Typhoon YOLANDA (Haiyan)

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****** Ina yan si Cooper pa rape ko yan sa mga sunog baga dito sa lugar ko eh. Journalist na naging disaster relief expert, buti pa local media natin bumabatikos pero gumagawa ng paraan para maka tulong.

Mareng Winnie's comment for Anderson Cooper.

Blame game | Inquirer Opinion

Anderson Cooper came on Day 5. He probably didn’t know that the airport reopened on Day 4, and was aghast at conditions there. He said things like “the scene here at the airport is desperate,” “I have not seen a large Philippine military presence out around here,” “Philippine military personnel are cleaning up the area around the airport … first time we’re seeing this,” “people line up and they are here all day for a handful of flights.” People should understand that his analysis of Philippine relief efforts were based on one location only: Tacloban airport. He did walk around, but was constrained by the fact that there were NO VEHICLES available for use, so his analysis was severely limited.

She also made comment similar dun sa sinabi ko the other day about misleading way the media were doing their articles. Ayaw nya lang sabihin kasi kasama nya sa trabaho kaya sabi na lang niya "by the time it got out to us".

Take the United Nations emergency relief coordinator Valerie Amos. Her analysis of the situation was absolutely balanced, but by the time it got out to us, she was made to look critical of the Philippine government. No one paid attention to the reasons she gave for the difficulty of distributing relief goods: lack of air assets (not including the Tacloban airport, which was destroyed and took three days to reopen), shortage of vehicles for waste management (so debris and roadblocks could be cleared), lack of coordination by local officials (understandable, she says, because they were affected by the storm, too). I cannot see how the government is answerable for that.

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Good thing we can rely on Uncle Sam...

Sixty-nine years ago, U.S. Navy aircraft flying over the Philippines did so in support of the liberation of its people from Japanese occupation. Now, naval aviation seeks to liberate them from the deprivations caused by a natural disaster. Taken just hours ago, this image shows sailors aboard the aircraft carrier George Washington (CVN 73) loading containers of fresh water onto an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter from the Golden Falcons of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 12 for delivery ashore in support of Operation Damayan. The George Washington Carrier Strike Group is supporting the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade to assist the Philippine government in response to the aftermath of the Super typhoon Haiyan in the Republic of the Philippines. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Trevor Welsh)

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ROXAS, BUMISITA SA TANAUAN, LEYTE PARA MAGDALA LANG NG LAKAS NG LOOB?
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AKSYON BREAKING | Itinanong ng reporter ng Manila Standard Today na si Joyce Pañares kung ano ang reaksyon ng Palasyo sa kumakalat na balita sa social media na dismayado ang mga taga-Tanauan, Leyte kay Interior Sec. Mar Roxas dahil wala siyang dalang relief goods nang bumisita ang kalihim sa lugar.


Kahit isang bottled water, wala man lang dala. Ano ba yan? Ito ay feedback ng isang mamamayan:
NAMPUTSA, BAKIT GANITO ANG GOBYERNONG ITO ?!!! PINUNTAHAN NI MAR ANG MGA YOLANDA SURVIVORS NG WALANG DALANG RELIEF GOODS !!!
Nagpunta si Sec.Mar Roxas sa Tanauan, Leyte at hinarap ang mga Yolanda survivors na 6 na araw ng hindi kumakain at walang naiinom na tubig, na kahit isang bottled water ay walang dala ? Ang bitbit ay boladas !!!
Kesyo nagpunta lang daw siya sa lugar para palakasin loob ng mga survivors.
Bakit, nakakain ba ang "pagpapalakas ng loob" na dala mo, ha Mar ?
Bakit ba parang ayaw na ayaw magbigay ng relief ang gobyernong Noynoy ?
Si Valte, kandautal na sa pagtatanggol sa kanyang mga amo, buwisit !

Source: News5 Everywhere - ROXAS, BUMISITA SA TANAUAN, LEYTE PARA MAGDALA LANG NG LAKAS NG LOOB?

at least may moral support. sila tanda, seksi at pogi kailan kaya eeksena?

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Relief gridlock in Matnog



More relief truck as promised, pero di parin ganun kadali no.

