July 2007 – ellen tordesillas

Tagtuyo

Published by Ellen on July 30, 2007

Nakabahala ang sitwasyon na dahil sa hindi dumating ang inaasahan ulan sa mga buwan ng Hunyo at Hulyo, kumukonti ang pondo tubig sa ating mga dam at natutuyuan ang palayan sa central Luzon.

Kaya sinasabihan tayong humanda sa mga brownout na mangyayari kailangan magtipid ng tubig para kukunting kuryente ang magagamit.

Nakakabahala dahil wala tayong sapat na irigasyon para patubigan ang mga palayan sa Luzon na siyang pinanggalingan ng pinakaraming palay sa bansa. Kapag mahina ang ani, hindi lamang mga magsasaka ang maghihirap kung di buiong bayan dahil mapipilitan na namang mag-import ng bigas. Siyempre tataas ang presyo ng bigas.

Court denies Trillanes motion to perform duties as senator

Published by Ellen on July 30, 2007

by Azchel Hachero
Malaya

Judge Oscar Pimentel of the Makati Regional Trial Court today junked for “lack of merit” the motion of Senator-elect Antonio Trillanes IV for leave of court to be allowed to attend Senate sessions, hearings and investigations.

Pimentel likewise denied Trillanes’ related requests to be allowed to set up a working area in his place of detention at the Marine Brig at Fort Bonifacio, Taguig, to give interviews to members of the media and to receive the press on Tuesdays and Fridays.

In his 11-page ruling, Pimentel said he was “not been persuaded by the reasons given by accused Senator Antonio Trillanes IV.

Men of valor fight for decent trial

Published by Ellen on July 29, 2007

Brotherhood runs deep among the men-in-uniform.

That bond showed in last Friday’s court martial trial in Camp Capinpin when comrades in the battlefield found themselves on opposite sides of the courtroom.

When Col. Ariel Querubin exercised his right of peremptory challenge on Lt. Gen. Cardozo Luna during the court martial trial last Friday, he asked the general who had barely warmed his seat not to take it as a “personal affront.”

“I want to spare him from the mockery of sham proceedings,” Querubin, one of the only two living Medal of Valor awardees in the Philippine Marines, told the court.

When it was the turn of Lt. Col. Custodio Parcon, the other Marine Medal of Valor awardee, to challenge Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Sodusta, he said, “Though it breaks my heart, I confirm.”

Lastikong court martial

Published by Ellen on July 28, 2007

Scenes from last Friday’s hearing in Tanay

Nang paiba-iba na ang desisyon ng court martial panel sa hearing noong Biyernes ng kaso nina Maj. Gen. Miranda at 27 pang mga magigiting na opisyal ng military na sangkot sa Feb.2006 withdrawal of support kuno kay Gloria Arroyo, sabi ni Ces Drilon ng ABS-CBN, “para palang lastiko ito.”

No accuser, junk case,’ accused ‘plotters’ to ask SC

Published by Ellen on July 27, 2007

Malaya’s Victor reyes was in Tanay for yesterday’s court martial hearing. His report.

ABS-CBN’s story: Officers invoke right to peremptory challenge

by Thea Alberto
Inquirer.net

Camp Capinpin, Tanay – Saying there effectively no longer is an accuser against them, 28 military officers accused of plotting to unseat President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in February last year will ask the Supreme Court to junk the case against them.

“The most important point that we raised this morning is the fact that the charge sheet was signed by a certain Captain Armando Paredez who had, by the admission of the Judge Advocate [General’s] Office, already reverted to civilian status…in other words you have a charge sheet that can no longer be sustained because there is no accuser, the accuser has become a civilian and, therefore, already outside military jurisdiction,” said Francisco Chavez, legal counsel for Major General Renato Miranda, the highest-ranked accused.

Oakwood, four years after

Published by Ellen on July 26, 2007

Related story: Trillanes: “No regrets”

Trillanes says he’s humbled by poll victory

In the wee hours of July 27, 2003, some 300 soldiers, led by some 70 young officers, wearing red armbands with the Katipunan’s rising sun symbol, commandeered the Oakwood premier hotel at the Makati Commercial Center, wired the surrounding areas and declared withdrawal of support from Gloria Arroyo’s unelected presidency.

Fresco fragment revives Papal scandal

Published by Ellen on July 26, 2007

This is interesting.

By David Willey
BBC News, Rome

A fresco painting by a Renaissance master which once decorated the bedroom of Pope Alexander VI in the Vatican has gone on show in Rome.

A leading Italian art historian and curator says he has documentary proof that it was once part of a much larger painting depicting the aged Pope kneeling in front of his youthful mistress, Giulia Farnese.

Yuyuko ba o manindigan si Villar?

Published by Ellen on July 25, 2007

Noong isang araw, nagmiting ang mga administrasyon na senador sa isang restaurant. Dumating si Gloria Arroyo at pinag-usapan nilang tungkol sa Blue Ribbon committee na napabalita na noon na mapunta kay Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano.

Siyam ang kaalyado ni Arroyo sa Senado. Sina Edgardo Angara, Joker Arroyo, Juan Ponce-Enrile, Gregorio Honasan Lito Lapid, Richard Gordon, Bong Revilla, at Miriam Santiago. Walo lang talaga kasi ang pangsiyam, si Juan Miguel Zubiri, ay pekeng senador. Hindi siya binoto ng taumbayan. Nandiyan siya sa senado dahil sa mga pekeng boto na mina-manufacture ni Lintang Bedol sa Maguindanao.

Senate to court: Let Trillanes perform duties as senator

Published by Ellen on July 25, 2007

Dayana Zubiri really takes after his patron and patronness Gloria and Mike Arroyo. Forgive Sen. Trillanes? The fake senator is having delusions.

By Veronica Uy

Voting 17 to 4 on Resolution 22 Wednesday, the Senate officially asked the court to allow detained Senator Antonio Trillanes IV to perform his duties as senator.

Only Senators Joker Arroyo, Juan Ponce-Enrile, Richard Gordon, and Miriam Defensor-Santiago voted against the resolution.

Malacañang opposes Cayetano in Blue Ribbon.Will Villar surrender?

Published by Ellen on July 24, 2007

Who will chair the Blue Ribbon committee will be a test of Senate President Manuel Villar’s so called “independence.”

It will also show us if the assertion of the three opposition senators – Jinggoy Estrada, Chiz Escudero, and Alan Peter Cayetano – that the opposition will still set the agenda in the Senate despite their collaboration with Malacañang allies holds.

Last week, Villar agreed that Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano would chair the powerful Blue Ribbon Committee. It will be recalled that the opposition had expressed their disappointment over the way Sen. Joker Arroyo, chair of the Blue Ribbon in the 13th Congress, used his position to protect Mike Arroyo from the intense scrutiny of other senators who had information of his questionable deals.

Month: July 2007