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2.25, Manila: Army and police on the way to smash a demonstration

PRESS RELEASE
Information Bureau
Communist Party of the Philippines

CPP calls on people to overthrow Arroyo dictatorship
February 26, 2006

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP-CC) today condemned Gloria Arroyo for having "established a new fascist dictatorship" by issuing Presidential Proclamation 1017 declaring a "state of national emergency."

"Arroyo has arrogated martial law powers," the CPP-CC said. In fact, it pointed out, Arroyo has "long desired to officially declare some form of martial law" but has consistently been thwarted by widespread protests.

Through Presidential 1017, the Arroyo regime has "furthered its repressive and fascist acts, including plans to arrest leaders and activists of democratic and progressive organizations and parties, and government, military and police officers and personnel critical of the Arroyo regime."

"Like Marcos, Arroyo has resorted to concocting outright lies" to justify the imposition of fascist policies. The CPP-CC condemned the Arroyo regime for fabricating a so-called plot involving the participation of New People's Army (NPA) guerrillas in protest rallies as pretext for the declaration of a state of national emerency.

The CPP said that the NPA "continues to abide by the policy of non- intervention in mass protest demonstrations in Metro Manila and other urban areas."

The CPP-CC has directed the NPA "to launch tactical offensives that can be won against diehard pro-Arroyo and fascist units of the reactionary armed forces and, whenever the opportunity presents itself, coordinate with the anti-Arroyo and other friendly units within the AFP and PNP."

It further called "on the democratic forces and the broad masses to heighten the antifascist aspect of the struggle against the Arroyo regime."

The CPP-CC also urged military and police elements "to defy fascist orders from their generals to suppress the people's civil liberties," even as it called on "positive elements within the government's military and police to join and support democratic forces who persist in building the requisites for a new people power uprising."

The CPP-CC said that "Arroyo has only succeeded in steeling the people's determination to further build up mass protests towards another people power uprising, furthered unrest within the military and police forces and broadened the ranks of those determined to withdraw their support to the Arroyo regime."

"The Filipino people will not be coerced into submission," said the CPP-CC. "They are determined to continue resisting the Arroyo regime's fascist acts. They demand the end of the Arroyo regime and its replacement by a government that truly advances national freedom and democracy."

Before yesterday the army took over more central

positions in the capital Manila

Please read more here:

Marines holed up in camp agree to stand down

inq7.net/The Inquirer

5 tense hours as Marines stand off

Defensor appeals for media blackout (!!!)

The Manila Times

Philippines Marine base sealed

IHT/Reuters/AP

Manila stifles people power

The Observer

Philippines coup stand-off intensifies 

Al-Jazeera

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.."State of emergency"

(so the rulers are calling this!!)

While the people of the Philippines yesterday wanted to celebrate the 20^th anniversary of the end of the Marcos dictatorship the current administration under G. Arroyo declared the state of emergency – under the threadbare, or perhaps better said shabby(?), pretext of a planned revolt/coup d’etat, according to the state propaganda, by "rightwing military officers" and "leftists"(in this case the government means the so-called communists/CCP). In my opinion it is not to believe, not at all... But what is definitely to believe that(perhaps) a majority f the Filipinos/Filipinas are complete fed up with the system! Ha, just ask our comrades from Kasammako – they are very close now to MTU(as I guess).

Yesterday in the...

...streets of Manila

Anyway until now there are not many informations about it, especially not many independent... Many wrong things in the last 48 hours were written by the Western media... For example the German magazine Der Spiegel(2.24) wrote about heavy street battles, but in fact there were "just" attacks by the police and army against unarmed civilians. Especially yesterday(2.25) many left activists and journalists were arrested.

Well if I find new and better informations I will upload it here as soon as possible.

For more informations please read following articles:

Alleging plot, Arroyo declares emergency

Philippine police detain critics amid state of emergency

AP/IHT

State of emergency as Arroyo claims coup is foiled

Guardian(UK)

Philippines crackdown on opposition

Al-Jazeera

Philippines tears itself apart

Asia Times(HK) with good background infos

Raid, arrests mark state of emergency

The Inquirer(RP, bourgeois daily)

Philippine Revolution Web Central

http://www.philippinerevolution.org/index.shtml

CCP, NDF, Ang Bayan...

Please read the latest news on Indymedia Manila

http://manila.indymedia.org/

TAKE ACTION FOR SOLIDARITY!!

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FRANK ZAPPA & CAPTAIN BEEFHEART

MUFFIN MAN

The muffin man is seated at the table in the laboratory of the utility muffin
Research kitchen... reaching for an oversized chrome spoon he gathers an
Intimate quantity of dried muffin remnants and brushing his scapular aside
Procceds to dump these inside of his shirt...
He turns to us and speaks:

Some people like cupcakes better. I for one care less for them!

