In a convincing display of “people power” reminiscent of two previous mass uprisings that led to the ouster of two Philippine presidents, tens of thousands of protesters massed up on 29 February in Makati City, the Philippines’ financial district, to send a strong message to the murderous and corrupt Arroyo regime that its days are numbered.
The protest action dubbed as an “interfaith rally for truth”, was held to demand the truth from the latest corruption scandal involving illegitimate president Gloria Arroyo and to ask for her resignation. First Gentleman Mike Arroyo, together with other top government officials, reportedly demanded up to US$130 million in commissions in exchange for granting the National Broadband Network (NBN) project contract to China’s Zhong Xing Telecommunication Equipment Corporation (ZTE). The project was eventually shelved after news broke out about the anomalous deal, but it had not prevented the mounting protests and seething anger of the whole nation.
A cross-section of Philippine society totaling more than 50,000 converged on 29 February to demand the truth and to push for the ouster or resignation of Arroyo. Participants in the rally included workers, peasant groups, youth and students, women, businessmen, middle and upper class housewives, urban poor, church and religious groups, migrants and their relatives, artists and the political opposition including two former Philippine presidents.
Militant groups estimated the number at 75,000, while the political opposition gave an even higher estimate. It was, according to analysts, larger than expected. Youth and students from many colleges and universities composed the main bulk of the protesters.
Speakers at the rally lambasted the Arroyo regime for its corruption, and its other crimes against the people, including the extrajudicial killings and disappearances of opposition activists. And as with the previous displays of “people power”, protesters came out with their creative expressions of fighting slogans and demands. Militant groups carried a large streamer that says “Goodbye Gloria”. A Catholic nun carried a placard that says “What is evil, is evil. Period”. “Gloria, most corrupt president” says another placard, while a dog was seen with a poster on its back that says “Ow-ow-Oust Gloria!”
The resounding demand and call however was: Oust Gloria!
Ever-fearful of the fate suffered by her predecessor who was ousted by “people power”, Gloria Arroyo sought refuge at a military camp in Quezon City.
Even before this mammoth gathering, military and police loyalists of Gloria acted desperately to prevent a groundswell of people massing-up. They fed media with worn-out alleged reports of possible infiltration of the rally by the New People’s Army or by supposed terrorists. They set up blockades and checkpoints around Metro Manila to prevent rallyists from the provinces from joining the Makati protesters. They further prevented media from taking aerial shots from helicopters of the massive protest by declaring the area a “no-fly zone”.
In an official statement, Bayan (New Patriotic Alliance) said that the Makati mobilization sends a very strong message to Malacañang and other institutions of the government that the Filipino people seriously and urgently demand for truth, justice, and meaningful changes in the leadership and system of governance amid the latest political crisis that has been rocking the Arroyo regime.
Professor Jose Ma. Sison, Chief Political Consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), in a statement on 01 March stressed that “the fake president and her retinue of bureaucratic sycophants and military bully boys should be able to read the handwriting on the wall. They have been weighed and grievously found wanting. Their days are numbered. Their doom is in the horizon.”
As Gloria Arroyo presses all her panic buttons, so to speak, the people and the organized forces are bracing for bigger mobilizations and more creative expressions of protest to force the ouster of Gloria Arroyo.
Militant migrant organizations, representing about 10 million overseas Filipinos forced to live and work abroad because of the corruption, brutality, poverty, unemployment and backwardness of Philippine society, have called for the withholding of remittances at least once a month. The remittances of migrant Filipinos help sustain the bankrupt Philippine economy and bureaucracy. Migrant Filipinos send US$30 million in remittances daily.
Meanwhile, protest rallies by Filipino migrants and foreign allies around the world were also held to show solidarity with the calls being made in the Philippines for the ouster of the Arroyo regime. In Australia and Hong Kong, migrant Filipinos and human rights advocates not only called for the ouster of the Arroyo regime but also called for “Zero Remittance Day” on 8 March. They condemned the plundering of their hard-earned money to prop-up Arroyo’s corruption-riddled government.
Rallies were also held in the cities of New York, New Jersey, San Francisco and Los Angeles in the United States, in Toronto and Vancouver in Canada, and in Amsterdam in The Netherlands. They demanded that Arroyo be held accountable for her many crimes against the Filipino people, including massive corruption and grave violations of human rights.
Danielle Galan, president of Anakbayan New York said that “corruption is a disease that robs Filipinos of a promising future. It is the same reason why our parents and fellow Filipino youth left the country to search for better lives abroad. Those who engage in it must answer to the nation’s call for accountability.”
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Arroyo regime teeters on the brink of ouster
The conversation between the taxi driver and his passenger showed how desperate life has become for many Filipinos: The driver made remarks on how life has become so difficult these days. Then he said, “If only someone can assure me that they will take care of my family, I am willing to die just so I can assassinate this no-good president Arroyo.”
A social volcano is indeed waiting to erupt with the pent-up anger of the long suffering Filipino people against a cheating, stealing and lying president.
A new and yet bigger wave of calls for Arroyo’s ouster or resignation has swept the country after revelations from former government official Rodolfo Lozada, Jr. confirmed the direct involvement of Mike Arroyo, the husband of Manila president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, in a multi-million dollar kickback scandal in connection with a proposed National Broadband Project awarded to Chinese company Zhong Xing Telecommunication Equipment Company (ZTE).
Rodolfo Lozada, Jr. has insider knowledge of the highly anomalous deal. Gloria Arroyo’s henchmen in the Philippine National Police, military intelligence community and in her cabinet tried everything to stop Lozada from testifying before Senate committees investigating the scandal. They sent him to Hong Kong. But the guilt-stricken Lozada decided to come back to the Philippines to reveal everything he knew. While disembarking at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, he was abducted by a unit of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) and PNP presumably upon orders of Arroyo’s top cabinet officials. But the incident came to the knowledge of journalists and subsequent outcries from the public forced the abductors to surface Lozada.
Testifying finally before the Philippine Senate, Lozada disclosed in great detail what he knew about the anomalous deal. He revealed how former Commission on Elections Chairman Benjamin Abalos, acting on instructions from Mike Arroyo, brokered a deal with the Chinese firm ZTE asking for US$130 million dollars in kickback or commission. He recounted that when the anomalous deal was exposed and subsequently shelved, he was sent to Hong Kong to escape being investigated by the Senate which had subpoenaed him to testify. He told about the harrowing ordeal he went through when he was abducted by elements of the PSG and PNP when he disembarked from the plane from Hong Kong thinking that he was going to be killed to prevent him from spilling the beans.
