting to abortion.” (http://www.population-security.org/28-APP2B.html#IV-B-1-a)

I can go on with this until this note reaches part nth. I will do whatever it takes to stop this bill from being passed and to honor life from conception. But I guess i would have to end it here, as I really do not want to bore you any further.

I was thinking of a particular quote to end this trilogy with a bang, but can’t think of any. In the end, I thought of quoting from the very first book of the bible, when God told man when He first created him, to “be fruitful and multiply.” It’s strange, but if overpopulation were true, God would have been been a very poor engineer not having the foresight that the world will become overpopulated one day. God gave us this command in order to RESPONSIBLY bear children that will be our joy and comfort when we grow old. Let us embrace life, my friends. It is good to be alive – let us share this with our children and our family.

P.S.

If the rest of the world is growing old, and with our migratory ways and low median age at 23, it isn’t far-fetched that the Filipinos will truly fill the earth and be great as a nation. This is our chance for greatness my friends!

I guess dito na pumapasok yung sabi nila na “The decsion lies within your hands”.. Nakalatag na ang mga propositions.. Bahala ka na kung ano ang gagawin mo ukol sa bagay na iyon..

Now I’m standing alone
In a crowded room
And we’re not speaking
And I’m dying to know
Is it killing you
Like it’s killing me?
I don’t know what to say
Since a twist of fate
When it all broke down
And the story of us
Looks a lot like a tragedy now

Looking forward to seeing you again.. Soon. XD

tell me who’s the man? hahaha..

suprimidos los sentimientos de azúcar

Last week I was able to talk to one of my friend whom I wasn’t able to hear from for a long time. We updated each other, and so I have shared with her some of my issues regarding my so called “love life”. I actually have none, (we’re talking about relationships with the opposite sex here) but I am sort of attracted to someone right now, so I considered it as such and I told her the story.

I was head over heels while talking. I am really attracted to this guy to the extent that I found myself infatuated. The thing is, she also has her story to share. And as she shares it, I realized how she really needs someone to talk to. I’m all ears.

I listened to her, and to the best of my abilities, I tried to comfort her, advice her and sympathize with her.

It turned the whole scenario upside down. It made me see the reality behind the sugar – coated world I have just fantasized awhile ago.

It made me feel something. I felt empty, blank, and numb. Suddenly I felt that it seems like something might be missing. And right now, I’m certain. Something’s really missing.

“A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.”

Well if that’s the case, be it an insult or a compliment, I am great – great enough to be that invincible and be able to forget. A part of me is proud, but the rest of me feel worse.

I have fallen and got broken for so many times that I grew numb healing the bruises. I still managed to fix myself, and pull myself together – but I was alone. It hurt so much that I found erasing those memories and accepting what had happened as my last resort. But I think I’ve erased more than enough that right now, I ended up looking for the fragments for so long I tried to suppress.

Hearing my friend confide made me realize that time really heals, but it also has helped me forget. And worse, it made me numb. I just tried to listen to her, and cheer her up because I don’t know what to say. I don’t know how it feels; I’ve forgotten how it feels.

Right now I am trying to go back to where it all started – and try looking for the fragments I’ve once lost.

Streams of thoughts flooded my mind. I needed something to help me go back. For so long I’ve been used to being alone, independent, never bothering to give any damn to whatever comes along. It may sound selfish, but I unconsciously did it to heal.

The people around me have also been used to letting me go by my life alone. They often think that I can do things all by myself. Well they were never wrong. It feels good to know that they think I am strong. But on the other hand, it somewhat feels bad. I’m tired of it.

Yes I’m tired, but I can’t find my way out.

And right now I came to the point of asking myself, have I really grown numb? Can I still find those fragments of memories? Have I really forgotten or am I just afraid to be broken again?

“Our feelings are so strong that it can deceive us. But fear itself is a part of our feelings, and we have to face it so as not to be deceived by it.”

Some of you might say that you understand. Some may claim that you empathize with what I feel. If you think so, then prove it. If you care enough, lead me back.

I don’t want to be afraid. I never was. But after several cuts I grew tired. And right now I’m clueless. And no matter how I deny it, though it may sound overrated, I would still shamelessly admit that I need to find my way back. I’m lost.

done with the uploads.. time to bed…ZZzZzZz

almost done with with the uploads!

Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.  ~Vincent Van Gogh

inothernews:

So, why purple?

Because there are still assholes in this world who use red to alarm.

To scare.

To incite.

Because there are assholes in this world who take it upon themselves to pick on others because of their race, their ethnicity, their gender, their religion, their sexual orientation.

Because there are people who still employ the tactic you see above.

Those people, sometimes too cowardly to speak what’s on their minds, use coded words.  Drop visual cues.  They draw the eyes of other like-minded ignorants toward something they know will provoke them into more hatred, and perhaps violence.

For instance, by highlighting what they consider “bad news” in red.

These people create an atmosphere where it’s all too easy to antagonize others.  To tease them.  To mock them.

To hurt them.

To drive them to their deaths.

“Why purple?” you ask.

I say it’s because, if only for a moment, we show - through a unifying theme - that we won’t stand by while these hatemongers go on about their business.

That by showing colors, those assholes see themselves and their cause literally drowned out by good people around them.

That for once, the intimidators are the ones forced into hiding.

“Why purple?” you ask.

Look up.

That’s why.

(Source: -lizzzie)