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Month: June 2007

Babala sa mga gusto pang magsalita

Grabe itong nangyari na pagpatay kay Musa Dimasidsing, ang schools district supervisor, na siyang nanguna na magbulgar na wala naman talagang eleksyon na naganap sa Maguindanao kung saan 12-0 ang score sa senatorial elections, pabor sa Team Unity ni Gloria Arroyo.

Noong Sabado ng gabi, kakatapos lang kumain ng hapunan si Dimasidsing at nakatayo siya sa labas ng Madrasah (Islamic School) sa Pikit, North Cotabato ng biglang may narinig na putok. Tapos, nag brown out.

Naghagilap sila ng kani-kanilang flashlight ag laking gulat nila nang makita nila si Dimasidsing na duguang nakabulagta sa lupa. Patay.

AFP seeks to gauge sentiment on Trillanes win


by Victor Reyes
Malaya

The military survey, in Conrado de Quiroz’ column

THE military is conducting a survey to determine if its officers and men have negative sentiments on the likely senatorial victory of mutiny leader Antonio Trillanes IV.

The announced reason: The military leadership wants to determine if there are “dissenting opinions” because these could trigger “rumblings within the organization,” Lt. Col. Bartolome Bacarro, chief of the AFP public information office, said yesterday.

Trillanes, a Navy senior grade lieutenant when he led the Oakwood mutiny in July 2003, is in 11th place in the official senatorial tally with almost 11 million votes but has yet to be proclaimed.

Senator Daya

Nagkita kami ni Gabby Claudio, presidential adviser on political affairs ni Gloria Arroyo, sa ABS-CBN noong isang gabi. Sinabi ko sa kanya na mahiya-hiya naman sila na pinipilit nilang bilangin ang boto ng Maguindanao samantalang alam naman nila na “manufactured” yung 12-0 na boto doon.

Sabi ko, nagre-reklamo kayo na sinasabihan kayong mandaraya. Tapos pinagpipilitan nyo bilangin ang mga daya na boto dahil yun lamang ang paraan na makapasok sa Magic 12 ang kandidato nyo na si Migs Zubiri.

Sabi ni Claudio, “Ang problema sa Maguindanao, ay na-proclaim na ang mga lok

Trillanes keeps the fire burning

Senator-to-be Antonio Trillanes IV of the Genuine Opposition does not disappoint those who trace the mess that this country is in to the illegitimacy of the Arroyo presidency.

Foremost, he never refers to Arroyo as “president”. Just plain Gloria Arroyo.

In his interview last Monday with ABS-CBN’s Ces Drilon, the first after he was granted post-election media access, he said he would work for the impeachment of Gloria Arroyo.

CA junks Querubin’s plea to stop court martial

ariel.JPGThis one is not-so-good news. With this, Maria Flor Querubin said they would have to go to the Supreme Court and join Maj.Gen. Renato Miranda, Brig.Gen. Danny Lim and others to make the same plea. “I’m hopeful and praying that the Supreme Court justices will be fair and objective,” she said.

Malaya’s report:

THE Court of Appeals has denied the petition of detained Marine Col. Ariel Querubin to stop court martial proceedings against him and 29 other military officers who figured in the foiled coup attempt in February last year.

In an 18-page decision penned by Associate Justice Vicente Roxas, the CA Special 13th Division affirmed the authority of the general court martial to try erring soldiers and of AFP chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon’s to convene a pre-trial investigation panel.

Matuto dapat si Pacquiao

Sa laki raw ng perang winidraw ni Manny Pacquiao pagkatapos ng eleksyon, halos naubusan raw ng pera ang tatlong bangko sa General Santos City.

Kamuntik lang daw mag-bank run sa dalawang bangko ng malaman ng ibang depositor na inalis na ni Pacquiao ang pera niya sa mga bangko na yun.

Sa balita na lumabas sa Business Mirror at ABS-CBN online, sinabi na kinuwenta ni Pacquiao ang kanyang ginastos sa election at umambot raw sa P140 milyon.

Recto concedes; Comelec to proclaim 10 Wednesday

Re-electionist Sen. Ralph Recto on Monday followed in the footsteps of fellow Team Unity candidate Michael Defensor and acknowledged his defeat in the Senate race.

“For me, this is the time to accept the will of the people,” Recto said in a privilege speech during a Senate session Monday afternoon. Click here for the rest of the story.

Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos, meanwhile said, they will proclaim on Wednesday the top ten winners in the senatorial race. They are, Loren Legarda (GO), Francis Escudero (GO), Panfilo Lacson (GO), Manuel Villar (GO), Francis Pangilinan (IND), Benigno Aquino, Jr. (GO), Edgardo Angara (TU), Alan Peter Cayetano (GO), Joker Arroyo (TU), Gregorio Honasan (IND).

Pacquiao withdraws millions from banks

From ABS-CBN:Pacquiao withdraws millions from banks

by Jun Vallecera

Business Mirror

A locally-based thrift bank and two branches of regular commercial banks based in Manila are having difficulties servicing their clients panicked by the sudden withdrawal of most of the deposits of boxing champion Manny Pacquiao.

Informed sources said Pacquiao withdrew all his money from a bank in General Santos City as he conducted a personal audit and found he spent more than P140 million in election-related expenses but was still trounced by his diminutive political opponent.

Mindanao may win it for Zubiri, Recto – Team Unity

Latest from Trillanes camp at 1 p.m., June 4, 2007:

With the Comelec total count as of June 1 as basis and with the available data we already have for Basilan, Lanao Sur and Norte, Sultan Kudarat, Surigao Norte, Caloocan City and North Cotabato, ecluging only Maguindanao where we don’t have current data, Trillanes is safe at no. 11 with 11,056,608 votes.

He is over Pimentel , number 12, by 232, 794, Zubiri, number 13 by 360,234 and Recto, no, 14 by 646,152.

Even if Trillanes gets zero in Maguindanao which has 337,108 registered voters he is still no. 11 or worse no, 12.

We are confident that even with O vote in Maguindanao, we still lead Zubiri by 300,000 votes.

Hope springs eternal for Goria Arroyo’s Team Unity Miguel Zubiri and Ralph Recto.

Which makes one wonder, are they up to something? Will they be doing more COC buying? Would Recto summon the turtles who voted for him in 2001 to crawl and be counted again? Or is it just the operators’ (Gabby Claudio, Relli German, Ben Evardone, Tonypet Albano) hollow cry to justify the million, possibly billions, that they spent. Or supposedly spent.

Inquirer’s report: Facing defeat in the senatorial race, the administration’s Team Unity (TU) is pinning its hopes on less than two million votes from six provinces in Mindanao that have yet to be canvassed to push Miguel Zubiri and Ralph Recto into the Magic 12.

Nanloloko pa rin

Sa kanyang pagbibida sa Australia ng magandang ekonomiya kuno ng Pilipinas sa kanyang administrasyon, sinabi ni Gloria Arroyo, “ I have three more years to go in my term and we will keep reform going in the remainder of this term.” (May tatlong taon pa ako at ipagpatuloy natin ang reporma sa natirang panahon sa aking termino.)

Ibig sabihin ba noon maniniwala tayong bababa siya sa 2010 kapag natapos na ang kanyang ninakaw na termino?

Ewan sa inyo ngunit ako hindi ako naniniwala. Hindi ko pa rin makalimutan ang kanyang sinabi sa anibersaryo ng kamatayan ni Gat Jose Rizal noong Dec. 30,2002 hindi siya tatakbo sa pagka-presidente sa 2004 elections dahil kung tatakbo raw siya magkakaroon ng walang katapusan na hidwaan sa pulitika.