Peace and Order

Our first and foremost duty as free and independent nation is maintain peace and order within our borders. No government worthy of the name will countenance public disorder or tolerate open defiance of its authority. Unless we enjoy domestic tranquillity, we cannot prosecute to a successful conclusion those labors essential to our daily existence and to our national survival. Without public security, our natural resources will remain undeveloped, our fields uncultivated, our industry and commerce paralyzed; instead of progress and prosperity, we shall swallow in misery and poverty and face starvation.

In the ultimate analysis, all government is physical power and that government is doomed with is impotent to suppress anarchy and terrorism. The Constitution vests in the President full authorityto exercise the coercive powers of the State for its preservation. In order to make those powers effective, my administration shall be committed to the training, equipment and support of large Constabulary force strong enough to cope with any untoward situation which might arise. Certainly, everything must be done to invoke outside intervention to quell purely internal disturbance.

The Stamp of Poverty

Hand in hand with national self-sufficiency, we should look after the individual welfare of the poorer elements who constitute the bulk of our population; assure decent conditions to our laboring class by raising the level of the minimum wage; afford the relief to the needy and suffering, especially to war widows and orphans. Social legislation in this direction would be nothing more than social justice in action. In the prosecution of this humane policy it would be far better to err on the side of benevolent paternalism than on the side of rugged individualism. The slogan should no longer be live and let live but live and help live that government may bring about the happiness and well-being, if not all, at least of the greatest number.

Especially at this time we soul guard against the dominating passion of wealth. Unless economic equilibrium between all classes of society is achieved, we may not be able to forestall the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, to the detriment of the suffering masses of our population. If necessary we should take positive steps to attain the social mean by preventing the rich from getting richer and the poor from getting poorer. Love of country springs only from genuine attachment to the soil, it can receive nourishment from the uprooted and artificial life of the homeless and disinherited.

What lies beneath?

Where is Boracay?

Boracay is a tropical island located approximately 315km (200 miles) south of Manila and 2km off the northwest tip of the island of Panay in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. It is one of the country's most popular tourist destinations. The island comprises the barangays of Manoc-Manoc, Balabag, and Yapak (3 of the 17 barangays which make up the municipality of Malay), and is under the administrative control of the Philippine Tourism Authority in coordination with the Provincial Government of Aklan.

The Problem:

Boracay as we all know that its just a small area. Boracay is a place where people go to swim and to relax. It is a place that most people called it "Paradise". But there is one problem on this island, the island is overpopulated. Almost all people wants to go to the small island to experience some people didn't experience yet. Due to overpopulation, the sewage system of Boracay leaks. There is a incident that when the sewer leaks almost all of the waste of people come out in the water like mushrooms. Its disgusting though but that is a fact. I don't know what will happened to Boracay in this coming 10-20 years but my insight is that island will not be as beautiful as it was before.

Fires Gone Wild

What is Wildfire?

A wildfire, also known as a wildland fire, forest fire, vegetation fire, grass fire, peat fire, bushfire or hill fire, is an uncontrolled fire often occurring in wildland areas, but which can also consume houses or agricultural resources. Common causes include lightning, human carelessness, arson, volcano eruption, and pysoclastic cloud from active volcano.

Comments:

Wildfires are one of the most destructive ways how to clean the forest. Wildfires can only be wild if it keeps on burning all the things that is on its way. Its one of the most devastating things a forest can get. Its good that there are no wildfires here in the Philippines because we don't have forest to burn down. The main cause of wildfires are obviously FIRES.

Insights:

My insights on wildfires are just preventions. We could not stop nature's wrath but we can stop mankind's wrath by not being careless. On ago, Caveman discovered fire to have light on their homes. They also use that to cooked their fresh meats. But now fire can be use in many ways. The bottomline is what path will you go? Are you going to use it for destroying things or to the path where fire is use on good ways.

Recycle Bin

What is Recycling?

Unlike burying and burning rubbish, recycling allows materials to be used again and made into useful products. It can take as little as six weeks to turn the things you recycle into a new product, which can then be bought and recycled again! In fact, if you recycle a newspaper within seven days it could be back in your hands as a new newspaper!

Many types of material can be recycled, including glass, food and drink cans, metal, paper, cardboard, plastic, wood, clothes, food and garden waste, TVs and more.

Comments:

Recycling for me is Reuse of the things that are need to throw away. For example a piece of an old newspaper can be recycled and transformed into a new paper again so that we can use it again. Recycle is a like life. It goes around and around and never stops. It will only stop if you are dead. Same goes for recycled materials, it will be a new material then ii will become old and we recycle it to become new again.

Insights:

Recycling is a good way to conserved our materials. Recycling is also a way to decrease our trashes. It helps us to become more wiser if we recycle instead of throwning things away.

Illegal Logging in the Philippines

What is Illegal Logging?

Illegal logging is the harvest, transportation, purchase or sale of timber in violation of national laws. The harvesting procedure itself may be illegal, including using corrupt means to gain access to forests; extraction without permission or from a protected area; the cutting of protected species; or the extraction of timber in excess of agreed limits.
Illegalities may also occur during transport, such as illegal processing and export; fraudulent declaration to customs; and the avoidance of taxes and other charges. Much destructive logging is however legal and that legal and illegal logging are often linked. Therefore addressing only illegally sourced timber is not sufficient.

Illegal Logging in the Philippines

Forest cover in the Philippines decreased from 34 percent in the 1970s to 22 percent in 1987.
The main causes of deforestation and land degradation are thought to include intensive logging over decades, upland migration, agricultural expansion, development policy failures, and inequitable land distribution.

Remaining forest cover is concentrated in Palawan, Mindanao and the uplands of Luzon. The last forest resource inventory in 1987 showed a forest cover of only 6.6 million hectares and now less than a million hectares are virgin forest. Many of the remaining areas are mountainous and at threat of soil erosion linked to local vegetation removal. Declining wood availability, heavy soil erosion and environmental disasters such as flooding led to logging bans on primary forests with concessions reduced and increasing reforestation efforts in the last few decades.

Comments:

On my point of view, illegal logging may have its advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages on illegal logging is that the illegal loggers earn money on cutting trees. They earn money so that they can buy some food and things for there families. Well thats the problem here in the Philippines. We are overpopulation that even some people who doesn't want to do such things must do such things to live. They are destroying our forest without knowing what will happened in the near future. They can earn money for now but do they know what will happened tomorrow?

Disadvatanges on illegal logging are effect on what illegal loggers do in the forest. First, they take away the homes of some animals in the forest. Imagine if someone destroy your homes, what will you going to do? If the loggers destroy every single forest here in the Philippines what we be left for the animals or even for us. Second, the major floods that hit us. Do you know why it hit us? It's because we do not have enough forest to block the water. The forest is our shield on major flood attack but look what happened. There are no forest to block for us.

Insights:

My insights is the if we don't stop illegal logging now, we don't know what will happened to us on the near future. For me its ok to cut down trees BUT only BIG trees. And after we cut the big trees down for our necessities we can replace them by planting trees. Nature for me is cause and effect. If we do some on nature and expect that nature will do something to us.

Reference: www.illegal-logging.info