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There are thousands of ghost employees in the city’s payroll, most of them supposedly working for the councilors. Each of the 26 councilors has 124 employees but only 20 or so of them are real flesh-and-blood employees. The others are non-existent. They exist only in the payrolls and in the personal data sheets, most of which are fake. Somebody collects and pockets their pay every month.

Government officials and the mainstream media repeatedly claim that there is no possibility that the nuclear radiation from Japan will reach the Philippines and that the radiation leak is minimal and pose no significant health risks. This is gross misrepresentation of facts.

The truth is that as in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US and its NATO allies are jumping at the opportunity presented by the internal strife in Libya to control the latter’s oil resources by deposing Kadafi and installing a more friendly and pliant regime. Libya has the largest confirmed oil reserves in Africa, three times that of the US and nearly one tenth of the world total.

By Mike Whitney Global Research The EU banking system is in big trouble. Many of the Union’s largest banks are…

Fair trade brings benefits for the producers but also for the buyers of the products. They join in the struggle to change the unjust trading system

President Benigno S. Aquino III betrayed his apparent mindset about the extrajudicial killings in the Philippines – a thinking that, I’m afraid, doesn’t inspire confidence in his or his spokesman’s repeated avowal that his administration will do its best stop the killings and bring the perpetrators to justice.

t would be highly offensive of Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III to continue claiming that his administration is about change, about justice, about respect for human rights while the so-called “Morong 43” continue to languish in jail.

Since the second quarter of 2009 and more so in the first quarter of 2010, the Obama administration, the G8, the international mass media, the IMF and the World Bank, all sang the chorus that the global economy is on “the road to recovery” and “the worst is behind us”.

I am directing the Armed Forces of the Philippines to stop its Oplan Bantay Laya campaign. This campaign has been proven to be a failure because it did not end the communist insurgency.