Showing posts with label Issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Issues. Show all posts

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Dahil sa Kagat ng Lamok Napakinabangan Ko ang PhilHealth

Sa iba’t-ibang internet forums ay naging paksa sa talakayan ng mga OFWs ang tungkol sa mga tanong: Kung itong PhilHealth ba ay pakikinabangan ng mga OFWs at kanilang mga dependents? Marami sa mga OFWs ang nagsabi na walang pakinabang. Ngayon meron bagong PhilHealth circular No. 022 na ang layunin ay taasan ang taunang kontribyusyon ng mga OFWs na naglipana sa buong mundo - mula sa 900ph tataas ito sa 2,400ph sa darating na Hulyo 2012.

Dati ang isang OFW bago pumunta sa ibayong-dagat ay nagbabayad sa POEA para sa OWWA Medicare na nagkakahalaga ng 900 pesos para sa isang taong membership. At ang kaniyang dependent o mga dependents ay mabibigyan ng discounts sa mga gastos sa hospitals na accredited ng OWWA kung sila (dependents) ay may hawak na kopya ng OWWA Medicare Certificate mula sa papaalis na OFW.

Maliban sa OWWA Medicare, mayroon din SSS Medicare noon at ang buwanang premium ay 75 pesos na kasamang binabayaran kung ang isang SSS member ay nagbabayad ng kaniyang monthly contribution. Ngunit tumaas ang premium na 100 pesos ang isang buwan o 1,200 pesos sa isang taon, nang ang SSS Medicare ay naging PhilHealth noong 1999.

Dahil ako ay dating SSS Medicare member, mula 2000 hanggang 2006, ang bawat taon na aking binabayaran ay 1,200 pesos sa PhilHealth. Nang aking hingan ng paliwanag ang PhilHealth collecting office sa Trece Martirez City, Cavite, dahil ako’y nakatira noon sa Cavite, kung bakit nagtaas ang premium mula 75 pesos ay naging 100 pesos na, ang sagot nila sa akin ay wala raw akong magagawa kung hindi ang sang-ayunan ang pagtaas ng monthly premium. Naitanong ko rin sa kanila kung ang aking mga dependents sa dati kong SSS Medicare ay sila parin ang legal kong mga dependents sa PhilHealth ang sagot ay sila pa rin – kung maipapakita ko ang mga dokumento tungkol dito.

Ito ay mahalaga para sa mga PhilHealth members. Kung kayo ay bagong member at nagbayad ng 900 pesos sa POEA, iyon ay hindi nangangahulugan na ang inyong asawa, mga anak o magulang at iba pa na miyembro ng inyong pamilya ay mga legal na ninyong dependents. Sila ay magiging legal na inyong dependents kung kayo (OFWs) ay nakipag-ugnayan sa Philhealth at ipinakita ang mga dokumentong kailangan nito at ang inyong mga dependents ay nakasama na sa masterlist ng PhilHealth Data Base. Ang mga kailangang dokumento ay ang mga sumusunod:

1) Marriage Contract – kung ikaw ay may asawa, (2) Birth Certificates ng inyong mga  anak – Maganda kung ang mga ito ay manggagaling sa NSO (3) Kopya ng inyong passport (4) Patotoo ninyo na ang inyong mga dependents ay malusog sa date of application sa PhilHealth.

Kung ikaw ay single pa ang mga dokumentong kailangan ng PhilHealth para sa inyong mga dependents ay sertipiko ng kapanganakan: ng nanay, tatay, kapatid o pamangkin at kopya ng iyong passport at patotoo ninyo na ang inyong mga dependents ay malusog sa date of application sa PhilHealth. Ito ay ayon sa lahat na aking ipinakita sa PhilHealth noon. Mahalaga na makipag-ugnayan kayo sa PhilHealth, sa sulat o email. Ang website nito ay makikita sa (http://www.philhealth.gov.ph)

Noong Febrero 2007, bago ako bumalik sa Saudi nagbayad ako sa POEA para sa PhilHealth. Nabigla ako dahil ang 1,200 pesos na ibinabayad ko bawat taon ay naging 900 pesos na lamang. Ang kopya na binayaran ko kasama ang aking PhilHealth ID ay iniwan ko sa aking maybahay. Sa mahabang panahon ng pagiging PhilHealth member ko ay hindi pa ako at mga dependents nakikinabang dito.

Hanggang sa kasamaang palad ang panganay ko na 17 taong gulang na babae ay nakipagbuno kay kamatayan sa loob ng 7 araw sa Our Savior Hospital, Rosario , Cavite . At laking pasasalamat naming mag-anak nang sa pang-pitong araw ng aking anak sa kuwartong iyon ay masayang ibinalita ng doktor na siya ay fully recovered na.

