The attackers, the group said, have attacked their “front-end at Cloudfare and later on they directed the attack to the hosting site,” using at least 1,100 compromised computers “to flood the website with requests.”
“…that same faith compels us to tell the truth and to denounce the ungodly conduct of those who failed to rule with justice.”
“The developmental maturity of juveniles mitigates their criminal culpability.”- Psychological Association of the Philippines
Sy may indeed be a hardworking man. But so are his conglomerate’s employees. With Sy’s determined use of neoliberal policies such as contractualization, the fruits of tens of thousands of his employees’ hard work go largely to his companies’ profits. Here lies the unheralded side of his Forbes-topping net worth, the secret to his centavo to billion peso taipan tale and why labor groups are raising their placards to hail the Endo King.
The recent disqualification of Aksyon Health Workers Party-List clearly leads us to believe that genuine party-lists, even with a track record of its initiators to boot and members belonging to the marginalized and underrepresented sector, could never make the cut...
“We remember Ampatuan Massacre but we have to bring back the rage.”
“The House leadership pulled the strings to close the curtain on the period of interpellation and debate -- despite the fact that the bill's sponsor has failed to convincingly and substantially explain the rationale for rushing the measure. This is a cowardly act to constrict the space for legislative scrutiny of the patently insane measure.”
The MANGGAGAWA Partylist asks the COMELEC to act toward ensuring the main objective of the partylist system is met -- allow marginalized groups such as the workers to expand their political participation .
“Ang pagsasaka ay marangal na gawain, hindi po ito terorismo. Hindi po kami terorista."
“We pray for our nation and all the inhabitants therein, that they will know peace, genuine peace based on justice and righteousness.”
“Jailing children...is punitive instead of corrective. It deprives instead of fulfilling rights, and exemplifies cruelty instead of compassion.”
“There are technological solutions it could implement to prevent data corruption.”
“I would like to think that the real reason I am being detained – indefinitely if the kingpins of national security have their way – is that somehow I am contributing my share to the people’s struggles to overhaul this unjust and undemocratic system. Only diehard reactionaries would condemn this as a criminal act.”
Farmers and advocates warn of the negative impacts of rice tariffication.
“The Rice Industry Development Act (RIDA) bill seeks to lift our rice industry from a multi-dimensional crisis that wasted away its productive capability, stunted its development and forestalled the country’s attainment of food security."
"This situation may lead to chaos and further manipulation of the supply and price of the staple by unscrupulous traders."
While not a guarantee to lower prices in the long run, opening up the rice sector to unbridled imports leaves the country’s rice security at the mercy of an unpredictable and increasingly unreliable world market. This happens as 95 percent of Philippine rice imports come from just two countries whose own domestic production is either slowing down or declining. Globally, rice production has been steadily decelerating in the past four decades.
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