Reflecting the mood of the general populace, the President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), Archbishop Angel Lagdameo, has called on the people to launch “communal action”. A broad spectrum of Philippine society, agitated by Lozada’s testimony, has interpreted the archbishop’s words as a call for the people to mobilize to remove Arroyo from the presidency.
The roots of discontent
Under the Arroyo regime, joblessness has grown to record levels. In 2007, conservative estimates put 4.1 million Filipinos without jobs. Since 2001, when Arroyo assumed the presidency, up to 2006, average family income has dropped by PhP20,400.
There is a great disparity in incomes with the top 20% or 3.5 million families accounting for 52.8% of the total income, while the poorest 80% or 13.9 million families taking the remaining 47.3%. The income of the top 10% is 19 times that of the poorest 10 percent. The Forbes.com estimates the net worth of the country’s 20 richest individuals of US$15.6 billion in 2006 as equivalent to the combined annual income of the poorest 10.4 million families or 52 million Filipinos. Eighty percent of families or 70 million Filipinos struggle to survive on around US$2.50 a day.
This situation has impelled the workers to fight more resolutely for a wage increase which has always been stubbornly opposed by the regime. In 2007, the average wage of workers in the most industrialized area around the capital is not even half of the actual cost of living. Poverty in the countryside is even worse.
The trade deficit in 2006 was $6.817 billion The perennial trade deficit is the result of the basic weakness of the country’s semifeudal economy which does not have an industrial base. Because of this, it imports most of its manufactured goods. Even its so-called manufactured exports are merely low-value added re-exports because as in the electronics sectors the products contain from 90%-95% imported raw materials. These re-exports actually earn very little for the local economy.
A fiscal crisis is threatening to explode on the regime’s face in 2008. The regime has been able to buy time in 2007 only because it had gone on a privatization binge unparalleled in the country’s history. In 2007 alone, PhP90.6 billion in government assets were sold to private capital which was nearly as much as the PhP93.9 billion sold in the previous 15 years spanning three administrations. Without the proceeds from privatization there would have been a PhP78.0 billion deficit.
Seemingly, the only bright spot in this grim economic horizon are the remittances of around eight up to ten million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs). The US$12.761 billion remittances in 2007 served to offset the US$6.817 billion trade deficit. Ironically, this has redounded to the detriment of the families back home dependent on these remittances. Partly because of the surge in dollar remittances from abroad, the peso has appreciated against the dollar. By the end of 2007, the average family dependent on OFW income lost PhP2,440 a month due to the appreciation of the peso against the dollar.
The OFW phenomenon is one clear indicator of the economy’s backwardness. Eight to ten million Filipinos are abroad because the economy has been failing to provide enough jobs for the people.
Already suffering from economic hardships brought on by the regime, a litany of shady deals and corruption scandals involving the first family has further fueled the anger of the people against the Manila president. Among these were the US$70 million payoff by German firm Fraport AG to the Office of the President for a US$425 million airport terminal expansion project; the Php400 million laundering of ill-gotten wealth from monthly kickbacks from government corporations; the diversion of PhP728 million in fertilizer funds for the campaign kitty of Gloria Arroyo in the 2004 presidential elections; US$50 million in “commissions” for the overpriced North Luzon Railways Project; the 5.1 kilometer Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard whose PhP1.1 billion cost was reportedly overpriced by PhP536 million, and many others.
Massive demonstrations are being planned in the coming days to demand the resignation of Arroyo. Restive anti-Arroyo soldiers and policemen are reportedly watching in the sidelines ready to move at the proper time. (Please see related story on anti-Arroyo demonstrations)
NDFP Chief Political Consultant Jose Maria Sison said that Arroyo is “ripe for ouster”. He explained that “the sheer growth of the legal and peaceful mass actions in the National Capital Region and on a national scale in the coming days, weeks and months can encourage the military and police to withdraw support from the Arroyo ruling clique and can suffice to cause the resignation, impeachment or outright ouster of the illegitimate and morally bankrupt president”.
Sison further said that prospects for the resumption of formal talks in the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations are bright if the broad masses of the Filipino people and the broad united front succeed in ousting Gloria M. Arroyo. He added, “The broad mass movement can succeed to oust Arroyo only with the full active participation of the patriotic and progressive forces. These (forces) would have some significant weight in the new government and would certainly demand the resumption of the aforesaid formal talks in order to address the roots of the civil war through comprehensive agreements on social, economic and political reforms”.
A social volcano is indeed waiting to erupt with the pent-up anger of the long suffering Filipino people against a cheating, stealing and lying president.
A new and yet bigger wave of calls for Arroyo’s ouster or resignation has swept the country after revelations from former government official Rodolfo Lozada, Jr. confirmed the direct involvement of Mike Arroyo, the husband of Manila president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, in a multi-million dollar kickback scandal in connection with a proposed National Broadband Project awarded to Chinese company Zhong Xing Telecommunication Equipment Company (ZTE).
Rodolfo Lozada, Jr. has insider knowledge of the highly anomalous deal. Gloria Arroyo’s henchmen in the Philippine National Police, military intelligence community and in her cabinet tried everything to stop Lozada from testifying before Senate committees investigating the scandal. They sent him to Hong Kong. But the guilt-stricken Lozada decided to come back to the Philippines to reveal everything he knew. While disembarking at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, he was abducted by a unit of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) and PNP presumably upon orders of Arroyo’s top cabinet officials. But the incident came to the knowledge of journalists and subsequent outcries from the public forced the abductors to surface Lozada.
Testifying finally before the Philippine Senate, Lozada disclosed in great detail what he knew about the anomalous deal. He revealed how former Commission on Elections Chairman Benjamin Abalos, acting on instructions from Mike Arroyo, brokered a deal with the Chinese firm ZTE asking for US$130 million dollars in kickback or commission. He recounted that when the anomalous deal was exposed and subsequently shelved, he was sent to Hong Kong to escape being investigated by the Senate which had subpoenaed him to testify. He told about the harrowing ordeal he went through when he was abducted by elements of the PSG and PNP when he disembarked from the plane from Hong Kong thinking that he was going to be killed to prevent him from spilling the beans.
