Author: admin

October 27, 2014

The World Bank, IMF and the U.N. will continue to aid and abet oppression and the undemocratic oligarchy in the Philippines.  But we will all be judged by history. Facebook is the best thing that ever happened to civilization. We can no longer deny not knowing what is happening in the Philippines. 

In Dec. 2007, the World Bank went ahead forgiving $16.5~ Billion debts of the poorest nations in Africa. (See Zero Sum Game of Global Finance Yet today there is still hunger and starvation. But it’s different now. We have Ebola virus that infected at least two health care workers in Dallas, TX. 

 

US: on the Financial Crisis and Bailout (Bienvenido Macario, Philippines) –  

September 25, 2008

http://waisworld.org/go.jsp?id=02a&objectType=post&o=24935&objectTypeId=19185&topicId=1

Zero Sum Game at $16 billion  02-20-2008

As of Oct. 01, 2010

US National Debt – $13.5 Trillion

Per Citizen        –           $43,602

Per Taxpayer –             $121,650

Link: http://www.usdebtclock.org/index/html

 

Calif. State budget deficit per news story 02-20-08                   $16.0 Billion *

World Bank’s Debt Forgiveness fund as of 12-14-07                $16.5 Billion ~

Total net worth of Forbes’ 40 Richest Filipinos 10-18-07          $16.2 Billion +

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Record Funding for World’s Poorest Countries as of 12-14-07

December 14, 2007

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:21587453~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html

The record donor pledges for IDA15 represent a 42 percent increase from the previous replenishment.   This is complemented by US$ 16.5 billion~ in internal financing from the World Bank Group and prior donor pledges for financing debt forgiveness.

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Meet Marianneth Amper, the “Anne Frank” of the Philippines, a 12-yr-old girl who has lost hope & committed suicide on Nov. 02, 2007.

Days after Mariannet’s suicide, police investigators recovered under her pillow a diary and a letter addressed to a public service television programme asking for a new pair of shoes and school bag, and steady jobs for her mother and father.

In the last two entries in her diary about two weeks before she took her life, Mariannet lamented that she and her brother had been absent from school and they could not go to church because they had no money for fare and their father was suffering from a fever.

‘It seemed as if we were absent from school for a month now,’ she wrote in her diary. ‘We don’t count our absences anymore. I hardly noticed that Christmas is fast approaching.’

The Amper family is just one of millions of impoverished households in the Philippines still waiting to feel the benefits of an appreciating peso against the US dollar, the fastest economic growth in 20 years and increasing foreign investments.

According to United Nations data, more than 50 per cent of the Philippines’ 88 million people live on less than 2 dollars a day. A nationwide survey conducted by a local polling firm in September also showed that 21.5 per cent of Filipino families suffer involuntary hunger, up from from 19 per cent in November 2006.

“A child committing suicide because of hunger and poverty may be an isolated case, but Filipino families experiencing extreme hunger and poverty are definitely prevalent.“

“We have already seen and heard news of adults committing suicide in desperation borne out of poverty by jumping from billboards or hanging themselves,” Alphonse Rivera, head of the child rights organization, Salinlahi Alliance for Children’s Concerns, said in a statement sent to the Mindanao Examiner.

Girl’s suicide indicts Philippine anti-poverty programme

Nov 9, 2007, 10:14 GMT

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/features/article_1372439.php/Girls_suicide_indicts_Philippine_anti-poverty_programme

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Filipino Mom kills 3 kids, self due to extreme poverty

Estrada blames gov’t for mom who killed kids, self

09/12/2008

http://tribune.net.ph/headlines/20080912hed2.html

Deeply affected by the tragedy that befell a family in Magdalena , Laguna, former President Joseph Estrada took time off to attend the wake of the woman who killed herself and her three children due to extreme poverty.

