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Who’s to blame for the looming rice shortage(and possible famine) in the Philippines?

These days the imbeciles and clowns in malacanang(that cursed palace!) are crowing about a projected shortage of Filipino’s staple food – the beloved rice. How outrageous,, this despite the very visible fact that the Philippines is an archipelago supposedly blessed with large swaths of arable, fat land which could be utilized for producing life-sustaining agricultural products such as corn and rice.

And now, they are wringing their heads in consternation at what to do come the threat of famine.

But who is mainly to blame for this dismal state of affairs?

Concerned Filipinos must remember that the government in the past years had removed rice plantations in favor of sugarcane fields and other plants which the Arroyo administration claimed will produce bio-fuel.

The hell with this bio-gas joke. Look at the mess were in now. They’ve eradicated the abundant rice fields just for the silly experiments to make alternative fuels and still we are still importing oil.

Nobody’s to blame for this problem but this flimsy excuse of a state government which we have now.

spratlys situationer

walang ibubuga ang sandatahang lakas ng Pilipinas...?
This is the news item that I had recently read in inquirer.net. Every concerned Filipino must be aware of the current, dismal situation of the Philippines...AFP to go ‘hand-to-hand’ to defend Spratlys--EsperonBy Joel GuintoINQUIRER.netFirst Posted 16:39:00 03/17/2008CAMP JOHN HAY, Baguio City -- The military is "ready to go to war anytime" to defend the country's claim on the disputed Spratly Islands despite limited firepower, with troops ready to do "hand-to-hand" combat, Armed Forces chief General Hermogenes Esperon Jr.While the Constitution deplores war, Esperon said security forces would not hesitate to "defend our territory" when all diplomatic efforts at peaceful resolution fail."While your soldiers are ready to go to war anytime, as in other wars, there are of course efforts to settle the differences through diplomatic channels," Esperon told reporters here."We can go to war, we can still go to war. But the next question is, can we win? That's the question, do we have the capabilities?" he said.Esperon acknowledged that defending the Spratlys would require fighter aircraft, which the Philippine Air Force (PAF) does not have. The PAF decommissioned the last of its F5 jets several years back.Asked about the military's limited hardware, Esperon said: "Yun lang ang nakayanan [That's all we've got]. If it will be down to hand-to-hand combat, why not?""We may not have the chance, but that does not mean that soldiers are not willing to fight for the country," he said.Around 60 soldiers are posted on eight islands in the reportedly oil-rich Spratlys, which the Philippines calls the Kalayaan Group of Islands.The Spratlys are being claimed in part or in whole by China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, and Taiwan.A joint undertaking for seismic research by the Philippines, China and Malaysia drew controversy recently amid claims that the deal weakened the country's claim on the Spratlys, in favor of China, allegedly in exchange for a multi-million-dollar loan package.Last week, the vice commander of the Philippine Navy, Amable Tolentino, said that diplomacy was the way to go in the Spratlys since the Philippines could not go to war.Esperon said Tolentino was expressing a "personal opinion."And where have all the millions of pesos of Filipinos' tax money gone.. I find it hard to believe that the Armed forces of the Philippines has no sufficient war material and equipment necessary to do its job in protecting the country from foreign aggression.Now is the time that the entire nation must do something.

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