Sa pitong araw na pamamalagi ng aking anak sa Savior Hospital ay umabot din ng 29, 470.50 pesos ang hospital bill kasama ang Professional Fee at Pedia Fee. Nguni’t ang binayaran lamang ng aking maybahay ay umabot lamang ng

21, 070.50 pesos. Ang 8, 400 pesos ay pumasok na PhilHealth deductions. Ito ang unang pagkakataon na napakinabangan ng aking dependent ang aking PhilHealth dahil sa pesteng kagat ng lamok!

About the Author – My favorite Saying: “Dream Big and don’t stop without giving it a chance to come true.” I am a father of 3 for 25 years, OFW for 17 years , a Blogger, sometimes a Poet, Self-motivated and Professional by experience. You can call me Paul or Pruel. I am friendly animal but can kick you off when it is needed. LOL. I have no specific areas where my writing will focus on. I write any subject that interests me under the merciless sun.

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Thursday, January 26, 2012

How to Use Back Links Correctly?

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This article is consists of twenty-one summaries of articles that are already published at ExpertsColumn of different subject topics. I used them for this project. I wanted to prove that by using back links correctly will attract traffic, readers and search engine crawlers to the article pages. So instead of telling you how to use back links, I just decided to show them to you through this article.

Among the 12 Chinese Zodiac Animals, the Rat was found as the most smart and clever – the reason why the Cat and the Rat had become great enemies until now. There are many versions of stories why the Cat hated the Rat for the rest of his life and also they answered why the Rat had become the first among the twelve Chinese Zodiac Animals.

FCHAR is the scientific arm of The AIDS Institute, a nonprofit organization founded in Florida, with a focus on policy, research, advocacy and education. The Consortium currently comprises 116 members who account for more than 400 recent and ongoing HIV-related studies. The researchers represent seven universities and 12 other research entities across the state, which include researchers from the private sector.

From the time I arrived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines already had produced four presidents - from former presidents Fidel V. Ramos, Joseph Estrada, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to the newly elected President Benigno Aquino III, still I am in this foreign lands strongly fighting for survival for my extended family and to my beloved country. My youth and strength are already deteriorating. I often feel some joints pains. And yet, still, I am here undecided to go home with other million Filipinos.

The month of January is named for Janus. In Roman mythology, Janus was the god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings and endings. He was known as Janus Geminus (twin Janus) with two faces looking in opposite directions. The first hour of the day, the first day of the month and the first month of the year bears his name. Janus is symbolizing the god of change and transitions such as, the progression of past to future, of one condition and of one vision to another. And because Janus symbolizes them, the making of New Year’s resolutions had become a tradition of the season. People begin to think of what they would like to change for the next year. They make resolutions for everything they can think of. And of course, I also did it the same thing as well.

Networking is a place for people who want to learn the real world skills of an entrepreneur, rather than the skills of an employee who wants to become a highly paid mid-level manager in the corporate world. Networking is really a business school that teaches values not found in traditional business schools. Values such as the best way is to teach yourself and other people to become business owners than teach them to be a loyal employee working for the rich and big companies.

DXN is a Global Business. It can be done by part time or full time. At DXN, you can work from home with very low overhead, risk free, flexible hours, no boss and no geographical limitations - with your DXN ID card you can do the business worldwide. It is a proven business system – like a franchise that has helped millions of independent entrepreneurs around the world in realizing their dreams to come true. DXN represents the finest products with 100% satisfaction guarantee. You can sponsor people into the business and even train them to run their own DXN business, which is an effective way of leveraging your time. DXN helps ordinary people earn extraordinary income.

We, writers are also considered as entrepreneurs and businessmen. Our products are in the form of articles, photos and videos and other awesome stuff that we always love to share to other net surfers across the Internet. Normally we always give enough time to create them before we can offer them to some paying sites. And when they are accepted for publication, our next move is not only to sit down but to promote them. We applied different methods to bring them out and reach people across the net.

Inside the Live Writer, I created a road map and bridges manually to connect my blog sites with the Live Writer Windows and when it was done, I let Live Writer determined what photos I should use for this project according to the article I had written for the experiment including keywords for the Search Engines Optimization, when it was done I had to use tags and the tags I used here were the categories that those 200 articles fall such as: Business, Celebrities, Family, Fiction Writing, Health, History, Money saving tips, News, Opinions, Philosophy, Religion, Reviews, Saudi Arabia, Science and Writing.

Delicious is not just a sweet word. It is a name of another awesome social book marking web service for storing, sharing and discovering web bookmarks with over five million users. It caters your favorite's article pages, website pages, blog site pages, movies, music videos, photos and other imaginable stuff that you owned, other pages you liked and loved. If you will have the interest to try Delicious for your sharing activities, the site is open to everyone who loves discovering awesome websites and article pages.