Arrogantly twisting the sterile canvas snoot of a fully charged icing
Anointment utensil he poots forths a quarter-ounce green rosette (oh ah yuk
Yuk... let’s try that again...!) he poots forth a quarter-ounce green rosette
Near the summit of a dense but radiant muffin of his own design.
Later he says:

Some people... some people like cupcakes exclusively, while myself, I say
There is naught nor ought there be nothing so exalted on the face of god’s grey
Earth as that prince of foods... the muffin!

Girl you thought he was a man
But he was a muffin
He hung around till you found
That he didn’t know nuthin’

Girl you thought he was a man
But he only was a-puffin’
No cries is heard in the night
As a result of him stuffin’

Bruce fowler on trombone, napoleon murphy brock on tenor sax, and lead vocals,
Terry bozzio on drums, tom fowler on bass, denny walley on slide, george duke
On keyboards, captain beefheart on vocals, and soprano sax, and madness. thank
You very much for coming to the concert tonight. hope you enjoyed it. goodnight
Austin, texas, where ever you are.

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Einstuerzende Neubauten

Halber Mensch

Halber Mensch
Halber Mensch
Geh weiter, in jede Richtung
Wir haben Wahrheiten fuer dich
aufgestellt
Halber Mensch
In ihren Rissen leuchten unsre
Sender
Zu jeder vollen Stunde senden wir deine Werte
Geh weiter
Halber Mensch
Wir sorgen fuer dich
Wir nehmen fuer dich wahr
Halber Mensch
Wer geteilt ist, hat nicht mitzuteilen
Wir sorgen fuer dich
Wir nehmen fuer dich wahr
Wir sorgen fuer dich
Wir triggern deine Sinne
Rauschunterdrueckung
Halber Mensch
Du siehst die Sender nicht
Und Kabel haengen
Laengst verlegt
Aus deinen Nerven-
Enden laengs des Wegs
Geh weiter!
Sieh deine zweite Haelfte...
Wer geteilt ist hat nicht mitzuteilen
Wir sorgen fuer dich
Wir triggern deine Sinne
Wir nehmen fuer dich wahr
Wir sorgen fuer dich
Dass die zweite Haelfte dich niemals trifft
Halber Mensch
Sieh deine zweite Haelfte
Die scheinbar grundlos
Schreiend erwacht
Schreiend naeherkommt
Du siehst sie nicht
Bist gefesselt vom Abendprogramm
Geh weiter in jede Richtung
Wer geteilt ist, hat nichts mitzuteilen
Nach wie vor
Nach wie vor
Streng dich an
Streng dich an
Nach wie vor
Wir sorgen fuer dich
Wir nehmen fuer dich wahr
Wir sorgen fuer dich
Wir triggern deine Sinne
Wir sorgen fuer dich
Dass die zweite Haelfte dich niemals trifft
Halber Mensch
Mir nichts dir nichts
Steht da der Schnitter
Geh weiter
Stoesst an
Geht nicht weiter - Du formlose Knete
Aus der die Lebensgeister
Den letzten Rest
Funken aussaugen
Fliegen angestachelt taumelnd, besoffen davon
Tanzen nutzlos in der Sonne
Mach dir nichts aus
Sie machen gar aus
Ein Bild fuer die Goetter
Schoenen Gruss vom Schnitter
Sicheln nicht sein!
Verwesen

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My Suggestion..

..because we, as the anti-war movement, can't change nothing anymore(ae~ I mean I'm just worrying...)..

In Iraq there are huge areas of desert... It would be really nice if there all this m..f.., such as the so-called resistance fighters, all the sunni and the shia islamic fascists, all the occupiers(well, if the s. korean troops wanna have fun, why not they too??!!) could gather there, everyone takes a M16, AK47, or whatever, some hand grenades... and they should finish their f.. stuff there... AND LEAVE THE ORDINARY IRAQI - THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN, THE WORKERS AND FARMERS... - ALONE - FOREVER!!!

But it's just a damn dream... And because of that we have to fight daily for the world revo... HARRHARR!!

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IRAQ: FROM A ‘ORDINARY’ MIDDLE EAST DICTATORSHIP TO THE HUB OF RESISTANCE(aka terrorism..) AGAINST THE ‘US-IMPERIALISM’...

...TO... ya, WHAT??

I’m really not sure anymore, what was/is better – the ‘ordinary’ dictatorship of under S. Hussein and his Baath gang or what we have now.

Perhaps the Bush administration really thought that "it will be fine to liberate the Iraqi people" and "bring them democracy"(harrharr)...

At first according to many reports the majority of the Iraqis were happy about the end of S. Hussain’s dictatorship. But after that just a really small minority were ready to struggle for a kind of democratic/civil society... And from the beginning they were hunted by reactionary factions of Islamic fundamentalists and many parts of the so-called resistance. And the occupiers were not able, or(‘better’) perhaps they just had no interrest, to protect this forces and support them.

Al-Askari shrine, before...

