"HARDER and at the same time EASIER for 2020"

"HARDER and at the same time EASIER for 2020"

(A New Year's Message)

"This year will be harder than last year. However, it will be easier than next year."

These are the words the late Enver spoke to the people of Albania in his new year's message last 1967. In his message would say that in that year comes existing and coming challenges that his country should ever face with and to overcome, all amidst the Cold War setting. 

However, for this person, would say that despite how this late statesman Hoxha expressed, that his message hath became relevant especially in a year that's called new. Sounds quite frankly yes, in knowing that this year will be harder and at the same time easier for every Filipino, as any other citizen to face and deal with- and like last year, expect price increases, low wages, extrajudicial acts, and various forms of injustices, or even calamities, all concede with new infrastructures, new laws, new ways to brag with, anything that made the Philippines, as any other country as it is. 

And how come this person said this? 2019 was like any other year, and since the administration hath reaped its victory during the midterm elections, those supporting Duterte would say that change as still ongoing through the ever-bragged series of infrastructure development courtesy of the "build build build" program, of subsidised healthcare and education, and a myriad of promises while trying to dispel facts like political scandals, extrajudicial killings, and various forms of harassments against those who are truly and really concerned, and the likes that both expressed hope, lament, and perhaps even anger and resistance. It is a hodgepodge of hope and angst as been seen throughout those times, all coming from their statements and comments from various individuals and communities- but it stems from a single premise: the realities that surrounds them, and the truths that's uncovered amidst lies and slander.

But regardless of these truths would say that the Filipino, in this year 2020 and other succeeding years shouldn't stop in seeking truth from facts and to expose, oppose the injustices, and to assert the need for social justice and genuine development, of bridging material, moral, and spiritual wealth to create an ever active living whole. 

Hope this year, as in last year and in the coming years should be a time to forge, mold, build, learn, sow, and reap against the order that hinders growth, development, and change as a nation. 

"Looking back at Rizal- and to take back the future"

"Looking back at Rizal- 

and to take back the future"

(A Rizal Day Message)

It's been decades passed since the Filipino people hath witnessed the supreme sacrifice made by a man who soon become its country's hero. This man, Dr. Jose Rizal, died as he had lived, whose creativity and knowledge has been furthered the cause of a nation's freedom, and uplifts the dignity and welfare of his countrymen.

That through his works Noli me Tangere, El Filibusterismo, and other numerous works, Rizal's contirbution to the awakening of the Filipino, as well as those of other patriots like Bonifacio, Mabini, and De Los Reyes thought less of their lives and more of their countrymen, that somehow outweighs their shortcomings as recorded in a country's history.

And because of these contributions would say that the story of Rizal's life can provide a nation a source of strength and inspiration to enable in meeting the trying challenges of the present and in the future. For knowing that the problems of the past has been continuing even in this modern era, Rizal's work attests that there's a need for awakening in order to fight and struggle, and to build a nation that can maximise its true potential.

Sounds idealistic indeed, for despite this ever continuing past, those who wished to fight and win the future demands the cooperation of the people, their sacrifice, and their patience. For as one would believe that this kind of future comes a condition of social peace, but that peace is to be based on justice.

For just like Rizal and other patriots, they truly believe that their calls for freedom are a condition of justice and from that justice as a fundamental condition of authority- in which a coloniser or a domestic tyrant denied them as such; that even until the present this problem ever remains with an order thinking that it can be resolved either with force or coercion, including those of laws that harms a person's right, thinking that there will always be public order even without justice-but there can be no peace.

With this would say that like Rizal's determination and dedication the people may able to win the future and to bring its country to its supposed destiny, as opposed to this ever continuing past.

And thus, on this commemorative day, this note ask the people not just to pay tribute, but also to get creative like him, in order that his lofty principles and ideals will ever live in thought and in heart.

"Are they really against Oligarchs? Or pitting one against the other Oligarch?"

"Are they really against Oligarchs?

Or pitting one against the other Oligarch?"

(Or: "Of Duterte, his Apologists, and the Good vs Bad Oligarchs over utilities")

It seems becoming impossible to refrain from encountering their statements, reactions, and modes of thought being vented upon by Duterte's fanatics.

