Kaokolan: Talagew ya Walaay Kanonotan a Panmundo [Wanted: A Newspaper with a Global Perspective]

Makapakesaw and makapasawa so manbasa ed saray periodikon ipapalapag ed Manila. Mailet so walan kanonotan da ya nabasa ed saray balita ya ipapaway da. 

I am no fan of PDI whose news are sometimes sensationalized without any shred of evidence or truth. What we need now is a daily newspaper that not only caters to Filipinos but to the whole world. Even its byline, "Latest Philippine News for Filipinos", lacks the confidence that a paper should have. Only for Filipinos? How parochial! The El Pais had the temerity to say: "el periodico global en Espanol" or "the global newspaper in Spanish."

Iray balitan agawad arum ya bansa et nanlapud syndicated news agencies singa Associated Press, AFP etc.

Anggapo ray Pilipinon correspondent ed singa Iraq ya mansulat no antoy nagagawa diman. Odino diad Syria o inerman ya pasen na mundo.

It is almost always that they rely on foreign news agencies.

Opinion pieces deal with local issues only with no Filipino expert giving his opinion on what is happening in Europe, Africa, Middle East, US, Latin America. Yet, Filipinos are scattered all over the world, employed in every kind of work. To widen the perspective of every Filipino, it is necessary that we must know the world around us not through other foreign publications and media.

What we need is a critical and balanced news publication or tv station that gets information from around the world by sending its own reporters and writers. 

We must see the world through our own eyes and ears, our own senses. Only then can we assume our rightful place in the global arena.

Conrado de Quiros ed Sabah: Say tugtuwan mureng [CDQ on Sabah: The real idiot]

Pinmaway natan ed PDI so aalageyan nen De Quiros nipaakar ed Sabah.

Say kuanto say akankasalanan na krisis ed Sabah et saray Kiram. Et say kaokolan ya nikolong kono et iray Kiram.

Why did the Inquirer allow such a lousy opinion piece to grace its pages? Of course, freedom of expression allows anything whether it is supported by facts or not.

De Quiros has missed completely that Sabah claim is not yet withdrawn waiting to be pursued not tomorrow but now. The Supreme Court in deciding the baselines law suggests that the claim to that territory of the Philippines is valid and legal. It is incumbent upon the president to reclaim it as regards the land and the proprietary rights of the Sultanate of Sulu and Sabah.

The failure of Pnoy in dealing properly with the Kirams shows the utter incompetence of the present administration.

The peace agreement with the MILF cannot be rushed. Malaysia is bent on excluding Sabah from the peace agreement and the Philippine government acts like a fool and a pawn to the landgrabbers.

The Kirams were trying to communicate with Aquino but their letters were ignored. Three years have passed but Aquino has yet to form the Bi-partisan Legislative-Executive Advisory Council on Sabah (BELACS) initiated during Ramos time.

BELACS is part to blame because the composition changes every after elections. There should have been a permanent council on Sabah as legislated by law.

Unong ed abogado na Sultanato, nen 2011 anggad 2013, ag ni nanbayar na renta so Malaysia. The Malaysian renters have not paid the customary payment to the Sultanate of Sulu amounting to a measly 5000 Malaysian ringgit.

Did the royal army of the Sulu Sultanate plan to invade Sabah? No.

According to De Quiros, the people of Sabah had spoken that they belong to Malaysia; that they are central to the issue. This is beside the point. Who said that we wanted them to join the Philippines? In the first place, if the Sulu Sultanate did not agree to lease the land to the British and all the things that happened after that, the Sabahans could have been Filipinos since the promulgation of the 1935 Philippine constitution.

I have realized that De Quiros writes like a crazy demagogue, an inane propagandist whose style and tone is pompous, self-righteous and pretentious.

Iray dinastiyan politika, ag ira naiyagel [Political dynasties, they are indefensible]

Iramay politikon iyayagel day dinastiyan politikal et self-serving. Irayan politiko et ag napanpiaan. Siopa iraya?

Sikara di Angara Sr. tan Jr., Allan Peter Cayetano, Dick Gordon, ayay Pangolo natan, si Binay tan dakel ni ran ag napangaranan balet wala iran akairong natan.

Amay political parties reform bill  ya ikakana nen Angara Sr. so minabang dia no ag nipasa so anti-political dynasty bill et iray political dynasties.

This bill will only entrench the traditional political elite as long as the bill on political dynasties is not passed.

The little respect that I have for these senators and politicians who keep on defending their clans and families has gone to naught. Disrespect is what they deserve.

Cayetano, for example, said clearly that it is unfair to denounce political dynasties when there are good political dynasties.

His line of reasoning is the same as Angara Jr's argument.

Kuanen Binay, akin sebelan iray kuwalipikado ya onbatik? Is Nancy Binay qualified to run as senator of the republic?

Why would Enrile like his son to run and win as senator? What interests would a continuation of an Enrile in the Senate entail? Would it mean protecting their smuggling and logging businesses? Does it mean continuing the competition between Jackie and Bongbong in the Senate? Is the Senate the playground for their teenage rivalries, a spectacle to behold in the national arena?

Anggapoy nayarin irason pian naidipinsa iray political dynasties.

Sikaton gagalawen day inkamureng daray bomobotos. They are playing out the ignorance of the voters.

Natan akibabali met si Bernas ya constitutionalist kono ya miembro na 1986 Con-Ass et say kuanto nen pantotongtongan da ya inter dad saray bomobotos so kaoleyan ya manpili ta saya et mas walaan iray kawayangan nen say diktaan da ra. Anto? Sikaton irayan miembro na Con-Ass so walaan ya baleg ya kasalanan ed inkangiras dan mangiyan na ditalyadon probisyon nipaakar ed political dynasties.

