Typhoon YOLANDA (Haiyan)

[Retz]

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playstation sila ni Josh?

[uls]

ikulong na lang sa kwarto at bigyan ng laruan si pnoy para hindi istorbo

kung pwede lang hindi na humarap sa media

kung pwede lang hindi na pumunta sa disaster areas after mag bagyo o lindol

kung pwede lang sa office lang araw araw... nag iinternet tulad natin

pero hinde eh

mataas ang expectation ng publiko sa presidente

PNoy, bet you didnt expect ganyan kahirap ang trabaho ,ng presidente no?

akala niyo ng mga kaibigan mo buhay hari kayo for 6 years no?

pa-fun-run fun-run lang ng Porsche 911 sa SCTEX

bad trip ba tuwing may bagyo? kailangan pumunta sa mga disaster area para ipakita sa tao may malasakit ka

nakakatamad no?

haaay hirap talaga ng buhay

[Syuryuken]

Give it a week? Eh hindi naman ito lindol na unexpected. Ilang araw na ito na nasa balita bago pa mag landfall. Sabi pa ni noynoy ready na daw gobyerno sa pagdating ng bagyo. Handa na pala eh bakit slow response pa din. Yun yun eh.

Sabi niya:

" relief goods are also pre-positioned in many of the areas expected to be affected by the supertyphoon."

May helicopter din daw na standy.


Aquino: PH ready to face supertyphoon ?Yolanda? | Inquirer News

So ano ba talaga?

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mas magandang tumahimik ka na lang walang maitutulong na maganda yang karereklamo mo or instead na puro ka reklamo tumulong ka na lang sa mga victim.

[[archie]]

I have nothing against pnoy.

Pero yung napanood ko yung interview, mahina mga sagot niya. Alam ng lahat mahina military, lgu, local police, but hindi dahilan Para hindi gumawa ng paraan. Kailangan pa US ang gumawa ng paraan. It's makes the Philippines look stupid and hindi marunong magisip. Parang "dadating naman mga kano, Hayaan na natin sila sa strategy." Tsk Tsk Tsk.

[claRkEnt]

PAGASA/DOST gave the warnings and was heeded.
There were preparations made
Yung sinasabi na may stand-by na relief items, meron nga daw.

Now here came Yolanda
Major impact. pati stand-by na relief goods, natangay ng bagyo/inanod ng baha. Ubos!
LGUs paralyzed. Equipments. manpower, law enforcers, everything

Damaged properties wala na magagawa about that. nature kalaban
Lost lives, di naging aggressive LGUs.
yung Mayor Javier sa Leyte(?), he threatened arrest to those in coastal areas na di evacuate. result, only 3 deaths

sa Aid Distribution: mahirap logistics talaga. archipelago pa tayo.

[BratPAQ]

And it doesn't help hearing Alcala amidst the looting na "wag po tayo mag-alala, marami po tayong stock ng bigas sa warehouse sapat para sa mga nasalanta ni Yolanda." it's one big facepalm for me, anong wa mag alala eh nagnanakaw na nga mga tao sa desperasyon.

Nung tanungin asan yung bigas, nasa warehouse daw, kunin lang daw ng LGU dun. LGU eh di nga functioning LGU dahil dapa din sila. At natatakot saw sila ipamahagi baka daw sila dumugin ng tao.

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[Monseratto]

Palpak ang tingin ng tao sa goverment, even before the disaster, Filipinos percieve that they just cannot rely on the goverment on anything...

Why the Philippines wasn?t ready for typhoon Haiyan

Why the Philippines wasn’t ready for typhoon Haiyan
BY MAX FISHER
November 11 at 3:57 pm

The typhoon that tore through the Philippines on Friday threw the country into such turmoil that, days later, public officials are reporting wildly different death tolls. The government disaster relief agency announced 229 killed, the army reported 942 and local officials in the devastated provence of Leyte went as high as 10,000. But none are much more than estimates, given that emergency workers still can't reach some of the worst-affected areas. By every indication, the Philippine government is doing all it can to respond. But the fact that its officials and agencies have not even come together on the death toll, much less a national effort to serve the hundreds of thousands reportedly displaced, highlights just how badly the country was caught off guard by the storm's destruction.

Why wasn't the Philippines more ready? About 20 tropical cyclones hit the country every year, making it practically a routine. The arrival of typhoon Haiyan was certainly no surprise. Yet supposedly storm-proof shelters were destroyed and foreseeably necessary relief efforts have failed to come together. The single most important factor may be that, quite simply, this storm was just too big; with winds well beyond 200 miles per hour and sea levels surging across coastal communities, no country could absorb it unharmed. But the Philippines seems to have been particularly ill-suited to deal with this crisis.

One of clearest explanations for the Philippines' unpreparedness may, sadly, also be one of the most difficult to address: its poverty. The country is ranked 165th in the world by GDP per capita, just below the Republic of Congo. One result is that many homes are modestly constructed of light materials like wood. Another is that the government has fewer resources to invest in infrastructure that could resist natural disasters and be used for relief efforts. Three days after the storm, the devastated city of Tacloban remained almost inaccessible; aid workers said it took six hours to make the 14-mile round trip ferrying supplies between the airport and the city center. Officials warn that telecommunications and power could be offline for days, weeks or even months, slowing rescue efforts.