For ever since Duterte was elected in 2016 and his partymates and allies won last 2019, its apologists, being great numbers, are rather still short sighted beings who feel that the situation under their leader can resolve every matter, while the fact is that this kind of thinking hath playeth directly into the hands of the elites allying with Duterte, who're all trying desperately to hold the prevailing order together "as long as possible" to fool and exploit Filipinos while pretending having immense changes. And based on their comments these would say that they all wished either for bloodshed against the opposition, no matter they disregard issues on debt "since development is in full swing", of blaming so-called "bad oligarchs" while justify oppressive agreements, or the usual myriad of red taggings, red herrings, and under the belt hecklings that instead of a call for an "inclusive unity" they wished is a call for an enforced order that even benefits the "oligarchs" allied with their dear leader Duterte.

And it is quite usual for these populists for knowing that there are times they demand to "put oligarchs into justice" as any other statement of theirs, what more that with their idol who he put them at par with the rebel and the dealer altogether as criminals and therefore as "enemies of the people". For sure may preach to and fro about this matter, alweaving everything "against Duterte" as they trying to appease everyone when in fact they just point primarily towards the opposition for all their woes more than the criminals and the "oligarchs" they talked about.

And in speaking of "Oligarchs", Duterte and his supporters may've pointed names like Manny Pangilinan of Metro Pacific, Zobel de Ayala, and the Lopezes of ABS CBN all for exploiting Filipinos, but, come to think of this: how about San Miguel's Danding Cojuangco and its stooge Ramon Ang? Phoenix's Dennis Uy? Or even the Villar couple who owns the subdivisions that was once ricefields? Duterte seemed to parrot some "leftist rhetoric" against those "oligarchs" who are against him, while still in connivance with the elites especially those who supported and funded him during the 2016 elections.

Because of this "bad" vs "good" oligarch matter, like the issue on criminality, corruption, and all the likes surrounding Duterte and his camarilla, this is going to do nothing to "fight against the oligarchy", "make major and immense changes", or even "bring justice" but only to increase the degree of its hold over every individual in a way their statements creates an excuse and a plausible cover for the creation of a police state apologists wished for.

How come this is going to do nothing? Duterte's apologists cried angst towards opposition-inclined oligarchs like those stated from above, however, they failed to offer a sound alternative such as from the Left with its Nationalisation of utilities. Some would even wished for a foreign-owned conglomerate to fully take over, thinking that Filipinos as altogether incompetent, making them say "they've had enough of 'Filipino First'" and to tell the people that they should follow the market for a direction since "they don't need the government to decide for the people" but instead reduce its role to a fencesitter.

But most of these apologists said nothing to offer for an alternative to this "oligarch-owned" utility companies that created a mess-unless parroting a statement coming from their idol who wished for his ally to take over one or another, and if happens, then there's no difference between an "administration-backed oligarch" and an "opposition-supported oligarch", both of them are oligarchs in the first place, belonging to an elite regardless of its backgrounds yet benefited from the order the people wished to dismantle for something new.

And in speaking again about those who demand further opening at the expense of national patrimony, that their words are much aligned towards their obvious idea of reducing nation states into mere demographics as they see the economy being a multinational matter with the market as its focus. Ideas such reducing the role of the state into a fencesitter, of uncontrolled flow of foreign capital, and the right for foreigners to establish business all without regulations including the right to exploit resources, these and more would say it wouldn't be surprised that these self-proclaimed "economic experts" with all their neoliberal-globalist tendencies are wishing to have the foreigner's right to property, to remove restrictions on labor, and to use the power of the state to restrict people's movements just to maintain their interests firmer as those of the oligarch.

Thus, there is no difference between a foreign moneylender and a domestic oligarch. Whether the name is Rothschild, Lehman, Tan, Kung, Villar or Ayala, so long as it oppresses the people with their unjust policies then it fails to show development. 

Thus, with these situations and beyond, it is unsurprising for like the past administrations, this present order used fear and false hopes, of classical carrot and stick tactics, of aggravating situations as prequels to an undemocratic order with its negation of people's rights; and if it can again use these issues just to get one to agree with their whims, these are only to turn right around and use it on that person especially after getting concerned from those ever-continuing killings to those of price increases.

And also with these scenarios would say that the struggle of the folk will still continue like the protest marches the order and its apologists would cry wolf about. 

"Fighting Back!"

"Fighting Back!"