Reflecting the mood of the general populace, the President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), Archbishop Angel Lagdameo, has called on the people to launch “communal action”. A broad spectrum of Philippine society, agitated by Lozada’s testimony, has interpreted the archbishop’s words as a call for the people to mobilize to remove Arroyo from the presidency.
The roots of discontent
Under the Arroyo regime, joblessness has grown to record levels. In 2007, conservative estimates put 4.1 million Filipinos without jobs. Since 2001, when Arroyo assumed the presidency, up to 2006, average family income has dropped by PhP20,400.
There is a great disparity in incomes with the top 20% or 3.5 million families accounting for 52.8% of the total income, while the poorest 80% or 13.9 million families taking the remaining 47.3%. The income of the top 10% is 19 times that of the poorest 10 percent. The Forbes.com estimates the net worth of the country’s 20 richest individuals of US$15.6 billion in 2006 as equivalent to the combined annual income of the poorest 10.4 million families or 52 million Filipinos. Eighty percent of families or 70 million Filipinos struggle to survive on around US$2.50 a day.
This situation has impelled the workers to fight more resolutely for a wage increase which has always been stubbornly opposed by the regime. In 2007, the average wage of workers in the most industrialized area around the capital is not even half of the actual cost of living. Poverty in the countryside is even worse.
The trade deficit in 2006 was $6.817 billion The perennial trade deficit is the result of the basic weakness of the country’s semifeudal economy which does not have an industrial base. Because of this, it imports most of its manufactured goods. Even its so-called manufactured exports are merely low-value added re-exports because as in the electronics sectors the products contain from 90%-95% imported raw materials. These re-exports actually earn very little for the local economy.
A fiscal crisis is threatening to explode on the regime’s face in 2008. The regime has been able to buy time in 2007 only because it had gone on a privatization binge unparalleled in the country’s history. In 2007 alone, PhP90.6 billion in government assets were sold to private capital which was nearly as much as the PhP93.9 billion sold in the previous 15 years spanning three administrations. Without the proceeds from privatization there would have been a PhP78.0 billion deficit.
Seemingly, the only bright spot in this grim economic horizon are the remittances of around eight up to ten million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs). The US$12.761 billion remittances in 2007 served to offset the US$6.817 billion trade deficit. Ironically, this has redounded to the detriment of the families back home dependent on these remittances. Partly because of the surge in dollar remittances from abroad, the peso has appreciated against the dollar. By the end of 2007, the average family dependent on OFW income lost PhP2,440 a month due to the appreciation of the peso against the dollar.
The OFW phenomenon is one clear indicator of the economy’s backwardness. Eight to ten million Filipinos are abroad because the economy has been failing to provide enough jobs for the people.
Already suffering from economic hardships brought on by the regime, a litany of shady deals and corruption scandals involving the first family has further fueled the anger of the people against the Manila president. Among these were the US$70 million payoff by German firm Fraport AG to the Office of the President for a US$425 million airport terminal expansion project; the Php400 million laundering of ill-gotten wealth from monthly kickbacks from government corporations; the diversion of PhP728 million in fertilizer funds for the campaign kitty of Gloria Arroyo in the 2004 presidential elections; US$50 million in “commissions” for the overpriced North Luzon Railways Project; the 5.1 kilometer Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard whose PhP1.1 billion cost was reportedly overpriced by PhP536 million, and many others.
Massive demonstrations are being planned in the coming days to demand the resignation of Arroyo. Restive anti-Arroyo soldiers and policemen are reportedly watching in the sidelines ready to move at the proper time. (Please see related story on anti-Arroyo demonstrations)
NDFP Chief Political Consultant Jose Maria Sison said that Arroyo is “ripe for ouster”. He explained that “the sheer growth of the legal and peaceful mass actions in the National Capital Region and on a national scale in the coming days, weeks and months can encourage the military and police to withdraw support from the Arroyo ruling clique and can suffice to cause the resignation, impeachment or outright ouster of the illegitimate and morally bankrupt president”.
Sison further said that prospects for the resumption of formal talks in the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations are bright if the broad masses of the Filipino people and the broad united front succeed in ousting Gloria M. Arroyo. He added, “The broad mass movement can succeed to oust Arroyo only with the full active participation of the patriotic and progressive forces. These (forces) would have some significant weight in the new government and would certainly demand the resumption of the aforesaid formal talks in order to address the roots of the civil war through comprehensive agreements on social, economic and political reforms”.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
New witness confirms bribery in ZTE
The direct involvement of Gloria and Mike Arroyo in the anomalous NBN-ZTE project is further being unravelled as the probe on the graft-ridden contract continues.
On February 26, a new witness named Dante Madriaga, former consultant to ZTE, testified before the Senate that it was the Filipino partners of ZTE led by former COMELEC Chair Benjamin Abalos who received bribes from the Chinese corporation and facilitated kickbacks for the Arroyo couple. One of the Filipino partners, Leo San Miguel, recruited Madriaga for the project.
San Miguel allegedly disclosed to Madriaga that the payoffs to the government officials were released in three tranches. The first, he stated, was $1 million given in August 2006 when negotiations for the contract began. The second tranche was $10 million after NEDA approved the contract in March 2007, half of which went to the Arroyo couple. The third installment was $30 million which was released soon after Gloria Arroyo witnessed the signing of the contract in Boao, China in April 2007. This amount was used to fund the Arroyo coalition's electoral campaign in 2007.
Because of huge kickbacks, the contract ballooned with more than $170 million allotted to bribery.
Madriaga also said that former Malacañang chief of staff Mike Defensor was also involved in the project, and his role was to protect and secure the Arroyo couple's share during the NBN-ZTE transactions.
Still another witness, who according to Sen. Panfilo Lacson has "direct information regarding the flow of money from ZTE", is expected to corroborate Madriaga's testimony.
Meanwhile, the Senate has rejected the Supreme Court's ruling on former NEDA chief Romulo Neri's appearance before the Senate. Neri, who was among the first to blow the whistle regarding the involvement of the president's husband in the anomalous deal invoked "executive privilege" to stop the Senate from forcing him to reveal his discussions with Gloria Arroyo on the now-scuttled ZTE deal. He earlier filed a petition with the Supreme Court seeking to define the parameters of "executive privilege," a provision that bans government officials from from $50 million to a whopping $329 milli on, disclosing conversations with the president.
