From NOT ON OUR WATCH, a book of martial law recollections: the full text of “Lest We Forget” by Roberto Verzola

The book NOT ON OUR WATCH by Jo-Ann Maglipon (ed.) is now in bookstores, after a successful launching at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Central Bank Bldg., last May 10. I wrote a chapter in that book, which is entitled “Lest We Forget”. The chapter includes my personal account of the torture I suffered under [...]

New world record in rice yield set using the System of Rice Intensification (SRI)

Below are the first few paragraphs of a story on the business pages of the Philippine Star (page B-4), Dec. 18, 2011. Indian farmer sets new world record in rice yield MANILA, Philippines – Indian officials have confirmed a farmer’s claim of beating the rice yield world record of 19 tons per hectare previously held [...]

100-kilometer zone around the BNPP

The radius of the danger zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant that must be evacuated has now been extended to 100 kilometers. If a similar 100-kilometer danger zone were declared around the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), the following maps show which areas will be affected:

BNPP hypothetical 50-mile (80.5 km) radius evacuation zone: Batangas

  Japanese authorities declared a 20-km evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant. But the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued on March 16, 2011, a warning to U.S. citizens living in Japan to evacuate to safer areas if they were living within 50 miles (80.5 km) of the radioactive plant. These series of maps [...]

BNPP hypothetical 50-mile (80.5 km) radius evacuation zone: Cavite

  Japanese authorities declared a 20-km evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant. But the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued on March 16, 2011, a warning to U.S. citizens living in Japan to evacuate to safer areas if they were living within 50 miles (80.5 km) of the radioactive plant. These series of maps [...]

BNPP hypothetical 50-mile (80.5 km) radius evacuation zone: Southern Metro Manila

Japanese authorities declared a 20-km evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant. But the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued on March 16, 2011, a warning to U.S. citizens living in Japan to evacuate to safer areas if they were living within 50 miles (80.5 km) of the radioactive plant. These series of maps show [...]

BNPP hypothetical 50-mile (80.5 km) radius evacuation zone: Northern Metro Manila

Japanese authorities declared a 20-km evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant. But the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued on March 16, 2011, a warning to U.S. citizens living in Japan to evacuate to safer areas if they were living within 50 miles (80.5 km) of the radioactive plant. These series of maps show [...]

BNPP hypothetical 50-mile (80.5 km) radius evacuation zone: Bulacan

Japanese authorities declared a 20-km evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant. But the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued on March 16, 2011, a warning to U.S. citizens living in Japan to evacuate to safer areas if they were living within 50 miles (80.5 km) of the radioactive plant. These series of maps show [...]

BNPP hypothetical 50-mile (80.5 km) radius evacuation zone: Pampanga

Japanese authorities declared a 20-km evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant. But the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued on March 16, 2011, a warning to U.S. citizens living in Japan to evacuate to safer areas if they were living within 50 miles (80.5 km) of the radioactive plant. These series of maps show [...]

BNPP hypothetical 50-mile (80.5 km) radius evacuation zone: Tarlac

Japanese authorities declared a 20-km evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant. But the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued on March 16, 2011, a warning to U.S. citizens living in Japan to evacuate to safer areas if they were living within 50 miles (80.5 km) of the radioactive plant. These series of maps show [...]

BNPP hypothetical 50-mile (80.5 km) radius evacuation zone: Zambales

While Japanese authorities declared a 20-km evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued on March 16, 2011, a warning to U.S. citizens living in Japan to evacuate to safer areas if they were living within 50 miles (80.5 km) of the radioactive plant. The following series of maps [...]

Chemical farming: inorganic or non-organic?

Why chemical farming should be called “non-organic” instead of “inorganic” by Roberto Verzola In farming, the use of agrochemicals which are harmful to human health, soil life, and the environment is often carelessly called inorganic farming. Inorganic farming is a confusing term that the agrochemical industry uses to obfuscate issues against chemical farming. The more [...]

The Philippines: An Ecological Perspective

THE PHILIPPINES: AN ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE   I. The Birth of Luzviminda by Roberto Verzola (rverzola@gn.apc.org), Convenor, Philippine Greens Fifty million years ago, the archipelago of more than 7,000 islands that now calls itself the Philippines did not exist yet.  Instead, there was Mindoro and Palawan, just off the Asian landmass and south of what [...]

An 80-km BNPP evacuation radius will include all of Bataan and Pampanga, most of Zambales, Bulacan, Metro Manila and Cavite, and parts of Tarlac and Batangas

PRESS STATEMENT (March 18, 2011) An 80-km BNPP evacuation radius includes all of Bataan and Pampanga, most of Zambales, Bulacan, M.Manila and Cavite, and parts of Tarlac and Batangas The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued on March 16, 2011 the following warning to U.S. citizens in Japan: “Under the guidelines for public safety that [...]

Minutes of the final (June 8) hearing on election fraud of the House Committee on Suffrage now available

Please get the minutes on this site.

Minutes of June 3 hearing of the House Committee on Suffrage now available

Please get the minutes on this site.

Minutes of the Locsin Committee Hearing on Election Fraud held on June 2

The minutes of the hearing on election fraud held by the Committee on Suffrage (chaired by Cong. Teddy Locsin Jr.) are now available here.

House Committee on Suffrage Minutes of Hearings on Electoral Fraud for May 26, 28 sessions now available

Please get them here.

House Committee on Suffrage: Minutes of hearings on electoral fraud

Halalang Marangal (HALAL) managed to get the minutes of the hearings being conducted by the House Committee on Suffrage on the May 10, 2010 elections and the fraud allegedly committed to tamper with the results. The minutes are all in PDF files, so you need to download them first, then use a PDF viewer to [...]

Smartmatic claims: “Votes tallied & Presidential Winner known in Record Time in Philippines Election”

The Smartmatic claims below may be found on the Smartmatic website here. Smartmatic electoral Solution Delivers First Ever national Automated Election in THE Philippines Largest Election Ever by Private Company: Nearly 80,000 Voting Machines Deployed Smartmatic voting solution delivers 100% accuracy, reliability and auditability Manila, Philippines, May 12, 2010 – In the wake of the [...]