September 2007 – ellen tordesillas

The crime goes back to 2001

Published by Ellen on September 30, 2007

Administration members of the House reportedly are wary of impeaching Election Chairman Benjamin Abalos because Senate trial on alleged graft in the $3290 million national broadband could show that the corruption trail leads all the way to Malacañang.

We are no long surprised by such a display of utter lack of principles. Gloria Arroyo’s allies, relying on sheer numbers, threw out the past impeachment complaints against Arroyo. They said impeachment is more a political process than a judicial determination on whether the impeachable official is indeed guilty of the complaint filed.

Utak barbed-wire

Published by Ellen on September 29, 2007

Madugo ang reaksyon ng mga lider ng Myanmar sa mga rally na palayain si Aung San Suu Kyi,ang lider ng grupo na gusto ang demokrasya sa bansa na ang dating pangalan ay Burma.

Maraming patay, kasama na ang isang photographer na Hapon sa mga protest rally na pinangungunahan ng mga Buddhist na monghe, ng pinagbabaril sila ng mga sundalo. Ang pamahalaan ng Myanmar ay pinapalakad ng isang military junta na 45 na taon nang nasa kapangyarihan.

Sinabi sa report na kumunti na ang mga tao noong Biyernes. Binarikadahan ng mga sundalo at pinalibutan ng barbed wire and mga kumbento ng mga monghe. Ganoon din ang mga malaking kalsada sa Yangoon, ang kapital ng Myanmar.

A few good men

Published by Ellen on September 29, 2007

The families of detained officers in Camp Capinpin, Tanay unveiled their own efforts to bring out the truth behind the incarceration of the officers whose sterling records put to shame that of their jailors.

“It’s all in Esperon’s mind” – Miranda et al

Published by Ellen on September 28, 2007

Photos of yesterday’s hearing in Camp Capinpin in Tanay. Captions below. Take note of the barbed wire that surrounds the court building. Akala mo Myanmar!

By Victor Reyes

Officers linked to last year’s failed power grab yesterday said the recent reports of attempts to destabilize the Arroyo government were concocted by the military leadership to justify the coup rumors they themselves floated.

In a statement, the officers said the revelation of Armed Forces chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr. about the supposed plan is nothing but a psychological strategy to suppress what they said were the “voices of truth.”

Gen. Miranda seriously ill, AFP denies request for hospitalization

Published by Ellen on September 28, 2007

Update: We got Esperon and Bacarro’s reply on Gen. Miranda this evening, Sept. 29:

Result of follow-up check up conducted afternoon of Sept. 28 on Maj. Gen. Miranda: patient is not admissible. He can be managed as an out-patient. Condition (benign positional vertigo) has improved from that of last check-up (18 Sept) tho the patient still complains of occassional dizzines but hearing in affected ear as well as otoscopic finding showed improvement.

Patient has enlarged tonsils. medication has been prescribed.

Sept. 19 lab test (blood chem) results FBS and ALAT slightly elevated. Considered normal and controlled as patient is taking meds.

There are no life-threatening findings.

Update: As of now, 11:53 a.m. of Sept. 29, one day after the court was informed about the Gen. Renato Miranda’s illness,his custodians are still waiting for clearance from Esperon to bring him to the hospital.

By Victor Reyes

Former Marine commandant Maj. Gen. Renato Miranda, the alleged leader of last year’s failed power grab, has been seriously sick the past two weeks but the military would not allow him to get out of his detention cell to go to hospital because he is a “security risk.”

An irked former Scout Ranger commander Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim, another leader of the plot, specifically lashed at Brig. Gen. Alfredo Cayton, the former commander of the AFP’s Headquarters and Headquarters Support Command, for denying Miranda of the needed medical attention.

“He wants to go to the hospital but they would not let him. His (request for treatment for his )serious medical needs are not granted,” said Lim, addressing the court.

Myanmar crowd taunts soldiers and police

Published by Ellen on September 28, 2007

We salute the brave people of Myanmar fighting for freedom and democracy! We admire the monks who are leading the fight, risking their lives, against tyranny. What a far cry from our bishops, whose reaction to the Gloria Arroyo’s assault to democractic institutions is a defeaning silence.

Authorities sealing-off central Yangon behind barbed-wire barricades

Update:Myanmar cuts internet access; fires at crowd

From MSNBC:

YANGON, Myanmar – Crowds taunted soldiers and police sealing off central Yangon behind barbed-wire barricades on Friday in anticipation of fresh protests against 45 years of military rule in Myanmar and deepening economic hardship.

Biazon barred from holding committee hearing in Trillanes’ cell

Published by Ellen on September 27, 2007

Update: Esperon thinks a Senate hearing on civil service is political

Custodians of Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV on Thursday prevented Sen. Rodolfo Biazon and some 34 other people from entering Trillanes’ detention cell inside the Marine headquarters to conduct a Senate hearing.

The rat

Published by Ellen on September 27, 2007

To say that Romy Neri was a disappointment last Wednesday at the Senate hearing is an understatement.

Here’s a guy, blessed with intelligence and good education and what did he do? He allowed himself to be used to hide the truth from the Filipino people that pays him in order to protect a corrupt, fake president.

Never mind Abalos, who is in the same league as Lintang Bedol and Virgilio Garcillano. This NBN ZTE scam is just another item in the lengthening list of crimes they have committed against the Filipino people starting with declaring winner a president who did not win in the 2004 elections.

But we thought Neri had enough decency left in him to tell the truth, nothing but the truth, as he pledged at the Senate. We even prayed for him.

Ang Ladlad slams Abalos, Neri

Published by Ellen on September 27, 2007

Ang Ladlad, the national organization of lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender Filipinos, today supported the impeachment complaint filed by Iloilo Vice Governor Rolex Suplico against Commission on Elections chairman Benjamin abalos Sr. before the House of Representatives.

Statement of Ang Ladlad:”We support the impeachment complaint against Mr. Abalos for culpable violation of the Constitution, betrayal of public trust, graft and corruption, and bribery,” said Danton Remoto, Chairman of Ang Ladlad. “Mr. Abalos is already ripe for impeachment for his crimes against the Filipino voters and the Filipino people. The stench of his actions darken even the heavens. It began with the overpriced P1.3 billion Mega Pacific deal for computer automation, the 2004 and the 2007 elections anomalies, and now, the ZTE broadband deal.

CA stops media suit vs Mike Arroyo

Published by Ellen on September 27, 2007

The Court of Appeals has granted the petition of presidential spouse Jose Miguel Arroyo seeking to bar the Makati regional trial court from proceeding with the preliminary hearing of the P12.5 million class suit filed by journalists for Arroyo’s alleged attacks on press freedom.

The CA agreed with Arroyo that continuing with the preliminary hearing on an amended complaint filed by the journalists would cause “irreparable injury” to Arroyo who has opposed the acceptance of the amended complaint.

Without the CA injunction, the preliminary hearing by the Makati RTC would render ineffectual any judgment that the appellate court might promulgate on the petition filed by Arroyo on May 24.

Month: September 2007