In a compromise agreement proposed by the Supreme Court on March 4, Neri would be obliged to appear before Senate inquiries but the senators will be probihited from asking the following questions: 1) did the president follow up on the contract; 2) did Arroyo order Neri to proceed with the project even after he had reported about the bribery attempt; and 3) did Arroyo order NEDA to give priority to the ZTE contract.
Both the senators and legal experts said the privilege could not be used to cover up criminal acts, and that it was not proper to limit the scope of questions that the senators may ask witnesses.
Meanwhile, Malacañang recently scrapped Executive Order (EO) 464 as a result of mounting criticisms on the controversial provision. Arroyo was forced to nullify Memorandum Order (MO) 108 as well, which contains illegal provisions the Supreme Court discarded in 2007. Both EO 464 and MC 108 impose restrictions on the attendance of members of the executive branch in congressional and senate investigations. Despite the Palace move, however, the regime continues to evade hearings, prohibit government officials from testifying and weave a web of lies.
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On February 26, a new witness named Dante Madriaga, former consultant to ZTE, testified before the Senate that it was the Filipino partners of ZTE led by former COMELEC Chair Benjamin Abalos who received bribes from the Chinese corporation and facilitated kickbacks for the Arroyo couple. One of the Filipino partners, Leo San Miguel, recruited Madriaga for the project.
San Miguel allegedly disclosed to Madriaga that the payoffs to the government officials were released in three tranches. The first, he stated, was $1 million given in August 2006 when negotiations for the contract began. The second tranche was $10 million after NEDA approved the contract in March 2007, half of which went to the Arroyo couple. The third installment was $30 million which was released soon after Gloria Arroyo witnessed the signing of the contract in Boao, China in April 2007. This amount was used to fund the Arroyo coalition's electoral campaign in 2007.
Because of huge kickbacks, the contract ballooned with more than $170 million allotted to bribery.
Madriaga also said that former Malacañang chief of staff Mike Defensor was also involved in the project, and his role was to protect and secure the Arroyo couple's share during the NBN-ZTE transactions.
Still another witness, who according to Sen. Panfilo Lacson has "direct information regarding the flow of money from ZTE", is expected to corroborate Madriaga's testimony.
Meanwhile, the Senate has rejected the Supreme Court's ruling on former NEDA chief Romulo Neri's appearance before the Senate. Neri, who was among the first to blow the whistle regarding the involvement of the president's husband in the anomalous deal invoked "executive privilege" to stop the Senate from forcing him to reveal his discussions with Gloria Arroyo on the now-scuttled ZTE deal. He earlier filed a petition with the Supreme Court seeking to define the parameters of "executive privilege," a provision that bans government officials from from $50 million to a whopping $329 milli on, disclosing conversations with the president.
In a compromise agreement proposed by the Supreme Court on March 4, Neri would be obliged to appear before Senate inquiries but the senators will be probihited from asking the following questions: 1) did the president follow up on the contract; 2) did Arroyo order Neri to proceed with the project even after he had reported about the bribery attempt; and 3) did Arroyo order NEDA to give priority to the ZTE contract.
Both the senators and legal experts said the privilege could not be used to cover up criminal acts, and that it was not proper to limit the scope of questions that the senators may ask witnesses.
Meanwhile, Malacañang recently scrapped Executive Order (EO) 464 as a result of mounting criticisms on the controversial provision. Arroyo was forced to nullify Memorandum Order (MO) 108 as well, which contains illegal provisions the Supreme Court discarded in 2007. Both EO 464 and MC 108 impose restrictions on the attendance of members of the executive branch in congressional and senate investigations. Despite the Palace move, however, the regime continues to evade hearings, prohibit government officials from testifying and weave a web of lies.
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WHAT IS YOUR RETURN ON ASSETS?
Total Assets (Rich Dad version) A = P4,690.50
Total Passive and Portfolio Income B = 0 x12 = P0
Cash - On - Asset Return (Annualized Income B/Total Assets A) = 0%
GOAL: INCREASE YOUR CASH-ON-ASSET RETURN
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Arroyo's mad scramble to save herself
Gloria Arroyo is in a mad scramble to extricate herself from the quagmire she now finds herself in. In her desperation, she only succeeds in exposing her lies and underscoring her severe isolation from the people.
Gimmicks galore. Arroyo strains to display her handful of supporters even as the oust Arroyo movement expands. Among this handful are members of her cabinet and governors, congressmen, mayors and military and police officials on her payroll. All of them profit from the regime's multitiered corruption.
Arroyo and her minions have conducted a number of "solidarity walks," with one such "walk" held in Malacañang on February 19. On February 25, the 22nd anniversary of EDSA 1, all available military and police officers, among them AFP chief of staff Gen. Hermogenes Esperon and Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Avelino Razon Jr. marched along EDSA from the People Power Monument to Camp Aguinaldo to show their alleged adherence to the chain of command.
To counter anti-Arroyo rallies joined by growing numbers of people, the Arroyo camp paid a number of barangay councils to organize a pro-Arroyo rally. A handful of fake and mercenary Arroyo supporters rallied at the Welcome Rotunda on February 28-29 simultaneous with the huge mass action then being held in Makati.
Fake witness, more lies. Arroyo has concocted various lies and slanders to damage the credibility of Rodolfo Noel "Jun" Lozada Jr. Among her maneuvers was the sudden appearance of Erwin Santos, a former employee of Lozada's at the Philippine Forest Corporation (Philforest). Amid tears, Santos accused Lozada of being responsible for anomalies at Philforest. Many people found Santos' testimony laughable, especially since it was Malacañang that obviously drew up his script. Santos was unable to hoodwink anyone, and was not even invited by the Senate to testify because of his incredible statements.
On February 12, agents of the National Bureau of Investigation raided Lozada's office at Philforest in Taguig City to dig up evidence and come up with a false story line from the seized papers.
Arroyo thought she could "shed light" on the NBN project by granting an interview over dzRH on February 23. But she ended up incriminating herself when she said that she approved the project even if she knew that the contract was "flawed." She allegedly found out about the "flaw" only on the eve of the contract signing and thus found it awkward to cancel the project outright. The next day, the regime realized that Arroyo's admission over the radio was a faux pas and has since been trying hard to deny that she ever made the statement.
