Jamming the May 10, 2010 elections

The United States just appointed a new envoy in place of Kristie Kenney. The new envoy says that the US government hopes for a clean and honest elections come May 10. It seems though that as days past, it is becoming extremely clear that this is becoming more unlikely. 

First, the Comelec is supposed to print the final ballots. Yesterday, the poll body says it could not because it needs to change the layout. Meaning, delay.

Second, the Comelec is supposed to conduct teachers' election seminars throughout the country and basing on their schedule, they would have at least completed 30% of the areas. Until now, they were not able to even cover 10%. Meaning, another delay.

Third, tranmission problems seems to plague these optical counting machines. They conducted one in Taguig and it took a while before the machine was able to transmit the results.

Meaning, another tragic delay.

And lastly, these cellphone jammers. 

Cellphone jammers are supposed to jam the transmission of GSM-based machines. Jammers can be as big as 3 feet and as small as a car key. And they can be bought for either 4 to 5,000 pesos.

Smartmatic-TIM says there's nothing to worry about since they have anti-jamming devices in place. The question is---how many? 

The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) admitted that these jammers can surely affect these machines. If these machines are within 3 to 10 meters away, they can affect the transmission of signals.

These jammers can actually CHANGE the configuration of these machines, or alter the results of the transmissions.

Apologists of SMARTMATIC-TIM and COMELEC tried to ally fears from the public by saying that jammers should actually be within striking distance.


We all know that these jammers can actually be put under tables, right?

Plea of the Damned: Why We Really Can't Wait for Another 2 Years

On the eve of All Saints Day, Mrs. Arroyo called upon her distractors to wait until 2010. She says that groups out for her head should exercise restraint and patience since "its just another 2 years" anyway before she transfers power to her elected successor.

Why We Must Not Wait for 2 years

With the rate of destruction Mrs. Arroyo and her gang of thieves plunder our national coffers (our debt has reached 4 trillion pesos--60% goes to corruption) with her husband leaving a string of anomalies and controversies along the way, it is not far-fetched that this country will reach saturation point before 2010. Look at the figures.

1. Inflation will hit 3% this November. This is not because of the incoming xmas season, no. Its due to high oil prices and high commodity prices that greatly increase inflation. What this means to the common people is additional hardship and poverty.

2. Forex reserves depletion. The BSP just intervened to arrest the slide of the dollar against the peso. The weak dollar is impacting on the performance of the peso and government is unable to contain the natural rise of the peso. This means two things: one, less peso for the OFW families meaning less purchasing power and two, less revenues for exporters and tighter competition equals either closure of export industries or lesser labor to mitigate the impact. Either way, its bad news.

3. Distressed troops. The internal and external security of the country are at risk with the low morale of the AFP. Predictably, the AFP will suffer a series of defeats against the CPP-NPA-NDF, MILF and the ASG because troops are divided and totally politicized despite what the DND says otherwise. Survey said ten percent of the AFP will support a coup, while 10 percent will counter it. Undeniably, there's 80% of troops who will look at the skies and wait for these groups to fight it out before deciding to side with the victor.

4. Internal damage to political infrastructures. The current struggle between Arroyo and the House leadership attracts transactional politics which affects governance. It increases corruption levels because both groups are susceptible to giving favours just to increase their base or decrease the enemy's.

We can't wait for the worst thing to happen

All these factors weaken the State and it is in the paramount interests of the people that this administration be changed prior to 2010 before this country further slides to destruction.