...and after the attack

And now it seems that everything is over... Even if in the following days the complete civil war will not break out, but the people who have the interrest in such a scenario will know(at least from now) what is to do to create the definite situation for that: just attack symbols - in the last months thousands of hundreds were killed by (Shia) death squads and thousands of Shias were killed by bomb attacks by the(Sunni) ‘resistance’ and without such a result, outbreak of violence, fights each other, like the attack against the al-Askari shrine.

Shia believers in preparing...

...what for?

According to political active people in Iraq now the question is not about if the civil war will break out... the question is just WHEN IT WILL BE REALLY HAPPEN.

And let’s guess, the international peace movement have now no answer, not at all!

Sorry, these are just some of my(maybe stupid) first thoughts in the current situation(perhaps later I'll write more..) ...

Please read more about it(for example) here:

U.S. envoy says Iraq is close to civil war

And, please, just check out the intl. media...

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S. KOREA ON THE WAY TO A NEW DICTATORSHIP - THE HEALTH DICTATORSHIP!     Following article I found today in K. Times:   Petition Filed to Ban Cigarette Making, Sales

Former President Kim Dae-jung and 157 other prominent figures have filed a petition to the National Assembly, calling for a ban on the manufacture and sale of cigarettes from 2015. The petition was initiated by Park Jae-gahb, president of the National Cancer Center, who is actively waging an anti-smoking campaign to prevent cancer and other smoking-related ailments. Some 195 ruling and opposition lawmakers, including Rep. Yoo Jay-kun of the Uri Party, also expressed their intention to support the petition. Yoo said Wednesday the petition, tentatively named a ``bill on prohibiting manufacture and sale of cigarettes’’, stipulates that anyone who makes and deals in cigarettes and their ingredients would be subject to a maximum of five years jail or a 50 million won ($50,000) fine. He said petitioners decided to make the request to the Assembly since cigarettes and similar products are the main cause of various illnesses in humans, including lung cancer and cardiovascular diseases. But they decided to give a grace period of 10 years to tobacco plant growers, manufacturers, and sales people so that they have time to take up other jobs. Yoo added that he and other lawmakers would consider forwarding a bill similar to the petition in the near future. But the Korea Cigarette Consumers Association denounced the move, saying that such a petition is an act of irresponsibility, disregarding smokers’ rights. It also said if such a petition becomes law, it would destroy the livelihoods of more than one million people engaged in the tobacco industry. ``We will form a united front with other civic groups to block any attempt to outlaw the production, use and sale of cigarette products,’’ the association said in a statement. http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200602/kt2006022223135711990.htm     I don't know if DJ Kim and his colleagues are just senile, but to prevent this insanity we should make the social(...) revolution as soon as possible! Or otherwise: just forget S. Korea(uhuu~~~, I don't know if I can...^^)...

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고양이를 부탁해

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Four Jobs I’ve had in my life?(일생에 가졌던 네 개의 직업)

Wow, much more than four:
optician
stone-cutter/sculptor
male nurse/welfare(social) worker
"professional(harrharr) revolutionary"(^^)..

I can watch over and over?(몇 번이나 다시 볼 수 있는 네 가지 영화)

TAKE CARE OF MY CAT(고양이를 부탁해)
THE STRAWBERRY STATEMENT(US 1969)
MOROSKO(SU 1964)
OGON, WODA I MEDNYE TRUBY(SU, 1968)..^^

Four places I have lived?(살았던 적이 있는 네 곳의 장소)

E. Germany
W. Germany/W. Berlin/Unified F... Germany
Palestine
南朝鮮, 서울+안양

Four TV shows I love to watch?(좋아하는 네 가지 TV 프로그램)

Well, since many years I have no TV

Four places I have been on vacation?(휴가 중 갔었던 네 곳의 장소)

Bulgaria
Greece
Denmark
Gangwon-do...

Four websites I visit daily?(매일 방문하는 네 개의 웹싸이트)

Der Spiegel
Haaretz
Jinbonet
IHT...

Four of my favorite foods?(가장 좋아하는 네 가지 음식)

감자탕&Soju^^!!
Well, but usualy I don’t eat...^^

Four places I would rather be right now?(지금 있고 싶은 네 곳의 장소)

East Asia
南朝鮮
Seoul
...well, just at home!!!(at least not in Berlin!!)

Four bloggers I’m tagging(태그를 넘기는 네 명의 블로거)

쥬느
거타지
^0^, but finally just for to get daily angry+sad..
imc korea...

"Ai Du", Ali Farka+Ry Cooder

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Yesterday's(2.21) Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth/Ynet published following - in my opinion - complete STUPID story:

Israel warns of ‘Evil Axis’ World War

Israel’s UN envoy Gillerman warns of Hamas’ venture into politics, saying Islamic group is forming ‘Axis of Evil’ with Syria and Iran; Adds terror triangle likely to instigate first World War of the 21st century if not stopped
Yitzhak Benhorin

WASHINGTON - Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Gillerman, on Tuesday warned of a new “terror axis” between Iran, Syria and Hamas, which could kick start “the first world war of the 21st century.”