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Tsunami jitters
By Jun Velasco
THE recent killer tsunami that hit Indonesia has sent us the jitters because of our proximity to that country.
Despite disclaimers in the media that the Philippines won’t be hit likely by tsunamis, our subconscious refuses to let go of our fears.
You see, our house is less than a kilometer from the Lingayen Gulf, and here’s Greenpeace man Nick Melecio constantly advising us to expand our one-story house upwards.
Long chats with scientists involved in environment protection tend to confirm Nick’s warning.
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Top world inventor Rudy Lantano says it’s the increasing heat in the bowels of the earth that could stir up unusual climactic upheavals. And so whether we are not within the so-called ring of fire as traditionally believed, there’s no guarantee of our safety. Of course, prayers are our first protection. But God only helps those who help themselves.
We admire individuals and groups on the forefront of environmental protection. But we hope it’s not yet late to put some effort to help prevent or divert the imminent burst of storms or earthquakes, tsunamis, heat-caused environmental damage including landslides, landfalls, and the earth’s progressive degradation.
Voted the world’s No. l inventor in l996, Rudy Lantano of Manaoag, Pangasinan has been asking Philippine authorities to support his award-winning invention “to save the world from carbon dioxide,” but it looks like they don’t want their countryman to be great, nay, they don’t want to save planet earth. We wrote here in a past column about Lantano’s pollution-free water and gas formula, which can run effectively engines of motor vehicles and big industries without emitting pollutants. But it seems most of these Philippine officials who outwardly “believe” in his products are in the payroll of Middle East-based oil corporations.
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We are not surprised at the “unreadableness” of election results. Politics is ruled more by variables than by certainties. It’s a game for gamblers and not the seguristas such as those who burn schools when they lose or kill their winning opponents. It’s still a lovely world, mind you, in spite of the massive vote buying and below-the-belt campaign methods.
Desiderata says “the universe is evolving as it should.”
Relax at the missteps and errors in our barangay elections, but we want out of the Sangguniang Kabataan, spawning ground of corrupt and evil leaders.
We can pardon “the old club.” They say, old dogs can’t learn new tricks.
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By the way, whatever happened to the city government’s much celebrated drive against illegal occupants of millions worth of beach lots in Bonuan’s coastal cover? An RTC judge was assailed for constructing his resort house in a public property there. Local gov’t officials and well-placed private persons have built concrete structures in the area. Gone? Another obscene, want on violation of the law is the ship-shaped structure owned by a big vocational school at the Perez side of the Pantal River. Several law-abiding city residents intend to take Mayor Benjie Lim to a city tour to show in graphic terms these rampant violations on the use of gov’t property.
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