(A poem for a proletarian nation)

Scorned by hostile forces

Trying to be beaten by old terror

Making them cling further to the struggle

As through the red sun comes a new order

The red sun shines with its radiant rays

A symbol of becoming and of light

Over the east with the future lies

Trumping against the rotten as hope realise so bright

The order will try to exorcise as in the past

Be it word or gun, through deceit or deny

But the people long oppressed had enough of their spite

And through the dawn broke all binding chains, tools into arms, breaking fight!

Like a spark comes a ricefield fire their anger paved to rage

Nevermind pain or death for avenge is the message

As morning breaks darkness, fear comes to the hostile forces

By those trying to be beaten, now unshackled and armed

For this let the people be enlight and struggle

And carry forward the task and goals for the people

All against the order's deceit and trickery

All against the order's ever prevailing tyranny

And let justice prevail in farm and factory

And should steel and unite

That is, through mind and sinew, blood and thought.

"Remembering Mao's legacy, Seeking Truth from Facts, and counter the order and its revisions"

"Remembering Mao's legacy, 

 Seeking Truth from Facts, 

 and counter the order and its revisions"

At first, this solemn commemoration of Mao Zedong's birth is of remembering one of the greatest contributors in the history of Marxism-Leninism, the man who dutifully transformed China as he created socialism in his country, and whose thought would ever illuminates in asserting one's independence, of seeking truth from facts, and of recognising the ability of the folk as the creators of their country's history.

And for the fact that progressives and revolutionaries are entitled to commemorate revolutionary thinkers and fighters, one would say that the best if not the only way to continue a legacy us to carry the struggle forward, in further cultivating a view and to  take practise even in this ever present conditions. For sure there are those who will dismiss this note, thinking that Mao or any other revolutionary thinker as unnecessary in a time of modern this and that; only to find that these people who dismiss rather bow down obsequiously before the the present order that's of neoliberal capitalism, globalisation, or in the case of China itself, its social-imperialism.

Xi parroting Mao
while continuing the Dengist road

And to think that China under the era of Xi Jinping has trying to "bring back" studying Mao so as to study again the works of Marx, it may deemed meaningless as the country itself has held on to the capitalist road brought by Deng Xiaoping and continued to this present day, having new skills but carrying old ideas such as those of taking the capitalist road and fostering it through exploitation and disenfranchisement, not just on China alone but also in neighbouring countries, becoming flies and mosquitoes which flit endlessly over the garbage dumps of decadence and corruption that has shown today.

But despite these dismissions, those who study Mao and contribute to his works are the awakened folks who tend to carry on the enduring legacy of Mao Zedong and his thought. That by "seeking truth from facts" has further expose and oppose those who stood against the will of the folk, of waging struggles against neoliberalism, globalisation, imperialism be it those of US and revisionist China, and its domestic lackeys. These words may consider as deemphasised if not outright unnecessary in a time when "economic development" or "modernisation" as the mainline dictum, but even in this modern conditions studying Mao Zedong's thought and applying in the present is more than just seeking truth nor exposing and opposing the corrupt order, but also to advance further the cause of the people all for genuine democracy, national and social liberation, and community empowerment.

And as a fundamental contribution to Marxism-Leninism, would say that Mao's works, especially serving the people and in seeking truth from facts is a way to understand local and international situation and to push forward an alternative. Despite ironically, seeing revisionists like Deng Xiaoping up to those of Xi Jinping would speak those words, while the fact that they seriously pursue a different direction and redescribing itself as having a "Chinese characteristic". This characteristic assumes itself as "socialist" when in fact it becomes capitalist and even social imperialist, as it replaced the idea of empowering the people and community with those of capitalist-oriented "economic development" and "modernisation", and letting the idea of proletarian dictatorship be liquidated in favor of "class collaboration" as big businesses assuming themselves as "socialists" or "communists" and to spread the idea of gaining markets to exploit and plunder while pretending themselves as for the people.

With this would say that the once revolutionary country has followed the example of the former Soviet Union in becoming a social-imperialist, and the United States as Neoliberal and an outright Capitalist, in parroting the idea of "development" as a form of soft power to the maldeveloped; if not to see multinational companies gaining profit as it continues to hold its markets in China, and business deals with the United States, Russia, and the European Union continues all at the expense of the laboring folk and its communities.