The Philippines' challenges, though, go beyond just the size of the national treasury. After all, developing countries such as China often invest heavily in infrastructure, plowing money into such projects to spur economic growth. The Philippines' political system, though, can make centralized governance difficult. Owing to the country's remarkable diversity -- more than 100 languages are spoken, including eight recognized regional languages -- local and provincial governments can have a degree of autonomy. That helps with political stability, but it makes it tougher for the central government to push through big infrastructure development, or to organize a national response once disaster strikes. This may help explain why, as of Monday, the government had provided just three military transport planes to bring supplies in to Tacloban and to evacuate refugees, though the coastal city is the country's hardest-hit.
The Philippine military is also struggling, in Tacloban and elsewhere, to simply establish order. Looting has gotten so bad so quickly that relief groups say their convoys have come under attack. This may be an extension of the country's ongoing struggle with crime, which has grown so severe that the government was losing control of public order long before the storm hit. In a radio interview earlier this year, Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas II conceded, "I am, like everyone else, also alarmed that despite the measures taken by the Philippine National Police, including checkpoints and others, these criminals are trying to challenge the government."

The apparent fear that the Philippine government would be unable to provide or police may be self-reinforcing, making criminals and non-criminals alike more likely to loot if they believe the state won't come through. It may also help explain why a number of families in the worst-hit areas reportedly ignored the warnings and stayed in their homes. Reportedly, many feared that the state would be unable to protect their homes from looters, leading them to try to do it themselves.

Contrast the Philippines' experience with typhoons to Japan's, with earthquakes. For centuries, the country was nearly helpless against its regular quakes; more than 140,000 people were killed when one hit outside Tokyo in 1923. Today, the country is engineered practically from the ground up to withstand them. Large buildings are fortified with elaborate hydraulic systems; many homes are networked with alarms that sound in case of an offshore quake that could bring a tsunami. Civilians drill since early childhood on the proper response. When the 2011 quake hit, despite the damage, only 25 of the country's 170 emergency response hospitals were knocked offline even temporarily. Because people felt they could count on the government to come through, nearly all civilians complied with evacuation orders and hardly any looted. Within two days, for all their failings at responding to the Fukushima nuclear crisis, Japanese officials had successfully evacuated half a million people and deployed 100,000 troops, 190 planes, 45 boats, 120,000 blankets, and 110,000 liters of gasoline.

In many ways, the preparedness gap between Japan and the Philippines does, unfortunately, come down to money. Infrastructure is expensive; so are national preparedness programs and the sort of military that can mobilize so widely and so quickly. But the difference also gets to more elusive factors, about a government's power to not just deploy helicopters and clear roads but to earn its society's trust and, at the right moments, its compliance.

[Retz]

CNN: Government is not doing anything...... Why? when did the government did something?

[Retz]

[badkuk]

Palpak kasi yung goverment, even before the disaster, Filipinos just cannot rely on the goverment on anything...

Why the Philippines wasn?t ready for typhoon Haiyan

i'm not convinced that the looting was drive purely out of desperation. Why would "desperate, hungry" people steal a freezer or mind grinder? Where would they even plug the damn things?

Agree 100% on the lack of trust in our government. It's been one failure after another. So better to be self-reliant, be prepared.

[badkuk]

Um...i'm not sure about the motivation for the comment. The guy was just describing what happened right?

[badkuk]

CNN: Government is not doing anything...... Why? when did the government did something?

Well...the government did steal/misuse pork barrel funds...:D

[claRkEnt]

Um...i'm not sure about the motivation for the comment. The guy was just describing what happened right?

motivation? nothing.. just an Addition to the Post Count.

[claRkEnt]

Palpak ang tingin ng tao sa goverment, even before the disaster, Filipinos percieve that they just cannot rely on the goverment on anything...

Why the Philippines wasn?t ready for typhoon Haiyan

typical "asa lahat sa gobyerno" mentality... anyway, the govt will always be there to take the blame.

[chrismarte]

di ba pwede i-waive yung batas?

Cash donations subject to tax, BIR chief says

Cash donations made to privately-led groups assisting typhoon victims remain subject to donor's tax, the Philippines' tax chief said.

However, Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Commissioner Sixto Esquivias IV failed to provide tax rates while testifying before the Senate sub-finance committee chaired by Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago.

“Donations done straight to private individuals are subject to donor’s tax," Esquivias said. “Donations to government and charitable institutions are exempt."

Besides emphasizing that donors will not encounter any problems with the tax, Esquivias added that agencies such as the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) could receive donations from the private sector “tax-free."

Previously, Santiago was attempting to secure BIR approval for a donor's tax waiver to spur more donations for victims of the storm Ondoy.

Although she earlier intended to file a bill exempting cash donations from donor's tax, Santiago opted to file a resolution instead.

Under Section 98 of the National Internal Revenue Code, direct or indirect gifts, real and personal properties, tangible or intangible assets under P100,000 will be exempt from taxes.

