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Davide – super oportunista

Published by Ellen on April 14, 2010

Davide administers oath of office to power grabber

Numero unong oportunista talaga itong si Hilario Davide.

Sa kanyang presscon noong Lunes tungkol sa kanyang pagtalon sa Liberal Party, sinabi niya na kaya daw siya bumaligtad dahil ang sambayanang Pilipino ay hindi makalimutan ang kurakutan ng adminsitrasyung Arroyo at hindi na sila papayag mangyari yun.

Sabi niya ang unang problema daw ni Gilbert Teodoro, Jr , ang kandidato para presidenet ng administrasyon ay ang pagkadikit kay Gloria Arroyo.

Ang pagbabago daw ay mangyayari sa administrasyon ni Noynoy Aquino at Mar Roxas. Kaya daw siya nag-resign bilang permanent representative sa United Nations noong Abril 1.

Alam pala niyang ang kurakutan nina Arroyo, bakit tumahimik siya at nagsipsip sa pekeng presidente? Bakit ngayon buwan lang siya nag-resign?

Law doesn’t protect deceit

Published by Ellen on April 13, 2010

The much-respected Maria A. Ressa, head of ABS-CBN News & Current Affairs, invokes “confidentiality of sources” in rejecting the challenge of the Nacionalista Party to reveal the names of their alleged “two sources from the Nacionalista Party ” who gave them the fake psychiatric analysis of Liberal Party Sen. Benigno Aquino III by a Jesuit priest.

“While it’s tempting to take the Nacionalista Party’s challenge, it violates a sacred rule of journalism,” Ressa said.

I don’t agree with Maria.

Journalism is basically truth telling. A journalist’s job is to tell the public the truth.

Reuters cameraman’s chilling last picture show

Published by Ellen on April 13, 2010

This is journalism!

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by Nick Macfie
Bangkok
(Reuters) – Seven minutes of film taken by Reuters cameraman Hiro Muramoto illustrate how a scrappy street protest turned deadly on a balmy Bangkok night.

It is some of the last video Muramoto, 43, a father of two young children, ever took. He died on Saturday from a gunshot wound to the chest, his killer unknown.

The film encapsulates the fear, the tension and the sudden, chilling bloodshed after a month of protests by Thailand’s “red shirts” whose anti-government protests had largely been festive and peaceful until then.

Muramoto, a Japanese national who had worked for Reuters in Tokyo for more than 15 years, arrived in Thailand on Thursday. He was taken to hospital two days later without a pulse. The bullet had entered his chest and exited the body through the back.

His camera was returned to Reuters by the protesters. It is not known if the footage was his very last.

Election campaign, Abra-style

Published by Ellen on April 13, 2010

by Artha Kira Paredes VERA Files BANGUED, Abra—Ryan Luna goes around campaigning in barangays here using one of his army-type trucks that people often mistake…

NP, LP vie to catch politicians jumping from Lakas-Kampi sinking ship

Published by Ellen on April 13, 2010

Speaker cites ‘total disarray’ in ruling coalition
By Gil C. Cabacungan Jr.
Philippine Daily Inquirer

He never even said “hi” or “hello.”

Speaker Prospero C. Nograles is “seriously considering” dumping the ruling Lakas-Kampi-CMD and its standard-bearer Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro and joining Nacionalista Party candidate Sen. Manuel “Manny” Villar Jr.

Nograles griped about a Teodoro snub during a recent visit to Davao City, where the Speaker is now running for mayor, and the absence of civility that he said was causing a “total disarray” in the administration coalition barely a month before the May 10 elections.

Villar, Wowowillie rally

Published by Ellen on April 12, 2010

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Photo by Philip Duquiatan
Bonggang-bongga ang rally ng Nacionalista Party sa Koronadal noong Linggo. Si Willie Revillame, Manny Pacquiao at Manny Villar nagkasabay sa isang stage.

