Mikey Arroyo, isa ng Youtube sensation!

MAYNILA (Mindanao Examiner / September 3, 2009 – Nagmistulang isang Youtube sensation si Presidential son, Rep. Juan (Mikey) Miguel Arroyo, matapos na lumutang ang interview nito sa GMA-7 ukol sa mga ari-arian sa Estados Unidos.

Sensation nga na maituturing, ngunit hindi dahil sa pagiging singer or artista tulad nina Charice at Arnel Pineda, subalit dahil sa dami ng mga batikos na natanggap nito mula sa mga ibat-ibang Youtube users at makikita ang mga pasaring kay Mikey sa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q0JKzpjh_o.





Ito ay may kinalaman sa pag-amin na ginawa ni Mikey sa naturang panayam na galing ang yaman nito sa mga political donors at regalo ng mga kung sino-sino ng ito ay ikasal sa sariling pinsan.

Sa Youtube channel ni “Pinaswatcher” ay isa Jesse Pauleen ang nagsabing: “nagtangatangahan pero hindi nag I'M SORRY...hindi naturuan ng nanay ang batang ito... inamin pa ng kolokoy na tumatanggap xa ng pera sa eleksyon pati regalo sa kasal isinama?...may nakalimutan pa ata ang buhong... jueteng at lahar illegal income hindi isinama? bwahahahaha.....mabuti pa cnabi na lang nya pumupusta xa sa tuwing laban ni manny pacquiao kaya lumobo ang ulo nya..este...ung kayamanan nya…”

Nuong Agosto 31 lamang na-upload ang interview kay Mikey ni Arnold Clavio ng GMA-7 ngunit umabot na sa mahigit 23,000 ang hits nito at karamihan ay galit, pagmumura ang batikos na nakuha mula sa publiko – hindi lamang sa mga Pinoy, ngunit maging mga dayuhan rin na nakatutok sa mga Arroyo ang pagbabantay.

Isang user pa na nagpakilalang si Stanley ang nag-iwan ng comment: “Mikey, you are so arrogant, you really think you are above the law. I hope you get to watch yourself and see how stupid you look. You are no match to Winnie Monsod. You can't even look at her because you know she knows you are LYING. Si Arnold naman parang trying to soften the words of Winnie, kakainis.”

Mula naman kay Malaya1025 ay sinabing nitong: “What a brave face...caught in his own words...Remember the smoke of irregularities and misdeeds will explode in to flame and burn your greediness! "

Malinaw umano sa mga nag-iwan ng comment sa nakapanood na interview ni Mikey na matindi ang galit at suklam ng marami sa mga Arroyo. Kaliwa’t-kanan ang iskadalong dumating sa pamahalaang Arroyo mula ng maupo ang Pangulo nuong 2001. (Mindanao Examiner)

Abu Sayyaf Loses Foreign Funding

BASILAN ISLAND, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / 18 Sept) – The Abu Sayyaf group has stopped receiving funding from abroad and its members are on the run as security forces continue hunting down militants in the troubled southern Philippine region.

Abu Kahlid, an Abu Sayyaf militant, in a clandestine interview with Al-Jazeera television in Basilan island, said his group has lost capability in launching large scale attacks similar to the firebombing of a ferry off Manila Bay in February 2004 that killed over 100 people.

Khalid is a cousin of a senior Abu Sayyaf leader Isnilon Hapilon, who is wanted both by the Philippines and the United States for the killings of two American citizens kidnapped in 2001.

Al-Jazeera reported Monday that Khalid admitted the Abu Sayyaf now has no more capabilities to launch large scale attacks.

He also said the Abu Sayyaf stopped receiving funding from abroad and that training its fighters have move to other region.

It was unclear who was funding the Abu Sayyaf, but Filipino and U.S. authorities have linked the group to Osama Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda and Indonesian Jemaah Islamiya terror network.

The Abu Sayyaf last month published excerpts of a recruitment film on YouTube where the video is spoken in Arabic and was appealing for funding to Middle Eastern donors so it can carry out jihad in the Philippines.