However, a tax of anywhere from two to 15 percent will be charged on donations worth anywhere from P100,000 to P10 million. - GMANews.TV

[Retz]

Earlier in DZMM, Failon was suggesting to the DOT secretary if we could use emergency radio transmission for a quicker way to broadcast message to those people who are affected.

[viper888]

Noynoy if youre reading this, here is somebody new to blame

Washington is 8,600 miles (13,840 km) from the Philippines. Beijing is 1,800 miles (2,900 km) away. Yet while American aid is flowing across the Pacific to the hard-hit archipelago, where thousands have died, Chinese help is barely trickling across the South China Sea in the wake of last weekend’s typhoon.


More than 250 Marines are on the ground in the Philippines, supported by five C-130 cargo planes and four V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft, with more aircraft on their way. The leathernecks have already delivered more than 50 tons of water, food and medicine. The carrier U.S.S. George Washington is slated to arrive off the Philippines’ coast on Wednesday from a port call in Hong Kong, with an air wing of more than 80 aircraft, including 11 helicopters, and the ability to produce 400,000 gallons (1.5 million liters) of fresh water daily. U.S. emergency shelters are coming from Dubai. Also steaming toward the ravaged nation are the cruisers U.S.S. Antietam and U.S.S. Cowpens, the destroyers U.S.S. Lassen, U.S.S. McCampbell and U.S.S. Mustin, plus the supply ship U.S.N.S. Charles Drew.

Meanwhile, China has pledged $100,000 (plus another $100,000 from the Chinese Red Cross).

Is that any way for a wannabe superpower to act?

The U.S. is the world’s largest economy, with an annual gross domestic product of $16 trillion. That’s double the size of China’s official GDP figure, but actually only 25% bigger when adjusted for purchasing parity. In fact, according to a March report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, China will eclipse the U.S. as the world’s biggest economy in 2016.

China’s stinginess (in comparison, the U.S., beyond its military moves, has donated $20 million, with Japan and Australia giving about $10 million apiece) highlights what it means to be a superpower in an interconnected world. Even the official Chinese press is beginning to weigh in on the yuan-pinching ways of the Middle Kingdom.

“China shouldn’t be absent in the international relief efforts. Instead, it should offer help within the compass of its power, given China’s international position and its location of facing the Philippines across the sea,” said a Tuesday editorial in the People’s Daily, an official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee. “China’s international image is of vital importance to its interests. If it snubs Manila this time, China will suffer great losses.”

China has been engaged in a territorial dispute for decades with the Philippines over the South China Sea that separates them (it also has such issues with Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam). The China-Philippine squabble has become increasingly tense amid bulked-up navies and the hunt for underwater energy sources.

That no doubt accounts for some of Beijing’s lackluster response.
It doesn’t take long for news of such meager action to spread around the globe. “Fundraising drives are under way, and about two dozen countries have announced relief efforts — though the efforts planned by some, such as China’s pledge of $100,000, seem grossly inadequate,” a Washington Post editorial noted on Tuesday.
The message apparently is seeping into the Chinese consciousness. Qin Gang, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, said Beijing might give more. “China has also suffered from the disaster,” he said, “so we very much understand and sympathize with the current hardships that the Philippine people are facing.” Chinese media reported seven people in southern China had been killed by the weakened storm. (Philippine President Benigno Aquino III scaled back the estimated death toll in his country from an initial 10,000 to 2,500 on Tuesday.)

Meanwhile, resurrecting a U.S. military presence in the Philippines — Manila kicked out U.S. troops more than 20 years ago — is a subject of negotiations between the Philippines and Washington. It’s all part of the U.S. military’s “pivot” to Asia, which has captured Beijing’s attention.

“We are in discussions with the government of the Philippines right now on greater access for U.S. forces,” Pentagon spokesman George Little said on Tuesday. “The goal is not to have new permanent bases for the U.S. military, but it’s to enable rotational presences so that we can work together with allies and partners in the region to address problems like humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. The goal in this region and elsewhere is to help build partner capacity. That’s in our interest, and it’s in other countries’ interests as well.”

Well, except maybe for China’s.



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Typhoon Haiyan: What?s a Superpower to Do? | TIME.com

[lowslowbenz]

PAGASA/DOST gave the warnings and was heeded.
There were preparations made
Yung sinasabi na may stand-by na relief items, meron nga daw.

Now here came Yolanda
Major impact. pati stand-by na relief goods, natangay ng bagyo/inanod ng baha. Ubos!
LGUs paralyzed. Equipments. manpower, law enforcers, everything

sa Aid Distribution: mahirap logistics talaga. archipelago pa tayo.

Exactly ....

[ZENMasterTYL]

come to think of it, most NGOs and media outlets already have plans and strategies when a calamity strikes. in fact nandun na ata lahat, except sa government.

siguro naman may disaster planning ang gobyerno, hindi lang nila alam implement

[ClaNker]

typical "asa lahat sa gobyerno" mentality... anyway, the govt will always be there to take the blame.

And blame the national Government mentality. Yung mga LGU na kupal parang wala lang, hintay lang kami ng tulog dito mentality.