At the start of December 2011, my goal was to publish at least 200 articles at Wikinut before the end of this year. I worked hard to complete my promise. Here I learned a lesson – that when a promise is made problem will follow. And that problem will measure how far I could keep my promise. The first two weeks of December this year, I did not write continuously for Wikinut due to of my job that need my immediate concentration. First time I had experienced to work with Inventory. And I learned that inventory of available goods is done yearly during the month of December.

Before the circumcision was initiated, Joseph and Mary were asked about the name of the child - it was Joseph who replied, "Jesus." And then the circumcision followed by using a very sharp knife because at that time there was no scissors yet and no anesthesia. And Jesus had cried vehemently of great pains. After the circumcision was done, the couple left the place and headed to Bethlehem, Judea's census section to register Jesus. However,Joseph and Mary immediately left the place and went home when they spotted that some soldiers sent by King Herod - instructing the census people to include the names of all children, their parents and date of births of all children born during that certain period. This will answer why there was no record about Jesus Christ's birth date.

For the benefits of new would-be columnists, ExpertsColumn is consists of columns written by its member contributors - the columnists based on various areas such as technology, education, cars, gaming, finance, health, lifestyle and etc. with each covering all the aspects of the respective slot. According to the site, its aim of developing the site is to match with an ever growing demand of information by providing valuable information on the wide range of topics. Experts column.com is open for those who have anything to write. They can show up their talents on writing on the space created for them by the site and at the same time they can earn revenue.

Anyone who plans to venture business should possess the knowledge on how to manage his money and other resources. He has to learn and improve his financial intelligence on how to making more money, protecting his money, budgeting his money, leveraging his money and to improving his financial information.

I am already in my 50s but the memories of my past life are still haunting me though they are exciting and memorable. Those times I was swimming with friends at the white beaches: it was so alluring to feel, to touch and feel the sea breeze on my body and met beautiful young women of my age! I was eighteen and was attending a party that night. I was standing on the corner of the dance floor when a beautiful lady came around. She was dressed in red with long hair down her back. Her eyes were full of life, love and expectation.

Last February 2011, I published a short review about Factoidz at Triond. I highlighted the site as a leading community of writers who produce top-quality, highly-trafficked and widely distributed articles on factual and informational topics. Their commitment is to provide timely, fresh and well-written content to their dedicated reader base as well as people seeking information on the Web at large.

In my first week of work in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – one thing that came to my mind was to take some trips outside the city. I wanted to visit some of the historical places, including mountains of rock and mountains of sand dunes, which are good places for excursions on weekends and holidays. It was a Friday. With my peers, we visited on some of Riyadh’s treks. First was a trip to Hidden Valley.  At five-thirty in the morning, we started our trip as no-one wants to drive under the sun.

I still remember I started my blogging hobby five years ago at Word Press. My blog was intended only for limited audience. Mostly of my published blog articles there were based from my personal experiences. However, after those two long years on blogging, I focused on writing blog articles intended to general audience. From that time on blogging had become my favorite hobby.

The fear and doubt are some of the human weaknesses. They can cause failure – in our love life, our daily life and our dreams to come true. Recently I attended training and seminar at Olaya, Riyadh City hosted by the Daxen Diamond Team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The said training and seminar are free to enjoy by all its Daxen members and distributors here in KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) and also for all the Daxen members and distributors around the world.

Christians in Saudi Arabia can celebrate Christmas too. As a matter of fact, they can exercise their faith in the Kingdom. However, they cannot exercise it publicly instead, they should observe it inside the home or inside the Embassies, Consulates or in a chosen safe place. Who are these Christians in Saudi Arabia - they are the people who are members of different groups of faiths under the umbrella of Christianity such as Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans or Baptists, Fundamentalist Christianity, Pietism, Evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, Holiness movement, United and uniting churches, Restoration Movement, Jesus is Lord, Christ the King, Church of Christ, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and many more.

Your Blog can be your storefront of all the things you loved to share across the Internet. Blog is very helpful for your writing hobby, for your business and for socializing to people around the world. And to create a blog at blogger, the steps are easy as one, two and three. Just recently, I noticed that Blogger has made some changes on their blog platform. Some of the helping tools or the blogger widgets to enhance a blog site were already deleted. However, anyone can still create a blog on their site.

Everyday million of people are surfing and browsing out the Internet to spot some interesting things such as books,Internet games, fresh news, fresh articles, people, celebrities,new inventions, new products, music, movies, places and other imaginable things that people love to touch, read, hear, smell, taste and watch. Many websites are widely used not only for socializing but also for business purposes. Now many colleges and universities are already offering different courses available online such as accounting, banking and finance, article writing, short story writing, Network marketing training and seminars and many more.