Gumagawa ako ng special report tungkol sa kampanya kaya iniisa-isa ko ngayon ang pag-cover ng mga rally ng bawat partido.

Una naming kinuberan ang rally ng Nacionalista Party sa Koronadal athletic stadium sa Southern Cotabato noong Linggo kung saan mga 100,000 ang dumalo. Sa susunod na mga araw, rally ng Liberal party naman ang aming pupuntahan.

Girian para sa 2016

Published by Ellen on April 10, 2010

Hindi pa nagaganap ang 2010 na eleksyun ngunit nagsisimula na ang girian para sa 2016 na eleksyun.

Napabalita noong isang araw ang maliit na gulo sa Liberal Party sa pagitan ng Team Chiz at grupo ni Mar Roxas, ang kandidato nila para bise presidente.

Ang Team Chiz ay mga tauhan ni Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero na kinabubuan ng writers at media coordinators. Medyo marami-rami din yan sila.

Kung maala-ala natin, tatakbo sana si Chiz bilang presidente sa eleksyun na ito at maganda ang kanyang ratings. Kaya lang nang namatay si Cory Aquino, nag-iba na ang tanawin sa pulitika. Pati si Mar Roxas, na siyang pambato sana ang LP para presidente ay bumaba para magiging bise-presidente. Si Chiz naman, nagdesisyun na hindi na ipilit ang kanyang pagka-kandidato.

Batting for Chiz to fill a dangerous power vacuum

Published by Ellen on April 8, 2010

Raissa Robles, Philippine correspondent of the Hongkong-based South China Morning Post, has waged an online campaign to have Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero elected as interim Senate president to be eligible to be the acting president in case there would be a failure of election in the May 10 polls.

In her personal blog, Raissa said, “ Pssst, let’s urge senators to elect Chiz Escudero as Senate President to avoid dangerous power vacuum… in case a new President is not proclaimed by June 30 – the same day the tenures of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Vice-President Noli de Castro, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and House Speaker Prospero Nograles all lapse.”

I join Raissa in the campaign to elect Chiz as Senate president before June 30. But an election for a new president can only happen if there’s vacancy in the position. So let us also ask Senate President Enrile to do the patriotic act of resigning as Senate President.

Why is this necessary?

The Constitutional provision on succession states: “When no President and Vice-President shall have been chosen or shall have qualified, or where both shall have died or become permanently disabled, the President of the Senate or, in case of his inability, the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall act as President until a President or a Vice-President shall have chosen and qualified.”

Seven years in detention, 10 Magdalo officers sentenced to 8 months in prison

Published by Ellen on April 8, 2010

Lim reading withdrawal of support from Arroyo government

A military tribunal sentenced on Wednesday to eight months in prison 10 former military officers from the reformist group Magdalo for their their participation in the November 2007 incident at the Manila Peninsula Hotel in Makati City, their lawyer said yesterday.

The 10, led by Magdalo core leaders Lt. (sg) James Layug and Capt. Gary Alejano, were given the light verdict after pleading guilty to all the four remaining charges filed against them before the court headed by Maj. Gen. Eduardo Oban.
The eight other officers were Lts. (sg) Eugene Gonzales, Andy Torrato, Manuel Cabochan; Capt Dan Orfiano; Lt. (jg) Arturo Pascua; and 1Lts. Billy Pascua, Jonnel Sangalang, and Armand Pontejos.

Lawyer Ed Abaya said his clients pleaded guilty to charges of violation of Articles of War 63 (disrespect to the President), 96 (conduct unbecoming of an officer and a gentleman), 97 (conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline) and 70 (escape from confinement). The charge of mutiny was dropped.

Breaking news: Gloria cuts short Hanoi trip to be with Mike

Published by Ellen on April 8, 2010

Updated media advisory: Gloria Arroyo’s 2 a.m. arrival April 9 has been cancelled. Malacañang announced that Gloria Arroyo, who is in Hanoi, Vietnam for the…

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