I think fuel and road infra still is making it difficult. Buti nga andyan US carrier group and other foreign countries to help us.

Tama si sir mons, we badly need more aircraft for the military and humanitarian use in the future. Pati helicopters kelangan na kelangan din. Even satphones sana para may communications pa rin kahit walang cellsites. I don't know about the cost of buying and maintaining it but lack of info/communication was a big factor in the slow rehab.

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I think fuel and road infra still is making it difficult. Buti nga andyan US carrier group and other foreign countries to help us.

Tama si sir mons, we badly need more aircraft for the military and humanitarian use in the future. Pati helicopters kelangan na kelangan din. Even satphones sana para may communications pa rin kahit walang cellsites. I don't know about the cost of buying and maintaining it but lack of info/communication was a big factor in the slow rehab.

Yes buti na lang nandyan ang US carrier group to help.

Matagal na nating alam na kailingan na talaga nating dagdag ang military transport natin. Unfortunately di ganon kayaman bansa natin due to corruption, PNoy started upgrading the military but who would have thought na tatamaan tayo ng ganito kalakas na bagyo.

I don't think PNoy will have the liberty to initiate those necessary procurement after this is settled dahil balik PDAF at DAP naman tayo, alam mo naman ang mga pinoy.

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Mareng Winnie's comment for Anderson Cooper.

Blame game | Inquirer Opinion



She also made comment similar dun sa sinabi ko the other day about misleading way the media were doing their articles. Ayaw nya lang sabihin kasi kasama nya sa trabaho kaya sabi na lang niya "by the time it got out to us".

Excellent post.

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at least may moral support. sila tanda, seksi at pogi kailan kaya eeksena?

Yung lider lang nila ang busy. Busy sa pag lagay ng logo nya sa mga relief goods at photo op.

Eto ang masama dahil sa kabilat kanang banat ng media sa Admin eh UNA will run this country in 2016. Ang sarap maging pinoy.

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Hero to zero? PNoy feels typhoon backlash | ABS-CBN News

Hero to zero? PNoy feels typhoon backlash
By Rosemarie Francisco, Reuters
Posted at 11/15/2013 5:08 PM | Updated as of 11/15/2013 5:08 PM

MANILA, Philippines - Two days before one of the world's most powerful typhoons rammed into the Philippines, President Benigno Aquino had a simple but ambitious target for all government agencies: zero casualties.

Fast-forward a week: thousands are dead, anger is growing over the slow relief effort and Aquino's once-unassailable popularity is under threat - along with the reforms that have helped transform the Philippines into one of Asia's fastest-growing and hottest emerging economies.

Aquino faces a challenge that could define and undermine his presidency in the wake of Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), whose 313 km per hour (195 mph) winds and tsunami-like wall of water turned coastal regions into corpse-strewn wastelands.

The 53-year-old heir to a political dynasty appears to have been caught off guard by the magnitude of the devastation and has struggled to quell the growing frustration among survivors.

He's appeared only briefly on TV, including once from the city of Tacloban huddling with local officials and again at the Malacanang presidential palace to announce a national calamity. Other media appearances, from both Manila and the affected areas, have been rare.

"He should have grasped the enormity of the crisis," said Ramon Casiple, executive director of the Institute for Political and Electoral Reforms in Manila.

"This could be big. If nothing happens in the next week or so, and the rehabilitation goes haywire, he will have a big political problem."

Aquino spokesman Herminio Coloma both defended the president's performance but said criticism of the government was understandable.

The President had avoided visits to the hardest-hit areas so that stretched local government officials were not distracted from relief work, Coloma added.

"We do not deny that there may have been shortcomings but that is borne out of severe constraints ... The severity and magnitude of this disaster are unprecedented and unparalleled in our previous experience," he said.

"WHO'S IN CHARGE HERE?"

On Sunday, while in Tacloban, Aquino refused to believe reports that the city of 220,000 people was 95 percent devastated, with looting in some parts, according to an official who was there when the president met local authorities.

He complained that disaster officials were giving him conflicting reports, with no reliable information after the typhoon brought down telephone and power lines, said the source, who declined to be identified so he could speak candidly.