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Saturday, January 21, 2012

A Call to All The Filipinos in Philippines and Abroad: Scrap The PhilHealth Circular No. 022

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The Migrante Middle East petition said, “The hike in OFWs health insurance premium will not only bleed us (OFWs and dependents) dry, it also sucks out our blood leading ‘to death due to deprivation of free and affordable social services’. The government through various agencies is killing us so softly by imposing additional fees in pretense of better social services.”

The Migrante Middle East is appealing to all fellow OFWs around the world, their dependents, friends and OFWs advocates to join their campaign by signing the petition and help pass it on to others and urge them to "Scrap Philippine Health Circular No. 022 – this is about the increase of PhilHealth annual premium contribution from P900 to P2,400 which will effect on July 1, 2012.

I searched out the names of the Board of Directors of PhilHealth and to know also if the said PhilHealth Circular No. 022 is approved by all the board of directors but unfortunately out of 14 members only one has affixed his signature to PhilHealth Circular No. 022 in the named of Dr. Eduardo P. Banzon and the other name who also signed her signature was not in the list or not in the list of Executive Officers. The PhilHealth Board of Directors are as follows:

  1. Board Chair: Hon. Enrique T. Ona, M.D.
  2. CSC Chairman: Hon. Francisco T. Duque III, M.D., MSc
  3. DILG Secretary: Hon. Jesse M. Robredo
  4. DSWD Secretary: Hon. Corazon J. Soliman
  5. DOLE Secretary: Hon. Rosalinda D. Baldoz
  6. Health Care Providers Sector: Hon. Juan M. Flavier, M.D.
  7. Labor Sector: Hon. Alexander A. Ayco, M.D.
  8. Employers Sector/President and Chief Executive Officer: Hon. Dr. Eduardo P. Banzon
  9. Self Employed Sector: Hon. Francisco Vicente F. Lopez M.D.
  10. SSS President & CEO: Hon. Emilio S. De Quiros, Jr.
  11. GSIS President & General Manager: Hon. Robert G. Vergara
  12. NAPC-BS Vice Chairman: Hon. Florencia P. Cabatingan
  13. Filipino Overseas Workers: Hon. Jane M.N. Sta. Ana
  14. Corporate Secretary: Atty. Genesis M. Adarlo

Obviously, the PhilHealth Circular No. 022 was created by two people in named of Dr. Eduardo P. Banzon and MA. TERESA A. QUIAGIT and approved by them without the approval of other Board Members and other Executive Officers of PhilHealth. It was created on December 15, 2011. The said circular is not only addressed to the 11 million+ OFWs around the world but also to all the Filipinos in Philippines. To read the said Circular No. 022 visit the link PhilHealth Circular No. 022.

The said PhilHealth Circular No. 022 is believed by Filipinos in Philippines including the 11 million+ OFWs as against the REPUBLIC ACT No. 10022 – AN ACT AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8042, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE MIGRANT WORKERS AND OVERSEAS FILIPINOS ACT OF 1995, AS AMENDED, FURTHER IMPROVING THE STANDARD OF PROTECTION AND PROMOTION OF THE WELFARE OF MIGRANT WORKERS, THEIR FAMILIES AND OVERSEAS FILIPINOS IN DISTRESS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. 

Under the RULE XVII: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS – Section 4. Government Fees, Administrative Costs and Taxes. All fees for services being charged by any government agency on migrant workers prevailing at the time of the effectivity of this Rule shall not be increased. This RA No. 10022 was officially approved and signed by the former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on March 08, 2010.

The Migrante Middle East said “We are targeting 1-M signatures by July 2012, the supposed start of imposing PhilHealth premium of P2,400 from the current P900. With our position paper, we will send the signatures to President Noynoy Aquino and to the PhilHealth Board members, members of the Senate and House of Representatives.”

As of this writing there are already 502 Filipinos have joined the petition and yet still very far to 1-M target-ted signatures – so if you are Filipinos living in Philippines and Abroad you are hereby invited to join the said petition – go to this link No to PhilHealth Premium Increase Scrap Circular No. 022. And if possible share this call to your family, relatives, friends and friends of friends around the world!

To read my previous article visit Pruelpo Shares: The Largest Protest in History: No to SOPA and PIPA 

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

The Largest Online Protest in History: No to SOPA and PIPA

strike-paper-new-sopa Image via SOPASTRIKE: If you wanted to enjoy your FREEDOM of expression and protect your online SECURITY read the message, share it to everyone you know, get out from your comfort zone and join the worldwide online protest.

Many believed that SOPA and PIPA will threaten prosperity, online security, and freedom of expression. Since yesterday some of the blog sites/websites at wordpress were already blacked out to show their protest.

