Ravenous Greed of Some Officials & A Million Children Who Go to Bed Hungry Everynight

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PLUS: Who's poisoning the wells? Likely future victims include poor Filipino children
 
(Next Post: Smugglers & big-time traders of rice should be closely monitored as they'll find good opportunities to exploit the market this El Nino year. This election year, these big-time industry players either volunteer to contribute (bribe) or are solicited for big donations by some major political candidates. Each of the more than 3 million very poor Filipino families spend much more for rice in terms of percentage of the family's total income, or received dole outs from a government program, than an average lower-middle class American family spends in total for foods. This contributes to the burdens of these families already suffering from occasional hunger - pinning them further to long-term poverty)

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Are we advancing this cause? Are we making progress with this initiative? Yes, definitely. Absence of online activities doesn't mean we're not doing anything to advance this cause. However, limits to our resources & mobility seriously constrain us as to what we're capable of in terms of making progress as to our work for this cause. Ecclesiastes 3:1-12 (There's a time and place for everything under the sun...)

Glass ceiling? Well, how about a glass cage like in our situation? It's not what all it seems...

It's not easy to measure (if at all practical) or even appreciate what we achieve with what we do or whether or not we're making any impact at all as to what we need to help catalyze. But we do. We have our own ways of making things happen even as we struggle to provide for our very selves.

In our other blog: iDisrupt.blogspot.com

Philippine Big Banks Accepted & Protect Billion$ of Dirty Money? 

When Survival of One Group of Human Beings Is Feared As Unwelcome Burden or Even Existential Threat by Others

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President Obama Our D1srupter of the Season for the Landmark Iran Nuclear Deal
As US agencies work to save & rebuild so many Filipino lives – treasonous greed makes as many lives ever more at risk? PLUS: Who's poisoning the wells? Likely future victims include poor Filipino children

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We hate to be threatened as we have an overdose of such already. A few days ago someone made a veiled threat to us and I hated it. But because it is in the context of us doing some work, we took it easy and I thought I'd never mind. But to think why this man, thug or crime group leader, was able to make such (is he a man of a new Mayor?) is something that made me remember it. But just that, what can we do? These men can't be arrogant without having strong connections to officials who protect them.

Our Facebook accounts contain entries that might of interest or relevance:
Ernest Barraquias Jr  or  Rian Igos

Deep-seated beliefs & animosities can easily trigger conflicts

An entry. Please click on the photo or link below to read the texts at Facebook.
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Or this, our suggestion : 1 method that can work to help drastically curb severe corruption in the Philippines and even in other 3rd World countries
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Are we to campaign not only to advance discourses about issues we think critical to the advancement of our causes but also against specific public officials who cause the long-time sufferings & pains of millions of poor and underprivileged Filipinos or others elsewhere? Why not, but we're not keen to do that now or anytime soon. In the Philippines, there are guarantees of freedom and enjoyment of basic rights, including freedom of expression only on papers...

President Aquino is an honest President, but political realities can constrain him and no one should mind as he instituted reforms to the extent no one else in our history even dared try... & he took personal pains to accomplish it all. We don't know yet what price he'll be made to pay. Political fortunes can change abruptly in the Philippines.

We sometimes feel guilty when we think we have made little compromises even for critically important reasons like survival...

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Ernest Barraquias Jr
Rian Igos

http://idisrupt.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-new-aiib-to-help-advance-chinas.html
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The circumstances that led to the rise of rebellions by the Filipino-Muslims & the Communist NPA lent some credence & justification for their armed struggles. But the present realities, & what became of these groups, we think, compel their organized violent struggles be stopped & alternatives be actively sought, employed. //Even China's leader Xi prioritizes the fight versus corruption

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You don't have to be Einstein to find out the underlying causes of our social problems that hold us back from realizing our full potential as a nation. You don't have to be Martin Luther King or Mandela to see some things are so very wrong & that perhaps you can do something. You don't have to be holy or be the Dalai Lama to be concerned. You don't wait for a life-changing experience, or for yourself to survive murder attempts - you only need a little conscience & a little concern, a little time - to act to do something that can make a little difference, that sometimes all that's needed to catalyze little positive reforms. We resist our cynicism & apathy

Fact:

Decades of severe corruption in the Philippines mainly bred & perpetuated (long-term poverty) petty & serious criminality - as big-time crooks sleep tight & safe, petty ones should not be murdered

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Einstein said something about perfection of means & confusion of aims that characterizes our age. Well, in our case, it's both: confusion of aims & means. But, really, it's not, just that we can think of & wish to do much as to our causes, even planned cause-oriented for-profit business ventures - just that we have a serious lack of means at this time. Not only that, we barely have safety or security provisions for ourselves beyond the simple & practical ones we take. In addition to that, signs of unmistakable but silent persecution, & threats, make us take cautious steps.