July 2009 – ellen tordesillas

Furor over Arroyo’s debasement of National Artists Award

Published by Ellen on July 31, 2009

Update: F. Sionil Jose, Arturo Luz, Bienvenido Lumbera, Virgilio Almario, Bancab will lead artists and community in a Necrological Service and Funeral march for the National Artists Awards on Friday, Aug. 7, 2 pm at CCP.

Last Wednesday, Malacañang released the names of the latest batch of National Artists, the most prestigious award for Filipino artists. They are:

Cecile Guidote-Alvarez (Theater)
Manuel Urbano aka Manuel Conde (Film and Broadcast Arts)
Magno Jose “Carlo” Caparas (Visual Arts and Film)
Federico Aguilar Alcuaz (Visual Arts, Painting)
Lazaro Francisco (Literature)
Francisco Mañosa (Architecture)
Jose “Pitoy” Moreno (Fashion)

The Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP) issued the following statement:

Moribund, decadent politics behind this year’s selection of National Artists

The Concerned Artists of the Philippines joins much of the Filipino arts and cultural community in expressing indignation over the unprecedented brazen use by the Arroyo regime of the National Artists awards for its moribund, decadent politics.

The spectre of failure of elections

Published by Ellen on July 30, 2009

In the 10-hour oral arguments at the Supreme Court last Wednesday on the motion of the Concerned Citizens Movement to stop the Smartmatic-Total Information Management agreement with the Commission on Election for the automation of the 2010 elections, counsel Harry Roque anchored his argument on the provision of the Republic Act 8436 which requires pilot testing of the system before it is implemented.

RA 8436 authorized the Comelec “to use an automated election system or systems in the same election in different provinces, whether paper-based or a direct recording electronic election system as it may deem appropriate and practical for the process of voting, counting of votes and canvassing/consolidation and transmittal of results of electoral exercises:

“Provided, that for the regular national and local election, which shall be held immediately after effectivity of this Act, the AES shall be used in at least two highly urbanized cities and two provinces each in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, to be chosen by the Commission: Provided, further, x x x. In succeeding regular national or local elections, the AES shall be implemented nationwide.”

Letter to President Obama

Published by Ellen on July 29, 2009

His Excellency President Barack Obama
Washington District of Columbia
United States of America

Dear Mr. President,

We shared the wonderful jubilation of the American people during your historic election triumph. When you assumed office early this year, we rejoiced at the audacious hope that you inspired, and on your promise of change for the common good.

We joined all freedom loving people of the world who exulted when you declared that “those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent…are on the wrong side of history.”

Dapat manindigan si Chiz

Published by Ellen on July 29, 2009

Dapat ipaliwanag ni Sen. Chiz Escudero itong akusasyon ni Rep. Mikey Arroyo, anak ni Gloria Arroyo, na humihingi siya ng tulong sa kanyang ina at ang mga patutsada niya (Chiz) ay pang-media lang.

Hindi natin malalaman kung nagsasabi ng buong katotohan itong anak ni Arroyo ngunit kailangan maliwanag sa taumbayan kung saan nakatayo si Chiz sa isyu ni Gloria Arroyo.

Sabi ni Chiz sa Inquirer na hindi totoo ang kinakalat ni Mikey at hindi siya hihingi ng endorsment ni Arroyo. “It is obviously not true. I am not asking and will not ask for her endorsement. If I run, I will always run as opposition.”

The gall of Gloria

Published by Ellen on July 28, 2009

Riddle of the day: What’s the difference between a fairytale and a state- of- the- nation address?

Answer, according a text message: A fairytale is fiction with dwarfs as characters.SONA has a dwarf relating fiction.

Gloria Arroyo was not even an engaging storyteller. Bitchy, catty and spiteful, she looked so ugly.

O ano ngayon kung NPA?

Published by Ellen on July 28, 2009

Utak-pulbura talaga itong si Jovito Palparan, ang paboritong heneral ni Gloria Arroyo.

Sinabi ni Palparan, dating commander ng 7th Infantry Division sa Central Luzon kung saan maraming na-salvage na milyembro ng mga militanteng grupo at ngayon isa ay isa ng partylist representative sa Kongreso, na si Melissa Roxas ang Filipino-American na aktibista ay miyembro daw ng New People’s Army.

Si Roxas ay miyembro ng progresibong grupong Bayan sa Estados-Unidos. Ilang beses na siya pumupunta dito sa Pilipinas para sa malaman ang kanyang pinanggalingan at malaman kung ano talaga ang tunay ng kalagayan ng bayan ng kanyang mga magulang.

Arroyo did not categorically say she will step down on June 30, 2010

Published by Ellen on July 27, 2009

As expected, Gloria Arroyo enumerated a litany of lies about her so called accomplishments.

She did not say that she will be stepping down at the end of her term. She just said, “At the end of this speech, I will step down from this stage but not from the presidency, My term does not end until next year.”

She did not say that she will not do anything to extend her term. She just said, “Until then, I will fight for the ordinary Filipino to the very last day.”

She said, “I never declared Martial law.” She never denied the revelation of former Defense Secretary Avelino “Nonong” Cruz that she had planned to declare martial law in 2006.

She said “I never expressed my desire to extend myself beyond my term.”

Because she is tuso. She lets her minions do the manipulation to amend the Constitution so she can stay in power forever.

‘Oakwood’ and GMA Sona

Published by Ellen on July 26, 2009

July 27, six years ago was a Sunday, the day before the last Monday of July when the president delivers the State-of-the Nation’s address.

That was the day when some 300 soldiers took a stand against Gloria Arroyo’s misgovernance at the Oakwood Premier Hotel (now Ascott) in Makati.

The group didn’t have a name but a TV producer saw in the image of the sun in their red armbands a resemblance to the symbol of the Emilio Aguinaldo’s Magdalo faction in the revolutionary Katipunan. He called them “Magdalo” and the name stuck.

This year, July 27 is a Monday. As the Magdalo group marks six years of the ‘Oakwood incident’, Gloria Arroyo delivers her SONA, supposedly her last.

Sana huwag na bumalik si Arroyo

Published by Ellen on July 25, 2009

Rally sa tapat ng US Embassy noong Biyernes:

Isang bagay lang ang gusto marinig ng mga tao kay Gloria Arroyo sa Lunes: “Bababa ako sa Malacañang tanghali ng Hunyo 30, 2010 at hindi na babalik.”

Hindi interesado ang publiko sa kung anong listahan ng kanyang mga nagawa. Hindi utang na loob ng taumbayan sa kanya ang mga ginawang kalsada o mga tulay. Pera natin yun. Kumita pa nga ng malaki ang kanyang asawa at mga alagad sa mga proyekto na yun.

Kapag nag-iisa-isa si Arroyo ng mga construction na nagawa ng kanyang administrasyon, ang nasa-isip ng taumbayan ay ang male-maletang pera na hinahatid ng mga contractors doon sa opisina ng kanyang asawa sa Perea st. sa Makati.

Trillanes’ wife hopes for normal life after Arroyo

Published by Ellen on July 24, 2009

by VERA Files Exactly six years ago on Monday, July 27, Army Capt. Arlene Trillanes turned on her television set to see some 300 military…

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