Wordpress.org, Wordpress.com, Mozilla Corporation, Facebook, Electronic Frontier Foundation,Yahoo!, eBay, American Express, Reddit, Google, Reporters Without Borders, Human Rights Watch, English Wikipedia including some Law professors Mark Lemley (Stanford University), David S. Levine (Elon University), and David G. Post (Temple University) opposed SOPA and PIPA.

Today, the said protest has already spread worldwide. Google campaign is calling you to sign the petition urging Congress to vote NO on PIPA and SOPA before it is too late. You can also visit American Censorship Site for details on how you can show your support and to join the worldwide protest – if you wanted to protect your online security and enjoy yourfreedom of expression. Now twitter is flooded with tweets of “Vote NO to SOPA and PIPA”. The protest will last until Jan 24, 2012 – the US Senate vote date. This is the largest protest ever in history!

To read my previous article visit Pruelpo Shares: FCHAR Conducts Its Second Annual Summit in Orlando

Monday, January 16, 2012

Overseas Filipino Workers: What Keep You Going

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From the time I arrived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines already had produced four presidents – from former presidents Fidel V. Ramos, Joseph Estrada, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to the newly elected President Benigno Aquino III, still I am in this foreign lands strongly fighting for survival for my extended family and to my beloved country. My youth and strength are already deteriorating. I often feel some joint  pains. And yet, still, I am here undecided to go home with other million Filipinos.

In our country Philippines, we find ourselves contesting against the erratic working conditions and insufficient jobs to accommodate us. Most of us wanted to raise and promote our living standards but we do not possess the necessary resources to climb up the ladder of success.

Every year our country produces thousands of graduates and the labor market could not accommodate them. So there are no options but to look jobs out of the country and it is through working overseas that they can get a solution to the problem. Thousands are leaving our homeland everyday to find their luck in foreign lands.

There are also other reasons such as:

1. For those who want to escape personal and family problems,  living abroad could be a safe haven.
2. For those who want to let go of dark memories or broken love affairs, it could be an asylum.
3. Others were just induced by summons of some friends.
4. And still others were simply deluded for the sake of adventure.

Despite homesickness, which is our greatest enemy, still we Filipinos could well adjust to different races, cultures and standards of living. In addition, our love is intensified. For Filipinos who by nature love doings things for others, domestic chores like cooking, cleaning, gardening and baby-sitting are some of our several expertises.

Philippines is considered as one of the top Asian countries  in terms of exporting workers. In Saudi Arabia alone, there are approximately 1.3 millions Filipino registered workers such as doctors, nurses, skilled technicians, janitors and laborers, hotel staffs, accountants, engineers, housemaids, drivers, teachers and trainers, barbers, medical technicians, computer operators, tailors and many more. They are commonly working in hospitals, establishments, construction firms, industrial companies, private and government offices, supermarkets and malls, hotels and restaurants with courage, dedications and commitments.

It has been noted that working abroad is a confederate for some of us who are fortunate enough to have good jobs and goodly employers. Through our earnings we could build a house and able to send our children to good schools. But in some cases, the fulfillment of being an OFW is overshadowed by the curse of lingering temptation and adultery, especially in the case of OFW’s who left their spouses in the Philippines.

Working abroad is not a fortune for those workers who are being fed insufficiently, overworked, abused, maltreated and working as a sword-point or those who work as shock absorbers or punching bag by heartless employers. It must be concluded that not only those who have courage, determination and resistance should go out of the country, for life overseas is so rugged that it becomes a survival of the fittest, that those who can bear shall stay, but those who can’t should leave.

But despite all these, we, Overseas Foreign Workers are patiently working hard because we want a brighter future for our extended families and children and to help improve the ailing economy of our country through the billions of dollar remittances that we send home.

I am begging for our officials and other feuding politicians in our country to see and consider our greatest sacrifices in foreign lands. It is not enough for us Overseas Foreign Workers to be called as the Modern Day Heroes. They should stop bickering and unite to help cure the country’s debilitating social diseases. They should show vision, unity, determination and motivation to give the people good governance and work hard to achieve peace and order in the country for more investors to invest business. That means  more jobs for the Filipinos and better chance to eradicate corruption for good.

 

 

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Saturday, October 15, 2011

Osama Bin Laden: The Greatest Actor

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Published on Socyberty, May 14, 2011 Category - Issues

My thought about Osama bin Laden are based mainly from what I read from newspapers and Internet, from what I saw from Television and Youtube videos, from what I heard from Radios and from people I meet everyday. They are sources for his undiminished popularity that even the superstars of Hollywood could not surpass his stardom. He's brilliant. His acting was super and has shaken the world. Now he's believed a cold dead meat! How true is it?