One TV network quoted Aquino as telling the head of the disaster agency he was running out of patience. Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said Aquino was just "discouraged" with the incomplete data he was getting.

Compounding Aquino's problems is the slow delivery of aid. For the first six days, the government distributed only 50,000 "food packs" containing 6 kg (13 lb) of rice and canned goods each day, covering just 3 percent of the 1.73 million families affected, according to government figures

As desperation grew, local media have begun to question Aquino's leadership.

"Who's in charge here?" ran a headline in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on Thursday.

The stakes are high for Aquino - and for the Philippines, whose economy has been one of the most robust in Asia this year. After winning control of Congress in May elections, Aquino plans to lift spending on roads and airports to a record next year to attract more investment.

Since he took office on July 1, 2010, the benchmark stock index has surged nearly 90 percent and foreign direct investment has more than doubled.

But Filipino frustration, on the streets of Tacloban and in social media, could change the course of his single six-year term that ends in 2016.

"Some of the concerns will be what this means not so much to his popularity and political stability, but more on whether this will prove to be a distraction in terms of the reform agenda in the remainder of his term," said Euben Paracuelles, economist for Southeast Asia at Nomura in Singapore.

"HELP US"

With the military at the forefront of recovery and relief operations, and government agencies struggling to deliver basic services, Aquino's support base could weaken, something governments before him have endured at their peril.

Two Philippine leaders have been ousted in the last three decades, while the previous government of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo faced several coup attempts in her troubled nine-year rule.

Political analysts say Aquino's ratings will likely suffer in the next opinion polls, especially in the typhoon-swept central Philippine provinces that have been bastions of support. Those areas registered the highest regional net satisfaction rating of "excellent" in assessing his performance in polls this year.

Across the central Philippines, desperate families appear regularly on TV news programs, often in tears, some holding signs reading "Help us" or "We need food".

Although the government warned of record-breaking winds and a surge of seawater, evacuations were poorly enforced.

And the aid, when it came, was slow.

Foreign aid agencies said relief resources were stretched thin after a big earthquake in central Bohol province last month and displacement caused by fighting with rebels in the country's south, complicating efforts to get supplies in place before the storm struck.

Aquino has defended the government's preparations, saying the death toll might have been higher had it not been for the evacuation of people and the readying of relief supplies.

The toll itself has been a point of contention.

On Tuesday, Aquino said the number of deaths may have been overstated and could be 2,000 to 2,500, a figure aid agencies and analysts consider too low in the absence of accurate reports from far-flung areas and with thousands missing.

Aquino said estimates of 10,000 dead by local officials were overstated and caused by "emotional trauma". Elmer Soria, a regional police chief who gave that estimate to media, was removed from his post on Thursday. A day later, Tacloban City Hall estimated the nationwide toll at 4,000.

"Downplaying the impact of the disaster, including the death toll, does not do anybody any good," said Mars Buan, senior analyst at political risk consultancy Pacific Strategies & Assessments.

Aquino has also stressed that no government could fully prepare for the scale of the disaster, comments that have drawn criticism.

"He's already done a 180-degree turnaround," said Benito Lim, a professor of political science at Ateneo de Manila University. "He is trying to exonerate himself from what he said earlier: 'zero casualties.'"

At one point last year, Aquino, the only son of democracy icon and former president Corazon Aquino, enjoyed a 74 percent approval rating.

Then a scandal over lawmakers' misuse of public funds erupted, threatening to undermine the platform that got Aquino into office - curbing corruption.

A whistleblower revealed in July that some lawmakers, including the president's allies, were stealing up to half the money being allocated to local projects from discretionary government funds.

Aquino has since been accused of failing to convincingly tackle a culture of political patronage. His popularity rating sank to 49 percent in September.

The challenge now for Aquino, a week after Typhoon Haiyan, is to speed up the flow of aid and rebuild the confidence of a nation shattered by one of its worst natural disasters.