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Birthday Song for Marianneth

(Las Pinas Birthday Song) 

 

Oct. 7, 2014

DID THE TYDINGS-McDUFFIE LAW THAT TOOK AWAY FILIPINO’S U.S. NATIONALITY SIGNED BY FDR ON MARCH 24, 1934 INSPIRED THE NAZI’s  TO PASS THE NUREMBERG LAWS ON SEPT. 15, 1935 THAT ALSO  TOOK AWAY the CITIZENSHIP of  JEWS in GERMANY?

Updated September 21, 2018

THE FIRST ABANDONMENT OF THE PHILIPPINES, A U.S. TERRITORY – 1934

“Erratic US policy and fraying alliances give China a free hand”

How Beijing is winning control of the South China Sea

SIMON ROUGHNEEN, Asia regional correspondent

June 13, 2018 14:04 JST

– https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Cover-Story/How-Beijing-is-winning-control-of-the-South-China-Sea

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What the above Asia Nikkei article calls” erratic U.S. policy and deteriorating relations with old allies is what I call the “Jekyll and Hyde” U.S. Foreign Policy.

Question: Is the abandonment of the Philippine territory in 1934, signaled the start of the “Jekyll and Hyde” U.S. Foreign Policy? 

DID THE TYDINGS-McDUFFIE LAW THAT TOOK AWAY FILIPINO’S U.S. NATIONALITY INSPIRED THE NAZI’s TO PASS THE NUREMBERG LAWS which also  TOOK AWAY the CITIZENSHIP of  JEWS in GERMANY?

October 9, 2014

Excerpt: “I’d like to begin with an excerpt from Chapter 35, “Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War, 1933-1941,” from the AP US History textbook used in High Schools:

“The American people were not so much giving freedom to the Philippines as they were freeing themselves from the Philippines–they proposed to leave the Philippines to their fate.“

 

This is a realistic and honest assessment of what Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934 was all about–the official abandonment of the Philippine territory.

The Philippine Independence Act of 1934, the official name of Tydings-McDuffie Act, was another step toward isolationism sweeping America as the threat of war in Europe was growing.

From the paranoid and unrealistic protectionist foreign policy of 1920s, the US started to clamp down on immigration when over 530,000 immigrants came to the US from Southern and Eastern Europe.

These European and other immigrants probably knew the Treaty of Versailles would give Europe 20 years of peace before another war would break out. In the usual knee-jerk reaction still seen today, Congress enacted the Emergency Quota Act of 1921. This quota-based restriction was further reduced from 3% to 2% when the Immigration Act of 1924 was passed to replace the Quota Act of 1921.

Exempt were the Canadians and even Latin Americans. The Filipinos were not affected by immigration laws, since the Philippines was not yet abandoned.

The crash of 1929 and the succeeding bank run of 1930 pushed the American economy to the Great Depression, which in turn further strengthen and justified isolationism.

On Sept. 18, 1931, the Japanese began the war in the Manchuria and by Feb. 27, 1932, the Japanese has occupied Manchuria. This alarmed American politicians and were eager to abandon the Philippine territory.  Tariff-free Philippine agricultural products seen as competition by the American farmers in the Southern states provided additional incentive for American politicians to abandon the Philippines.

As 60,000 Filipinos relocated to the mainland in 1931, the idea of giving independence and freedom to the Filipinos was revived. Sen. Huey Long of Louisiana, a Democrat and staunch FDR supporter, made absurd and exaggerated claims that some Americans were starving and were resorting to cannibalism while “Wall St. Imperialists as gods of greed continue to cling onto the (Philippine) islands.”

When American adventurism at the turn of the century vaulted the country into a world power, they did not have any idea of the responsibilities and implied duties a world power or lone superpower entails.

It seems US foreign policy reflects the immaturity and impulsive nature of American leadership when it comes to foreign relations, as shown by the Cold War, Korean War, Vietnam War and now post-Saddam Iraq.

With American foreign policy, one thing remained constant. Adventurism in the White House would take the country to exotic places and situations around the world, and when the going got tough, the ball along with our allies got dropped. Such was the case of Vietnam, when Nixon signed the 1973 Paris Peace Treaty ending America’s direct involvement in Vietnam and called it “Peace with honor.”