I prepared some questions randomly and they might interest you to give your views and opinions. This is open for feed-backs either bad or good from you readers and visitors.

(1) Who popularized Osama bin Laden? (2) What made him popular? (3) How it began? (4) What encouraged him to stand against his enemy? (5) Who were his enemy? (6) What made him a greatest actor? (7) Who benefited mostly from his actions? (8) Who suffered mostly from his actions? (9) What Osama bin Laden up to now?

You can choose one or two out from those questions for your honest views and opinions or if you wanted to you can answer to all of the questions above. And also you can add more questions to share here if you wished to.

1) Obviously, the people behind the media are the people who popularized Osama bin Laden. This included the thousands of Journalists around the world, the Televisions hosts and newscasters, the Radio hosts and broadcasters, the Cameramen, the Bloggers and other Writers and the common people. And according to FBI -Osama bin Laden was one of the Ten most wanted fugitives of the world. His head was equivalents to 25 millions US dollars plus another 2 millions US dollars for those who can guide of Osama bin Laden whereabouts.

(2) If there were terrorists attacks that killed hundreds and thousands of innocents people and destroyed buildings and other properties Osama bin Laden’s name was always connected to them – as the planner or the mastermind. Example for this was the September 11 tragedy. But Osama bin Laden had denied these accusations.

(3) Osama bin Laden’s popularity began when he joined and supported mujahideen – the Muslim fighters fighting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, when he established in 1984 an organization named Maktab al-Khadamat known as (MAK), which was supported by the governments of Pakistan, United States and Saudi Arabia. When in 1988 Osama bin Laden had left MAK and established a new rebel group called al-Queda. For details better watch the video about Bin Laden’s beginnings.

(4) According to the reports, the deployment of US troops in Saudi Arabia in 1990/91 in connection with the Gulf War shocked and revolted Osama bin Laden and after the Gulf War followed by the establishment of permanent bases for non-Muslim US forces in Saudi Arabia that increased his strident criticisms of the Saudi monarchy and this had led him to be expeled to Sudan in 1991. And in 1995, the Saudi government stripped Osama bin Laden of his citizenship after he claimed responsibility for attacks on US and Saudi military bases in Riyadh and Dharan.

(5) The Americans were Osama bin Laden’s enemy. In 1996, Osama bin Laden declared war against the United States. His declaration was published in Al Quds al Arabi, a London newspaper entitled “Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places”.

(6) Leading his men, Osama bin laden fulfilled the August 7, 1998 bombings of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya that killed at least 225 people and injured more than 4,000 innocents.

(7) The results of Osama bin Laden’s devilish actions sometimes had shaken the world. However, there were people benefited from his atrocities – the sector of the unscrupulous businessmen around the world. I can still remember when I first arrived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 1994, the oil price per barrel was between 27 to 29 US dollars but when the terrorists attacks destroyed and killed many people, the oil price hiked. Many countries especially the third world countries have suffered following the tremendous hiked of basic commodities.

(8) The people who suffered mostly of Osama bin Laden’s actions were not only those people killed and the bereaved families but most especially the poor people around the world. His actions resulted also of closing many factories resulting to millions of unemployment around the world.

(9) Now Osama bin Laden is believed a cold dead meat. However, there are people who still don’t believed that he was killed as there was no evidence yet of his dead body! 

 

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Sunday, September 18, 2011

The World Will Convulse with Lust, If You Do Away with Harlots

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Published on Socyberty, Feb 22, 2011 Category – Society

Some people said never discuss topics about sex, politics and religions as they are very delicate subject topics. But I do not agree with their logics because – there are many issues that the whole society are involved on sex, politics and religions. Example – today my topic is about Prostitution. It is defined as the act or practice of promiscuous sexual relations, especially for money.

Several words are used for a woman and a man who engages in illicit sexual activity for pay, including HARLOT, whore and prostitute.

This is an issue that people in general should know – why there are people have embraced prostitution? What our governments, religion and faith should do to stop prostitution?

Who will help these people involved in this craft? Some details about the subject are found on these links: what is wrong with prostitution, pruelpohealthwealthhappiness and pruelpowordpress.

How about children and youngsters who have gone through with prostitution? Should we condemned these people? They are not criminals!

Pope Benedict XVI, on his Pontiff’s words said, “Trafficking in human beings, especially women, flourishes where opportunities to improve their standard of living or even to survive are limited.”

 

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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Oh Cupid--is It Really Love You Bring

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Published on Socyberty, Feb 10, 2011 Category – Holidays

There are more than eight millions Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) also called Over Financially Worried scattered around the world seeking for greener pastures.

Working abroad is an ally for those who are fortunate enough to have good jobs and considerable employers. Through their earnings, they were able to build a house and able to send their children to school. However, it becomes a foe for the sexually abused and maltreated domestic helpers. But despite all this, the overseas contract workers are patiently working hard because it is for love for their families and country.

