CPP propaganda on botanist killing backfires!

Our special guest for tonight’s presentation on Straight from the Sky is our good friend, Mr. Hans Hauri, General Manager of the Marco Polo Plaza Hotel. He has been in Cebu since the start of their operations after the Metro Bank Group took over the Cebu Plaza Hotel, which was once Cebu’s tallest building and the most prestigious hotel. So it was truly a loss when the Cebu Plaza Hotel closed its doors.

This is why when the Marco Polo Plaza opened its doors, I was positive that it was the right hotel chain to take over the old Cebu Plaza Hotel, not only because the name Marco Polo is very familiar with us, but also because the Marco Polo Hotel chain based in Kowloon, Hong Kong is a hotel where many foreign tourists and Filipinos stay in the former Crown Colony.

It’s been five years since the Marco Polo Plaza Hotel opened its doors and kudos to Mr. Hauri for keeping the hotel more prestigious than its predecessor. While we have great resort hotels along the coast in Mactan, the Marco Polo Plaza boasts as the only hotel with a terrific view of Metro Cebu. You get either the Mountain View or the view of the metropolis. Either way, they are the best views in Cebu. So watch this very interesting talk with Mr. Hans Hauri on SkyCable’s channel 15 at 8:00 pm tonight.

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Everyday I get a lot of email sent by friends and people we don’t even know. I usually trash 99% of what I get, but the good ones we keep for later use and the better ones we forward to our friends. A couple of days ago, I got a very interesting, albeit very entertaining way of finding out how the world has changed in 200 years. This short YouTube presentation is about how 200 countries developed in the last 200 years.

It is quite interesting to note that most of the countries of the world 200 years ago were considered underdeveloped, except for a few countries in Europe. This visual presentation done by digitized bubbles in various colors gives us a clear picture of how many countries have travelled from poverty to prosperity, complete with timelines like what happened after World War II. One can see that many countries in Asia even overtook a lot of countries in Europe and the United States.

Interestingly, a country like China depicted in a huge red bubble can be broken down to specific places like Shanghai which is at par with New York but many areas in China is still very much at par with East African nations. Ahhh, I’m sure that you must be wondering if the Philippines is featured in that visual presentation. Well, there was a small red bubble that somehow remained stationary and didn’t join the Asian pack. For all intents and purposes, that’s the Philippines! If I got you curious on this, you can log on to http://www.flixxy.com/200-countries-200-years-4-minutes.htm and watch this very interesting video presentation of 200 countries in the last 200 years. Of course you’d get sick after watching this presentation. Sorry!

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The headline last Friday of the Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) blared “NPA, not AFP, killed UP Botanist—DOJ.” Last November, a not so publicly known UP Botanist Leonardo Co, together with two companions, Sofronio Cortez and Julius Borromeo, as reports say, were caught in a crossfire between the New People’s Army (NPA) and the military in the mountains Kananga, Leyte close to the Tongonan Geothermal plant and they were killed in that incident. But the DoJ has exonerated the military on this.

When the news of this incident came out in the press, the propagandists of the NPA, through their allied front organizations immediately pinned the blame on the military for killing innocent lives. As usual, the military was on the defensive because the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) almost always losses in the propaganda wars. Too many people in the media are sympathetic with the leftist cause, not realizing that they have instead stymied our economic growth.

To get to the bottom of this case, the Department of Justice (DoJ) created a 3-man Fact Finding team to go to Leyte and interview people and verify whether there was some truth to the allegations that the military killed the three during the crossfire. Interestingly, the DoJ task force revealed that the military was not responsible for the killings based on their forensic investigation and bullet trajectories.

As expected, the group that calls itself the Agham Advocates of Science and Technology for the People (Agham) issued a statement that the DoJ report was a “whitewash”. Is Agham included in the list of so-called Allied Front organizations helping the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)? If so, then it is obvious that their statement is aimed to discredit the DoJ. But we have faith that the DoJ Task Force wasn’t biased.

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