It was taken out by YouTube after Philippine military officials said the video was promoting terrorism.

During the interview, Khalid, his face covered to hide his identity, warned that: “We will spare no one, whether they are Christians or Muslims.”

However, he said his conscience has bothered him and asked for forgives to those victimized by the Abu Sayyaf atrocities. “My conscience did bother me that why I laid low for a while. I feel bad for those who were victimized so I ask forgiveness for what I have done.”

“I have a family now and swear to God if I die and go to hell; there is nothing more I can do. I am so tired and I don’t want to go hiding anymore, I don’t want to be tired anymore,” he said.

Khalid was with another Abu Sayyaf militant, Abu Karim, said to be involved in attack on government soldiers in Basilan’s Al-Barka town in July 10. Ten Marines were beheaded in that fighting.

“It’s not always an order from Hapilon,” Khalid said, adding, younger men are coming in and acting on their own, like Abu Karim, 25, who rebelled against his parents to prove that he is a man.

Like Khalid, the young militant’s face was also covered.

Al-Jazeera reported that Karim joined the Abu Sayyaf along with young recruits in Basilan island, but wanted to leave the group because of the intense government operation.

“Abu Karim, who also joined the Abu Sayyaf and is said to be among those who decapitated ten Marines in Basilan island’s Al-Barka town, now wanted out of the group,” Al-Jazeera said in its English report now also in the popular video website YouTube.

The Al-Jazeera report ended with this: “For many of the island’s younger generation, it is the Abu Sayyaf not the military that remains the symbol of bravery regardless of leadership in a culture where guns equal power and Abu Sayyaf young recruits are waiting for their next mission to prove themselves, for them that is their only cause it could just be a matter of time before these recruits return.”

The Philippine military on Tuesday said the hunt for the Abu Sayyaf continues in Basilan island. “The operation is going on. Security forces are hunting down the Abu Sayyaf and their supporters,” Army Maj. Eugene Batara, a spokesman for the Western Mindanao Command, told the Mindanao Examiner.

“We are also tracking down Abu Khalid and Abu Karim and we will arrest those who are coddling the two terrorists,” he said.

The Abu Sayyaf is in the U.S. list of international terrorist organizations and Washington offered as much as five million dollars bounties for the capture of Isnilon and other known terror leaders.

Many of the Abu Sayyaf senior leaders, including its chieftain Khadaffy Janjalani have been killed the past years and the group is now in disarray. But despite the government offensive the Abu Sayyaf group remains a top security concern for Manila and Washington.

Just last month, a suspected Abu Sayyaf bombing in Zamboanga City injured at least 16 people.

The Abu Sayyaf is believed to be coddling two of Indonesia’s most wanted terrorists, Jemaah Islamiya militants Dulmatin and Umar Patek in southern Philippines. Jakarta tagged both men as behind the 2002 Bali resort bombings which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians. (Mindanao Examiner)

Alegasyon Ng Dayaan Sa Basilan, Lumutang Sa You Tube!

ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 25 May) – Mahigpit ang siguridad sa Basilan province para sa isang special elections matapos na lumutang ang ibat-ibang akusasyon ng pandaraya.

Ngayon Sabado isasagawa ang special elections at nagtaas na ng antas ng siguridad ang mga awtoridad dahil sa banta ng terorismo at tangkang guluhin ang botohan.

Matindi ang akusasyon sa isa’t-isa nina Rep. Abdulgani “Gerry” Salapudin at Gov. Wahab Akbar. Inakusahan ni Salapudin ng pandaraya at vote-buying si Akbar ngunit ito rin ang ibinato ng gobernador sa kongresista.

Parehong nasa huling termino na sina Akbar at Salapudin. Si Akbar ay congress ngayon ang puntirya at gobernador naman kay Salapudin. Subalit asawa ni Akbar ang katungali ni Salapudin.

Lumutang rin sa Youtube.com ang isang pahayag ng babae ukol sa dayaan na naganap sa Basilan.