But despite these statements would say that those who truly serve the people and seriously seeking truth from facts has the will to oppose a view that's deviating from the revolutionary direction and into captalist restoration/consolidation. That by "being rich as glorious" justifies plunder and exploitation, if not the words "reform", "modernisation", and "development" even it disempowers the labouring folk and the community, making a former worker who, from a Washington Post interview since 2012 expressed his personal angst against the "capitalist road" ever taken by "Chinese communists" and desires a renewed struggle:

"They call it socialism, but Deng Xiaoping, [the architect of China’s market reforms], has created a system that combines the worst of all worlds: hyper-capitalism, corruption and fascism,"

"Seeking truth to expose and struggle
against the current of oppression"

As today's China continues to traverse its capitalist direction while keeping the word socialism, developing countries like the Philippines continues to be enslaved by both domestic and foreign interests especially through its modern form of debt peonage.

For as President Rodrigo Duterte acts aa a vassal to Xi Jinping, he surrendered his country to China as he surrendered further to international capital like those of his predecessors.

That by parroting the idea of change, order, and development, the treachery brought by the order aggravates existing problems regardless of its numerous debt-driven achievements and half-baked "reforms" and "programs". And since it bows to Chinese, as any other foreign interests would say that the inital patriotic-laden statements turns out to be words meant to snare the people to support their interests, no matter how controversial its nature be it the surrender of its patrimony or the ever growing terrorism that's meant to consolidate the order.

Apologists may disagree on this as they defend their idol and its "numerous achievements", but as the concerned masses investigate, seeking truth from facts, comes exposing the contrary to what the order dubbed as development. For as developing countries feel the effects of a "debt trap" caused by China's loans and other existing debts, coupled with unjust agreements and concessions, comes the giving up of one's patrimony for some semblance of progress. Worse, to see an order expanding its interests by further entering foreign capital at the expense of labour, community, and the environment.

And also to think that Duterte's policies bear no difference from his neoliberal-monetarist predecessors the people continuously assert the desire for national independence and sovereignty, empowered community, and a vibrant people's democracy that values serving the people faithfully, of seeking truth from facts, and to further cultivate self reliance to promote a truly empowered and developed society.

Sounds idealistic yes, but so long as the country, as any other developing country, continues to be victimised by neoliberal and globalist policies, of debt traps and "reforms" benefiting their ruling orders, would say that their system has failed, much worse, betrayed the people just to maintain their interests while assuming themselves as for the people or for the country; but did their agendas really empower the folk and their community? No, it is the ruling order that disenfranchises them to the point that it has to give up patrimony in any form, no matter it tries to assume as beneficent (such as in a form of infrastructure program or whatsoever) when in fact they carried much about their interest. 

With this would say that national struggle is a matter of class struggle, and the ruthless socioeconomic exploitation and political oppression forced the masses, particularly the worker in the city and the peasant in the countryside to be aware of their society and its problems further, to assert necessary reforms up to those of taking up arms against its rule to assert a radical alternative.

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How come this note, despite commemorating Mao is at the same time assailing the order including those who "praise" him for his contributions? With regard to China, there were internal conditions that bred a variant of modern revisionism as petty-bourgeoisified bureaucrats and intelligentsia seizes political power and declare prematurely that the class struggle has ended.
And his view would reminds of replacing the proletarian dictatorship to those of a vague tagline "state of the entire people" while it systematically remove those who adhere to an ideal, prate about the need for social order, create massive concessions with capitalists as it delivers the working people to exploitation-and redescribing these as "reforms" or "modernisations". This situation has mocked whom they "praised with", while those who adhere to Mao, as in Marx and Lenin, are themselves pointing their arms against the exploiter including those who betrayed a revolutionary view.

Anyway, regardless of the situation brought by today's neoliberals and "socialists", that those who adhere in the teachings of Mao, and seriously seeking truth from facts will still dare to expose and oppose every oppressive order and to transform patriotism into a working class, revolutionary variant in order to assert further independence, a vibrant peoples democracy, and to build socialism that empowers the laboring folk and the community through self reliance and genuine solidarity. 