Black propaganda. The regime has been spreading black propaganda in an effort to belittle the protests. It has insisted that the protests are confined to Metro Manila when mass actions are in fact widespread and have been attracting growing numbers both in the provinces and overseas.
The regime claims that conflicts are rife within the ouster movement when there is in fact an overriding unity against Arroyo within.
It likewise continues to spread lies about so-called plans by the New People's Army or the Abu Sayyaf bandit group to sow violence during rallies, when it is in fact the presence of battalions of military and police elements that indicates that the regime is ready to create havoc once Arroyo is in danger of losing her post.
Trembling in fear, sowing terror. Arroyo is deathly afraid of every witness against her who comes forward and has thus been mounting a campaign of harassment and repression.
She has ordered a tight watch against her regime's detractors, ordering the installation of a surveillance camera in front of La Salle where Lozada and his family have sought sanctuary. On February 28, Malacañang tried to spread panic among students of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines by phoning in a bomb threat on the day Lozada was scheduled to speak at a forum in the school. It failed to stop the students from massively showing their support for Lozada and manifesting their hatred for the regime.
There has been an overkill of military and police deployments during rallies, especially last February 29. Makati was declared a "no fly zone" that day to prevent the media from capturing in pictures or on video the actual size of the rally. Convoys of rallyists from the province were likewise blocked.
On the day of the huge rally, Arroyo was so terrified that she locked herself inside Camp Crame for three hours and put high-ranking military and police officers and members of her cabinet under strict surveillance. She left Crame only when the rallyists started to go home.
On March 4, she ordered the arrest of nine activists who staged a rally in the middle of one of her sorties in Laguna.
On the night of March 6, police forces violently dispersed more than 1,000 workers from Southern Tagalog who were rallying in front of the DOLE office in Intramuros, Manila. According to initial reports, three rallyists were arrested, 13 wounded and six missing after the bloody dispersal.
Worsening crisis.
Meanwhile, the International Crisis Group (ICG), a Belgium-based organization that analyzes crisis situations worldwide cited the growing presence of military forces in Metro Manila as an indicator of worsening crisis in the Philippines. The regime has justified the militarization of the national capital region by citing alleged assassination plots against Arroyo. The heightened military presence is in fact a reaction to intensifying anti-Arroyo protests in Metro Manila.
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Gimmicks galore. Arroyo strains to display her handful of supporters even as the oust Arroyo movement expands. Among this handful are members of her cabinet and governors, congressmen, mayors and military and police officials on her payroll. All of them profit from the regime's multitiered corruption.
Arroyo and her minions have conducted a number of "solidarity walks," with one such "walk" held in Malacañang on February 19. On February 25, the 22nd anniversary of EDSA 1, all available military and police officers, among them AFP chief of staff Gen. Hermogenes Esperon and Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Avelino Razon Jr. marched along EDSA from the People Power Monument to Camp Aguinaldo to show their alleged adherence to the chain of command.
To counter anti-Arroyo rallies joined by growing numbers of people, the Arroyo camp paid a number of barangay councils to organize a pro-Arroyo rally. A handful of fake and mercenary Arroyo supporters rallied at the Welcome Rotunda on February 28-29 simultaneous with the huge mass action then being held in Makati.
Fake witness, more lies. Arroyo has concocted various lies and slanders to damage the credibility of Rodolfo Noel "Jun" Lozada Jr. Among her maneuvers was the sudden appearance of Erwin Santos, a former employee of Lozada's at the Philippine Forest Corporation (Philforest). Amid tears, Santos accused Lozada of being responsible for anomalies at Philforest. Many people found Santos' testimony laughable, especially since it was Malacañang that obviously drew up his script. Santos was unable to hoodwink anyone, and was not even invited by the Senate to testify because of his incredible statements.
On February 12, agents of the National Bureau of Investigation raided Lozada's office at Philforest in Taguig City to dig up evidence and come up with a false story line from the seized papers.
Arroyo thought she could "shed light" on the NBN project by granting an interview over dzRH on February 23. But she ended up incriminating herself when she said that she approved the project even if she knew that the contract was "flawed." She allegedly found out about the "flaw" only on the eve of the contract signing and thus found it awkward to cancel the project outright. The next day, the regime realized that Arroyo's admission over the radio was a faux pas and has since been trying hard to deny that she ever made the statement.
Black propaganda. The regime has been spreading black propaganda in an effort to belittle the protests. It has insisted that the protests are confined to Metro Manila when mass actions are in fact widespread and have been attracting growing numbers both in the provinces and overseas.
The regime claims that conflicts are rife within the ouster movement when there is in fact an overriding unity against Arroyo within.
It likewise continues to spread lies about so-called plans by the New People's Army or the Abu Sayyaf bandit group to sow violence during rallies, when it is in fact the presence of battalions of military and police elements that indicates that the regime is ready to create havoc once Arroyo is in danger of losing her post.
Trembling in fear, sowing terror. Arroyo is deathly afraid of every witness against her who comes forward and has thus been mounting a campaign of harassment and repression.
She has ordered a tight watch against her regime's detractors, ordering the installation of a surveillance camera in front of La Salle where Lozada and his family have sought sanctuary. On February 28, Malacañang tried to spread panic among students of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines by phoning in a bomb threat on the day Lozada was scheduled to speak at a forum in the school. It failed to stop the students from massively showing their support for Lozada and manifesting their hatred for the regime.
There has been an overkill of military and police deployments during rallies, especially last February 29. Makati was declared a "no fly zone" that day to prevent the media from capturing in pictures or on video the actual size of the rally. Convoys of rallyists from the province were likewise blocked.
On the day of the huge rally, Arroyo was so terrified that she locked herself inside Camp Crame for three hours and put high-ranking military and police officers and members of her cabinet under strict surveillance. She left Crame only when the rallyists started to go home.
On March 4, she ordered the arrest of nine activists who staged a rally in the middle of one of her sorties in Laguna.
On the night of March 6, police forces violently dispersed more than 1,000 workers from Southern Tagalog who were rallying in front of the DOLE office in Intramuros, Manila. According to initial reports, three rallyists were arrested, 13 wounded and six missing after the bloody dispersal.
Worsening crisis.