Sa kanyang pahayag ay sinabi nito kung paano tinakot ng Abu Sayyaf ang mga botante. Maging ang isang barangay chairman ay idinawit nito sa pananakot nuong araw ng halalan.

Ito ang nakasaad sa video clip: “A resident of Barangay Diki, Malamawi Island, Isabela City, Basilan recounts her harrowing experience where an active Abu Sayyaf member…terrorized voters of her barangay…in the recently concluded May 14 Elections.”

Mapapanood ang clip sa "http://youtube.com/watch?v=tEKg4PtEwI8." Hindi naman agad makupirma kung may katotohanan ang alegassyon at kung sino ang nasa likod ng paglalagay nito sa Internet. (Mindanao Examiner)

Non-Traditional News Websites, Blogs And Videos Getting Popular

U.S. news-seekers are increasingly turning to Internet search engines, video clips and gossip-slingers to sate curiosity about current events, according to Agence France Presse, which cited a study released Tuesday.

Visits to the top 10 news and media websites in the United States dropped by nearly four percent in the past year as people turned increasingly to "non-traditional news websites," Hitwise online intelligence service reported.

Meanwhile, websites that "aggregate" news stories by harvesting them online registered increases in visits during the year ending March of 2007, according to Hitwise.

Yahoo! News ranks as the top news website with slightly more than 6.5 percent of the market.

A Weather Channel website is second with 4.75 percent of US online news hunting traffic, while CNN barely edged out MSNBC for third place with 3.95 percent.

Google News ranks fourth in popularity with 1.83 percent of the visits.

Search engines, online news aggregators and Internet portal front pages are main sources of traffic for traditional news websites, according to Hitwise.

The number of Internet users referred to traditional newspaper websites by the world's most popular online search engine, Google, increased by nearly 30 percent in the past year, Hitwise reported.

Internet traffic routed by Google to television or radio station websites rose 35.9 percent during that same period, according to Hitwise.

The rate at which people left news websites to directly view related video clips at online venues such as video-sharing website YouTube has leapt 196 percent in the past year, Hitwise reported.

Jose Maria Sison Versions Of Italian Partisan Song & Andres Bonifacio's Own Now On YouTube

A Filipino activist raises his clenched fist during a rally in the Philippines. (Mindanao Examiner Photo)

MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 01 Feb) – A song by Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria “Joma” Sison has been posted on YouTube and so far gathered almost 4,000 views in just over 3 months.

Sison sung the Italian partisan song, Bella Ciao, (http://www.youtube.com/v/3IZ31IZ339A) in Spanish version and Filipino interpretation. A guitar accompanied his version of the World War II song. Aside from Bella Ciao, he also sung the Filipino revolutionary “Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa” (http://www.youtube.com/v/iJ3qeaIu-7w) by national hero Andres Bonifacio.

Bella Ciao, which runs for 3 minutes and 46 seconds, drew various comments from pro-Sison supporters to anti-communist advocates.

YouTube is a popular Web video sharing site that lets anyone store short videos for private or public viewing.

One comment from a Sison supporter, who goes by the alias “revenger64”, had this posted on YouTube: “Mabuhay si Ka Joma! Xa ang tunay na bayaning Pilipino! Ituloy ang laban sa makalumang naghaharing sistema! Rebelyon ang tunay na buhay ng mga Pilipino sa panahon ng krisis at pagsasamantala! Wakasan ang lumang at sinungaling na demokrasyang naghahari sa lipunan, palitan ng tunay at makamasang demokrasya!”

But emilio1969, an anti-Sison, said: Communism is dead! Get over it and get a life! If you truly love the Filipino masses go home and fight in the Philippines. Do not hide in Europe and live comfortable life while your comrades are eating coconuts for breakfast and guavas for dinner. Pabigat ka lang sa Dutch government. Mahiya ka naman!

Sison is currently living in exile in The Netherlands. The CPP’s armed wing, the New People’s Army is fighting in the Philippines for the establishment of a Maoist state.

Both the CPP and NPA and their political group, the National Democratic Front were listed as foreign terrorist organizations on Manila’s prodding after the peace talks collapsed in 2004. (Mindanao Examiner)