"First Quarter Storm"

"First Quarter Storm"

By: Kat Ulrike

Forward comrades towards Manila

Forward comrade youth and students

Workers, peasants, all oppressed masses

For the sun will soon rise from the east

We all stayed awake until the sun breaks

With papers all invoked a message

About this First Quarter rising

The dawn of a Nation coming

Of marches all towards Mendiola

Of protests from Congress, Luneta

With riot police waiting for us

Eyes pointing 'gainst us for the beat

From our chants we raised our voices

In speeches we call to avenge

Against feudal lords, compradores

Of puppet tyrants and its lords

Policemen now wanting to beat us

Will charge with shields raised against

They'll beat every young men and women

Disquiet will soon paved to rage

Oil bombs are throwing over their posts

Pillboxes will soon fill the stage

The order's been shaken as the masses

Arise from its slumber unafraid

The order responded with their truncheons

And bright red blood had stained the way

But pain doesn't matter for the people

Still, the sun rises in the east

Arrests and reprisals soon follow

But the storm can't driven away

Even they will send us to stockades

The awakened soon follow the way

No matter the laws will hinder us

No matter the truncheons will block us

The masses will break their reaction

The people's cry is revolution!

The Mountains and forests are calling

As the People's Army are marching

The countryside's struggle continuing

The prairie fire as vastly burning

I hope my love tells my mother

That I'll still fight the order then, again

And tell her that I'm with the people's army

For martyrs, and fallen be avenged

Our comrades will take out the weapons

In mountains will all fight again

The red flag will rise and flutter

the sun will rise over the east

Forward comrades towards Manila

Forward comrade youth and students

Workers, peasants, all oppressed masses

For the sun will soon rise from the east

"He is the Reason to celebrate this Season"

"He is the Reason to celebrate this Season"

(Ramblings over Christmas)

Christ is Born! Glorify him!

These are the words one would express in this Chistmas day, and what a miraculous blessing it would be. For as the Lord Jesus Christ, being the eternal Word of God hath born and laid in manger, this Child, born of the virgin, is himself brings to earth a kingdom, but not of this world.

This child did tremble kings as angels sung, that the sheperds prayeth and gifts bestowed, for through his birth cometh the good news of his salvation, and in his words meant not to judge but also to bless everyone. And in him would made holy, fulfilled, and raised to life eternal.

The message may resound throughout as in the past, for as everyone celebrated his birth would meant renewing hope in him. He may not arriveth in an earthly splendour, but in having wise men and shepherds did bow and worship they sought how this Christ will bring good news to them, the way its shining light did cast over him to welcome not just his birth but to bring his message that is, to carry forward.

Christ as an undying "Light"

HE AND THE FATHER ARE ONE:
"Lets offer all our lights
and our love to him."

But prior to this celebration, and Christians are waiting for his birth, Jews were celebrating feast of lights, and that with their lighting of the Menorah would say that they all celebrating the dedication of the temple that was once defiled and end cleansed as part of their worship to the Lord. And like Christmas it is also a feast wherein food, games, and anything enjoyable being taken as any other custom celebrating its mystery.
However, Hanukkah was also one of the holidays Christ did took part during his life on earth-as what John 10:22-30 said. And from those words he even plainly stated that He could grant eternal life, and that He and the Father as One.

It may sound weird tho, but as Hanukkah, being a holiday for the Jews as itself within the season near Christmas as for the Christians, the lighting of candles has become a symbol of hope as ancestors would light its lamps that brought everyone from darkness. Its fires did warmth, cooked food, and give life to a setting that even becomes a symbol to a man's ability to reason, to think, and to transform the world around all to meet its needs. 

But Christ is himself an undying light that shines upon everyone. Whereas the first Hanukkah was about cleansing the temple and lighting its candles, this time the body hath become the temple itself, as within lives the spirit of the Lord. Every body is itself a temple, and in every life had first to be cleansed by the body and blood of the Lord to rededicate again to God through the Holy Spirit. Thus, since Hanukkah occurs near the same week as Christmas, then perhaps one would say that the birth of the Lord is itself a day that the light hath shown to the world, an eternal light to those who believe in him and his quest for redemption.

Are they really Sharing for others?
Or Gratifying for themselves? 

"Giving and Sharing?
 Or Sense Gratifying?"

Meanwhile for most people, Christmas is more to do with themes such as giving and sharing. That by seeing pictures featuring people sharing gifts and smiles one would say that this is the fitting description of Christmas or the entire Yuletide season in itself, to the extent that "Christmas is for Children" with all the toys wrapped and placed in the Christmas tree until 25 or even up to New Year. This sharing and giving would say has become idealised as such, that sometimes those who are obviously selfish end compelleth to "give" all for the sake of the occasion.