From: Philippines – Philippines as “Abandoned Territory” in the 1930s (Bienvenido Macario, USA) Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:12 am

http://waisworld.org/go.jsp?id=02a&objectType=post&o=76513&objectTypeId=67329&topicId=17

BRIEF BACKGROUND & COMMENTS ON THE 1934 ABANDONMENT OF THE PHILIPPINES  

 

DID THE TYDINGS-McDUFFIE LAW THAT TOOK AWAY FILIPINO’S U.S. NATIONALITY SIGNED BY FDR ON MARCH 24, 1934 INSPIRED THE NAZI’s  TO PASS THE NUREMBERG LAWS ON SEPT. 15, 1935 THAT ALSO  TOOK AWAY the CITIZENSHIP of  JEWS in GERMANY?

Other references: American Pageant: U.S. History Chapter 35: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War 1933-1941

https://www.stjoes.org/ourpages/auto/2017/9/7/61982932/americanpageantchapter35.pdf 

Here are the first three (3) pages of Chapter 35 AP History by David Kennedy 12th Edition.

Page 807 of Chapter 35 discussed the abandonment of the Philippines when the Tydings- McDuffie Act of 1934, officially the Philippine Independence Act of 1934, was signed by FDR on Mar. 24, 1934. However what was not mentioned was the fact that the first attempt to abandon the Philippines was with the passing the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act by the 72nd U.S. Congress. The second attempt to abandon the Philippines was after FDR defeat Herber Hoover in the 1932 election. “The Hare-Hawes Cutting Act” was passed by the Senate in December 1932 but was vetoed by Pres. Herbert Hoover. To Hoover’s surprise, Congress promptly overrode his veto, and the bill became law on Jan. 17, 1933. The act, however, required approval by the Philippine Senate, and this was not forthcoming. Filipino political leader Manuel Quezon led a campaign against the bill because of provisions in it that allowed the indefinite retention of U.S. military bases in the islands. The Tydings–McDuffie Act, substantially similar to the rejected measure but incorporating minor changes, was accepted by the Philippine Senate in 1934.” from  Encyclopaedia Britannica .

Link: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hare-Hawes-Cutting-Act

It must be pointed out that when the Tydings McDuffie Act was passed by the 73rd U.S. Congress and the creation of the so-called Philippine Commonwealth in 1935 or when the Philippines was granted independence in July 1946 or when Cory Aquino ordered the closure of the U.S. military bases in Dec. 1991, there was not a single referendum or any form of consultations with the Filipino people. Our parents and grandparents were never asked if they wanted to renounce their U.S. nationality, secede from the union with the USA and become independent Filipino citizens.

Whereas below is the list of five (5) Plebiscites Puerto Rico held on Independence, Territorial Autonomy and even Statehood from 1967 to 2017. If this is not discrimination, I don’t know what is.

How Filipinos lost their U.S. nationality is discussed on the post:

Fourth of July 2019: 73rd Anniversary when Filipinos lost their US Nationality

Mon. Dec. 16, 2024 Update:

In 2020, At Tuesday’s plebiscite (Nov. 3, 2020), residents narrowly favored statehood with 52% of the vote while about 47% of voters were against it, according to the election commission’s website.  This was actually the SIXTH (6th) time Puerto Ricans had a choice to make on statehood.  In past plebiscites, independence and Commonwealth have been included as options for Puerto Rican voters to choose.

Puerto Rico has been a U.S. territory since 1898. Only 23% came out to vote in a plebiscite many believed to be rigged towards statehood where 97% voted for Puerto Rico to be the 51st state. The US ignored the results. (from Wikipedia) 

  
Puerto Rico votes in favor of statehood. But what does it mean for the island?
The vote was non-binding and some doubt it will have any effect on Congress. By Cristina Corujo November 8, 2020, 11:21 AM

https://abcnews.go.com/US/puerto-rico-votes-favor-statehood-island/story?id=74055630