Say kuanto ni ed samay people's initiative ya ikakana daray kontra ed political dynasties ya arawin onsalindak iyan kanonotan lapud dakel iran patbek na prosiso. Intilak toy ilalo to ed saray bomobotos ya singa inbabaga ton mabayag ni pansabian. Aliwa kasin sikara ya miembro na Con-Ass so tetelen ed sayan nagagawa?

Politicians who support or defend political dynasties knew that there is something at stake for the office they are trying to secure for their selves or for their own relatives. Do political families had a monopoly of public service? None but by entrenching themselves in politics that is what they are trying to say, that the barangay, town, city, province or nation could not move without them. The truth is that, their existence in Philippine politics is only a confirmation of the selfish interests that made the Philippines so poor and underdeveloped.

Political and economic democratization means democratizing not only wealth and opportunities but also power to all who are capable as a leader not to selected, more often corrupt, families and clans.

Kaokolan ya ontonday Malaysia ed panagsakit ed saray walad Lahad Datu[Malaysia must desist from harming the people in Lahad Datu]

Iramay nan-gamgam na dalin na Sabah et walay sebeg da ya paksiaten iramay akandalin.

Those who grabbed the land of Sabah has now the temerity to evict those who owned the land.

Say Prime Minister na Malaysia et walad balita angiter na go-signal ed saray sundalo to nipaakar ed saray totoo na Sultan na Sulu tan Sabah.

Akin agawa ya?

Lapud inaboloyan nen Pnoy so sayan getma na Malaysia ed saray ibubuga to ed TV, diaryo tan arum nin midya.

Malaysia has no right in evicting the people who went there to assert their claim to the land. It is their land unlike the Malaysians and their British patron who are arrogant landgrabbers, squatters.

The Sultanate of Sulu, since it cannot get any help from the government, must elevate this to the UN Commission on Human Rights so that any violation committed by gangster-type Malaysian police or army is reported, thereby internationalizing the issue.

Malaysia and Great Britain must now be exposed as parties to this greatest injustice committed against the people of Sulu and the Philippines.

The cession order of 1946 and the incorporation of Sabah into Malaya and Malaysia is void for Sabah is placed under the sovereignty of the Philippines. Effective occupation was effected against the consent of the owner, the Sultanate of Sulu and later the Philippine Government.

Malaysia must stop from engaging in a fight against the representatives of the Sultanate of Sulu.

Pnoy must make pronouncement supporting Sulu and expressing his wish to Malaysia to stop the planned attack, that any attack against the representatives of the Sultanate is also an attack against the Philippine government and that it has no recourse but to protect its citizens and enforce their claim.

Akin kaokolan so Sultanato na Sulu tan Sabah ed panag-aksubi na Manangkayan or Spratly Islands? [Why the Sultanate of Sulu and Sabah is fundamental in claiming Manangkayan or Spratly Islands?]

Abaloan ko maung si Ferdinand Marcos balet andi manaya. No amta to so awaran na Sulu ed panag-aksubi na Sabah et amta to met komon ya say Spratly Islands et parti na teritoriyo na Sultanato na Sulu. Et ag to la nginaranan na Kalayaan no ag say tugtuwa ton ngaran.

Iramay tinmombok ed sikato ya pangolo kapara to ran kulang ed inkatalisiw ed awaran.

Si Ramos inyan tod "backburner" so Sabah ta ag to amta ya say Spratly Islands et gawa na Sulu.

Ontan met si Cory tan Arroyo.

Mas lalo la yay si PNoy ya say nononoten to say basingkawel.

Palawan, Spratly Islands known in Tausug as Manangkayan, and Sabah belonged to the Sultanate of Sulu.

The claim of China over the Spratly Islands is laughable to say the least.

Manangkayan means giant clam; it is a group of islands that were known to the inhabitants in the area, the Sama, Tausug and Badjao peoples of the Sulu Sultanate, their boats plying there for fishing and trade.

How could the Chinese invent such ludicrous proposition that they own the area?

Pity the Chinese intellectuals and the historians who allowed themselves to be used in state propaganda.

Manangkayan or Kalayaan Islands is part of Sulu Sultanate that is now part of the Republic of the Philippines.

How could the people of Palawan and Sulu not know the islands several miles away from their shore for the past thousand years predating the Chinese?

Sayan gobierno no gabay ton solido so panag-aksubi ed Manangkayan et aralen toy awaran na Sulu tan Sabah.

It cannot give up on Sabah just like what the Pangasinense senator Leticia Shahani would like to do or her brother, FVR during their height of influence and power.

The government kept on ignoring the Sultanate of Sulu with an unforgivable excuse that their letter was lost in bureaucratic maze. What the heck is an administration like this? If they can do that to a royalty what more to the ordinary Juan de la Cruz?

The bungling conduct of Pnoy is deplorable and unpardonable. His underlings are equally guilty of negligence displaying their ignorance of the valid claim.

Saray manbebenben ed gobierno tayo manlapud si Marcos anggad si Ramos, manlapud si Arroyo anggad si Aquino III et balbaleg so kakulangan da. No say ninononot da odino soy nononoten da et pangkaabigan na Pilipinas, agda komon ginawa so ginawa ra.

But they are all cowards including the present president. They do not have the nerve to stand alone; they are always soliciting the help of the US. They want someone, a patron to depend on.

What can we expect? Mistake after mistake after mistake.