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Month: March 2007

Genuineopposition.com

Published by Ellen on March 25, 2007

The Genuine Opposition party has brought their campaign to cyberspace to efficiently reach out to Filipinos all over the world. The address is http://www.genuineopposition.com.

For journalists, this gives us access to what is happening in the opposition front without us going physically to their headquarters or joining their sorties. The blog is six-days old and still a work in progress.

The few times that I attended the briefing of GO Spokesman Adel Tamano, I noticed that he and his fellow resource persons for the day (usually some senatorial candidates or party leaders like former Ambassador Ernesto Maceda) cover a lot of issues but only one or two make it to newspapers or TV. I have not monitored radio coverage.

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Shame and scandal in Arroyo family (2)

Published by Ellen on March 24, 2007

Why Arroyo wife sought protection

Keep off Arroyos’ case:court

By Michael Lim Ubac
Inquirer

At the center of the legal battle between spouses Negros Occidental Rep. Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo and Alicia Arroyo is not only the custody of their child but also the wife’s expressed fear for her life.

Alicia, a former banker and stockbroker who was the first woman and the youngest chair of the Philippine Stock Exchange, sought protection from the Quezon City Regional Trial Court in response to her husband’s petition for joint custody of their 9-year old daughter.

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Shame and scandal in Arroyo family (1)

Published by Ellen on March 24, 2007

Iggy Arroyo obtains gag order in custody case

By Gil C. Cabacungan Jr.
Inquirer

Representative Ignacio Arroyo has succeeded in getting a court order barring his estranged wife, Alicia “Aleli’’ Arroyo, and her lawyer, Lorna Kapunan, from further disclosing details of the couple’s fight for custody of their nine-year-old daughter.
Arroyo’s lawyers, who claimed that the public disclosure of what was supposed to be a private domestic affair was politically motivated, said that the court’s gag order covered not only details of the marital dispute but also Aleli’s knowledge of the Jose Pidal account.

In a hastily-called press conference at the First Gentleman’s LTA Building in Makati, Arroyo appeared calm and collect as he read a prepared statement with his lawyers and advisers nearby, hardly the picture of a man caught in the middle of this year’s most sensational marriage break-up.

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Media seeks access to Trillanes

Published by Ellen on March 22, 2007

Members of media have filed a petition before Presiding Judge Oscar Pimentel of the Makati Regional Trial Court to be allowed to interview former Lt (s.g.) Antonio F. Trillanes IV, a senatorial candidate of the Genuine Opposition, who is currently detained at the Marine Brigade in Fort Bonifacio.

trillanes.jpgI signed the petition. There were about 20 names I saw in the petition last Wednesday and some of the names I remember are that of Conrad de Quiros of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Billy Esposo of the Philippine Star, Joy de los Reyes of Malaya, Chit Estella of the Philippine Journalism Review, and Booma Cruz of the Probe Team.

The petition states that Trillanes, being a candidate of the Genuine Opposition, his personal and political views are of importance to the public. It’s our role in media to convey that to the public to help them make an informed choice on Election Day.

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Gloria: I, too, am a hunger victim

Published by Ellen on March 22, 2007

There’s a whale of a difference between being hungry because you want to shed off your excess fat and being hungry because you have nothing to eat. If Gloria does not understand that, she should be hauled to the mental hospital. Click here on Malaya’s editorial.

President Arroyo yesterday said that if simply missing a meal would qualify as experiencing hunger, then she considers herself a victim of hunger.

“Kasi iyun naman ang question ng hunger, do you miss one meal during the last three months? Pati naman ako, I’ve missed one meal in the last three months,” she said in an interview after a roundtable discussion on education and social services.

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Nasa ibang mundo

Published by Ellen on March 21, 2007

Mukhang wala na sa sarili itong mag-asawang Gloria at Mike Arroyo.
Pagkatapos lumabas ang survey ng Social Weather Station na mas dumarami ang mga pamilyang Pilipino na nagugutom (isa sa bawa’t limang pamilya), sinisi ni Gloria Arroyo ang mga mahihirap dahil sa kanilang pagkagutom.

Hindi naman raw talaga sila mahirap dahil di ba pinipilit niya na gumanda na ang buhay sa Pilipinas dahil sa galing niyang ekonomista? Kung nagugutom man raw sila, dahilan yun sa ginagastos nila ang kanilang pera sa cellphone load at sa sigarilyo.

Talagang hiwalay na itong si Gloria sa realidad. Hindi niya alam kung gaano kasadlak sa kahirapan ang maraming Pilipino. Hindi niya alam dahil ayaw nilang alamin. Dahil kapag inalam niya, sampal sa mukha niya ang tunay na kalagayan ng maraming Pilipino.

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The beans are spilling all over

Published by Ellen on March 21, 2007

Update on the Iggy and Alicia Arroyo case:A Quezon City court granted a 30-day temporary protection order to Alicia, wife of Negros Occidental Rep. Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo while the custody battle over their nine-year-old daughter is ongoing, ABS-CBN News reported Thursday.
Click here.

Even as the public has yet to fully digest the alleged love affair of Mike Arroyo and Ma. Celia Suarez as revealed in www.disbarmikearroyo.blogspot.com, here comes Alicia Arroyo, wife of Rep. Ignacio Arroyo, threatening to spill the beans if she is pushed too far.

TV Patrol carried an interview with Lorna Kapunan, counsel of Alicia Arroyo, asking for police protection for her client in a child custody case with Iggy Arroyo.

It will be recalled that Iggy Arroyo owned up the “Jose Pidal” accounts which was suspected to be really belong to Mike Arroyo.

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Gloria tells poor to shun “luxuries”

Published by Ellen on March 20, 2007

This is what you call adding insult to injury. You are wallowing in poverty that is not of your own making and you are told that you should not be extravagant! Wala na nga laman ang iyong tiyan at bulsa, sasabihin pa sa iyo, huwag magwaldas.

Ano ang iwawaldas ng mahihirap at nauubos na ni Gloria Arroyo at ng kanyang mga alagad and pera ng bayan?

It’s the height of insensitivity and stupidity!

Malaya’s report:

President Arroyo yesterday told the poor to spend their income on basic needs instead of luxuries so that their families would have enough to eat.

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