Manipulating the unemployment numbers

Ducky Paredes on Arroyo's stat manipulations.

according to the Ibon Foundation, the government is cheating as to the number of unemployed, What it has done is to erase from the number of unemployed those who say that, although they are actually unemployed, they have been looking for a job for more than six months. Also wiped out from the number are those who say that they do not believe that they can ever find a job.

The whole point of treating these unemployed as if they were invisible is to, again (as this administration has been doing in practically everything) to keep the truth from the rest of the world.

It even seems to me that this is the only thing that this government does with any consistency. It keeps the truth – the whole truth, part of the truth, pieces of the truth – from us. It can show that it is successful only by telling us things that are untrue and keeping what is true as far away from us as it can. Such is the nature of our present government.

Kaya pala...

Yung PCIJ naman ang target ng admin for "inciting to sedition". More on this from Helga.

Ernesto Maceda:

"With GMA’s all-out war against ABS-CBN, Makati City businessmen sympathetic to GMA are reducing their advertising placements with that network..."

Hindi ba ad boycott rin yan?

De quiros::

That’s the reason quite incidentally why the people being accused of or implicated in plotting to oust her a couple of weeks ago are not the least bit bothered by it. As someone told me some days ago, why should they? If Arroyo can be caught on tape plotting with Garci to steal the elections and she can deny it to death, everybody else can be caught on tape or video plotting to overthrow her and they can deny it to death. At the very least, my friend said, they can always say the tape or video was doctored. At the very most, they can always say with a robotic voice, “I…am…sorry.” She brought this absurdity on herself.

Heh.

And C.D. Quiros reminds us about the FREE concert he and his friends organized on thursday, at the Sunken Garden at UP. It's called "Never Again! Concert for Freedom." The concert starts at 5:30 p.m.

Malaya Editorial: ‘She has become paranoid. With good reason. She has become the people’s enemy.’

Enrile vs. Madrigal.

Rizalist asks: This Is Proof of Leftist-Rightist Tactical Alliance Coup D'etat Conspiracy?

Lito Banayo on Noli de Cashtro.

PDI editorial says the admin is practicing doublespeak. Orwellian talaga.