Meanwhile, the International Crisis Group (ICG), a Belgium-based organization that analyzes crisis situations worldwide cited the growing presence of military forces in Metro Manila as an indicator of worsening crisis in the Philippines. The regime has justified the militarization of the national capital region by citing alleged assassination plots against Arroyo. The heightened military presence is in fact a reaction to intensifying anti-Arroyo protests in Metro Manila.
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Doodad percentage of total assets (doodad total/total assets) 93.41%
GOAL: KEEP YOUR DOODADS UNDER 33% OF TOTAL ASSETS. THE LOWER THE PERCENTAGE, THE FASTER YOUR ASSETS WILL GROW.
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2. The youth mag is a success!
3. I am calm and cool!
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Anti-Arroyo protests gain momentum
The movement to oust Gloria Arroyo has gained momentum. Successive mass actions and gatherings by various groups and sectors are being launched after a successful rally in Makati on February 15. The anti-Arroyo alliance continues to expand, with its actions and statements becoming more militant.
The youth have a significant participation, especially students from various schools in Metro Manila. According to the latest Pulse Asia survey, three out of four Metro Manila residents believe in Jun Lozada and 76% expressed distrust for Arroyo and her chief minions. Sixty-nine percent (69%) of residents said they approved of protest actions to remove all leading officials involved in the NBN-ZTE anomaly, with one-fourth of them ready to join rallies to oust Arroyo.
Huge Makati demonstration
More than 75,000 people gathered in what was dubbed an inter-faith rally in Makati City on February 29—the biggest number so far since 2005 demanding Gloria Arroyo's resignation or ouster. The rally brought together various religious groups, schools, progressive United Opposition, Jesus is Lord Movement, Makati Business Club and other business groups, Black and White Movement and the Catholic Educators Association of the Philippines, among others.
The rally was marked by te attendance of personalities like former presidents Corazon Aquino and Joseph Estrada, former vice president Teofisto Guingona and a number of senators, former government officials and big businessmen like Manuel Pangilinan of PLDT.
The Communist Party of the Philippines and Comrade Jose Maria Sison, chair of the International League of Peoples' Struggles issued separate statements hailing the successful protest action. Sison said that a new people power uprising may erupt once 100,000-500,000 people gather to oust Arroyo.
Tens of thousands of people succeeded in gathering in Makati despite efforts by the police and military to block protesters. Checkpoints mushroomed along all entry points to Metro Manila to bar rallyists from Southern Tagalog and Central Luzon.
Eleven jeepneyloads of rallyists from Southern Tagalog were stopped in San Cristobal, Calamba and Cabuyao, Laguna, aside from Kilusang Mayo Uno members who were blocked in San Pedro, Laguna. Hundreds of students from Dela Salle University-Dasmariñas were unable to leave Cavite.
In Quezon City, students and teachers from the University of the Philippines-Diliman were barred from marching to Makati.
Two members of the Workers' Assistance Center in Rosario, Cavite were brought to a police station for launching a protest action.
Nationwide protests
Other cities likewise launched successful mass actions. In Dagupan City, Pangasinan, an estimated 5,000 students, church leaders, residents and IBP members attended a mass at the St. John the Evangelist Cathedral and later marched to call for Arroyo's resignation.
In Pampanga, Gov. Ed Panlilio and Bishop Roberto Mallari led a "unity walk for truth" joined by some 500 students. Rallies were also held in Subic, Zambales attended by 1,000 residents and in Baguio City attended by students.
Various protest actions were launched in Bicol. In Naga, more than 2,000 persons linked arms to form a "human chain" around the city and launched a noise barrage. In Sorsogon City, a thousand people joined a rally led by BAYAN and church groups. Mass actions were likewise held in Legazpi City; Daet, Camarines Norte; and Masbate City.
In San Pablo City, Laguna, up to 1,000 people united in a prayer vigil.
In the Visayas, up to 3,000 persons from various sectors attended a rally in Bacolod City. In Iloilo City, an estimated 1,000 people marched in a "Walk for Truth and Justice." They were joined by Archbishop Angel Lagdameo, president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines. On the other hand, 500 students and activists rallied in Cebu City. Students launched a forum at the University of the Philippines-Tacloban City.
In Mindanao, 700 persons attended a rally in Cagayan de Oro City, along with Kamatuoran! (Truth), a broad anti-Arroyo alliance. Eight hundred people gathered in Davao City and 400 in Iligan City. Three hundred students from the Mindanao State University in Gen. Santos walked out of their classrooms to show their disgust for the regime. In Cotabato City, up to 200 persons simultaneously lit candles in protest. For the first time, activists launched a noise barrage in Digos City, Davao del Sur.
Protests abroad
Migrant Filipinos also launched protests in various parts of the globe. Part of the protests was the implementation of No Remittance Day as a way of pressuring the bankrupt Arroyo regime that depends on the billions of dollars sent by migrants.
In Hongkong, UNIFIL-Migrante led a rally on February 29. Filipinos meanwhile picketed Philippine embassies and consulates in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California; Seattle; and New York City.
Migrants in Ottawa, Winnipeg and Vancouver in Canada gathered together in protest. In Europe, a mass action was held in Italy.
In the Middle East, migrants declared February 29 a Day of Action. In Sydney, Australia, migrant Filipinos launched "Babay Gloria" (Bagong Bayani, Ayaw kay Gloria or New Heroes Hate Gloria).
Meantime, 61 former cabinet members from the Aquino, Ramos and Estrada regimes, along with members of the Arroyo cabinet who have resigned, called on cabinet members involved in the anomalies concerning the NBN-ZTE project to step down. They gave the Arroyo regime one week to institute reforms against corruption and will call for her ouster should Arroyo remain obstinate.
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2. I am wealthy!
3. I am a money magnet!
4. I am acquiring massive wealth!
The youth have a significant participation, especially students from various schools in Metro Manila. According to the latest Pulse Asia survey, three out of four Metro Manila residents believe in Jun Lozada and 76% expressed distrust for Arroyo and her chief minions. Sixty-nine percent (69%) of residents said they approved of protest actions to remove all leading officials involved in the NBN-ZTE anomaly, with one-fourth of them ready to join rallies to oust Arroyo.