Sorry for the view tho, for in speaking of those who are selfish, they sometimes wish that Christmas is all about "Giving" than "Sharing", all thinking about themselves even at the expense of others; that in their hearts they are all but themselves that sometimes forgetting what Christmas really meant except those of gifts, of bountiful feasts, anything consumeristic than the very essence of itself such as those of Christ and his yearness for change of heart. Thus, as people tend to enjoy the consumerist aspect of the season- that at times laced with some morals such as sharing and giving, do people really give and share from their hearts? Or just in that season alone as most of the time care much about themselves and their gratifications?

And from there at times these people forgot to remember God not just for the blessings given but also for a time to spend with him and seek forgiveness. Sounds "realtalk" isn't it to include that word "forgiveness" alongside "sharing" and "giving"? For the fact that people think Christmas as just fun alone, seeking repentance and forgiveness seems to "kill the joy" of a materialist-laden season, not knowing that the celebrant himself is born to raise people to the holy, eternal life for which the Lord created in the first place all in His image and likeness- and that image includes the will to forgive, to repent, to reconcile, all for the peace and goodwill everyone desires-and that's more valuable than the gifts being seen in the Christmas tree.


To be with him and in him in his struggle

What more that people forgot that the Savior comes to the people humbly and peaceably. For sure in seeing the replica of the manger that showeth the saviour's humility-that from there he takes the lowest, most vulnerable place for Himself: that being born to a Jewish family lived under the oppression of the Roman Empire and the cruelty of its vassal King Herod. He was born of the Virgin, surrounded by animals, and supported by a husband whose Angels spoke to him to raise God's child as his son. That along with prayers from shepherds and songs from angels gifts of Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh from the three wise men further  recognises the child's destiny as a saviour, king, and man whose life being an offering;

After an initial joy, the need to escape 

But that initial joy in Bethlehem soon comes the risks, that with Herod sensing the newborn child as a threat to his rule as king would force the holy family escape to Egypt by night, fleeing literally for their lives as soldiers killed every innocent child out of suspicion. That somehow would say he was born like the children today whose families flee from war and persecution in troubled nations.

That again, sounds "realtalk" in showing words like "Humility", or even "political" by comparing their flight to Egypt to those of escaping from a troubled nation, but again Christ's birth, what more his entire life on earth, showeth that he truly born, lived, died, and lived again all to bring hope, to bring people closer to his father more than those whose words be as different from their actions. He's indeed Kingly, but out of his Humility, He is indeed Godly, but out of his Humanity. These attributes would say that God, through Christ, hath sought Humanity's state and thus really need "help". And being an "Emmanuel" whose meaning "God is with us" would say that Christ, as the embodiment of God, has shared to the people hope through love, that in truth meant liberation, that humility is itself regal, that in his mercy brought compassion, attributes of a king who redeems his people all for the kingdom that's to come. True is opening lines of the Gospel of John’s description of Christ, that even those Messianic Jews who also adhere to Kabbalah agrees to its description, that “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. . . . The Word became a human being and lived with us, and we saw his Shekhinah.”

Celebrating the Man who did raise his
fist and cleansed his Father's house

And to think that Christ did really need people help, then sorry if this may sound "Political" but one of his passages, such as Isiah 61:1, or even Matthew 10:34. The latter sounds even much "Political" as he said about bringing Sword than Peace, that may also sound encouraging people to rise up and take arms to bring justice in this world.

But come to think of this, that in his time would say that Christ, all after seeing a corrupt order such as in the temple, of moneylenders and vendors in its sacred premises, of interest-seeking priests at the expense of the poor, will he just get contented to this? No! of course! And from those words would say he wished to end that repressive and unjust order in which sin engenders it, all to affect his mission of justice in the world. And yes- his message such as coming from God is itself political, a subversive, and really provoking to an order that wishes of "peace" just to maintain its oppression.

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Perhaps, to cut this note short, may people realise that Christ is the reason to celebrate this Yuletide season. He is the sun of justice that through his rays he provideth the warmth over everyone's cold heart if not the embrace of hope that in every being desired as such. And that by celebrating the true spirit of Christmas means in one with Christ all in fulfilling his vision of Hope, Peace, and Love through Mercy and Compassion that serves. This vision is more than just the gifts being given, or being broadcasted throughout these years and perhaps even in beyond.

Hope that in this season and in beyond, let people realise this vision and direction Christ hath taken, that in every struggle the drivel is for salvation, all for a just, liberating, and lasting peace.