People want to hear the truth, not propaganda!

Now that the usual smoke from last night's pyrotechnics have been swept away by the winds, it is time to think and ponder what the year 2014 has in store for each and everyone of us. We know too well that while a New Year ushers in a fresh new wave of hope, it does bring a lot of anxiety to us also. If at all we have anything to be thankful for, it is that we've passed that dreadful year 2013, that we survived unscathed.

Just think for moment, 2013 brought a lot of unexpected deaths, especially from friends and family. On Jan. 6th, it will be the first death anniversary of my first cousin, Alfonso "Ponsoy" Canizares, who left us unexpectedly almost a year ago. But he wasn't alone to pass on to eternal life in the Year 2013. Friends like Capt. Nilo Montecillo, Erming Palacio, Oskie Jereza Jr., Tonette Weigel, Bob Kahler, Bro. Stanley Villavicencio, Mrs. Eddy Alvarez, Mrs. Pet Escaño Misa, Ramon Medalla and Col. Manuel Segura and my son's best friend, Miguel Ouano just to name a few who left us last year. They are all in my prayers in my visits to the Blessed Sacrament.

That was just a short list of friends and family that went ahead of us last year. But super typhoon "Yolanda" swept through Central Visayas with world record strong winds of 315 kph and a storm surge that swept the town of Guian, Samar and Palo, Tanauan and Tacloban City where the figure of those that perished may have reached 10,000.

Now if there is anything that I would like to know for this New Year 2014, it is the exact (or at least close to it) number of people who perished in that record-breaking typhoon. I was really saddened that a couple of weeks ago, just before Christmas, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council suddenly, without any reason, stopped counting the dead…when the reality was that, bodies were still being uncovered almost daily in Tacloban City a full month after the super typhoon struck.

The only logical explanation I could find is that the NDRRMC Chairman Voltaire Gazmin (who should have resigned in shame for their total incompetence) was doing the bidding of his president, who believed that only 2,500 perished in that natural disaster. This was the mindset of PNoy which is why when Philippine National Police Region 8 Police Director Elmer Soria was interviewed over national and international TV and was asked about the casualties, he said that some 10,000 may have perished.

For telling the truth, the president ordered him fired from his post. That was the quickest thing that the Aquino Regime did in this calamity, while he took his sweet time to bring relief goods and most important of all, the Marines, to guard Tacloban City which was totally devastated by this typhoon. This is why I got pissed off  by the latest Social Weather Station survey that came out last week that super typhoon Yolanda did not bring down the ratings of Pres. PNoy. They should tell that to the Marines!

We've always known that SWS was part and parcel of the Yellow propaganda machinery of the Aquino Regime. With Pulse Asia, They are one of the tools that the Yellow spin masters use to spread all sorts of lies and doing damage control when problems arise in order to show to the Filipino people that despite all those negatives, Pres. Aquino is still popular. I dare SWS to come to the Visayas and get a poll about the president's satisfaction rat-ing…and chances are he'd get a near zero.

As an armchair historian I have written it here many times before that the Yellow propaganda machinery is a near exact copy of the how Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels propped up his master, Der Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, making all sorts of lies to tell the German people about the greatness of their leader. It was so sad that in those days mass media wasn't what it is today. They controlled the newspapers and moviehouses that gave the people the news. But even as allied bombers were dropping bombs on Berlin, the Hitler propaganda never stopped until on Apr. 30, 1945 when Adolf  Hitler committed suicide with his wife Eva Braun. So we'd like to know when will this yellow propaganda stop? People want to hear the truth not propaganda!          

Today's media is no longer the same as it was during the Marcos Dictatorship up to the time of the Feb.1986 EDSA Revolt. Back then, the mainstream newspapers were no longer credible as the majority of the Filipino people believed that it was used as a propaganda tool of the Marcos Dictatorship because their owners were Marcos cronies. So the mosquito press emerged and the Philippine Daily Inquirer was born after Mr. & Ms News magazine. Later the Philippine Star was published because of differences in the ownership with the Inquirer. These two newspapers grew because it had credibility. Let us hope that for the Year 2014, they will never lose their credibility because that's the only reason why people buy these newspapers.

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