Huge Makati demonstration
More than 75,000 people gathered in what was dubbed an inter-faith rally in Makati City on February 29—the biggest number so far since 2005 demanding Gloria Arroyo's resignation or ouster. The rally brought together various religious groups, schools, progressive United Opposition, Jesus is Lord Movement, Makati Business Club and other business groups, Black and White Movement and the Catholic Educators Association of the Philippines, among others.
The rally was marked by te attendance of personalities like former presidents Corazon Aquino and Joseph Estrada, former vice president Teofisto Guingona and a number of senators, former government officials and big businessmen like Manuel Pangilinan of PLDT.
The Communist Party of the Philippines and Comrade Jose Maria Sison, chair of the International League of Peoples' Struggles issued separate statements hailing the successful protest action. Sison said that a new people power uprising may erupt once 100,000-500,000 people gather to oust Arroyo.
Tens of thousands of people succeeded in gathering in Makati despite efforts by the police and military to block protesters. Checkpoints mushroomed along all entry points to Metro Manila to bar rallyists from Southern Tagalog and Central Luzon.
Eleven jeepneyloads of rallyists from Southern Tagalog were stopped in San Cristobal, Calamba and Cabuyao, Laguna, aside from Kilusang Mayo Uno members who were blocked in San Pedro, Laguna. Hundreds of students from Dela Salle University-Dasmariñas were unable to leave Cavite.
In Quezon City, students and teachers from the University of the Philippines-Diliman were barred from marching to Makati.
Two members of the Workers' Assistance Center in Rosario, Cavite were brought to a police station for launching a protest action.
Nationwide protests
Other cities likewise launched successful mass actions. In Dagupan City, Pangasinan, an estimated 5,000 students, church leaders, residents and IBP members attended a mass at the St. John the Evangelist Cathedral and later marched to call for Arroyo's resignation.
In Pampanga, Gov. Ed Panlilio and Bishop Roberto Mallari led a "unity walk for truth" joined by some 500 students. Rallies were also held in Subic, Zambales attended by 1,000 residents and in Baguio City attended by students.
Various protest actions were launched in Bicol. In Naga, more than 2,000 persons linked arms to form a "human chain" around the city and launched a noise barrage. In Sorsogon City, a thousand people joined a rally led by BAYAN and church groups. Mass actions were likewise held in Legazpi City; Daet, Camarines Norte; and Masbate City.
In San Pablo City, Laguna, up to 1,000 people united in a prayer vigil.
In the Visayas, up to 3,000 persons from various sectors attended a rally in Bacolod City. In Iloilo City, an estimated 1,000 people marched in a "Walk for Truth and Justice." They were joined by Archbishop Angel Lagdameo, president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines. On the other hand, 500 students and activists rallied in Cebu City. Students launched a forum at the University of the Philippines-Tacloban City.
In Mindanao, 700 persons attended a rally in Cagayan de Oro City, along with Kamatuoran! (Truth), a broad anti-Arroyo alliance. Eight hundred people gathered in Davao City and 400 in Iligan City. Three hundred students from the Mindanao State University in Gen. Santos walked out of their classrooms to show their disgust for the regime. In Cotabato City, up to 200 persons simultaneously lit candles in protest. For the first time, activists launched a noise barrage in Digos City, Davao del Sur.
Protests abroad
Migrant Filipinos also launched protests in various parts of the globe. Part of the protests was the implementation of No Remittance Day as a way of pressuring the bankrupt Arroyo regime that depends on the billions of dollars sent by migrants.
In Hongkong, UNIFIL-Migrante led a rally on February 29. Filipinos meanwhile picketed Philippine embassies and consulates in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California; Seattle; and New York City.
Migrants in Ottawa, Winnipeg and Vancouver in Canada gathered together in protest. In Europe, a mass action was held in Italy.
In the Middle East, migrants declared February 29 a Day of Action. In Sydney, Australia, migrant Filipinos launched "Babay Gloria" (Bagong Bayani, Ayaw kay Gloria or New Heroes Hate Gloria).
Meantime, 61 former cabinet members from the Aquino, Ramos and Estrada regimes, along with members of the Arroyo cabinet who have resigned, called on cabinet members involved in the anomalies concerning the NBN-ZTE project to step down. They gave the Arroyo regime one week to institute reforms against corruption and will call for her ouster should Arroyo remain obstinate.
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HOW MUCH DO YOU SPEND ON HOUSING EACH MONTH?
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Utilities P0
Maintenance P0
Total P0
How much do you spend as a percentage of net income? Total/C = %
GOAL: KEEP HOUSING COSTS UNDER 33% OF NET INCOME.
I still live with my parents he he he he he he...
I AM SO HAPPY AND GREATFUL NOW THAT…
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1. I am abundant!
2. I am wealthy!
3. I am a money magnet!
4. I am acquiring massive wealth!
Spread the fires of people's struggles to oust the Arroyo regime
The Filipino people have reached the height of their anger and repudiation of the US-Arroyo regime. They are fed up with, and outraged at, the Arroyo regime's many cases of corruption and mendacity and the acute suffering and oppression it has inflicted on them.
The protest movement is gaining breadth and momentum nationwide. Since the launching of one big rally after another in Makati on February 15 and 29, the collective outpouring of the people's anger has broadened in the national capital and various other parts of the country. All this indicates the Filipino people's resounding repudiation of the US-Arroyo ruling clique and their readiness to tread the path of militant action to put an end to the despicable regime.
More cases of the regime's corruption, lying and brutality are coming to the fore as the protest movement rages. Aside from the anomalies related to the NBN-ZTE project, another recent exposé is that of the antinational agreement entered into by the regime with China, allowing the latter to conduct oil exploration in the Spratly Islands in exchange for billions of dollars worth of loans. A myriad other cases of corruption, including the kickbacks received by the Arroyo family from the IMPSA-Caliraya deal and the Diosdado Macapagal Blvd. overpricing scheme had already been earlier bared.
The people could no longer bear their worsening suffering and poverty. It has become apparent to them that their intensifying hardships are a direct consequence of the Arroyo regime's corruption. The increasingly dismal economic conditions of the broad masses of the people could no longer be obscured by the regime's falsified statistics and media hype about economic progress. The people's growing misery and oppression are increasingly being linked to the regime's reeking corruption.
The regime strains to cover up its heinous crimes by distorting laws, weaving lies, suppressing the mass media and perpetrating a host of other maneuvers and fascist measures. In spite of all this, various sectors—the organized masses, the mass media, church people, businessmen, lawyers—are determined to unravel and expose the truth about the regime's anomalies and corruption.