"I think he will not be popular despite the fact that he is trying his best," said Lim. (Additional reporting by Karen Lema, Manuel Mogato and Erik Dela Cruz. Editing by Jason Szep and Dean Yates)

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UN says death toll 4,460, gov't disputes figure

Agence France-Presse
Posted at 11/15/2013 12:53 PM | Updated as of 11/15/2013 12:55 PM

MANILA - The United Nations said Friday the death toll from a super typhoon in the Philippines was at least 4,460, citing regional officials, but the national disaster council maintained a much lower figure.

The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the number of 4,460 was given from the regional taskforce of the Philippines' National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council on Wednesday.

But NDRMMC's spokesman Reynaldo Balido insisted the official toll from the typhoon that ripped through the central Philippines on November 8 remained at 2,360.

"As of 13 November, the government reported that 4,460 people have died," an OCHA statement said.

Asked for the source of the figures, Manila-based OCHA spokeswoman Orla Fagan said:" We are getting it from the operations center of the regional taskforce set up by the NDRMMC."

When asked about the UN's statement: Balido replied: "Not true". Then repeated the NDRMMC's published figure of 2,360.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino said on Tuesday that he estimated the final death toll would be around 2,500.

Source: UN says death toll 4,460, gov't disputes figure | ABS-CBN News

kahit sa patay may dagdag bawas din.

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EPAL to the max!!!

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http://www.topgear.com.ph/news/racin...r-seeing-this#

Yep, this is the car that the Caterham F1 team will be racing at this weekend's US Grand Prix (and also at the Brazilian Grand Prix on November 24). Which means Filipino Formula 1 fans have no choice but to root for the squad and its drivers, Charles Pic and Giedo van der Garde. The team, which has yet to score a single point this season, could certainly use our cheering.

Caterham F1 supports AirAsia's donation/relief campaign for the benefit of typhoon Yolanda victims. AirAsia is a major sponsor of the team. The team's staff and guests will be donating money during the two remaining race weekends. Part of this campaign is AirAsia's provision of 250,000 free seats to overseas Filipino workers so they could return home at this critical time.

"We are a proud member of the extended AirAsia family, and have a global audience of millions watching our sport, so being able to support AirAsia's 'To Philippines With Love' campaign with special branding and fundraising efforts on track and on our race cars is the least we can do," said Caterham F1 team principal Cyril Abiteboul. "The cars will carry the branding in Austin and Interlagos, and we are urging our team partners, all our fans and the wider F1 community to support this campaign, which will directly benefit the people of the Philippines who have been the victims of one of the world's worst-ever natural disasters."

Sorry, Ferrari. We're not rooting for you this weekend.

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EPAL to the max!!!

As I said, papogi lang habol niyan. Sadly, a lot of mangmangs fall for it.

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kahit sa patay may dagdag bawas din.

I thought UN already recanted their figure.

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As I said, papogi lang habol niyan. Sadly, a lot of mangmangs fall for it.

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Yang poging yang ang next president natin, may pagka ulol kasi mga pinoy at media eh.

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Mareng Winnie's comment for Anderson Cooper.

Blame game | Inquirer Opinion



She also made comment similar dun sa sinabi ko the other day about misleading way the media were doing their articles. Ayaw nya lang sabihin kasi kasama nya sa trabaho kaya sabi na lang niya "by the time it got out to us".

US media has a habit of sensationalizing things especially when there's an agenda. In this case, pushing for more climate change regulations...

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^Add to that, bad news sell better. I think somebody mentioned that already though.

EPAL to the max!!!

Grabe, hindi na nahiya talaga.

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EPAL to the max!!!

Sobrang kups talaga!

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For a country of 7,100 ++ islands, I wonder why this government does not have a fleet of hospital ships?

Right now, with hospitals virtually wiped out in the hard hit coastal Yolanda-areas, a hospital ship anchored offshore or docked nearby would be a great relief

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For a country of 7,100 ++ islands, I wonder why this government does not have a fleet of hospital ships?

Right now, with hospitals virtually wiped out in the hard hit coastal Yolanda-areas, a hospital ship anchored offshore or docked nearby would be a great relief

A Very Good Point! Kahit hindi hi-tech. Basic needs lang naman usually and basic meds kapag sa calamity malaking bagay na. And it can carry relief goods as well. Sana masama ito sa future plans nang gov't at baka feasible.