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Emil Guillermo: The real independence day for Filipinos and a new call for Filipinos everywhere to take a stand

By now you know it’s not July 4th, the fakey Filipino American ceremonial day that mirrors Big White Brother.

Independence Day?  it’s June 12th because that’s when Philippine General Emilio Aguinaldo, proclaimed independence from Spain from the balcony of his home in Cavite.

June 12, 1898.

And then, things change when Spain, as part of losing the overall Spanish American War gave the U.S. the Philippines in the Treaty of Paris.

Talk about double-cross.

And now the Filipinos had to fight the U.S.

600,000 Filipinos are estimated to have died overall.  At least 5,000 U.S. soldiers.

But that’s history.

Today the “beef”  is with China, which has begun building islands in the waters that are in Filipino territory.

Filipinos are taking an Alamo-like stand.

Read my column here.

Consider showing your support today in boycotts around the country. This one in San Francisco.

boycott boycott

 

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Emil Guillermo: As I kid spent hours listening to the records of Ornette Coleman.

Back in the days when libraries loaned records, I remember as an 11-year old  taking out all the Ornette Coleman records I could  get my hands on.  I don’t know if I really understood what I was listening to. It was just an explosion of sound, so different from my parents records of music from the Philippines.

It was an aural representation of freedom.

ornettecoleman
Coleman was 85 when he died this morning.
Click here to read more of his life, and to hear some of his music.

 

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Emil Guillermo: Your tax dollars at work? One Army doc’s “drug-fueled penis procedures.” CAUTION: DISTURBING VIDEO

If you wonder why animal experimenters must be stopped at every term, here’s a real life story going on in the Army.

Click here to read how Dr. John Hagmann was able to parlay it all into more than $10 million in federal contracts for his DEPLOYMENT MEDICINE INTERNATIONAL (DMI).

 

HERE’S PETA UNDERCOVER VIDEO SHOT DURING A DMI TRAINING SESSION. IT’S VIDEO SOME NEWS ORGANIZATIONS WOULDN’T SHOW.

 

SEE MORE AT PETA.ORG.

 

Disclosure: My wife headed the department at PETA that began the initial inquiry into Hagmann’s activities.

 

 

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Emil Guillermo: What if they had a Triple Crown Winner and no one cared?

That about sums up my feeling about American Pharoah’s (sic) win at the Belmont. It wasn’t Affirmed/ Alydar. It wasn’t Secretariat. It was a colt going wire-to-wire against an undistinguished field. Is that really worth celebrating.

That it took nearly 40 years to have another Triple Crown winner isn’t really about the greatness of A.P. It’s more that the game, the breed has degenerated into a drug-mired enterprise that has changed the nature of horse racing in America.

I wrote this last year amid the California Chrome hype around the Belmont, and it all still applies.

http://aaldef.org/blog/not-my-fathers-horse-races.html

If the Triple Crown really mattered it would be on the tip of everyone’s tongue

Astonishing how little if any buzz the victory had.

Here’s what really happened at Belmont yesterday. One horse died, one was vanned off, and American Pharoah won the big race. That’s some crownless triple.