The desperate regime has stepped up its fascist suppression of those who resist it and desire its ouster. Extrajudicial killings, abductions and other acts of violence against activists, critical media persons and other harsh critics of the regime are rampant. Even rallies and other legal and peaceful forms of protest are blocked and violently dispersed.
But the regime's brutality can no longer rein in the people's seething anger and their growing resistance. The protest movement is spreading like a prairie fire across the land. Rallies have become more frequent and are joined by increasingly bigger numbers of people demanding the regime's overthrow.
We must seize the opportunity presented by the burning protests and resistance to the Arroyo regime. We must reach out to all sectors in every area of the country. We must take advantage of every opportunity to step up our efforts to arouse and organize the people. We must demonstrate the inextricable link between the people's grinding poverty and oppression from day to day and the burning issues of the regime's corruption and repressiveness. We must issue urgent calls to intensify various forms of resistance against the regime. Both open resistance to, and armed struggle against, the regime must be simultaneously waged and advanced.
Conditions are ripe for waging a new, broad and militant people power against the Arroyo regime. We must infuse it with renewed vigor from the lessons drawn from past people's uprisings. We must make it even more historic by raising the level of its organized strength especially from the most impoverished and oppressed sectors and blazing up the national and democratic struggles of the people. Let us give our all in advancing all movements towards this end until the fires of people's struggles spread like a conflagration all over the land.
Choose to be Rich Work Book
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As of now I don't know how much tax is deducted to my payroll every pay day... I will photocopy my payroll...
WHAT IS YOUR INCOME AFTER TAX?
Your total monthly income A = P18,194
Taxes you pay per month B = P??????
Your net income per month C = P??????
What percentage of your gross income is paid in taxes? B/A =???????%
GOAL: DECREASE THE AMOUNT OF TAX YOU PAY. CONSULT YOUR TAX ADVISOR TO SEE IF YOU ARE TAKING FULL ADVANTAGE OF THE TAX DEDUCTIONS ALLOWED TO YOU. IF YOU HAVE STARTED A BUSINESS, MAKE SURE YOU ARE DEDUCTING ALL LEGITIMATE BUSINESS DEDUCTIONS.
I AM SO HAPPY AND GREATFUL NOW THAT…
(030308)
1. I have a job and I have earnings...
2. I am a millionaire!
3. Money is coming to me in millions!
4. I am healthy and fit!
The protest movement is gaining breadth and momentum nationwide. Since the launching of one big rally after another in Makati on February 15 and 29, the collective outpouring of the people's anger has broadened in the national capital and various other parts of the country. All this indicates the Filipino people's resounding repudiation of the US-Arroyo ruling clique and their readiness to tread the path of militant action to put an end to the despicable regime.
More cases of the regime's corruption, lying and brutality are coming to the fore as the protest movement rages. Aside from the anomalies related to the NBN-ZTE project, another recent exposé is that of the antinational agreement entered into by the regime with China, allowing the latter to conduct oil exploration in the Spratly Islands in exchange for billions of dollars worth of loans. A myriad other cases of corruption, including the kickbacks received by the Arroyo family from the IMPSA-Caliraya deal and the Diosdado Macapagal Blvd. overpricing scheme had already been earlier bared.
The people could no longer bear their worsening suffering and poverty. It has become apparent to them that their intensifying hardships are a direct consequence of the Arroyo regime's corruption. The increasingly dismal economic conditions of the broad masses of the people could no longer be obscured by the regime's falsified statistics and media hype about economic progress. The people's growing misery and oppression are increasingly being linked to the regime's reeking corruption.
The regime strains to cover up its heinous crimes by distorting laws, weaving lies, suppressing the mass media and perpetrating a host of other maneuvers and fascist measures. In spite of all this, various sectors—the organized masses, the mass media, church people, businessmen, lawyers—are determined to unravel and expose the truth about the regime's anomalies and corruption.
The desperate regime has stepped up its fascist suppression of those who resist it and desire its ouster. Extrajudicial killings, abductions and other acts of violence against activists, critical media persons and other harsh critics of the regime are rampant. Even rallies and other legal and peaceful forms of protest are blocked and violently dispersed.
But the regime's brutality can no longer rein in the people's seething anger and their growing resistance. The protest movement is spreading like a prairie fire across the land. Rallies have become more frequent and are joined by increasingly bigger numbers of people demanding the regime's overthrow.
We must seize the opportunity presented by the burning protests and resistance to the Arroyo regime. We must reach out to all sectors in every area of the country. We must take advantage of every opportunity to step up our efforts to arouse and organize the people. We must demonstrate the inextricable link between the people's grinding poverty and oppression from day to day and the burning issues of the regime's corruption and repressiveness. We must issue urgent calls to intensify various forms of resistance against the regime. Both open resistance to, and armed struggle against, the regime must be simultaneously waged and advanced.
Conditions are ripe for waging a new, broad and militant people power against the Arroyo regime. We must infuse it with renewed vigor from the lessons drawn from past people's uprisings. We must make it even more historic by raising the level of its organized strength especially from the most impoverished and oppressed sectors and blazing up the national and democratic struggles of the people. Let us give our all in advancing all movements towards this end until the fires of people's struggles spread like a conflagration all over the land.
Choose to be Rich Work Book
(030308)
As of now I don't know how much tax is deducted to my payroll every pay day... I will photocopy my payroll...
WHAT IS YOUR INCOME AFTER TAX?
Your total monthly income A = P18,194
Taxes you pay per month B = P??????
Your net income per month C = P??????
What percentage of your gross income is paid in taxes? B/A =???????%
GOAL: DECREASE THE AMOUNT OF TAX YOU PAY. CONSULT YOUR TAX ADVISOR TO SEE IF YOU ARE TAKING FULL ADVANTAGE OF THE TAX DEDUCTIONS ALLOWED TO YOU. IF YOU HAVE STARTED A BUSINESS, MAKE SURE YOU ARE DEDUCTING ALL LEGITIMATE BUSINESS DEDUCTIONS.
I AM SO HAPPY AND GREATFUL NOW THAT…
(030308)
1. I have a job and I have earnings...
2. I am a millionaire!
3. Money is coming to me in millions!
4. I am healthy and fit!
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