Nguni’t napakasakit isipin at mahirap tanggapin sa kalooban na ang isang OFW ay malalagutan ng kaniyang hininga sa malayong karagatan at uuwi lulan sa isang kahon na isa nang malamig na bangkay. Katulad sa mahal kong tiyuhin - he died 6 days before Valentine’s day.

His name was Victor Lizardo – married with two loving children. He has been working for more than 20 years as an accountant. He was the person I admired most. I even considered him as my own father. He was the one who helped me got the job as an account analyst with the same company he was working.

But last year, on February 8, 2010, he died by heart stroke in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Pakiramdam ko po that time may nakakalso sa aking lalamunan dahil sa sobrang pagkabigla sa natanggap kong text messages from my wife na nagsasabing “Dido na si Uncle Vic”. Ang daming maibabalita bakit patungkol pa sa kamatayan ng isang taong nagmahal, nagpahalaga sa buhay at kinabukasan ko. Unfair yata si Cupid. Maaga niyang pinana ang tiyo ko.

This is one of the many faces of being an OFW. When Uncle Vic left his family and country, he departed with tears falling down from his eyes. And when he went back to his family and to his beloved country – he was already a frozen dead man – na sinalubong ng katakot-takot na luha ng kaniyang pamilya. 

How many more OFWs will die in foreign lands in exchange of good life and a prosperous future for their extended families? 

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Thursday, September 15, 2011

Human Weakness

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Published on Socyberty, Feb 7, 2011 Category – Issues

When my father was still alive, he often told me these things: When you fall down, don’t look at the place where you fell but look back and find the cause of your fall.

Tunay na likas sa tao ang matakot
Na mabigo at ito’y magdudulot ng kirot
Damdaming hadlang sa pangarap na ibig maabot
Isang kahinaan na magbubunga ng lungkot…

Ang iba’y nais na lamang yakapin ang isang sulok
Hahayaan na masugatan ang puso sa pag-iyak
At iibigin na lamang na sa kristal na luha’y maligo
Dahil sa takot na masaktan at mabigo…

Tayo ay bunga ng mapagpalang pag-ibig
Taglay natin ang tapang at matibay na dibdib
Sandatang panlaban sa anumang pagsabak
Nguni’t pinanghinaan at pinabayaang magapi’t malupig…

Ang mabigo ay bahagi ng ating buhay
Mapait na katotohanan at puno ng lumbay
Sakit na magpapabago ng ating pagkatao’t paniniwala
At kapag minalas maagang maghahatid sa atin kay Bathala…

Hahayaan ba nating madaig nitong salot
Na hindi lalaban sa sobrang takot?
Hanggang sa madurog ang pakpak ng pangarap
Pati mga buto nati’y magkadurog-durog?

Pakinggan natin ang langitngit ng kawayan
Sila’y umaawit na puno ng kasiyahan
Sa tuwing hahampasin ng hanging Amihan
Sila’y dadapa sa tuwa’t babangon muli na nakangiti…

Ang mabigo ay hindi dapat katakutan
Harapin natin itong walang pag-aalinlangan
Tanggalin ang takot sa puso’t isipan
Mga kapaitan sa buhay ay tiyak malalampasan!

 

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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Sex Education for Children, Teenagers and Even Adults--part Four

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Published on Socyberty, Feb 6, 2011 Category – Issues

I believe that the best teachers ever produced in the world to teach the offspring are the parents either they are biological parents or an adoptive parent. The parents should be the first to draw the actions to teach the children about life and their sexuality and it will start at home.

I don’t understand and maybe I will not accept it also when parents find it hard to explain sex to their children when they begin asking questions. Mostly of the time parents often let their children learn about it by themselves. If the parents detest doing their part  in their children exploration for such a delicate matter their friends might feed the meaningless with complication and possible undesired conclusion.

Sex here is not only about sexual act. It regards also about all the aspects of life and its existence as a human being. Sometimes parents forgot that they are the first people in the world to cherish their children that moments they arrived in their lives.

When our first child arrived, I was also inside the delivery room when my beloved wife had labored for our first baby girl. I saw where the child came out. I heard her first cry and I was the first to kiss her pool of blood before her mother. I was the one who brought her to the lavatory where she had got her first bath. I saw how the nurse cut off her umbilical cord. And when our child made her first junk, I was the first to clean it.

To sum up it all, it is the parents who really know better about their children than any other people in the world. It is the parents who know better what their children wants, likes and dislikes. There are many ways to tell and to teach our children if we, parents really are willing to teach them.

Should we wait our children coming home with a bold magazine, CD and DVD from their peers and open it to us and tell us that this is the way you made us Daddy and Mommy?

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Monday, September 12, 2011

Gratitude is The Eight of The Ten Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts, Homes and Nations

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Published on Socyberty, Jan 27, 2011 Category – Issues

Gratitude is a virtue showing a positive emotion or attitude of a person that occurs after he received the help from the benefactor and he considered it as (a) valuable to him, (b) costly to his benefactor, and it was (c) given by the benefactor with benevolent intentions. Some of its synonyms are thankfulness, gratefulness and appreciation. And it is express with the most common word "THANKS".

Gratitude is the beginning of wisdom but true wisdom cannot be obtained unless it is built on a foundation of true humility and gratitude. Gratitude is the beginning of civility, decency and goodness. The absence of gratitude signals a lack of appreciation and an ignorance that comes of an attitude of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself in ugly egotism and malicious conduct.

There are many things that we must be grateful – firstly to the Almighty, for the wonders of the human body and the miracle of the human mind and for the universe He created for us. To those people who lived before us who have built the community and nations. To our parents and other family members who have contributed so dramatically to our lives, to friends who have given us the benefit of the doubt again and again.

Likewise to our colleagues and associates who have motivated and inspired us to reach higher and do better and to those honest leaders who serve the community and nations selflessly. To our teachers, mentors, inventors, scientists and other imaginable things that we are now enjoying.

To read more articles on virtues – click the following: Love, Honesty, Morality, Civility, Learning, Forgiveness and Mercy, Thrift and Industry. Happy reading!

Gratitude is a sign of maturity. It is an indication of sincere humility, a hallmark of civility and most of all, it is considered as divine principle. When there is appreciation, there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others. Without these, there is arrogance and evil. When there is gratitude, there is humility instead of pride and generosity rather than selfishness.

 

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Sunday, September 11, 2011

It’s Really Hard to Tell Her--she's My Crush

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Published on Socyberty, Jan 15, 2011 Category – Issues

Early this morning, I posted a new thread at a forum. It’s all about my secret crush. The thread was published automatically. And then I logged out and proceeded to my other forum groups. An hour later, I went back to that forum but what surprised me – I found my item was removed off from the list. The next thing I did I sent off a message to our administrator for his explanation.

And G, our administrator replied, “I removed your post about your Secret Crush. I don’t think it’s a good idea to announce that to people and I also think it would make the person very uncomfortable. It’s okay to be friendly to people but please keep it at that.” Thank you, G. 

I reread my thread that I saved in a folder to look for what’s wrong for this item. What I found actually was this thread was all about reality. In fact I never mentioned for a name as it against the rule in the forum. Inside me was a question, “Are we really growing up for reality? How much we could deal with it?”

After that rejection, I found myself uncomfortable thinking about for my next postings… they might be all rejected as well. Anyway, the show must go on. The below was my thread.

My Secret Crush 

I suppose the admin would consider this topic to be discussed here and I invite the members in the forum to participate in the discussion for their honest views, opinions and advise and share the fun! My secret crush started in my first week here.

I understand that to get crush for someone here is just a normal feelings for a normal person. I like her. But this one is different. I can’t see her or speak to her in person but she’s always with us.

Honestly, I would admit, she’s my crush. But one thing I can’t tell you is “Who is this woman?” I know a lot about her. She’s good, honest, and thoughtful and she’s friendly person based from her postings.

I have feelings that most of you in the forum knew her so well. This is now the problem… It’s really hard to tell her that she’s really my crush. And this has troubled me so much. What should I do? Should I tell her? Or I should not tell her?

 

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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

No One Would Like to be Adults

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Posted on October 27, 2010 Category - Issues

What if the world ruled by children? Could it be one of the best places in the universe because children are never greedy and never tries to cheat? How true?

The world would not become a den of several criminal crimes such as war, graft and corruption, terrorism, rebellion, cheating, drug addiction, rape, smuggling, kidnapping, sex slavery and prostitution, child abuse, spousal abuse, and other heinous crimes. But we should know also that kids can be much crueler than adults. The world would be like a big trash pile because children don’t put anything away. The world would become messier and full of lost things.

And the rate of development would be slower because children want something just for fun and are apt to ignore something related to world development. The world would experience more humorous trial and error because children don’t think as carefully as adults do. Children might ignore adults also because adults don’t have power. Adults could feel lonely and some of them might try to commit suicide due to their situation.

And the world would be a disaster unless an adult were behind every child. If the children were in the congress they would talk just about funny things and they would play all the time.

If they were bank directors they would spend all the money on games, candies or parties. Adults would have to work not to receive money, but toys, candies and chocolate. Most school classes would disappear. The world would be rough and wild.

No one would like to be adults and parents would feel very sad!

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